——————————————— WEEK 11 / DAY 72-78 BLOOM WEEK 4 / DAY 22-28 Mars Hydro FC-E3000 Floragard Professional GrowMix 11L fleece bags Light: 50cm Schedule: 12/12; PPFD: 1050umol/m2/s DLi: 45mol/m2/d 21° C - 65RH 3L per Plant Hesi Bloom Complex (4ml/1L water) Hesi Phosphor Plus (2ml/1L water) BioBizz CalMag (1ml/1L water) PH 6,5 Fan, extractor and pump ON 24/0. ———————————————————— •Day-72 / Bloomday-22 The fourth week of flowering begins. •Day-73 / Bloomday-23 The plants were each watered with 3 liters of water with fertilizer solution. They were also defoliated a little.

LST has gone well, branches are as far away from the middles as I can get them. Very happy so far, however grow costs are creeping up with the heater and two spider farmer sf1000s. No leaf issues, it's paid off not using any nutrients at all so far. Just tap wate which is hard where I am. Signs of pre flowers....will add 1/4 recommended flowering nutrients, probably at the end of the coming week.

The grand finale is just around the corner. Terpenes fill the room, and the carbon filter is working overtime to keep the situation under control. I can feel it - the harvest is near! 😎 Each cola smells a little different: sometimes it’s overripe fruit, sometimes gasoline, sometimes candied almonds. I have never encountered a plant with so many facets before. I am incredibly curious to see what the final product will be like. 😍

