💎🌿 8×8 Adventure – Week 14 Black Diamond Auto by Zamnesia – Pheno B 👑 Big Mama's Next Chapter: From Beast to Frozen Treasure! ?💎🌸 Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! 🌱💚 And today, my friends… We need to talk about Big Mama. 😂😂😂💎👑 Our other Black Diamond. Our heavyweight. Our beautiful beast. The girl who never really needed to be the tallest, the prettiest, or the most delicate plant in the room to make herself noticed. She simply showed up, built herself into a magnificent plant, and made sure we knew she was there. And now… Her time in the tent is over. 💎🌿✂️ Just like her sister, Black Diamond Auto Pheno A, Big Mama reached the point where it was time to move into the next chapter. Two sisters. Two different seeds. Two different expressions. One genetic family. And, in the end… TWO ABSOLUTE BEASTS. 😂😂😂👑💎 But although their stories are similar, they haven't been identical. And that's exactly why I wanted to document them separately. Today, we're looking back at Big Mama's journey, explaining what happened after harvest, showing some of the photographs and statistics we managed to capture, and introducing the next stage of her adventure. Because this girl hasn't disappeared. She's simply moving into a different chapter. And this time, we're taking a little detour into the world of ice, water, and bubble hash. ?💎🌿 But before anybody gets too excited… Let's start at the beginning. ──────────────────────── 📢 FIRST, A LITTLE EXPLANATION ABOUT THIS REPORT You might notice that this update is still being published under a flowering week rather than as a dedicated harvest report. And you might also notice something else… There aren't as many photographs of Big Mama as there were of her sister. 😂📸 Both things have an explanation. First, GrowDiaries has a limit of 30 photographs per update, and our harvest documentation can quickly go beyond that limit when we include the final plant photographs, trimming, drying, weighing, and smoke review. Second, GrowDiaries doesn't provide a dedicated section specifically for documenting the extraction process we're planning to follow with Big Mama. So, rather than trying to squeeze everything into one update or leave out important parts of the story, we're using the available diary structure to keep documenting the journey. Depending on how many photographs and details we have to share, we may continue this story in the current week or create another update to give the next stage enough room. The goal is simple: Keep the documentation clear. Keep the photographs. Keep the story together. And don't leave out the interesting bits just because the platform's categories don't perfectly match what we're doing. 💚🌱 As for the smaller collection of photographs… Well, I have a confession. 😂😂😂 It was late. Actually, it was almost morning by the time I got around to her sister's harvest work, and by the time I reached Big Mama, the photographic energy was not quite what it had been earlier. The girl still got her attention. The work still got done. But the camera didn't get quite as much attention as it did with Pheno A. So yes, we have fewer photographs. That's the honest explanation. Sometimes the grower has a plan, the plants have their own schedule, and the clock decides to join the experiment. 😂📸🌙 But fewer photographs don't mean a less important story. Big Mama deserves her own report, her own explanation, and her own spotlight. And that's exactly what we're doing. ──────────────────────── 💎 TWO SISTERS, TWO SEEDS, TWO BEASTS Let's take a moment to look back at how we got here. Black Diamond Auto Pheno B was part of our 8×8 Adventure, where twelve plants shared the same general environment, lighting schedule, and overall approach to care. She grew under a 12/12 light schedule from seed, just like the other plants in this experiment. And throughout the journey, she developed her own personality. Her sister, Pheno A, had that striking appearance that kept making me stop and take another photograph. Big Mama? She brought her own kind of presence. 😂👑💎 She became a substantial plant, carrying beautiful flowers throughout her structure and eventually requiring support to help manage the weight. The yo-yos became part of the story. The flowers continued to develop. The plant kept making herself noticed. And week after week, she showed us that she wasn't simply going to be a copy of her sister. They may share the same genetic name, but they have their own individual expressions. And that's one of the things I love most about following individual phenotypes. You start with seeds. You provide a shared environment. You document the journey. And then you watch the plants show you who they are. Pheno A gave us one beautiful story. Pheno B gave us another. And now both girls have reached the end of their time in the tent. 💎💎🌿 Two Black Diamonds. Two different personalities. Two beautiful plants. And two harvest stories worth documenting. ──────────────────────── 👑 GOODBYE, BIG MAMA — THE TENT CHAPTER IS OVER If you've been following her diary, you'll know that Big Mama wasn't exactly a shy girl. 