Tucking, Plucking & Shifting the Diet Week 5 is in the books, and things have been incredibly busy under the net! 🌿🔥 This week was all about a massive round of scrog training and heavy defoliation to clean up the undercanopy and expose those emerging bud sites. The canopy is flat, packed, and filling out exactly how it should. On the nutrition side, we are officially transitioning into flower. I’ve started introducing Athena Bloom into the mix this week, while slowly tapering down the Grow. The girls are loving the switch—no shock, just pure vigor. Stepping into the stretch now. Let's see what next week brings! 🚀💚

Checkout my Instagram @smallbudz to see the Small budget grow setup for indoor use, low watt, low heat, low noise, step by step. 07/12/2019 - Fed her 2l of 6.5PH water with 0,5ml of each Grow, Bloom, Max and Alga-mic, and 1ml of each Heaven and Vera,noticed about 10% run off, also added a green filter to the camera lens. Adjusted the light distance to 55cm again it was toooo close about 32cm. 10/12/2019 - Decided to go back and check the basics, removed led strip to give a proper 'night' time, changing light cycle to 20/4h no more 'exotic' 22/2h, re-checked the light distance every 2 to 3 days to ensure 60-45cm and I can tell all ready she is loving it. Also added home made Co2 made with 1 tsp of yeast, 3/4 tsp of sugar 700ml of warm water in a 1l bottle with a tiny pin hole on the cap. 11/12/2019 - Fed her 1.5l of 6.5PH water with 0,5ml of each Grow, Bloom, Max and Alga-mic, and 1ml of each Heaven and Vera,noticed about 10% run off. 12/12/2019 - 8 weeks have passed and no flowers I guess I'm flipping to 1212h to see if she reacts.

Start of Week 9 🙌 I plan to use fertilizer for bud growth from day 64 to day 70+... depending on when the harvest time occurs 😉😄👍 Started working with fertilizer today, every 2 days a mixture of 10ml per liter as long as the buds have not properly developed trichomes 😵 I hope this works 😵😲😱 Day 68 with fertilizer again

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FBA2502 Plants 1-6 Week 7 May 11– 17 FLOWER 3 Nutrients : Micro 25 ml Gro 10 ml Bloom 30ml CalMag 30 ml Recharge 10ml Green sensation 16.5ml Power buds 7.5 ml 5/11 PH 6.56, PPM 1560, temp 69 2ltr each 5/12 PH 6.31, PPM 1120, temp 68 1 ltr each 5/14 PH 6.66, PPM 1280, temp 70 1 ltr each 5/15 PH 6.66, PPM 850, temp 72 1 ltr each 5/11 Defoliation, feed, pics & videos I made 4 gallons, used 3 to water then poured the runoff back into the rest in the bucket. The next feeding, I added a gallon of tap water to residual and ph to 6,31 temp 69 & PPm 1120. Did the same on 5/14 and 15 using up the remainder of the feed solution. I must monitor and control the tent environment manually. For the past month, the humidifier has been an issue putting out way too much humidity; often leaving water in the bottom of the tent. In addition, the temperatures are also out of control. I added an AC last week to keep the temperature below 80. I finally determined the exhaust vent is also broken and has been for some time. I have been giving good reviews on the AC infinity system. However, during the time I’ve owned this tent (2 yrs), I had to replace the lights twice, fans, humidifier and now the vent twice also. Everything but the tent containment has been replaced. AC infinity does stand by their products, but they are in California, and it takes at least 2 weeks to receive the replacement. This is extremely frustrating at the critical transition to flower for my equipment to fail again. For the time being until a replacement arrives, I pulled the 4” exhaust vent from my 3x3 and hooked it up. I have the AC pushing air in and the exhaust pulling air out. This should create a neutral pressure tent environment-neither positive nor negative. I do have 3 circulating fans in the tent to move air around the plants. It looks like growth spurts have slowed and plant height has been reached. Now is the time for buds to fatten and frost up. All of them (6) are short remaining less than 3 ft. They range from 15 to 31 inches. The tallest #4 &5 and #6 have very light leaves and appear nutrient deficient compared to the shorter phenotypes. Pictures taken later in the week show fading on a few the older leaves. All are receiving the same solution and are in the same soil blend. Moving the gals in and out of the tent for their glamor shots, I bent one limb and snapped another. The bent one I taped with a splint and the snapped one I medicated manuka honey and wired it back to the main stalk. Leaves look like sativa leaning. I hope FBA2502-2 is a good daytime. I’m getting excited to see what develops in the next month or so. News Break: I’ve been informed that 2502 is FastBuds New Frostbanger and is indica for nighttime. I’m disappointed that I didn’t get a sativa to test because I really need a daytime strain. The 2 Blue Cheese plants I just grew are also nighttime. Upon opening the tent, a faint odor was detected, and some stickiness was observed during the process of defoliation. Pictures of the puffy buds even show differences. #4 &5 buds hairs are different from the others being crinklier and the others are straighter. Some like #2 &5 are showing frost on the leaves. Wow at the beginning of flower to have that much frost. They are living up to the new strain’s name. I’ve noticed that when I water, sometimes water shoots out of the side holes I the air pots. I will pack the soil firmly into the sides for future runs. Measurements: #1 15” #2 20” #3 17” #4 30” #5 31” #6 24” Your likes and comments are appreciated. Thanks for stopping by. Growers love 💚🌿 💫Natrona💫