🍬 Candy Rain Auto by Zamnesia | Week 12 ✨ The Glamorous Survivor Is Getting Louder and Louder 🍬🔥🌸 Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! 🌱💚 Well... Our solo survivor has apparently decided that being quiet and elegant was not enough anymore. 😂 She's getting louder. And louder. And louder. 🍬🔥🌸 The stacking is becoming impossible to ignore. The flowers are becoming more substantial. She's continuing to build all over the plant. And every time I look at her, I find another little detail that wasn't quite as obvious the week before. She's beautiful. She's becoming more impressive. And she's definitely making herself heard now. 😂🍬 This is Candy Rain Auto. Our survivor. Our glamorous survivor. Our solo girl. And at this point... she's basically saying: "Okay, enough talking. Look at what I'm building." 😂🌸🔥 So... let's look. ──────────────────────── 🍬 WEEK 12 – SHE'S GETTING LOUD ──────────────────────── There are plants that quietly develop. There are plants that suddenly explode. And then there is Candy Rain... who appears to have chosen the middle ground and simply keeps getting louder every single week. 😂 She's stacking. She's bulking. She's developing flowers throughout her structure. And the whole plant is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. What I really like is that there isn't just one area doing all the work. The flowering structures are developing throughout the plant. You look at one branch... then another... then another... and there's always something happening. Another flower. Another developing cola. Another little section gaining volume. Another area catching the light. It's becoming a beautiful, continuous story. 🌸🍬🌿 ──────────────────────── 🔥 STACKING, STACKING & MORE STACKING ──────────────────────── This is probably the biggest thing I notice this week. She's stacking. And she's stacking beautifully. 🌸🔥🌸🔥🌸 The flowers are becoming increasingly defined. The structures are getting more substantial. And the plant is starting to look less like a girl who is simply flowering... and more like a girl who has decided: "Right. We're building now." 😂 And I absolutely love watching that transition. Because we've been following this plant from much earlier in the run. We've watched her establish herself. We've watched her flower. We've watched her develop. We've watched the first flowers become larger structures. And now... we're watching those structures continue to stack and gain presence. That's the beauty of doing these weekly diaries. You don't just see a plant. You see the progression. ──────────────────────── 📢 SHE'S GETTING LOUDER ──────────────────────── I keep coming back to that word. Louder. 😂🍬🔥 Because visually... that's exactly how it feels. She's making herself known. The flowers are becoming more obvious. The stacking is becoming more obvious. The overall plant is becoming more substantial. And the closer we get... the more she seems to say: "Hello? Are you looking at me yet?" 😂 Yes, Candy Rain. We are. We definitely are. 🍬👀🌸 ──────────────────────── 🌼 THOSE PISTILS ARE CHANGING ──────────────────────── And now we're starting to see another little part of the story develop. The pistils. 🌼➡️🌸 She's beginning to change their colour. We're starting to see some of that earlier bright, warm appearance evolve. They're no longer all sitting there looking exactly the same. There's a transition happening. And I really enjoy watching this because it's one of those small visual details that becomes much more obvious when you follow the same plant week after week. She's still carrying plenty of green. She's still very much a green girl. But we're beginning to see those little changes developing within the flowers. And that's another reminder that she's moving. She's progressing. She's following her own rhythm. Nothing feels rushed. Nothing feels forced. She's simply moving along exactly as she seems to want to. 🍬🌼💚 ──────────────────────── 💚 STILL PLENTY OF GREEN ──────────────────────── And yes... there's still a lot of green. 😂🌿 Candy Rain is not suddenly turning into an autumn postcard. She's still carrying plenty of beautiful green foliage. And that's perfectly fine. She's still developing. She's still stacking. She's still bulking. She's still doing her thing. I don't want to force the story into some expectation of what she "should" look like at a particular moment. That's one of the things this whole project has taught me. Every plant has its own rhythm. Every phenotype expresses itself differently. And Candy Rain is telling us her story in her own language. So... we watch. We document. We appreciate. And we let her continue. ──────────────────────── 🌿 SHE'S FOLLOWING HER OWN RHYTHM ──────────────────────── This girl has never really been interested in following anybody else's schedule. 😂 And I love that. She's moving according to her own rhythm. Not necessarily screaming ahead. Not necessarily taking forever. Just... moving. Perfectly. At her own pace. And I think that's one of the most important things to recognize in a room like this. When you've got twelve different plants sharing one environment, you're going to see different speeds. Different structures. Different expressions. Different reactions. And that's exactly what makes the 8×8 Adventure so interesting. Candy Rain isn't late. She isn't early. She's Candy Rain. 🍬💚 And she's doing Candy Rain things. ──────────────────────── 👑 THE SOLO SURVIVOR HAS BECOME A CHARACTER ──────────────────────── I still think back to how this girl started her story. She was our solo survivor. The one that remained. And somehow... she has evolved into one of the characters I most enjoy following. 😂🍬 At first, the story was simply: "She's still here." Then: "She's growing." Then: "She's flowering." Then: "She's stacking." Then: "She's bulking." And now: "She's getting louder." 