🚂 8×8 Adventure – Week 13 🌸 Cash Express – Pheno A 💨 We Lost The Main Cola… But The Story Doesn't End Here Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! 🌱💚 Okay... I have a confession to make. 😂 Last week, I kind of missed the photos. And, unfortunately, there was a little more to that story than simply forgetting to take the camera out. Cash Express Pheno A was the girl who lost her main cola to bud rot. 💔🌸 There. I said it. And honestly, it was a pity. A really fucking big pity. But... things happen. And when they do? We deal with them. We remove what needs to be removed. We inspect what remains. We keep moving. And that's exactly what we've done. The affected main cola is gone. The remaining flowers are looking good. No signs of the same issue on the remaining parts that we're keeping. And most importantly... Cash Express Pheno A is still here. She's still growing. She's still evolving. She's still moving fast. And she's still got plenty of beautiful flowers left to show us. So yes... we lost the main cola. But we did not lose the plant. And we certainly aren't going to let one bad moment define the rest of her story. We've moved on. Now it's time to take care of what remains. And make it shine. 💚🚂🌸✨ ──────────────────────── 🙏 A Small Apology Before We Move Forward First of all... I'm sorry, girl. 😂💚 Missing the previous report and photographs wasn't exactly how I wanted this chapter to go. And then, on top of that, we had the issue with the main cola. Not exactly the perfect week. But this is also part of growing. Not every chapter is going to be perfect. Not every photograph is going to be perfect. Not every flower is going to make it all the way to the finish. Sometimes something happens. And when it does... we don't hide it. We document it. We learn from it. We deal with it. And we continue. For anyone who wants the full story of what happened, I explained the situation in the previous week's Cash Express Pheno B report. So if you're curious about the details, go have a look there. But for this diary... the important part is: We found the problem. We removed the affected main cola. We checked the remaining flowers. And now we're moving forward. No drama. No panic. Just another chapter in the adventure. ──────────────────────── 🚂 The Main Cola Is Gone — But She's Still Here Let's address the obvious first. Yes... we lost the main cola. 💔 And it was a beautiful one. That's what makes it hurt. 😂 When you've watched a plant develop for weeks, when you've seen a flower build itself up, when you've photographed it and followed its progression... losing part of it sucks. There's no better way to put it. But one flower doesn't define the entire plant. Cash Express Pheno A still has plenty of flowering sites. And those remaining flowers are what we're concentrating on now. We're not looking backward. We're looking forward. The affected part has been removed. The remaining plant is continuing to develop. And I'm very happy to see that the rest of her flowers are still looking beautiful. That's what matters now. So... goodbye, main cola. You were beautiful. 💔🌸 And now... let's see what the rest of this girl can do. ──────────────────────── 🌸 What Remains Is Still Beautiful And this is the part I really want to focus on this week. Because when you look at the photographs... you can see it. She's still beautiful. She's still flowering. She's still developing. She's still carrying plenty of character. And honestly? She's still Cash Express. 😂🚂💚 The remaining flowers are continuing to evolve quickly, just as we've been seeing from this phenotype throughout the run. She's still one of those girls that seems to change noticeably from week to week. The structure continues developing. The flowers continue maturing. And she's still giving us plenty to look at. So although we've lost one of the biggest pieces of the plant... we still have a lot of plant left. And I'm going to enjoy every bit of it. ──────────────────────── 💨 She's Still Moving Fast One thing hasn't changed. This girl is still moving. Fast. 😂🚂💨 Even after everything that happened, she's continuing to progress. She's not sitting there looking defeated. She's not stopping. She's continuing her flowering journey. And that's actually one of the things I appreciate most about plants. Something can go wrong... and they just keep going. They don't sit there feeling sorry for themselves. They continue doing what plants do. Grow. Develop. Adapt. Finish their journey. And Cash Express Pheno A is doing exactly that. She's still evolving quickly. And now we're simply watching the remaining flowers become the main characters of this story. ──────────────────────── 🌿 One Problem Doesn't Change Her Personality Before the issue with the main cola, I already described this girl as one of the more unique plants in the room. And that hasn't changed. She's still not necessarily the classic "perfect-looking" plant. She's not the symmetrical princess. She's not the biggest. She's not the most glamorous. But she has character. And that's something you can't manufacture. 