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Both look OK,.. one had quit abit of yellowing, going to add calmag on this week's feed, still seem happy enough, smell lovely, the one closest to the door has got a lovely purple hue setting in,.. roll on next week 👌

18.01.2024 Tag 79 - Woche 12 / Tag 2 Licht: 40cm – 90% Lichtzyklus: 12/12 Luftfeuchte: 55% Temperatur: 26°C VPD: 1,5 kPa Höhe: Apple Fritter - 45cm Purple Punch - 65cm Gelato - 75cm Bemerkungen: Miss Purple Punch wird jetzt unten ziemlich gelb. Ansonsten sieht sie hervorragend aus. Ich weiß noch nicht, ob es einfach nur Nature oder ein tatsächlicher Mangel ist. Ich beobachte noch und gieße am Wochenende einen Komposttee. Wir werden sehen und es bleibt spannend. Lady Apple Fritter: absolut herausragend die Dame. Die hat einfach keine Probleme und macht ihr Ding großartig! Ich weiß jetzt schon: die werde ich wieder growen. Madame Gelato: unverändert. Steht da wie eine Diva und lässt sich nicht locken. Sie ist nach wie vor weit hinter den Anderen zurück oder braucht einfach nur länger. Kann nur für die Qualität der Buds sprechen… denn das werden definitiv die Größten und Dicksten von den Dreien. Wir werden sehen, wie sie sich weiterentwickelt. ############################################################################################################################################################## 20.01.2024 Tag 81 - Woche 12 / Tag 4 Licht: 40cm – 90% Lichtzyklus: 12/12 Luftfeuchte: 55% Temperatur: 26°C VPD: 1,5 kPa Ich hab die letzten 24 Stunden einen Komposttee, vor allem für die Gelato und Purple Punch, gebraut. - 5 Liter chlorfreies Wasser - 100g Wurm Kompost - etwas Great White Mykorrhiza - das Ganze 24 Stunden lang aktiv belüften (siehe Video) Ich verspreche mir davon, dass einige Nährstoffdefizite an der Purple Punch noch ausgeglichen werden können, vor allem aber, dass es die Gelato nochmal richtig pusht. Der Komposttee wird 1:1 verdünnt mit chlorfreiem Wasser gegossen. Terp 💪😎