😂🔥 That's quite an evolution. She may have started as the survivor... but she's definitely not behaving like a background character anymore. ──────────────────────── 🌸 FLOWERS EVERYWHERE ──────────────────────── Look around the plant... flowers. Look again... more flowers. Move closer... even more flowers. 😂🌸 That's what I love about this stage. The plant has developed enough structure that the flowers now tell most of the story. You can see the framework. You can see the branches. You can see the foliage. But your eyes keep getting pulled toward those developing flowering structures. And Candy Rain has plenty of them. She's filling her space beautifully. Not necessarily in some dramatic, explosive way... but consistently. And consistency is beautiful. Week after week. Flower after flower. Stack after stack. ──────────────────────── 📸 THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE TELLING THE STORY ──────────────────────── Looking at this week's photographs, I really like how clearly the plant's progression comes through. The wider photographs show the overall structure. The closer photographs reveal the individual flowers. And then you get those little details... the pistils. The developing resin. The flower texture. The different stages of development across the plant. It's almost like looking at a little map of where she's been and where she's going. And honestly... I could probably keep photographing her all day. 😂📸 Because every time you change your angle, another flower catches your eye. ──────────────────────── 💡 SAME ROOM. SAME PHOTONS. SAME CANDY RAIN. ──────────────────────── And of course... we have to come back to one of the biggest themes of the 8×8 Adventure. Same room. Same general environment. Same lighting philosophy. Same irrigation system. Same nutritional foundation. Same 12/12 schedule. Same grower. And yet... different plants. Different genetics. Different expressions. Candy Rain is receiving the same general lighting environment as everyone else. The two additional Future of Grow Black Series 600W fixtures are still part of the room. We're keeping them around: 💡 ~59% power from the plug with approximately: ☀️ ~1,500 PPFD across the upper canopy and naturally varying depending on canopy height and position. The photons are the same opportunity. But Candy Rain decides what to do with them. And apparently... she wants to make flowers. Lots of flowers. 😂🍬🌸 ──────────────────────── ☀️ THE ARTIFICIAL SUN KEEPS DOING ITS JOB ──────────────────────── I really like what the expanded lighting setup has brought to this project. Not because we're trying to force the plants to do anything. But because we have more capability. We can create a broader lighting envelope. We can control the output. We can give the room the photons it needs without simply running everything flat out. And then... we observe. That's the interesting part. The light provides the energy. The plants interpret it. And Candy Rain? She's interpreting it beautifully. She's stacking. She's bulking. She's developing. She's getting louder. 🍬☀️🌸 ──────────────────────── 💚 THERE'S NOT MUCH FOR ME TO DO NOW ──────────────────────── And honestly... this is probably the biggest thing I can say about this week. There's not much for me to do. 😂 I'm looking. I'm observing. I'm checking. I'm supporting whatever needs support. I'm adjusting when something actually asks for an adjustment. And otherwise... I'm letting her be. Because she's doing beautifully. Why would I interfere with something that is already working? The plant has established her structure. The flowering sites are there. The flowers are developing. The stacking is happening. She's progressing. So my role becomes simpler. Observe. Respond. Support. And get out of the way. 🌱💚 ──────────────────────── 😂 THE GROWER'S JOB: EXIST ──────────────────────── There comes a point in every grow where the plant basically tells you: "Okay... I've got this." 😂 And Candy Rain is definitely approaching that conversation. She's doing her thing. She's asking for what she needs. And when she does... we respond. But otherwise? I'm just here. Existing. 😂 Watching her. Admiring her. Taking photographs. Writing about her. And occasionally saying: "Well... look at you." 🍬👀🌸 Sometimes growing is incredibly complicated. And sometimes... the best thing you can do is let the plant grow. ──────────────────────── 🌼 THE COLOURS ARE STARTING TO TELL US MORE ──────────────────────── The changing pistils are one of the details I'm particularly interested in watching now. Earlier, those warmer yellowish tones were already giving Candy Rain a unique character. Now we're beginning to see more change. It's subtle. It's gradual. And it's exactly the kind of thing I enjoy documenting. Because this isn't about one photograph. It's about the sequence. Week 10. Week 11. Week 12. And suddenly you can see that little shift. That's the magic of a diary. You capture something that seems tiny today... and a few weeks later, you realize it was part of a much larger transition. 🍬🌼💚 ──────────────────────── ❄️ AND YES... SHE'S STILL FROSTY ──────────────────────── The resin development continues as well. ❄️🍬 She's not finished showing us what she can do. The flowers continue carrying that beautiful frosty character. And combined with the changing pistils and all that green... she's developing a really lovely visual identity. Again... not necessarily the most dramatic plant in the room. Not necessarily the strangest. Not necessarily the biggest. She's simply... Candy Rain. And honestly? That's more than enough. ──────────────────────── 🍬 BEAUTIFUL WITHOUT TRYING TOO HARD ──────────────────────── Maybe that's what I like most about her. She doesn't look like she's trying. 😂 She just grows. She stacks. She develops. She changes. And somehow... she ends up beautiful. There are plants that look like they were designed for a magazine cover. And then there are plants where you keep watching them week after week and slowly realize: "Wow... I really like this girl." Candy Rain is that kind of plant for me. She's grown on me. Literally. 