Everything went according to plan. From germination the plant displayed a very good development. With no training I believe she gave a very good yield. She always looked very strong with no signs of any risk.

Switched to GH flora 3 part. Playing around with flood times. The are taking up water at an exponential rate. Started with 3, 3 minute floods, up to 6, 4 minute floods and they're still drying up the puddles within an hour. Plant 1 is ahead of plant 2 by a day but it is half the size🤷‍♂️ Topped day 16. Not obvious in the photos as I had hoped but they bounced back within minutes Thank to evryone who gave their input, every little bit helps🙌 After all your suggestions, I've, backed off the light, backed off the flood time and count. We will see if these girls perk up a little more👍 Day 17 I noticed progression of what I believe to be a calcium deficiency? That's on me, forgot the calmag originally🤦‍♂️ another thing I decided to look into was the twisting of the leaves as the plant 1 is also starting to show. Could my ph be alot higher than I think? 4 gal res I added a couple ml of phosphoric acid at the start and about 1ml a day since(I didnt prep my cube as well as I should of) seems like alot to me. The system would rise from 5.3 to 6.3 throughout the day. A flood cycle doesnt seem to affect the ph, more over time. I am constantly stirring the mix and no my meter is not yet calibrated. I have ordered what I need but I'm considering calibrating with the chemicals I have and doing a res change. Good news is, they do seem a little more lifelike after implementing all your suggestions. Okay drained and rinsed my res, ro water into the tank was holding 6.97ph, good enough for the girls I go out with🤷‍♂️ gonna mix up a batch, do a top feed to waste, and see what happens. It has been nearly 24h since my last flood. Also, struggling with lows of 30% humidity sometimes. Dont know if that plays a role here. Okay something was off.. I did a top feed to waste with fresh 5.3 nutes and the runoff came out at 7.5.. so I did it again...and again...maybe a half doesnt times to each block with no change. I started to reuse the runoff as I wrote off the batch at this point. I then switched to a pump and did recirc feed to each block aprox 20 litres at a time, stopping to rebalance. Literally 100s of litres later I am stable at 5.5....going to drain rinse and refill. The interesting part is that what ever was saturated in those blocks is non conductive, the ec didnt change the entire time🤷‍♂️ Spent the next couple days recovering. Looking better now. Sardine catcher installed.

Servus Moin! Die Black Orchard kann wieder von alleine stehen. Sie hat ein wenig Hitzestress denke ich. Weil das eine Blatt bisschen Takko-rolling macht. Es ist aber zur Zeit auch sehr warm.

At the beginning of this week, I have been fighting the gnats, which are less and less now. Just some watering and gradually lowering the light and going to full power. The Orange Hill Special has been filling out great and I must say, she is a pretty plant. With some manual bending and super cropping, I'm bending the longer stalks sideways and we are off. What I actually do is more of an intuitive hybrid between mainlining (where I bend the whole plant 90 degrees at the third week), LST (where I bend branches outward slightly, without tying), HST / Super crop (where I bend the stems 90 degrees with the clips or manually), after which I keep bending outward to SOG and, put the net over to end in SCROG. This same method gave me the canopy in my prize-winning Gelato 33 grow. Check it out if you haven't seen it, it was my first experimental accident that led to beta test of Super Soil mixture 0.7, now we are at Alpha version 1.00 and testing great so far if I say so myself. I haven't seen such lush greens in my own grows, only outdoor. They seem uber-healthy and resilient, with very sturdy stems and leaves. Way more resilient than previous strains I tested in the beta soil. The light is performing, the natural color of it makes everything pop. Mars Hydro has a winner with the SP-3000. Check out their site: www.mars-hydro.com Thank you @MarsHydroLED for letting me test it, hook them up for a great deal or info on their products! Halfway through this week, I took the clips out, AND...... we switched them to go into flowering. After a day the stretch is already visible. I had to bend them again after a couple of days. Now we have almost a tent filling foundation for a maximum result canopy of buds. I was wanting to amend the soil with flowering additions (see recipe in yellow image), but I'm holding it off for two reasons. A/ The leaves are still so green and lush, I think there is an abundance of nutes. B/ @Haoss mentions his suspicions on his OHS grow (@#CannapediaProGrowersCup Orange Hill that very sadly went hermie on him) that nutrition in this phase could have had an influence, after asking what happened to him. I would have loved to see that grow to full harvest. But it makes me a bit cautious. if Haoss (whom I consider to be one of the star growers here) couldn't prevent this, what chance have I? I'm waiting until the girls start asking for nutrients. They'll show me what they need in their own time. For now this soil is the shizzle (also quite literally) and Im happy with how everything is going. I remember much more hassle and steering in the last grow. This grow, even the Gorilla runt seems happy. I now water them 3 liters of water / Perma tea mixture every 4 days, every 3rd watering I don't do the tea. This makes for fewer gnats and this soil seems to hold water nicely, also due to the hydro corn. What I like is there is always some unforeseen circumstance, a tilt of the tables, some battle to be fought which delivers in big harvests or, in worst case, no harvest at all. It makes it more exciting, when your heart is at stake, we pour a lot of love and attention in the ladies. So with hopes, but not too high, we go into flowering. Thank you all for joining me again in this Orange adventure! I hope you all had great weeks, germed seeds, extreme growth and buds bursting with trichomes!! See you next week! Hug Bud PS Sunshine made her first appearance, as she promised on the Gelato 33 grow. She is still a bit camera shy, so her digital alter makes an appearance first, if you all want to see more of her and my other helpers, let me know in the comments. Sunshine will make a real appearance if yall are real nice to her.

