👑 Godfather OG – Pheno B Week 11 | The Queen Keeps Getting More Beautiful 👑🌿🔥 Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! 💚🌱 And this girl... Well... She just keeps getting more beautiful. 👑🌿 Godfather OG Pheno B has reached that point in the run where I can walk into the room, look at her for a few seconds, and immediately think: "Yep... she's doing exactly what she wants to do." 😂 She's growing beautifully. She's maintaining that gorgeous green. She's continuing to build her flowers. She's getting increasingly covered in resin. And that personality we've been watching throughout the entire adventure? Still there. She's still a Queen. Just a very busy one. 😂👑🌸 So this week, once again... the spotlight belongs to her. Because she deserves it. ──────────────────────── 🌱 WEEK 11 – STILL BECOMING HERSELF ──────────────────────── There wasn't a huge amount of physical intervention this week. And honestly... that's perfectly fine. The plants have already done the hard work of building their structures. The branches are established. The flowering sites are developed. The canopy is doing its job. And now we're reaching the stage where I really enjoy stepping back and simply watching. Godfather OG Pheno B is doing exactly that. She's growing. She's developing. She's filling her structure. And she's becoming more and more recognizable as her own phenotype. That's one of my favourite things about this whole 8×8 Adventure. At the beginning, we're looking at plants with potential. As the weeks pass, that potential starts becoming personality. And now? I look at Pheno B and think: "Okay... I know you." 😂👑 She's the beautiful, hungry, composed Queen who quietly keeps asking for more while getting on with the job. ──────────────────────── 👑 THE QUEEN IS STILL SHINING ──────────────────────── There are plants that demand attention because something is wrong. And then there are plants that demand attention because something is going very right. Godfather OG Pheno B is definitely in the second category. She's simply beautiful. Her structure. Her colour. Her flowers. Her resin. The way she occupies her space. Everything is starting to come together. And what I particularly like is that she doesn't need to be the biggest plant in the room to make herself noticed. She has her own presence. You walk past her... and your eyes stop. 😂👑 There's something about her. She's becoming one of those plants where you already know what you're looking at before you even check the label. That's when a phenotype really starts becoming memorable. ──────────────────────── 🌸 THE FLOWERS KEEP GETTING BETTER ──────────────────────── And of course... the flowers. 🌸🌿💎 This is where the excitement continues. The flowering structures are becoming increasingly developed, and the plant is starting to look more and more like the finished vision we had in mind when this journey began. The flowers have substance now. The pistils are weaving through the developing structures. And the resin continues to become one of the most obvious features of the plant. There's something incredibly satisfying about watching those tiny changes accumulate. One week doesn't necessarily look dramatically different from the previous one. But then you look back at an older photograph... and suddenly: Whoa. She's changed. 😂 That's why documenting these plants matters. We're not just taking pretty pictures. We're creating a timeline. A visual record of the plant becoming herself. And Godfather OG Pheno B is definitely becoming something beautiful. ──────────────────────── 🍃 THAT BEAUTIFUL GREEN ──────────────────────── Her colour continues to be one of the things I really enjoy about this phenotype. That healthy green remains such a strong part of her character. And when you compare her with her sister, you can still see the family resemblance. Same genetics. Different phenotype. Similar foundations. Different expression. That's the beauty of having both Godfather OG girls in the same room. You can see the similarities... but you can also see the differences. Pheno A has her own Queen energy. Pheno B has her own. And while both are demanding, both hungry and both beautiful... they don't express themselves in exactly the same way. That's what makes phenotype hunting so interesting. You're not just growing a strain. You're discovering individuals. ──────────────────────── 🍽️ YES... SHE'S STILL HUNGRY ──────────────────────── And yes... before anybody asks... 😂 She's still hungry. 👑🍽️ That hasn't changed. Godfather OG Pheno B continues to be one of those girls that makes me pay attention to what she's consuming and how she's responding. But again... the important part is what she's doing with those resources. She's growing. She's maintaining her colour. She's developing flowers. She's building resin. She's continuing forward. So that appetite is simply another part of her personality. Some girls politely ask for dinner. This Queen checks whether the kitchen is still open. 