😂🍬🌿 ──────────────────────── 🔬 SAME ENVIRONMENT – DIFFERENT EXPRESSION ──────────────────────── Again, for anyone discovering this diary for the first time... the 8×8 Adventure is about exactly this. We're not creating twelve completely different worlds. We're not changing everything every week for every phenotype. We're giving these plants a shared environment... and watching what genetics do with that opportunity. And Candy Rain gives us another beautiful example. Same room. Same photons. Same general nutrition. Same environmental strategy. Different expression. That's the experiment. And that's why I never get tired of seeing another week unfold. Because even when nothing dramatic changes... the plants are still changing. Quietly. Gradually. Beautifully. ──────────────────────── ⚗️ NUTRITION – SAME ROOM, SAME FOUNDATION ──────────────────────── As with the rest of the room, the flowering nutrition remains at: 🌱 Plagron Terra Bloom – 2.3 ml/L 🌱 Power Buds – 1 ml/L 🌱 Green Sensation – 1 ml/L 🌱 Sugar Royal – 1 ml/L ⚗️ pH adjusted as required Current solution values remain around: ⚗️ pH – ~6.02 ⚡ EC – ~2.14 mS/cm Again... nothing special just for Candy Rain. Same general room-wide strategy. Same nutritional foundation. And then... we observe what she does with it. She's doing beautifully. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ WEEK 12 – ROOM CONDITIONS ──────────────────────── The room continues broadly around: 🌡️ Day temperature: ~26.5°C 🌙 Night temperature: ~26°C 💧 RH: ~61% 🌱 Substrate temperature: ~25°C 💦 Nutrient solution: ~25°C ⚗️ pH: ~6.02 ⚡ EC: ~2.14 mS/cm 💨 CO₂: ~693 ppm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 ? Pot size: 15 L 💧 Irrigation: ~1.45 L/plant/24h Same room. Same environment. Same lighting upgrades. Same nutrition. Different week. And another beautiful chapter from Candy Rain. 🍬💚🌸 ──────────────────────── 🔥 SHE'S ENTERING THAT BEAUTIFUL "JUST WATCH" PHASE ──────────────────────── I think that's the best way to describe where we are now. Just watch. 😂 Watch the flowers. Watch the stacking. Watch the colour. Watch the pistils. Watch the resin. Watch the plant. And when she asks for something... we respond. Otherwise... let her do what she does. This is where patience becomes part of the grow. The plant doesn't need us to make something happen every day. Sometimes... she just needs time. And Candy Rain is using that time beautifully. ──────────────────────── 🔍 WHAT I'M WATCHING NOW ──────────────────────── So what am I looking for? Honestly... more of the same. 🌸 Continued stacking. 🍬 Continued bulking. 🌼 Further changes in the pistils. ❄️ Continued resin development. 🌿 Watching all that green evolve naturally. 👀 And simply seeing where her own rhythm takes her. I'm not trying to predict exactly what she's going to look like at the end. I'm not trying to force a timeline. I'm just enjoying the progression. Because right now... she looks happy. She looks beautiful. And she looks like she's enjoying herself. ──────────────────────── ✨ FINAL THOUGHTS – LET CANDY RAIN SHINE ──────────────────────── Week 12. Candy Rain Auto. Our solo survivor. Our glamorous survivor. Our increasingly loud survivor. 😂🍬🔥 She's stacking. She's bulking. She's getting louder. She's changing. Her pistils are beginning to shift colour. She's still carrying plenty of beautiful green. She's moving at her own rhythm. And she's becoming more impressive by the week. There's not much for me to do now. And honestly? I'm perfectly happy with that. I'll exist. 😂 I'll observe. I'll support whatever she needs. I'll make adjustments when they're actually necessary. And otherwise... I'll let her be. Because she's doing her thing. And she's doing it beautifully. 🍬🌸💚 This girl doesn't need me to write her story for her. She's writing it herself. One flower. One stack. One week at a time. So let's give her the spotlight. Let's let her shine. Let's enjoy the colours as they begin to change. Let's watch those flowers continue to build. And let's see how loud this beautiful girl can get. 😂🔥🍬 Candy Rain... keep doing your thing. Keep stacking. Keep bulking. Keep changing. Keep surprising me. And most importantly... keep being you. Because whatever you're doing... it's working beautifully. 🍬💚🌸✨ ──────────────────────── 🙏 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 Candy Rain genetics and for giving us this beautiful solo survivor to follow. 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 explore this expanded lighting setup. 💡☀️🌿 Thank you to LumiFlora for helping bring additional light into the deeper areas of the canopy. Thank you to TrolMaster for helping keep the environment stable behind the scenes. And, of course... thank you to everyone following along. Every comment. Every question. Every message. Every person who stops by to see what the girls are doing. It genuinely means a lot. 💚 And Candy Rain? You're getting louder. You're getting bigger. You're stacking. You're changing. You're becoming more beautiful every week. 🍬🔥🌸 You started this adventure as our solo survivor. Now? You're one of the girls that I genuinely look forward to seeing every time I walk into the room. And that's something special. So this week... the spotlight belongs to you. 🍬✨👑 Let's keep watching. Let's keep documenting. Let's keep enjoying the journey. And let's let this beautiful girl continue moving at her own rhythm. No rushing. No forcing. No unnecessary interference. Just observation... support... and appreciation. Because sometimes... the best thing a grower can do is simply stand back and say: "She's got this." 😂🍬🌿 And Candy Rain? I think she's got this. Growers Love, my friends. 💚🌱 See you next week in the 8×8 jungle... where the flowers keep stacking, the colours keep changing, the photons keep flying, and our solo survivor keeps getting louder and louder and louder. 🍬🌸🔥💚 Let her shine.