🌿 Frosted Guava Auto by Zamnesia | Pheno A | Week 10 🦄 The Little Unicorn Keeps Shining Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! 🌿💚 Well... She's doing it again. Frosted Guava Pheno A continues to shine, and this week she's decided to add another little piece of personality to the story. She's foxtailing. 🦄🌿 And you know what? I don't mind it at all. Actually... I kind of like it. Because if there's one thing I've learned from growing different genetics together, it's that not every plant is going to write the same story. Some are uniform. Some are compact. Some build huge, dense flowers. Some stretch. Some do something completely unexpected. And sometimes... you get a little unicorn. 😂🦄💚 That's what I see when I look at this girl. She's beautiful. She's developing beautifully. She's carrying those incredibly deep greens. She's becoming increasingly frosty. She's moving deeper into maturity. And now she's adding some peculiar little floral growth to the equation. Honestly? Let's make this unicorn shine. 🌱 The 8×8 Adventure — Genetics Keep Talking For anyone discovering this diary for the first time, welcome to the 8×8 Adventure. The whole idea behind this project is simple: Put different genetics and phenotypes into the same general environment... and then watch what they decide to do. The plants share: 💡 The same lighting strategy 🌡️ The same environmental conditions 💧 The same general irrigation philosophy 🌱 The same nutritional program 🕛 The same 12/12-from-seed approach 🏠 The same growing room 👨‍🌾 The same grower And yet... they are all different. That's the part I love. Because when you remove as many variables as possible, the personalities of the plants become much easier to appreciate. And Frosted Guava Pheno A? She's definitely got personality. 🦄 Hello, Foxtailing So let's talk about the elephant in the room. Or perhaps... the unicorn. 😂 She's showing some foxtailing. And honestly, I'm perfectly happy to see it. Foxtailing isn't automatically something I consider a problem. Some genetics naturally produce those elongated, stacked floral structures. Environmental factors can also contribute in some situations, including excessive light intensity or heat. But looking at this plant, I'm not jumping to the conclusion that light stress is responsible. She's around 120 cm, so she's certainly not some enormous plant sitting directly against the lights. The overall plant looks healthy. The foliage looks strong. The flowers are developing. And she's simply showing a particular expression. So for now? I'm calling it what it is: Frosted Guava being Frosted Guava. And I kind of love it. 🍓 More Little "Fruits" for Me And yes... I'm going to say it. 😂 Those little foxtailing structures? To me, they're just more little "fruits" to enjoy later. I'm not bothered by them at all. If anything, they make the flowers look more interesting. More irregular. More individual. More peculiar. And I like peculiar. I like unique. I like plants that don't look like they came out of a factory. I like unicorns. 🦄🌿 Of course, foxtailing by itself doesn't guarantee more yield. But that's not really why I like it. I like the character it gives the flowers. And this girl has character. 🌿 Deep. Deep. Deep Green. Now... let's talk about that colour. Because wow. The lower leaves in particular are showing some deep, deep, deep, deep, deep green. 😂💚 I know. I'm repeating myself. But look at her. How am I supposed to describe that colour without repeating myself? She's GREEN. Beautifully, seriously, ridiculously green. And I love it. The foliage gives the plant an incredible visual depth, especially alongside the developing flowers. The contrast between the dark leaves and the increasingly frosty flower structures is absolutely beautiful. It's one of those plants where you can look at the photographs and immediately understand why I keep wanting to photograph her. She's got layers. She's got texture. She's got colour. She's got frost. And now... she's got little unicorn horns growing out of her flowers. 😂🦄 ❄️ The Frost Continues And underneath all that green? The frost continues to develop. The flowers are becoming increasingly mature in appearance, and the resin coverage is becoming more apparent as the plant moves further into the flowering cycle. This is where I really start enjoying the combination of photography and growing. At first glance: Beautiful flowering plant. Then you zoom in: Wait a minute... look at that. And then you zoom in again. More resin. More structure. More detail. More little floral formations. And suddenly you realize just how much is happening on a single flower. That's why I keep taking these photographs. The plant changes. The camera catches it. And week after week, we get another little piece of the story. 🌸 She's Moving Fast I also feel like Frosted Guava is moving quite quickly now. We're deep into flowering, and the flowers are clearly progressing toward a more advanced stage. The development is becoming more obvious. The structure is becoming more pronounced. The resin is increasing. And those little foxtailing formations are adding another layer to the flowers. She's not finished. There's still plenty of time left. But she's definitely heading somewhere. And I'm enjoying the journey. This is the part where you stop trying to predict every little thing and simply watch the plant mature. She's telling me where she's going. I'm just following along. 👑 Keeper Material? And here's another funny thought that crossed my mind this week. I'm not cloning these plants. I'm not keeping mother plants. I'm not building a keeper library from this run. That's not the purpose of this particular adventure. But... if I were looking for a keeper? I'd certainly be looking twice at this girl. 😂🦄🌿 Because she's got something. The colour. The structure. The flowers. The frost. And now this peculiar foxtailing expression. It's not necessarily about being the biggest plant. It's not about being the fastest. It's about having something that makes you stop and think: "That's interesting." And Frosted Guava has definitely achieved that. 🌿 No Need to Interfere The other thing I really appreciate about her right now is that she doesn't seem to be asking me for anything dramatic. She had her cleanup previously. She's got her space. She's got her nutrition. She's got her irrigation. She's got her light. And now? I'm letting her work. There's no reason to start changing things simply because she's doing something slightly unusual. If anything, this is exactly the moment when I want to observe rather than interfere. Because if the plant is healthy and developing well... why not let her show us what she's capable of? The foxtailing is part of her current expression. The deep green is part of her expression. The flower structure is part of her expression. And I'm here to document it. 