First day of flower. Seeing some stretching and flowers. Looking very good this year. A lot of phytoplasma which I cut out last week. This week I only saw a few branches. Not a bad result Stem borers seemed to have died cause a lot of the wounds have filled in or maybe it's too late and I'll have horrible branch decay in a month .. Added some praying mantis egg cases

Welcome Back!💚 Nach der vierten Blütewoche, kommt der Stretch langsam zur Ruhe, allerdings hat die Pflanze nochmal 7cm zugelegt. Die Blütenbildung setzt jetzt richtig ein und es bilden sich schöne Nuggets. Die Pistillen bilden sich immer stärker aus. Ich habe die Pflanze nun das erste Mal mit einem PK Booster Compost Tee gegossen. Die Umgebungsgegebenheiten sind auch im Blütezelt optimal: ————— 🌞 Temp: 24,3°C 🌚 Temp: 19°C bis 20°C 💨 RH: 56% VPD: 0,97 kPa👍 😎 PPFD: 830 mqm —————

Buenas! En esta semana toco trasplante y primeros preventivos foliares, IPW de athena para preventivo 1 vez a la semana. El trasplante lo hicimos a maceta de 7L, quiero ver si puedo tener mas control de los riegos. Seguimos mateniendo humedad y de a poco suben las temperaturas, ya que no tengo aire acondicionado para un mayor control. Pero se hace lo que se puede y vienen hermosas. Ya largan ese olor característico de la cepa, un buen citrico mandarino

Plant is doing good started to stretch yesterday and lots of bud sites. High hopes for her.

Dünge bei jedem Gießen

Apple fritter got sticky this week , buds are putting on nice weight. She’s a real set and forget type strain this , keep up the defol , feed her up and the class of the strain does the rest . Getting to the interesting part now she really looks like she’s about to shine

well the C1 is coming along very nicely , i managed too bend over the top stem using trainer wire , This week I had too change my lighting too 600 true watts of kingbo dual optical LED range due too the temps getting closer too 30c than I would like , and by doing so I have now got a constant temp of 27c lights on and 18c lights out Update day 5 week 3 Well as you can see from the pics this week has had alot of growth and even showing signs of pre flower and it drinking alittle more than the others Update , Day 6 of week 3 this lady is well into pre flower now the growth tip formation is looking like early flowers and I wouldn't expect her too grow leaves now , Really cannot fault these kingbo led lights they produce large plants in a short space of time and gives nice thick and dense buds ,

💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 11 💙 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno A 🌸 The Frost Is Coming... And She's Looking Incredible Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter inside Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And honestly... I'm not even sure where to start this week. Because... LOOK AT HER. 😂💙🌸 After everything we've done over the previous weeks, we're finally reaching that beautiful stage where the plants don't need us to constantly interfere. They just need us to watch. And what we're watching right now? Absolutely amazing. The bud formation is developing beautifully. The frost levels across the tent are going absolutely crazy. The structure we built is doing exactly what we wanted. The second SCROG is supporting the flowering branches. The airflow is working beautifully. The irrigation and drainage systems are running flawlessly. And now we've introduced a second LumiFlora under-canopy light to help illuminate the lower portions of this enormous flowering structure. So yes... there was a little bit of tinkering this week. 😂 But mostly? We stood there staring at the plants. Because sometimes... that's the best job in the grow room. 🌿 PHENO A – THE WORK IS NOW SPEAKING FOR ITSELF Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A is still sitting at approximately 145 cm. And at this point, her height almost isn't the interesting part anymore. Because now we're watching what all that structure is turning into. Weeks of vegetation. Training. SCROG. Stretch management. Defoliation. Canopy organization. A second SCROG. Additional airflow. Raised lighting. And now... flowers. Lots of them. And the development we're seeing is making me extremely happy. The plant has moved from: "How are we going to control all of this?" to: "Okay... now let's see what all of this becomes." 😂💙 That's a very good transition. 🌸 BUD FORMATION – OUT OF THIS WORLD This week, the thing that really catches my eye is the bud formation. The flowering sites are developing beautifully throughout the plant. And the amount of frost we're seeing now? Oh my God. 😂 The whole tent is starting to look like somebody has been throwing powdered sugar around in there. The flowers are getting increasingly covered in trichomes, and the close-up photographs are really starting to show what these girls are capable of. This is the stage where all those weeks of structural work become incredibly rewarding. We spent so much time talking about branches. Canopy. Spacing. Stretch. Support. Light penetration. Airflow. And now? The flowers are taking over the conversation. Exactly as we hoped. 🌿 THE DEFOILATION – NOW WE SEE WHY WE DID IT One of the things I really appreciate about this stage is being able to look back at the previous weeks. When we performed the major defoliation, the plants looked dramatically different. We removed a significant amount of foliage. And at the time, the goal wasn't to make the plants look pretty. It was to make the flowering structure more functional. We wanted better visibility. Better airflow. Less unnecessary congestion. More access to the flowering sites. And a canopy that would be easier to manage as the flowers developed. Now? We're seeing the result. The plant has recovered beautifully. The remaining foliage is working. The flowering sites are clearly visible. The branches are supported. And the flowers are developing exactly where we wanted them. This is one of my favorite parts of cultivation. You make a decision weeks earlier... then you wait. And eventually the plant gives you the answer. And right now? I'm very happy with the answer. 💡 TWO LUMIFLORA LIGHTS – LET'S LIGHT UP THE LOWER CANOPY And this week we decided to take the under-canopy experiment one step further. We brought a second LumiFlora into the game. The first 150W full-spectrum LumiFlora was already helping us provide supplemental light underneath the canopy. But looking at the size and density of these plants... it simply felt like we could do more. The lower portions of the plants are naturally receiving less direct light from the main fixtures above. And with this much vertical structure, that becomes even more noticeable. So instead of trying to solve everything by removing more foliage, we're exploring another option: Give the lower canopy more light. And now we have two LumiFlora fixtures working underneath the plants. Both are 150W full-spectrum fixtures, with additional emphasis toward the red portion of the spectrum. The idea is simple: The main LEDs handle the upper canopy. The LumiFlora fixtures supplement the lower canopy. And the plant gets a more complete lighting environment from top to bottom. We're not trying to replace the main lights. We're complementing them. And now... we watch. 🌸 Because that's the whole point of the experiment. We introduce something. We observe. We document. And then we let the plants tell us what they think. 💡 THE UNDER-CANOPY LIGHTING DESIGN And because we're apparently incapable of doing anything in a boring way... 😂 we decided not to simply place the two LED bars side by side. The LumiFlora bars are quite long, approximately 1.20 metres each, with a central section of around one metre. So instead of following the traditional side-by-side arrangement, we played around with the positioning. We've arranged them diagonally across the lower portion of the tent, running from corner to corner. And honestly? I really like the way it looks. It gives the lower canopy a much more interesting distribution of supplemental light rather than concentrating everything into one central area. And visually... it looks pretty damn cool too. 😂💡🌸 Sometimes the functional solution can also look beautiful. 