Penultima semana de FLoracion, ya comenzaremos con el lavado de raices, se siente bastante el olor que emana de las plantas. Pero este olor es mas a fruta, olores dulces bien marcados, el olor me recuerda mucho al mango

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Day 88. Girl down ;) Think she will be in 70-80 g area, with about 50W light per plant - not bad ;))) Presume all girls left will brake that plank ;) Happy Growing !!!

This week went well. She finally got some good size to her and should be done stretching as the week ends. I did a slight lst on her and opened her up a little. She recieved a good soaking today amd shouldn't need topped off till mid to late next week. She isn't so much a problem child anymore.

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She's over doubled her height this week!!!!!!!!!! Looks like she's going great! An educated guess says she is just about to enter flowering in the coming week.

🌱 Passion Fruitz #5 — Week 4 | The Underdog Every grow has its own story, and this week the spotlight belongs to the only remaining Passion Fruitz in Folder #5. Originally this project started with two phenotypes, Plant A and Plant B, but sometimes nature has other plans. One seedling didn’t make it through the early stages, leaving this beautiful girl to carry the Passion Fruitz banner on her own. Instead of seeing it as a setback, I decided to embrace it. Every plant deserves its chance to tell its own story. And what a beautiful story she’s already writing. ⸻ Unlike several of her sisters, this phenotype started life at a slower pace. She received exactly the same treatment as every other plant in the room: • 12/12 from seed 🌱 • Same Future of Grow LED intensity and PPFD • Same Plagron Terra feeding schedule • Same watering routine • Same environment • Same temperature and humidity • Same love and attention Yet genetics always have the final word. Some plants explode immediately… Others spend extra time building an exceptional root system before putting all their energy into vegetative growth. Looking at her structure now, I believe she’s doing exactly that. The stem is thickening beautifully, the internodal spacing remains compact, and every new set of leaves arrives larger than the previous one. She isn’t struggling. She’s preparing. ⸻ One detail immediately caught my attention this week. Her leaves are absolutely gorgeous. Wide, symmetrical, deep green, perfectly flat and beautifully formed, giving her an incredibly healthy appearance. Every new leaf unfolds with confidence, showing excellent vigor and no signs of deficiencies or nutrient stress. Sometimes the slower plants end up becoming the strongest ones once flowering begins, and watching this phenotype develop is becoming one of the most interesting parts of the project. ⸻ 🌿 Environment The room continues running exactly as planned. • Temperature: 33°C day / 25°C night • Relative Humidity: 63% • Root Zone Temperature: 21°C • Nutrient Solution: 26°C • pH: 6.1 • EC: 1.35 mS/cm • CO₂: 639 ppm Even with the warmer summer temperatures, the environment remains remarkably stable, allowing every phenotype to express itself under identical conditions. ⸻ 💜 Feeding Schedule This week she received the Plagron Terra program: • Terra Grow — 1.8 ml/L • Power Roots — 1 ml/L • Pure Zym — 1 ml/L • Sugar Royal — 1 ml/L The feeding remains intentionally gentle, encouraging healthy root expansion before increasing nutrient demand later in the cycle. At this stage, patience is far more valuable than pushing nutrients. ⸻ 🌱 Development She currently stands around 25 cm tall. While she’s smaller than some of the other Passion Fruitz phenotypes, her architecture is exactly what I like to see. Compact. Balanced. Healthy. Every node is stacking tightly, giving the impression that once stretch begins she’ll produce a dense, manageable structure that’s perfect for indoor cultivation. Growth has noticeably accelerated over the last few days, making me think she’s beginning to settle into her rhythm. Will she remain the smallest? Maybe. Will she surprise everyone later? Very possibly. That’s one of the reasons I love growing from seed. Every phenotype writes its own story. ⸻ 💚 Final Thoughts Not every champion starts in first place. Some quietly build their foundation while everyone else steals the spotlight. This Passion Fruitz may have started slower than her sisters, but she’s showing every sign of becoming an exceptionally healthy and vigorous plant. Whether she stays compact or suddenly catches up over the coming weeks doesn’t really matter. Right now she’s exactly where she needs to be. Healthy plants don’t need to win races. They just need time. ⸻ As always, thank you to Plagron for the incredible nutrition, Zamnesia for making this amazing project possible, and to everyone following this 12/12-from-seed adventure from the very beginning. Your support, comments, advice and encouragement make this journey even more rewarding. See you all next week, and let’s discover together what this little underdog has planned for us. 🌱💚