💡 Let the Unicorn Eat Photons The lighting strategy remains consistent across the room. The Future of Grow Black Series LED continues providing the main overhead illumination, with Lumiflora contributing additional under-canopy lighting. The upper canopy is receiving strong light, but I'm not seeing enough here to confidently blame the foxtailing on light stress. And that's an important distinction. Just because a plant is foxtailing doesn't mean: "It must be the light." Sometimes it's genetics. Sometimes it's environmental. Sometimes it's a combination. Sometimes... it's simply what that particular plant likes to do. So rather than inventing an explanation, I'm watching. And right now? The unicorn appears happy. 😂🦄 💧 Still Providing, Still Watching The flowering nutrition remains consistent with the room's established program. 🌸 Terra Bloom — 2.2 ml/L 🌱 Power Buds — 1 ml/L ✨ Green Sensation — 1 ml/L 🍯 Sugar Royal — 1 ml/L ⚗️ pH adjustment — as required Current solution parameters remain around: ⚗️ pH: ~6.0 ⚡ EC: ~2.0 mS/cm Watering remains approximately: 💦 1.3 L per plant / 24h Nothing special. Nothing secret. Nothing specifically designed to create foxtails. We're simply providing what the room requires and allowing each phenotype to respond in its own way. And Frosted Guava? She's responding beautifully. 🌡️ Week 10 Conditions Current recorded conditions: 🌸 Flowering: Week 10 📏 Height: 120 cm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 🌡️ Day temperature: 29.9°C 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C 💧 Relative humidity: 60% ⚗️ pH: ~6.0 ⚡ EC: ~2.0 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature: 25°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: 26°C 🌬️ CO₂: 639 ppm ? Pot size: 15 L 💦 Watering: ~1.3 L per plant / 24h The room remains stable. The plant remains healthy. And the phenotype continues doing its own thing. Exactly what I want from this experiment. 📸 This Week's Gallery I absolutely love the visual personality of this week's gallery. You've got the wider shots showing the whole plant and its structure. Then the flowers. Then the close-ups. And that's where the story really becomes interesting. The deep green foliage. The developing flowers. The resin. The pistils. The increasingly mature structures. And then... those little foxtails. They give some of the flowers a slightly unusual appearance. And that's exactly what I like. They're not all perfectly symmetrical. They're not all identical. They're peculiar. They're unique. They're different. And I genuinely enjoy that. 🦄 I Like Unicorns Maybe that's the easiest way to explain it. I like unicorns. 😂🦄 I like finding the plant that does something a little different. The plant that makes you stop. The phenotype that gives you a feature you weren't necessarily expecting. That's one of the reasons phenotype hunting is so much fun. You can start with the same genetic name... and still end up with plants that express themselves completely differently. And sometimes one of them gives you something that makes you think: "If I were keeping clones, I'd probably want to keep an eye on you." Frosted Guava Pheno A is starting to feel like one of those plants. ✨ Still Shining But underneath all the talk about foxtailing, there is something much more important: She's beautiful. That's the headline. The foxtailing is simply part of the story. The plant remains lush. The colour is gorgeous. The flowers are developing. The resin continues to build. She's progressing toward maturity. And she's doing all of this without demanding constant attention. That's a pretty good combination in my book. She's not asking me to fix her. She's asking me to provide. So that's what we'll do. Provide. Observe. Photograph. Learn. And enjoy. 🔮 Looking Ahead Now I'm really curious to see how those flowers develop from here. Will the foxtailing continue? Will it become more pronounced? Will some flowers remain more compact while others continue stretching their floral structures? How much more resin will she develop? How much more will those beautiful flowers swell? And what will she look like when she finally decides she's finished? Those are the questions I want to answer. Not by guessing. By watching. Because that's the whole point of this adventure. We create the conditions. The plants provide the answers. And Frosted Guava is currently giving us some very interesting answers indeed. 💚 Final Thoughts — Let the Unicorn Shine Week 10. And Frosted Guava Pheno A continues to be one of those plants that makes me smile. She's beautiful. She's green. Actually... very, very green. 😂💚 She's frosty. She's developing beautifully. She's moving deeper into maturity. And yes... she's foxtailing. But I don't mind. Not every unusual characteristic needs to be treated as a problem. Some genetics naturally do it. Environmental factors can sometimes contribute. But I'm not seeing a reason to immediately blame the lighting here. So I'm going to do something much simpler. I'm going to appreciate it. Because it makes her flowers unique. It gives them character. And I like unique. I like peculiar. I like plants that surprise me. I like unicorns. 🦄💚 And even though I'm not keeping clones from this adventure... I have to admit: this girl looks like she would be keeper material. 😂 But that's not the mission. The mission is to watch. To document. To learn. And to let every phenotype tell its own story. Frosted Guava Pheno A is definitely telling hers. Deep green. Beautiful flowers. Increasing frost. A little foxtailing. A lot of personality. And absolutely no shortage of shine. So let's not change what doesn't need changing. Let's keep providing. Let's keep watching. And let's make this beautiful little unicorn shine. 🌿❄️🦄✨ 🙏 Thank You Another week. Another chapter. Another beautiful expression from the 8×8 Adventure. A huge thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers a place to document these journeys, compare phenotypes and learn from each other. Thank you to Zamnesia for the Frosted Guava genetics that gave us this fascinating girl. Thank you to Plagron for supporting the nutritional side of the adventure. Thank you to Future of Grow LED for the main lighting driving the room. Thank you to Lumiflora for bringing the under-canopy lighting dimension into the experiment. Thank you to TrolMaster for helping keep the environment stable behind the scenes. And, of course, thank you to everyone following along. For every comment. Every question. Every observation. Every person who comes back week after week to see what these plants are becoming. That's what makes documenting this adventure so enjoyable. And Frosted Guava? She's giving us another beautiful chapter. She's not perfect. She's not supposed to be. She's peculiar. She's unique. She's a little bit of a unicorn. And honestly... that's exactly why I like her. 🦄💚 The deep greens. The beautiful flowers. The frost. The foxtailing. The personality. The possibility. Even if I'm not keeping clones... she's definitely making me wonder what a keeper selection from this expression could look like. But for now... we provide. We observe. We photograph. And we let her shine. Let's make her shine! 🌿❄️🦄✨ Growers Love & Happy Growing! 💚🌱