🌿 LIGHT FROM ABOVE. LIGHT FROM BELOW. This is becoming one of the most interesting parts of the Blue Tent experiment. We're now looking at the plant as a three-dimensional structure. The main fixtures are providing the primary lighting from above. But the plant isn't flat. It has height. Branches. Layers. Lower flowering sites. Interior flowering sites. And all those areas don't necessarily receive the same amount of light from above. So we're experimenting with supplemental lighting underneath. The goal isn't to make some huge claim about what the lights will accomplish. The goal is to see. Will the lower flowering sites respond? Will the additional light help us maintain development deeper into the canopy? Will we see differences as flowering progresses? That's what makes this fun. We don't need to know the answer before we run the experiment. We're here to find out. 🌸 FROST EVERYWHERE And I have to say this again... THE FROST. 😂💙 Oh my God. The whole tent is getting ridiculously frosty. The close-up photographs are becoming almost ridiculous. The sugar is showing up everywhere. The flowers. The sugar leaves. The surrounding structures. Everything is starting to sparkle. And this is one of those moments where you can finally see the genetics expressing themselves visually. We're not talking about potential anymore. We're looking at actual flowers developing in front of us. And Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A is putting on quite a show. 🌿 THE SECOND SCROG IS DOING ITS JOB The second SCROG continues to be one of those decisions I'm extremely happy we made. When we installed it, the plants were already getting too tall. The original SCROG had done its job beautifully during the vegetative phase. But with all the stretch that followed, we needed another layer of support. Now we're seeing why. The flowering branches are developing more weight. The structure is substantial. And the second net is helping keep everything organized and supported. We're not constantly moving branches anymore. We're not trying to reshape the plant. We're simply allowing the support structure to do its job. And that's exactly how I want it. The plant built the branches. We built the support. Now the flowers build the weight. Everyone has a job. 😂💙 🌬️ AIRFLOW – STILL SPOTLESS The airflow situation is also working beautifully. The upper airflow continues circulating through the canopy. The additional lower fan keeps air moving underneath. The canopy was opened through the previous defoliation. And now the lower portion of the tent also has the supplemental lighting system. So we've got light and air working together throughout the structure. That's important. Adding more equipment underneath the canopy only makes sense if we're still maintaining good environmental movement down there. And right now? I'm extremely happy with how everything is working. No stagnant feeling. No obvious problem areas. Just good continuous circulation through the room. 🌬️ THE EXTRACTION SYSTEM – STILL GIVING US SPACE Moving the carbon filter and extractor outside the tent a few weeks ago was another one of those decisions that keeps paying dividends. It gave us valuable vertical space. That allowed us to raise the main LEDs. That reduced the pressure we had on the tallest tops. And now we're able to maintain this enormous flowering structure without constantly fighting the ceiling. Sometimes the biggest improvements aren't made to the plant. They're made to the room around the plant. And this was definitely one of those changes. 💧 IRRIGATION – ABSOLUTELY SPOTLESS And I have to give a little love to the irrigation system this week. Because honestly... I have absolutely nothing to complain about. 😂💙 It's working flawlessly. The plants are receiving their water consistently. The system is keeping up with their demand. And the drainage system is performing just as well. No drama. No problems. No complaints. Just doing its job. And when you have a flowering room this large and this thirsty, that consistency is incredibly important. The plants can concentrate on growing. We can concentrate on observing. And the irrigation system can quietly do its job in the background. That's exactly how I like it. 💧🌿 ⚗️ THE EC MYSTERY Now... there is one little thing that caught my attention this week. And I honestly don't have a definitive explanation for it. 😂 We didn't intentionally change the reservoir recipe. The nutrient mix remained the same. We're still using: PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L And yet... the EC came out slightly lower this time. Current recorded EC: 2.24 mS/cm. Last week we were around 2.49 mS/cm. Why? Honestly... I don't know. 😂 My first thought is that the rainwater may simply have been a little softer this time. But that's only a possibility. I don't want to invent an explanation when I don't actually know. The important thing is that the plants are looking fantastic. They're healthy. They're developing beautifully. The foliage looks good. The flowers are progressing. So for now? We're simply recording the observation. No panic. No unnecessary correction. Just: "Interesting." 😂 And we continue watching. 🌱 SOMETIMES THE PLANTS MATTER MORE THAN THE NUMBER This is another reason I like documenting all the environmental data. Numbers are incredibly useful. But they're only one part of the story. You can have a number that looks slightly different from last week and still have plants that are absolutely thriving. And that's exactly what we're seeing here. The EC is a little lower. The plants? Beautiful. The flowers? Amazing. The frost? Absolutely insane. The irrigation? Perfect. The drainage? Perfect. So we're not going to chase the number simply because it changed. We're going to observe the entire system. And right now... the system looks fantastic. 🌸 CURRENT GROW CONDITIONS 🌸 Flowering: Week 11 📏 Height: approximately 145 cm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 ☀️ Day temperature: 28°C 🌙 Night temperature: 27°C 💧 Relative humidity: 63% ⚗️ pH: 6.01 ⚡ EC: approximately 2.24 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature: 24.9°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: 24°C 🌬️ CO₂: approximately 666 ppm 💦 Watering: approximately 1.6 L per plant / 24h ? Pot size: 8 L CURRENT NUTRIENT RECIPE PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L PLAGRON pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L PLAGRON pH Minus — 0.03 ml/L 💡 LumiFlora Under-Canopy Lighting: 2 × 150W Full Spectrum 🌸 THE FLOWERS ARE NOW THE MAIN STORY This is probably the biggest change from where we were a few weeks ago. Earlier, the main story was: Stretch. Height. Canopy management. Defoliation. LED clearance. Support. Airflow. Now? The flowers are the story. And they're telling a beautiful one. The branches are loaded with developing flowers. The structure is holding beautifully. The frost is increasing. And the whole room has that feeling of: "Something special is happening here." 