😂💚 She's interesting. She's individual. She's developing quickly. She's aromatic. And now she's also given us one of those unexpected chapters that becomes part of the story. That's the reality of a long grow. The plants don't always follow the script. And Cash Express definitely didn't. But that's okay. We're still here. ──────────────────────── 🌱 The 8×8 Adventure — Same Room, Different Stories For anyone discovering this diary for the first time, welcome to the 8×8 Adventure. Twelve different plants. Different genetics. Different phenotypes. One shared room. One general environmental strategy. One 12/12 lighting schedule. One irrigation philosophy. One nutritional program. One lighting ecosystem. One grower. And twelve completely different stories. That's what makes this experiment so interesting. The environment can be kept consistent. The plants can't. 😂 Every phenotype gets the same opportunity. And then... they decide what to do with it. Cash Express Pheno A has given us another reminder that every grow has its unexpected moments. But she's also showing us something else: The story doesn't stop just because one part of it changes. We adapt. We continue. And we keep documenting. ──────────────────────── 💡 Same Light. Same Room. Same Photons. The lighting environment remains unchanged. We're continuing with the upgraded Future of Grow Black Series setup, including the two additional Black Series 600W fixtures supplied for this experiment. After adding the additional fixtures, we reduced the output to approximately: 🔌 ~59% from the plug with approximately: ☀️ ~1,500 PPFD across the upper canopy with intensity naturally changing according to plant height and position. And Cash Express Pheno A continues growing underneath those photons. Same light. Same room. Same ecosystem. Different plant. Different response. That's one of the things I love most about this project. We don't need to give her a completely different environment to make her interesting. She's already interesting. She's doing that herself. ──────────────────────── 🌸 The Flowers Still Have A Story To Tell The main cola may be gone... but the remaining flowers aren't finished. Not at all. They're still developing. They're still changing. They're still building their own little structures. And when I look at them, I don't see a plant that has reached the end of her story. I see a plant that has had a setback... and is continuing anyway. That's a very different thing. So now my attention naturally shifts. Instead of admiring the main cola... we admire what remains. Instead of thinking about what we lost... we appreciate what we still have. And there is plenty here to appreciate. 🌸💚 ──────────────────────── 👃 And Yes... She's Still Making Herself Known Another thing that hasn't disappeared is her aroma. This girl was already starting to make herself known before. And she's still developing that side of her personality. The visual story is one thing. The aroma is another. And that's part of what makes following an individual phenotype so interesting. You can watch the structure. You can watch the flowers. You can watch the progression. And then suddenly... the plant starts speaking through another sense. 😂💨 Cash Express is definitely becoming memorable. And I'm curious to see how that expression continues to evolve as the remaining flowers mature. ──────────────────────── ✂️ We Don't Need To Invent More Work And now? We're not going crazy. 😂✂️ The affected main cola is gone. The remaining flowers are being watched. The plant is still developing. The environment is stable. So we're not going to start randomly manipulating the plant just because something happened. The important intervention was already made. Now? Observe. Maintain. Document. Let her continue. That's it. Sometimes the best thing you can do after dealing with a problem is simply return to stability. And that's exactly where we're going. Back to normal. Back to observation. Back to letting the plant do her thing. ──────────────────────── 🌿 The Room Is Stable — And That's Exactly What We Want The rest of the 8×8 continues under the same conditions. We're keeping the room stable. Same ecosystem. Same environmental strategy. Same lighting setup. Same nutritional program. Same irrigation philosophy. And honestly? The room is looking good. The plants are alive. They're developing. They're progressing. They're showing their individual personalities. And that stability is exactly what we want right now. We're not changing things unnecessarily. We're not chasing the calendar. We're not trying to make every phenotype finish at the same time. We're watching them. And we're responding when something actually requires a response. Cash Express required one. We responded. Now we move forward. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Same Feeding — Same Opportunity The nutritional program remains unchanged for the room. 🌱 Plagron Pure Zym — 1 ml/L ⚗️ Plagron pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L 🍋 Plagron Lemon Kick — 0.03 ml/L 🌸 Plagron Terra Bloom — 2 ml/L 🌱 Plagron Power Buds — 1 ml/L 🍯 Plagron Sugar Royal — 1 ml/L Current solution strength remains around: ⚡ EC ~2.05 mS/cm And we're continuing with the same overall irrigation strategy. No special recipe for Cash Express. No special nutritional treatment. Same opportunity. Same room. Same ecosystem. And she's responding in her own way. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ WEEK 13 — CURRENT ROOM CONDITIONS The room continues under the same stable conditions used across this week's reports: 🌸 Flowering — Week 13 💡 Light schedule — 12/12 💡 Future of Grow Black Series LEDs — upgraded setup 🔌 Approx. lighting output — ~59% from the plug ☀️ Upper-canopy PPFD — ~1,500 🌡️ Day temperature — ~27°C 🌙 Night temperature — ~26°C 💧 Relative humidity — ~61% ⚗️ pH — ~6.04 ⚡ EC — ~2.05 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature — ~25°C 🌱 Substrate temperature — ~25°C 🌬️ CO₂ — ~693 ppm 🌱 Pot size — 15 L 💦 Irrigation — ~1.45 L per plant / 24h Same room. Same environment. Same ecosystem. Same feeding. Same lighting. And Cash Express Pheno A is continuing her journey with one less major cola than she started this chapter with. But still plenty of story left. ──────────────────────── 🔬 This Is Also Part Of The Experiment I think it's important to document the difficult moments too. It's easy to make a diary when everything looks perfect. Beautiful flowers. Perfect photographs. Amazing progress. Everything sparkling. But that's not reality. Reality is that sometimes you lose something. Sometimes a flower doesn't make it. Sometimes you have to change your plans. And sometimes you simply have to say: "Okay. That happened. Let's deal with it." 😂 That's what we've done here. And I think that's just as valuable to document as the beautiful parts. Because the 8×8 Adventure isn't a collection of perfect photographs. It's a real journey. And Cash Express Pheno A has now given us one of those chapters. ──────────────────────── 💚 We Move On So... enough about what we lost. Let's talk about what we still have. 💚🌸 We still have a beautiful plant. We still have developing flowers. We still have an interesting phenotype. We still have aroma. We still have plenty of flowering sites. We still have photographs to take. We still have weeks of watching ahead of us. And most importantly... she's still moving. Fast. 😂🚂💨 That's what I want to focus on. Not the missing cola. The flowers that remain. Not the setback. The progress. Not the disappointment. The next chapter. Because that's where we're going. Forward. ──────────────────────── 📸 Now We Photograph What Remains And looking at the photographs from this week... I'm happy we kept documenting her. Because she's still worth photographing. Very much so. The remaining flowers have their own beauty. The structure is still interesting. The plant still has plenty of personality. And now, perhaps more than ever, I want to document her properly. Because this is part of her story. Not the story we expected. But her story nonetheless. And when we look back at this diary later... we'll know exactly what happened. We'll remember the main cola. We'll remember losing it. And we'll remember that the rest of the plant kept going. That's what these photographs are for. ──────────────────────── 🚂 FINAL THOUGHTS — MAKE WHAT'S LEFT SHINE Week 13. And Cash Express Pheno A has had a rough little chapter. We missed the previous report. We lost the main cola. And yes... it was a pity. A big one. 💔🌸 But we've dealt with it. The affected part has been removed. The remaining flowers are showing no signs of the same issue. She's still developing. She's still moving quickly. She's still aromatic. She's still beautiful in her own unique way. And she's still very much part of this adventure. So I'm not going to sit here feeling sorry for what we lost. I'm going to look at what remains... and appreciate it. Because there's plenty here to appreciate. 🌸💚 The main cola may have left the story. But Cash Express Pheno A hasn't. She's still writing. And we're still reading. 😂🚂💨 So let's make her shine. Let's give the remaining flowers the spotlight. Let's appreciate every single one of them. Let's watch her continue to evolve. Let's keep the room stable. Let's keep observing. And let's see what this girl can still give us. Because if there's one thing this plant has already shown us... it's that she doesn't sit still for long. She's moving. She's evolving. She's doing her thing. And now... we're going to help her shine with what's left. 🚂🌸💚✨ Things happen. We move on. We take care of the plants. And we keep growing. That's the 8×8 Adventure. ──────────────────────── 🙏 THANK YOU A huge thank you to Zamnesia for the Cash Express genetics and for giving us the opportunity to discover these individual phenotypes throughout the 8×8 Adventure. 🌸🙏 Thank you to Plagron for supporting the nutritional side of the journey and helping us keep the room consistent throughout this experiment. 🌱 A massive thank you to Future of Grow for the Black Series lighting and especially for supplying the two additional Black Series 600W fixtures we're testing in this room. 💡🙏 Thank you to Lumiflora for adding another lighting dimension deeper into the canopy. Thank you to TrolMaster for helping us maintain the environment behind the scenes. And of course... thank you to everyone following these reports on GrowDiaries. Thank you for the comments. Thank you for the questions. Thank you for the support. And thank you for following even when the story isn't perfect. Because that's what makes these diaries real. Sometimes we celebrate. Sometimes we laugh. Sometimes we say: "Fuck... we lost that one." 😂 And then we clean up, we move forward, and we keep documenting. Cash Express Pheno A has lost her main cola. But she has not lost her story. She's still growing. Still developing. Still moving fast. Still making herself known. And still deserving of the spotlight. So let's give it to her. 🚂🌸💨💚 Keep shining, Cash Express. The main cola may be gone... but the rest of you still have plenty to say. And we're listening. Growers Love & Happy Growing! 🌱💚🚂