They survived another week. Lowered the temp to 72 for the remainder of the grow. Wanting to see if it adds anything to the flavors and aroma. Just going to keep the juice pumping until they dont want anymore.

These Ladies are in bloom with popcorn on alot of the branches. Some branches are getting heavy with frosty Nugz but half of the plant is flowering at a slower pace. I noticed some powdery spots on some of my leaves this week. After some research I've decided to seek advice from the GD community vs relying on my own experience or trying methods that may negatively affect these beautiful plants. Feel free to chime in 🤔

Looks absolutely awesome. This is my first photoperiod and you can really tell the difference in density and overall quality. I wet trimmed her and froze the sugar leaves to try to make my first hash. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set up cost (fixed costs) -Lamp: 40€ -Timer: 3,5€ -Pot: 4€ -Total fixed costs: 47,5€ Given 5 years (or 15 grows) usage time translates to around 3,17€ per grow in materials. Variable costs: -Seed: free (gift) -Soil: 6€ -Fertilizer: 3,50€ -Power: 15,21€ -Total variable costs: 24,71€ -Total costs per grow: 27,88€

Hey everyone :-) We arrived in the last week before the harvest 😍😍😍. I can hardly wait because both are beautiful and smell extremely good 👍😃. Let's start with the weekly overview: Flowering day 56 Both were poured with 1.2 l each and checked for their health. Flowering day 57 Today the tent was cleaned and the humidifier refilled. The trichomes have been checked and are about 80% milky and 20% amber. Flowering day 58 Both were checked, and the technology was checked for functionality. Flowering day 59 Today both were checked and fresh osmosis water was left in the tank. Flowering day 60 Again, both were poured with 1 liter. Flowering day 61 Today was a pure control day. The trichomes are now 30% amber and 70% milky (a few days until harvest). Flowering day 62 Today the whole tent was cleaned. And got the darkroom ready. In the next few days we will go to the darkroom. Of course, there will be a harvest update before the last update. Until then, I wish you all the best, stay healthy 🙏🏻 and let it grow 🍀 You can buy this Strain at : https://sweetseeds.es/de/red-mandarine-f1-fast-version/ Type: Red Mandarine F1 Fast Version ☝️🏼 Genetics: Red Poison Auto®️ (SWS39) X Tangie (California Orange x Hybrid Skunk) 👍 Vega lamp: 2 x Todogrow Led Quantum Board 100 W 💡 Bloom Lamp : 2 x Todogrow Led Cxb 3590 COB 3500 K 205W 💡💡☝️🏼 Soil : Canna Coco Professional + ☝️🏼 Fertilizer: Green House Powder Feeding ☝️🏼🌱 Water: Osmosis water mixed with normal water (24 hours stale that the chlorine evaporates) to 0.2 EC. Add Cal / Mag to 0.4 Ec Ph with Organic Ph - to 5.5 - 5.8 .