😂👑🍽️ And apparently... she's not interested in hearing that we're closing anytime soon. ──────────────────────── 💡 MORE PHOTONS FOR THE QUEEN ──────────────────────── This week also continues with our upgraded lighting environment. We've added the two additional Future of Grow Black Series 600W fixtures to the room. And after initially seeing that the available intensity was higher than our target, we've reduced the output to approximately: 💡 ~59% power from the plug That gives us around: ☀️ ~1,500 PPFD across the upper canopy with the intensity naturally changing depending on plant height and position. And I really like what this gives us. More lighting capacity. More flexibility. More control. Without needing to run everything at maximum. We're not interested in simply producing the biggest number possible. We're interested in creating an environment where the plants can make good use of the photons available to them. And Pheno B certainly seems happy to catch them. 😂💡👑 ──────────────────────── ☀️ THE QUEEN IS CATCHING PHOTONS ──────────────────────── I've said this throughout the 8×8 reports, but I think it becomes more interesting every week. When we look at a beautiful flowering plant, we're looking at the visible result of thousands of invisible processes. The lights come on. Photons enter the canopy. Leaves intercept them. Photosynthetic machinery captures that energy. And that energy becomes part of the enormous chain of processes happening inside the plant. Growth. Maintenance. Development. Flower formation. Everything we're looking at ultimately connects back to that energy capture. And Godfather OG Pheno B has built herself a beautiful structure for doing exactly that. She's got healthy foliage. She's got multiple levels. She's got flowers throughout the plant. She's got a three-dimensional canopy. She's essentially created her own little photon-catching architecture. 😂☀️🌿 And now we're watching what she does with it. ──────────────────────── 💡 NOT JUST LIGHT FROM ABOVE ──────────────────────── The additional lighting philosophy remains important too. The main Future of Grow Black Series fixtures provide the primary illumination. Then we have Lumiflora helping us bring additional light into the deeper and lower areas of the canopy. Because this girl isn't a flat surface. She's a living structure. Leaves sit at different heights. Branches occupy different levels. Flowers point in different directions. And photons interact with all of that. Some are intercepted immediately. Some travel deeper. Some reach lower areas. Some pass through gaps in the canopy. That's what makes a mature plant so interesting from a lighting perspective. You're not simply illuminating a surface. You're illuminating a three-dimensional organism. 🌿💡🌸 And this Queen has created plenty of three-dimensional space to work with. ──────────────────────── 🌿 SAME ROOM – HER OWN STORY ──────────────────────── This is where the 8×8 Adventure keeps reminding me why I love this experiment. The environment is shared. We're not creating a completely different world for every phenotype. They all live together. They receive the same general room conditions. The same lighting strategy. The same irrigation philosophy. The same nutritional foundation. And yet... look at the differences. That's genetics. That's phenotype expression. That's the plant interpreting the environment through its own biological instructions. Godfather OG Pheno B is showing us her version. And I really like her version. 👑🌿 ──────────────────────── 🌸 NO NEED TO FORCE THE STORY ──────────────────────── At this stage, I don't feel the need to constantly interfere. She's already doing the work. The structure is there. The leaves are working. The flowers are developing. The resin is building. The environment is stable. So sometimes the best thing I can do is simply step back. Observe. Measure. Adjust where necessary. And let her grow. 😂🌱 There's a temptation in every grow to think: "Maybe I should do something." Sometimes... you don't need to. Sometimes the plant is already telling you: "Relax. I've got this." And Godfather OG Pheno B certainly looks like she's got it. ──────────────────────── ⚗️ FEEDING – THE MENU HAS GROWN ──────────────────────── Just like the rest of the room, we've made a small adjustment to the flowering nutrition this week. Terra Bloom has moved from: 🌱 2.2 ml/L → 2.3 ml/L The rest remains: 🌱 Plagron Terra Bloom – 2.3 ml/L 🌱 Green Sensation – 1 ml/L 🌱 Power Buds – 1 ml/L 🌱 Sugar Royal – 1 ml/L ⚗️ pH adjusted as required The slight increase has brought the solution EC up a little. Current EC is approximately: ⚡ ~2.14 mS/cm And our Queen? Well... she certainly isn't complaining. 😂👑🍽️ If anything, she's probably wondering why we didn't bring the whole restaurant. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ WEEK 11 ROOM CONDITIONS ──────────────────────── The room continues to remain very stable. Current conditions are approximately: 🌡️ Day temperature: ~26.5°C 🌙 Night temperature: ~26°C 💧 RH: ~61% ⚗️ pH: ~6.02 ⚡ EC: ~2.14 mS/cm 💦 Nutrient solution: ~25°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: ~25°C 💨 CO₂: ~693 ppm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 ? Pot size: 15 L 💧 Irrigation: ~1.45 L/plant/24h And once again... numbers are only part of the story. The plant's response is what matters. And Pheno B continues to say: "I'm good." 