~ FastBuds PAPAYA SHERBET Photoperiod~ Well here we go on another journey together through 'Canna-land' and this one's kinda special... forget that, it's VERY special because this is FastBuds newest surprise for the community, a FEMINIZED PHOTOPERIOD STRAIN!🤯 I was fortunate enough to score these seeds, of which only 1000 were available and can't wait to see what this strain can do! This Papaya Sherbet, according to FastBuds, is a hybrid with a 9-10 weeks flowering period. For a more detailed and accurate description of this strain the following from FastBuds says it best: "Combining the massive stature of Papaya (Oni Selection) with the strength and resilience of one of our best keeper cuts (Sunset Sherbet), this strain develops into a big, expansive bush adorned with numerous bud sites that later transform into a generous harvest of medium-sized buds. Papaya Sherbet flowers deliver a signature flavor of premium cannabis with subtle citrus undertones that emerge upon inhaling. During growth, her aroma makes for a sweet yet pleasantly bitter fragrance, giving you an idea of what the smoke will taste like. Notably stress-resistant, Papaya Sherbet is a great choice for growers working in challenging environments. She is very forgiving and rebounds quickly from any adversity, allowing growers the freedom to experiment with confidence that she will take everything like a champion she is. This strain embodies resilience, flavor, and abundant yields in every grow cycle." Sounds like an epic strain and I personally cannot wait for this lady to strut her stuff!😍 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Setup: This is going to be an outdoor grow, but I have started the Papaya Sherbet photoperiod indoors as our weather is still a bit too chilly to put a newly sprouted seedling outside (nighttime temp's dipping regularly into the 40's℉). The plan is simple... let her grow inside under a 19/5 light schedule until the nighttime temperatures are in the mid 50's℉, which shouldn't be long. After which, she'll be moved outside and transplanted into the soil which I have already setup and inoculated with beneficial microbes from BioTabs and slow release dry amendments from Gaia Green. Once she's established herself outside she'll be given periodic top dressings of Gaia Green 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 along with worm castings and Compost Tea's. Her grow area is approx. 5'x5' and I have posts and a trellis net set up already for when she gets bigger to aid in training her. Let the fun begin!🤪💚 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Weekly Updates: 5/16- Here we go into the first week of veg and second week since breaking ground for the FastBuds Papaya Sherbet photoperiod! 5/18- Right away what ever has been chewing on my other outdoor plants, has now decided to take a taste of my Papaya Sherbet so I'll be spraying with Neem Oil and adding a ring of Diaotomascous Earth around the Papaya Sherbet to deter any slugs... I don't like slugs! 5/20- Rain showers yesterday handled the watering duties and all I did was to add some straw to a couple of bare spots on the mound. 5/22- There's two weeks on the books for this pretty little photoperiod from FastBuds and I can't wait to see what she'll do in the coming weeks! Thank you for checking out my diary, your positive comments and support make it all worthwhile! 💚Growers Love!💚😎🙏