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This girl has continue to stretch and grow and now it’s starting to develop beautiful flowers even though she just started to flower they are Snow White, and what a lovely citrusy smell to it . all of my plants are suffering from heat stress and that’s because of the dry air coming into the tent as well as the light being too close to the plants creating light burn as well other than that the girl seems to be cruising around with out difficulties developing nicely and growing very tallThank you for reading I will continue to update have a happy grow

hey guys sorry for the absence but in this period I have had a lot to do with my work and I have not been able to bring a good detailed diary, but finally now the holidays will start and I will be able to dedicate myself 110% to a new crop and new ones diaries. having said that, I think I will leave him a week at the most and finally reap the benefits 💚🌳💚🌳maybe my fault the RQS slow release nutrients did not perform as much as the ADVs in my tent, you can see it from the video of 27/07/22 where you can see that 2 out of 6 plants are visually leaner and less compact to the touch , I wanted to try on the same varieties in order to have feedback. I think it could also be caused by the crowding of the tent but with the ADV I have not encountered any problems. I will definitely try them again, giving them much more attention.

Hello my friends 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾, Continue to grow well 🌲🌲, very easy strain, Only one issue this week, I've broken 1 stems during the train 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. The stem is broken more than 75%, I don't think will recover. But it's ok I've saved 3 nodes on this plants before topping. I'll could transplanted them next week in 11l and definitive pot, the Fat Banana should harvested ✂️✂️. And we'll have a better idea to prepare the scrog. Because still in 2l start to be very little lol...🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️😳😳😅😅 💦 I give water each 2 or 3 days 350 and 400ml/plant Water + rhizo + tera vega Water + Rhizo + canazym PH@6 Lamp is 100% Thanks community for follow, likes, comments, always a pleasure 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾❤️🌲 Happy new year 🎉 🥂 family farmer 👨‍🌾👩‍🌾 See you next week 👊👊 Mars Hydro - TS 1000 https://www.mars-hydro.com/ts-1000-led-grow-light Mars Hydro - FC3000 https://www.mars-hydro.com/fc-3000-samsung-lm301b-led-grow-light Mars Hydro - SP3000 https://www.mars-hydro.com/sp-3000-samsung-lm301b-greenhouse-led-grow-light The High Chameleon - Vannila T https://www.thehighchameleon.com/shop/vanilla-t-5

Week 2 F D1 Another week down for my lemon ICE and everything goes well . Defoliated her one more time today since she was getting a bit bushy again and I want the lights to reach the lower parts of her ! I haven't overdone that keeping more than half of her leaves on. I think I could go a bit harder but its okey ... I find defoliation a really interesting technique for indoor gardening since plants are disease and pest free compared to outdoors. I will defoliate her one more time at the end of week 3 Cant wait for the next two weeks !! D5 Lemon ICE growing massive and those bud sites are getting taller every day! She's going super fast into flowering and more and more pistils are showing up every day Lushy deep green leaves and I really have nothing bad to say about her . She's just growing beautifully, great internal stretch , great structure, great colour ,smell is super fresh Introduced Canna Boost Accelerator to her diet at 2ml/lt and lets get it started Till next Update

Good harvest but a shame the buds were not denser

Had to do this for the contest so I didn’t screw up my other diaries!

Welcome to week 4 of flower for the outdoors grow. Green Crack and LSD are continuing to pack on buds, the plants are still hungry and I've stepped up the total amount of feed I'm giving them, #gaiagreen power bloom. Thanks for stopping by growfessors 👽🌳💚

The plants have already been topped. Today, on 25-05-2024, two large leaves were removed, covering the sprouts. The LST was done at the same time.