🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 6
Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A (Folder 14A)
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱
If this is your first time joining the adventure, welcome!
Project Blue Tent follows four individual plants, each documented in its own dedicated diary from seed to harvest. Every plant shares the exact same environment, lighting, irrigation schedule, nutrition and care. By keeping every environmental variable as consistent as possible, we can truly appreciate how each phenotype expresses its own unique personality while also showcasing the remarkable stability of modern F1 genetics.
Today we're checking in with Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A.
────────────────────────
🌱 Week Six – A Canopy Coming Together
This week has been all about refinement.
Rather than chasing vertical growth, the focus has shifted entirely toward building the widest and most even canopy possible. Every day brings a little more progress as branches continue filling the SCROG net, gradually transforming four individual plants into one uniform sea of green.
One small change compared to last week's report is the official canopy height.
Although Plant A measured around 66 cm previously, I lowered and tightened the SCROG net across the entire tent. As a result, all four plants are now sitting at approximately 60 cm, with every centimetre of new growth being directed horizontally through the screen instead of upwards.
That's exactly the objective at this stage.
We're no longer trying to grow taller plants.
We're growing a larger canopy.
Every branch guided sideways today will become another well-positioned flowering site tomorrow.
────────────────────────
🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A
Plant A continues to impress me every single day.
She remains the most vigorous plant inside the Blue Tent, responding to every bit of training with explosive new growth.
Even after being topped and now spending her days tucked beneath the SCROG net, she simply refuses to slow down. Every branch seems eager to reach for the next opening, making the daily training routine both enjoyable and incredibly rewarding.
The internodal spacing remains nice and tight, the stems continue thickening, and her foliage has developed a rich, healthy green colour that tells me she's enjoying everything the environment is providing.
One thing I particularly appreciate is how well she's balancing strength with flexibility.
The branches are becoming sturdy enough to support future flowers while remaining pliable enough to guide gently beneath the screen without complaint.
She's proving herself to be an absolute pleasure to train.
────────────────────────
🕸️ Working with the SCROG
As the canopy develops, the SCROG net is becoming more than just a training tool.
It's now helping shape the entire structure of the grow.
Every day I spend a few minutes gently guiding branches into empty spaces, allowing the plant to expand naturally instead of allowing individual tops to dominate the canopy.
It's a surprisingly relaxing process.
No aggressive bending.
No rushing.
Just small adjustments made consistently over time.
Watching those empty squares slowly disappear is one of my favourite parts of vegetative growth, and this week the Blue Tent has really started looking like one unified canopy instead of four separate plants.
────────────────────────
🌡️ Blue Tent Environment
Consistency continues to be one of the biggest advantages inside the Blue Tent.
Average conditions throughout the week remained:
• 🌡️ Day Temperature: 30°C
• 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C
• 💧 Relative Humidity: 58%
• 🥥 Root Zone Temperature: 24°C
• 💦 Nutrient Solution Temperature: 18°C
• ⚗️ pH: 5.8
• ⚡ EC: 1.92 mS/cm
• 💨 CO₂: Approximately 450 ppm
• 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6
• 💧 Irrigation: 1.2 litres per plant per day
These stable conditions continue allowing the plants to focus entirely on vigorous vegetative growth while recovering effortlessly from training.
────────────────────────
🥥 Feeding & Irrigation
The feeding schedule remains unchanged this week.
Sometimes, when everything is working exactly as planned, the best decision is simply to stay consistent.
Each plant continues receiving approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution every day through the Mars Hydro automatic drip irrigation system.
The slow and consistent delivery keeps the coco evenly moist while ensuring the roots always have access to fresh nutrients.
Once the solution passes through the substrate, the automatic drainage system removes the runoff beneath the grow bags, preventing old nutrient solution from accumulating around the root zone and helping maintain a clean, stable growing environment.
Current feeding schedule:
• Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L
• Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L
• Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L
The rich green colour across the canopy tells me the plants are extremely happy with this feeding regime, and for now I see no reason to make any adjustments.
────────────────────────
🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A
Every week this phenotype reinforces the same first impression she gave me shortly after germination.
She's energetic.
Confident.
And incredibly responsive.
She doesn't simply recover from training.
She seems to thrive because of it.
The combination of vigorous branching, compact internodal spacing and healthy foliage is creating exactly the kind of plant I hoped for when starting this project.
It's becoming easier every week to imagine how productive she'll be once flowering begins.
────────────────────────
👀 Looking Ahead
The objective for next week remains beautifully simple.
Continue filling the SCROG.
Maintain the stable environment.
Keep guiding each branch into its own space.
Patience is the key at this stage.
Every small adjustment made now will help create a flatter canopy, better light distribution and, hopefully, an even more productive flowering cycle in the weeks ahead.
The Blue Tent continues moving exactly in the direction I was hoping for, and I can't wait to watch these ladies take the next step together.
────────────────────────
💙 Thank You
A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these incredible Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow.
A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues delivering healthy, vigorous growth week after week.
A special thank you to Phytonaut for the outstanding LED lighting, producing compact growth, beautiful structure and an incredibly even canopy throughout the Blue Tent.
A sincere thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system that has brought consistency, cleanliness and peace of mind to this entire project.
Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing growers around the world with a place to document their journeys, exchange knowledge and inspire one another every single day.
And finally...
Thank you to every one of you following Project Blue Tent.
Whether you've been here since the first seed cracked, recently joined the adventure, leave comments every week or quietly follow along in the background, your support genuinely means more than you know.
The canopy is getting fuller, the plants are thriving, and the adventure is only becoming more exciting.
Until next week...
Growers Love, happy growing, and I'll see you all soon. 🌱💙