😂😂😂 She had presence. She had structure. She had beautiful flowers. And she had enough weight to keep the yo-yo department employed. Her story was never just about how tall she grew or how much space she occupied. It was about how she developed, how her flowers formed, and how differently she expressed herself compared with her sister. That's what made her interesting. And when it was time to harvest, we moved into the next stage. We took her down, broke her down, and prepared the material for the direction we wanted to take with this particular harvest. But unlike her sister's report, which focused heavily on the studio photography and photo stacking, Big Mama's next chapter is going to explore something different. We're preparing her material for a planned bubble hash project. ?🌿💎 And that's where things get interesting. ──────────────────────── ✂️ WHAT HAPPENED AFTER HARVEST? Once Big Mama was harvested, I broke the plant down and removed the unwanted leaves. The aim was to separate the material we wanted to keep from the leaves and other parts we didn't want included in the next stage. I then bagged the prepared material, vacuum-sealed it, and placed it in the freezer. Yes… Big Mama is currently enjoying a little holiday in the freezer. 😂?👑 Not quite the luxurious spa treatment she might have imagined, but that's where she is while we prepare for the next chapter. The material is frozen and waiting for the colder days ahead, when we'll continue with the planned ice-water extraction project. This is a different direction from simply following the traditional dried-flower route, and I'm looking forward to documenting the process properly. For now, the preparation has been done. The material has been bagged. It's vacuum-sealed. It's frozen. And we're waiting for the next stage. ?💎🌿 We haven't completed the extraction yet, so this report isn't going to pretend that we have a final result. Instead, we're showing what we've done so far and explaining what comes next. That's how I like to document these projects. One step at a time. ──────────────────────── ? WHAT IS BUBBLE HASH, AND WHY ARE WE GOING THIS ROUTE? For anyone unfamiliar with the term, bubble hash is a type of cannabis concentrate made by separating resin-rich trichome material from plant material using ice water and filtration. The name comes from the way well-made material can bubble when exposed to heat, although the quality and behaviour depend on the starting material and the final product. The basic concept is that trichomes are separated from the plant material, and the resulting material is collected through filtration. It isn't the same thing as simply drying and trimming flowers. It isn't the same thing as collecting resin from a glove. And it isn't automatically the same thing as charas. These are different materials made through different processes, even though they all relate to the resin produced by the plant. 💎🌿 In Big Mama's case, the next stage we're planning is an ice-water extraction using water, ice, and a washing setup. We'll document the actual process in the next report, including the equipment, what we observe, the collected material, and how the results look. We'll also show how we handle the drying stage for the collected hash and discuss what happens afterwards. For now, we're introducing the project rather than jumping ahead to results we haven't produced yet. And honestly, I think that's the best way to do it. You get to follow the story from the preparation through to the final outcome. ──────────────────────── 🌿 BUBBLE HASH IS NOT JUST ANOTHER NAME FOR RESIN I want to make this distinction clear because the terminology can sometimes get mixed together. The sticky resin we saw on the glove during Big Mama's breakdown was a visible reminder of the resin on the freshly harvested plant. That doesn't automatically make the material on the glove finished bubble hash, nor does it mean that every kind of collected resin is the same product. Bubble hash refers to a specific type of concentrate produced through ice-water separation and filtration. The material we have frozen right now is the prepared starting material for the project. The washing and filtration have not happened yet. So we're not calling it finished bubble hash at this stage. We're simply preparing for that next chapter. ?💎🌱 And when we get there, we'll show you what happened rather than asking you to take our word for it. That's the whole point of documenting the process. ──────────────────────── 📸 FEWER PHOTOS, BUT STILL A STORY WORTH TELLING I know there aren't as many photographs of Big Mama's harvest as there were of her sister. And yes, I would have loved to capture more. But sometimes the timing simply doesn't work out the way we planned. By the time I got to Big Mama, it was almost morning. 😂🌙 The important thing is that we still have photographs showing parts of the process, including the prepared material, the vacuum-sealed bags, and the weighing. Those images help us document what happened rather than simply writing that we did it. We also have photographs from earlier in her journey that show the beautiful plant she became. Together, they tell the story. The flowering photographs show the plant. The harvest photographs show the transition. The bagging and weighing photographs document the preparation. And the next set will show what happens when we move into the ice-water extraction project. 