We used a 200L rain catcher to brew feed using General Hydroponics. Worked well, we just needed to add some PH solution as it was slightly acidic. We definitely made a few mistakes when transplanting last week, next season we will be doing things alot differently in terms of homes so they don't have to get transplanted so often.

well, another grow in the books, terps smell great like a vanilla wafer I can't wait to let it cure for a few more months by the start of football season it should be Perfect.

Week Three im happy with the random seed, I see not much of a difference yet, they all look indica or indica-dominant. one plant is most vigorous, all but one are all growing nice. I also popped one seed of fastbuds fast flowering seeds: gorilla cookies, orange sherbert and gg4 sherbert. Everything going nice in week three, seedlings coming along. they will need transplanting soon, but I'm still hoping to see some sex before that, so I can sort out male plants. I am also not sure if the random seed are autos or photoperiod. I still decided that I will top all plants to give the seedling a little time to catch up some more. this week was feeding time. I feed the plants with a biotabs alternative. im not 100% sure with this, but the biovin is used as the startrex, colonize as the bactrex and the bottled nutrients are the orgatrex. two tabs in 11l / 3 gal pots. these nutrients take some time to work. I use biobizz allmix and we transplanted around one week ago. maybe that's a little bit early, but I think it will be fine. in the End of Week 3 I can't see any burns. some nice fungus formed, so I think the nutrients doing its things. i plan to level up my LST-Skills with the random seed plants and probably don't do a lot on the fastbuds plants to even out the difference in lifetime, so that will mean I maybe get less harvest from the fastbuds plants, but that fine for me. we will see how it turns out. thx for checking out my grow, im a first time grower, but I feel like I have earned some knowledge In the last years by educating myself, so I hope the grow is interesting for all the nicely growers here. I don't aim to do everything perfectly, at least I don't monitor everything but I do my best to keep the plants happy and in a good place to grow and flower.

Week 4 transplanting 2 today

LFG! berry heaven!

welcome to Day 64 2/19/2021 she still has not really looked like she is putting on weight but I'm still hopeful there is not much to say really at this point so if you have any questions shoot. happy growing and as always keep your stick on the ice

Week 4 of flower 👍🏾

The growth of this plants is very structurally sound, impressive density, and exceptionally loud. My carbon filter must be spent. The exhaust from my grow room is 8/10 on the “stinky scale”