The buds smell like candy, it's a first for me with this strain and although the plant is short it seems like the buds will be of good size and quality.

Blütewoche 4 Ende der Blütewoche 3 noch mal kräftig Entlaubt und Lillipoping angewendet. Intensität der Lampe 100% 👽Outta This World 👽 🙏Peace🙏 cRypto666

About that time !!!!

little bit of nute burn but im still happy with how they look going to begin flushing them soon with just water and a little calmag every other water.

Ela segue crescendo bem após a cobertura, devo fazer alguma defolhação? Segue crescendo bem. 04.03 os galhos começaram a pegar força de crescimento, vou fazer umas amarras em breve, mas não sei se devo fazer desfolhação, se alguém puder ajudar nos comentários? Obrigado

Looking good not too much frost but smell sweet

First sights of trichomes on leafs (sugar leafs)! No issues she’s growing good just a few yellow leaves on gc2. Looked like she needed cal mag, chopped the yellowed leaves and put cal mag 6 ml. Usually give cal mag every other watering but ima give them more often since I’m using dechlorinated tap water.

For everyone who like a exotic nice taste and good feeling excellent work from @bar

Combined the cop of water and paper towel method then planted the sprouts in root root cubes

I did a bit more defoliation and spread out the SCROG net to give everything some more structure and space. The plants are developing beautifully and looking really healthy overall. The cuttings are also making progress, with some of them already starting to develop roots. For now, I gave them another round of foliar feeding, and soon it will be time to move on to the next phase and switch them into flower. Overall, everything is looking very promising.

Clone when to the dogs literally....other than that growth is good she's nice n healthy....water leaf are get packed with resin n the volume is being cranked up a notch

I never intended for a huge plant. She grew in very close quarters with 2 other plants. I did accidentally split her in vegging down the middle. She has grown well for what I was wanting out of her. Nice heavy buds formed that have a great smell of sweet, and fruity. Sending her off to dry and will update when I get her processed out for smoke report. Thank you Seedsman, and Pyramid Seeds. 🤜🤛🌱🌱 Thank you grow diaries community for the 👇likes👇, follows, comments, and subscriptions on my YouTube channel👇. ❄️🌱🍻 Happy Growing 🌱🌱🌱 https://youtube.com/channel/UCAhN7yRzWLpcaRHhMIQ7X4g

Day 49 Flip day! Just flipped them to 12/12 took loads of leaves off. Let's see if I've guessed the sex right then 😏 I think I've got 3 fems but people still tell me I want know until I've flipped 🤷‍♂️🏼 Update: Day 50 and day 1 of flower looking very happy will give a nice feed when soil dries out. Lights are now maxed out and on Day 51, day 2 of flower I'm sure all 3 are definitely fems will keep eye on them next few days 👀 Update again: Day 53, Day 4 of flower and they looking beautiful 😍

Bueno como sabrán ya teníamos un problema ... Como pudimos ver o podemos observar que el riego abundante con agua y suspender la fertilización de la plata fue lo mejor ... Para que pudiera vivir o seguí adelante ya que en las fotos adjuntadas podemos observar como su coloración principal está volviendo a ser un verde claro ... Por ende la planta está tomando nutrientes perfecta mente agregando minerales exactos y ocupando una dosis más baja de lo usual ... Ya que logramos recuperar la planta a su 80% aprox veremos qué tal se termina compartando en lo que le queda de floración .... Después vienen unas cepas iguales para ver pa comparación con la sobre fertilización y con una producción sana ... Atte SpotWeed