📸🌿💎 Not every chapter needs the same number of photographs. What matters is that we capture the details that help explain the journey. And Big Mama's story is still very much worth telling. ──────────────────────── ⚖️ THE NUMBERS MATTER TOO Alongside the photographs, we've included some of the measurements and weighing information we managed to capture during this stage. Those details are useful because they help us keep a record of what happened rather than relying entirely on memory. The photographs give us the visual story. The numbers add another piece of the record. And as the project continues, we'll have more information to add. For now, I don't want to invent or estimate figures that aren't clearly established in the available documentation. We'll use the recorded values where they're available and keep the next report focused on the actual results of the process. That's how I want these diaries to work. Show what happened. Share what we observed. Keep the record honest. And let the results speak for themselves. 💚📸⚖️ ──────────────────────── ? THE FREEZER IS JUST THE BEGINNING At the moment, Big Mama's prepared material is vacuum-sealed and frozen. The next planned chapter is the ice-water washing process, where we'll document the separation and collection stage. After that, we'll have the collected material to assess and the drying stage to document. And later, we'll discuss what happens with the finished result. So there's still plenty to come. This isn't a finished extraction report. It isn't a final yield report. And it certainly isn't the smoke review. 😂💎 We're at the preparation stage. The next chapter will cover the actual washing project, and we'll explain the process as it happens, including the filtration, the collected material, and the drying. We'll also share what we learn along the way. Because that's what makes these experiments interesting. We don't need to pretend we know the result before we begin. We can prepare, document, observe, and report what actually happens. And that's exactly what we're going to do with Big Mama. ──────────────────────── 💡 A QUICK LOOK BACK AT THE 8×8 ENVIRONMENT Before we move on, let's remember the environment in which Big Mama grew. She was part of the 8×8 Adventure, where the plants shared the same general room conditions and the 12/12 schedule from seed. The expanded lighting setup included the two additional Future of Grow Black Series 600W fixtures, with the output controlled rather than simply running everything at maximum. We were targeting approximately 1,500 PPFD across the upper canopy, with actual intensity varying according to canopy position and plant height. Lumiflora provided additional lighting deeper in the canopy, while TrolMaster helped us monitor and manage the room environment. The room's general conditions during the recent flowering updates were around: 🌡️ Day temperature: approximately 26.5°C 🌙 Night temperature: approximately 26°C 💧 Relative humidity: approximately 61% 🌱 Substrate temperature: approximately 25°C ⚗️ Nutrient solution pH: approximately 6.02 ⚡ Nutrient solution EC: approximately 2.14 mS/cm 💨 CO₂: approximately 693 ppm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 These are the recent room references from the flowering stage, not the conditions of the separate drying space. Big Mama has now moved out of that room, and her next stage is being documented separately. The rest of the 8×8 is still going. The other plants are continuing their own journeys. And we're not changing their stories just because Big Mama has reached harvest. 🌿💎 ──────────────────────── 🌱 SAME GENETIC FAMILY, DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS This is another reason I wanted to give Big Mama her own report. If you followed Pheno A, you saw one expression of Black Diamond Auto. If you follow Pheno B, you see another. They shared the same general growing environment, but they didn't become identical plants. One caught my eye more visually. The other became Big Mama, with her own substantial structure and personality. And that's perfectly fine. I don't need every plant to look the same. I don't need every phenotype to be my favourite. I want to see the differences. I want to document them. I want to learn from them. And I want to be honest about what I see. 😂💎👑 Two seeds. Two sisters. Two beasts. Two different stories. And now, two different harvest journeys. Pheno A has her own harvest and photography story. Pheno B has her own preparation and planned bubble hash project. Both deserve to be documented properly. ──────────────────────── 💚 THE REST OF THE ROOM IS STILL GROWING One more important point before we close this update. Big Mama has been harvested, but the rest of the room has not. The other plants are still growing, developing, and following their own timelines. The 8×8 Adventure continues. We'll keep sharing their individual updates, their differences, their progress, and their own milestones. That's the beauty of this project. We don't force every plant into the same schedule just because they're sharing a room. Each plant gets to show us what she does. And when she's ready for the next stage, we document that too. Big Mama has reached her moment. Now we'll follow her through the next part of the journey while the others continue to shine in the tent. 🌿💎🌱 ──────────────────────── 🔮 WHAT COMES NEXT FOR BIG MAMA? The next chapter is all about the ice-water extraction project. We'll be documenting the washing process, the separation and filtration, the collected material, and the drying stage. We'll also discuss the results and what we decide to do with the finished material afterwards. The actual outcome will determine what we can honestly report. For now, the material is bagged, vacuum-sealed, and waiting in the freezer. The next stage hasn't happened yet. And I'm looking forward to showing you how it unfolds. ?