😂👑 She's growing. She's flowering. She's maintaining her colour. She's building resin. She's using the resources available to her. That's what I want to see. ──────────────────────── 💨 LET THE SYSTEM WORK ──────────────────────── One thing I've really enjoyed about this stage of the 8×8 is how little intervention some of these plants actually need. Earlier in the run, there was plenty to do. Training. Structure. Canopy management. Positioning. Adjustments. Now? The plants are doing the talking. And Godfather OG Pheno B is saying: "Just keep everything working." 😂 So that's what we're doing. Stable environment. Stable irrigation. Appropriate nutrition. Good airflow. Controlled lighting. Observation. And patience. The boring stuff... which is often the most important stuff. 😂🌱 ──────────────────────── 📸 THE CAMERA STILL LOVES HER ──────────────────────── And honestly... I understand why. This girl photographs beautifully. The green foliage. The developing flowers. The resin. The structure. There's always something happening when you put the camera in front of her. Macro photography becomes particularly interesting at this stage. The closer you look, the more detail appears. Trichomes. Pistils. Tiny structures. Little changes in the flower surface. It's almost like looking at an entirely different plant. And that's one of the reasons I enjoy documenting this adventure so much. The plants are already beautiful to the naked eye. Then the camera says: "Wait until you see this." 😂📸💎 ──────────────────────── 🔬 ANOTHER WEEK OF PHENOTYPE HUNTING ──────────────────────── Week after week, Pheno B becomes easier to recognize. She's developing her own signature. The structure. The colour. The density. The flowering pattern. The appetite. The way she fills her space. The way she catches the light. The way her flowers are developing. It's all coming together. And that's exactly what I hoped we'd see from this project. Not twelve identical plants. Twelve individual stories. Twelve personalities. Twelve interpretations of a shared environment. And Godfather OG Pheno B? She's definitely writing hers in capital letters. 😂👑 ──────────────────────── 🔮 WHERE DOES SHE GO FROM HERE? ──────────────────────── That's the fun part. I don't know. 😂 And I'm happy not knowing. We're getting closer to the later stages of the flowering journey, but there is still plenty happening. The flowers can continue developing. The resin can continue changing. The overall structure can continue filling out. And the Queen can continue surprising us. So I'm not going to rush her. I'm not going to try to force the ending. I'm going to watch. I'm going to document. And I'm going to let her show us when she's ready. 🌸💎🌿 ──────────────────────── 💭 FINAL THOUGHTS – LET THE QUEEN SHINE ──────────────────────── Week 11. And Godfather OG Pheno B continues to be exactly what I hoped she'd become. Beautiful. Healthy-looking. Hungry. Demanding. Frosty. And completely herself. 👑🌿💎 She keeps growing. She keeps developing. She keeps catching photons. She keeps turning those photons into energy. And she keeps turning that energy into something we can actually see. Flowers. Resin. Growth. Beauty. That's the magic of the process. And once again, I'm reminded that the whole point of this adventure isn't simply to see which plant grows the biggest. It's to watch what happens when different genetics are given a shared foundation. Same room. Same environment. Same general care. Different plants. Different expressions. Different personalities. And Godfather OG Pheno B? She's one beautiful Queen. 👑🌿🌸🔥 So let's give her the spotlight. Let's let her shine. Let's keep those photons flying. Let's keep watching those flowers develop. And let's see where this beautiful girl takes us next. Because I have a feeling... she's not finished surprising us yet. 😂👑💡🌸💎 ──────────────────────── 🙏 THANK YOU ──────────────────────── As always, thank you so much to everyone following the 8×8 Adventure. 💚🌱 Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us the space to document these individual journeys and share the experience with growers around the world. Thank you to Zamnesia for the Godfather OG genetics and for giving us the opportunity to discover what these different phenotypes can become. Thank you to Plagron for the growing media and nutrition supporting the room. A huge thank you to Future of Grow for supplying the additional Black Series 600W fixtures and giving us the opportunity to test what this expanded lighting setup can do. 💡☀️🌿 Thank you to Lumiflora for helping bring additional light into the deeper and lower areas of the canopy. Thank you to TrolMaster for helping keep the environment controlled behind the scenes. And finally... thank you to everyone following along. Every comment. Every question. Every message. Every person stopping by to see what these girls are doing. It genuinely means a lot. 💚 This adventure continues to be one of the most enjoyable learning experiences I've had. Twelve plants. One shared environment. One 8×8 jungle. And twelve completely different stories. And Godfather OG Pheno B? She's still writing hers. She's still hungry. She's still beautiful. She's still catching photons. She's still building flowers. And she's still shining. 👑🌿💡🌸💎🔥 So let's keep giving her the spotlight. Let's let this beautiful Queen shine. And let's see what she has waiting for us in the next chapter. Growers Love, my friends. 💚🌱 See you next week in the 8×8 jungle. 👑🌿🔥