I'm very happy I've already got 107 grams out. I still have 2 plants drying and I'm excited to see how they turn out😊😊💚

6.02 Growth has picked up since raising the PH of my nutrient solution to 6.25-6.5. I also began foliar feeding at lights off with 5 ml/g of Cal-Mag Plus. I added .25 tsp/gallon of recharge when feeding today. It raised the PH of the solution to 7.0 and will monitor over the next 48 hours for results. 6.04 When I tied down the big plant I split the stems where they were topped the 2nd time. Taped them up and cinced with plant ties. 6.06 End of week 9. Installed my automatic watering manifold with hydro halos. I've been feeding 3 times/day for the past week, and I won't have time to hand water 5 or 6 times a day during flower. Will probably need 1 more full week of veg before I flip to 12-12.

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Woche 6 – Die Apricot zeigt ihr wahres Potenzial 🍑✨ Diese Woche hat meine Apricot offiziell die Blütephase erreicht und ich könnte kaum zufriedener mit ihrer Entwicklung sein. Von Anfang an zeigte sie einen kräftigen Wuchs, doch jetzt beginnt sie langsam ihren eigenen Charakter zu entfalten. Die Pflanze hat eine wunderschöne Struktur entwickelt. Die Seitentriebe wachsen kräftig und bilden ein gleichmäßiges Dach aus potenziellen Budsites. Besonders gefällt mir die natürliche Verzweigung, die dafür sorgt, dass Licht nahezu jeden Bereich der Pflanze erreicht. Trotz des Outdoor-Lebens mit wechselhaftem Wetter zeigt die Apricot keinerlei Schwächen. Die Blätter präsentieren sich gesund und vital, das Wachstum bleibt konstant und die ersten Blütenansätze sind inzwischen deutlich sichtbar. Aktuell befindet sie sich mitten im Stretch und legt täglich sichtbar an Größe zu. Genau in dieser Phase entscheidet sich oft, wie beeindruckend die spätere Blütenstruktur ausfallen wird. Wenn sie diesen Weg weitergeht, könnte sie sich zu einer echten Schönheit mit zahlreichen dicken Colas entwickeln. Die Vorfreude auf die kommenden Wochen steigt von Tag zu Tag. Die Apricot wirkt momentan wie eine Pflanze, die gerade erst warm läuft und ihr volles Potenzial noch längst nicht ausgeschöpft hat. Die Bühne ist vorbereitet – jetzt beginnt die große Show. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 6 – The Apricot Starts To Shine 🍑✨ This week my Apricot officially entered the flowering stage, and I couldn't be happier with her progress so far. She has developed a beautiful structure with strong side branches and an even canopy full of promising bud sites. What stands out most is her natural branching pattern, allowing light to reach nearly every part of the plant. Despite being grown outdoors and facing changing weather conditions, she continues to look incredibly healthy and vigorous. The leaves are lush and vibrant, growth remains steady, and the first flower sites are now clearly forming. She is currently right in the middle of the flowering stretch and is gaining size every day. This stage often determines the final shape of the plant, and if she keeps growing like this, she has the potential to become an absolute beauty covered in large colas. The excitement for the upcoming weeks keeps growing. Right now, she looks like a plant that is only getting started and still has plenty of surprises left to reveal. The stage is set — now it's time for the main performance.

We've reached the end of a really long but very satisfying journey! These girls have their heads covered in snow...even though it's very hot 😥 uffff😓

Pre flower formed, starting to smell a bit more than the last week, keeping grooowing 💚

20cm vertical growth this week. Not quite gone into flowering yet but she is very close. This will be her last veg week for sure.

Absolutely loven this F1 Series Killer my friends top shelf Until Next Time HAPPY GROWING

This girl has been topped twice and is loving life. Really strong growth. She wants to stretch. She isn't far behind the amnesia. Tapering up the ferts gently as I've read she can be a bit sensitive. Hard to believe she was incredibly stressed as a young 'un.

Rapid germination, time for rapid growth. I will try to share photos from each day to see the progress. Happy Growing! Day 2 cover the perlite with coco to prevent the appearance of algae

102.5g dry, top nug 13.3gs dry. Absolute beast of a plant especially as a freebie, had a good bit of fun with this one and it’s nice seeing improvement through each plant.

end of week 5 flower | slight deficencies | living soil still doing its thing |

Sanlight EVO 3-60 at 80% Day 50: watering still with rain water and 3 ml/l AlgaBloom, 1 ml/l CalMag, 2 ml/l Hesi Boost and 1 ml/l Green Sensation 👌🏻 pH at 6.4 👍🏻 Day 55: Night Temperatur dropped to around 17 degrees Celsius because the heating was Not on.... Leaves turned purple.... watering still with rain water and 3 ml/l AlgaBloom, 1 ml/l CalMag, 2 ml/l Hesi Boost and 1 ml/l Green Sensation 👌🏻 pH at 6.4 👍🏻