💎🌿 This is another side of the growing journey that I enjoy documenting. The plant doesn't stop being interesting when it leaves the tent. There are still decisions to make, things to observe, and plenty to learn. So stay tuned. Big Mama's story has moved beyond flowering, but it isn't finished. Not even close. 😂👑💎 ──────────────────────── 💭 FINAL THOUGHTS — BIG MAMA HAS LEFT THE TENT, BUT SHE'S NOT DONE WITH US Black Diamond Auto by Zamnesia – Pheno B. Our Big Mama. Our heavyweight. Our beautiful beast. 💎👑🌿 I must confess that I would have liked to take more photographs during her harvest. It was late. Almost morning, actually. And by the time I got to her, the photographic session wasn't quite as extensive as the one I had done with her sister. But the work was done. The material was prepared. The unwanted leaves were removed. Everything was bagged, vacuum-sealed, and placed in the freezer, ready for the next stage. And now we're preparing to document a different part of her journey. The planned ice-water washing process. The filtration. The collected material. The drying. And eventually, what comes after. ?💎 We still have plenty to share. So please don't consider this the end of Big Mama's story. It's simply the end of her time in the flowering tent. Two Black Diamond sisters. Two different seeds. Two completely different expressions. And two beasts that have given us plenty to talk about. 😂😂😂👑💎 Her sister might have received more photographs. Her sister might have stolen a little more of my photographic attention. But Big Mama? She has her own story. And she's getting her own spotlight. We're going to keep documenting the process, share the results honestly, and make sure her journey doesn't disappear simply because she's no longer standing in the tent. Thank you for following along. And stay tuned, because the next chapter is going to be a little different from our usual flowering updates. Big Mama is ready for her next adventure. ?🌿💎 ──────────────────────── 🙏 THANK YOU — AND COME JOIN OUR COMMUNITY! As always, a massive thank you to everyone following the 8×8 Adventure. 💚🌱 Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us a place to document the journey, share the photographs, and keep these individual plant stories alive. Thank you to Zamnesia for the Black Diamond genetics and for giving us the opportunity to discover and follow these two beautiful phenotypes. Thank you to Plagron for supporting the garden with the growing media and nutrition used throughout this run. A huge thank you to Future of Grow for supplying the additional Black Series 600W fixtures and allowing us to explore the expanded lighting setup in the 8×8. Thank you to Lumiflora for helping bring additional light into the deeper areas of the canopy. Thank you to TrolMaster for helping us monitor and manage the flowering room behind the scenes. And a shoutout to SmallRig for the LED lighting equipment that helps me create the studio setup for my photography. 💡📸💚 But I also want to give a special invitation to everyone reading this. Come and join us on Discord! 💚🌱🤝 https://discord.gg/dogdoctorofficial We're building a beautiful community there, and everyone is welcome. We have growers with different levels of experience, different setups, different interests, and different ways of approaching this plant. And that's exactly how we like it. You don't need to be an expert. You don't need to have the biggest garden. You don't need to know every technical term. You don't even need to be the person who talks the most. 😂💚 You can ask questions. You can share your experiences. You can show your projects. You can learn from other people. Or you can simply join, listen, and enjoy being part of the community. There's no experience level you need to reach before you're welcome. You just need to be respectful and be yourself. We love talking about this plant, sharing knowledge, comparing experiences, and learning from one another. And above all, we want this to feel like a community. Almost like family. 🌱💚🤝 We also have discount codes available for the community, competitions where members can win prizes, and giveaways along the way. But honestly, the best part isn't a discount or a prize. It's the people. The conversations. The laughs. The questions. The willingness to help one another. And the feeling that you can join in without needing to prove anything. Everyone is more than welcome. So if you're looking for a friendly place to talk about growing, learn something new, share your own experiences, or simply hang out with people who understand why we can spend hours talking about plants… Come say hello! 💚🌿 👉 Join the DogDoctorOfficial Discord community: https://discord.gg/dogdoctorofficial We'd love to see you there. ──────────────────────── 💎 TWO SISTERS. TWO BEASTS. ONE CONTINUING ADVENTURE. Big Mama has left the tent. Her material is prepared and frozen. The next chapter will take us into the planned ice-water washing project, with the process and results documented as they happen. Meanwhile, the rest of the 8×8 Adventure continues. Different plants. Different timelines. Different stories. And plenty more to learn. Thank you for being here, my friends. Thank you for following the journey. Thank you for supporting the diaries and the community. Let's keep growing, learning, sharing, and having fun along the way. Growers Love, my friends. 💚🌱 Big Mama… you may have left the tent, but we're not finished telling your story yet. 😂👑💎? See you in the next chapter! 🌿📸💚