😂💙🌸 That's the feeling I love most. Not knowing exactly how the final result will look. But seeing enough clues to know that we're heading somewhere very interesting. 🔬 THE F1 UNIFORMITY CONTINUES TO AMAZE ME And once again, I have to mention something that keeps catching my attention. These F1 genetics are looking incredibly uniform. The four girls are sharing the same room. Same environmental conditions. Same irrigation. Same nutrition. Same lighting philosophy. Same structural work. And they're responding with an almost uncanny similarity. There are individual differences, of course. That's exactly why we're keeping separate diaries. But when I look across the room now... it's almost like looking at different expressions of the same idea. And honestly? That's fascinating. Maybe the biggest differences will reveal themselves later. Maybe they'll become more obvious as the flowers mature. Maybe the similarities will continue all the way to harvest. That's what we're here to discover. 🌸 THE QUIET PART OF THE GROW IS GETTING LOUD This is funny because technically... we're doing less. But visually? The plants are becoming more impressive every week. 😂 We're not training. We're not performing major defoliation. We're not rearranging the room. We're not fighting stretch. We're not solving emergencies. We're simply maintaining the environment. And yet... the flowers are getting bigger. The frost is increasing. The structure is becoming more impressive. And every photograph seems to show more development than the previous one. This is the reward for all the work that came before. 🌿 FROM BUILDING THE PLANT TO WATCHING THE PLANT FINISH We spent weeks building this plant. Now we're watching it finish. The vegetative period created the framework. The SCROG organized it. The stretch tested it. The defoliation opened it. The second SCROG supported it. The raised LEDs gave it room. The additional airflow keeps it breathing. The irrigation keeps it supplied. The nutrition keeps it moving. And now the LumiFlora lights are helping us explore the lower canopy. At this point... there's very little I want to change. I want to let the plant show us what all of that work was worth. 🌸 WHAT I'M WATCHING NOW The questions are becoming much more exciting. How much larger will these flowers become? How much more frost will develop? How will the lower canopy respond to the two LumiFlora fixtures? Will the additional supplemental light make a visible difference as flowering progresses? How much weight will the second SCROG eventually need to support? And perhaps the biggest question of all... what are these beautiful F1 girls going to look like when they finally reach maturity? I have absolutely no idea. And I love that. 😂💙 🙏 FINAL THOUGHTS – THIS IS WHY WE GROW If I had to describe this week in one sentence, it would probably be: "We didn't do much... and everything looks amazing." 😂💙 And honestly? I'll take that. The plants are healthy. The bud formation is incredible. The frost levels are getting ridiculous. The second SCROG is working beautifully. The airflow is performing exactly as planned. The irrigation is spotless. The drainage is spotless. The main lighting is doing its job. And now we've added a second LumiFlora to complement the first and give the lower canopy even more supplemental light. We even changed the positioning of those long LED bars into a more interesting corner-to-corner arrangement. And I have to say... I really like it. It looks good. It distributes the light in a way that makes sense for this huge lower canopy. And it gives us another part of the experiment to watch. As for the slightly lower EC? We don't know exactly why. Maybe the rainwater was softer. Maybe there was another small variable. Maybe it's simply one of those little differences that happen in a real system. The important thing is that the plants are showing us no reason to panic. So we're not going to chase numbers. We're going to observe. And right now... what we're observing is absolutely beautiful. Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A is standing there at approximately 145 cm, covered in flowers and increasingly covered in frost. The structure is strong. The canopy is organized. The support is ready. The lower lighting is installed. The irrigation is flawless. The drainage is flawless. And the whole room is beginning to look like something very special. 💙🌸🌿 We've done the hard work. Now we get to enjoy the show. Let's see what the next few weeks bring. Because if the frost continues at this rate... Oh boy. 😂💙 We're going to have some very interesting photographs coming. Until next week... Keep watching. Keep observing. Keep the environment stable. And let these beautiful girls do what they do best. Grow. Flower. Frost up. And shine. 💙🌸🌿 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU A huge thank you once again to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for giving us the opportunity to explore these beautiful Blue Waffle F1 genetics phenotype by phenotype. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting these girls through this incredible flowering journey. A massive thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic irrigation and drainage system that continues working absolutely flawlessly and keeping these thirsty girls supplied. Thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, the curved scissors and the clip fans that have all become such important parts of this project. And a huge thank you to LumiFlora for providing the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy lighting that we're now using in pairs to explore supplemental lighting throughout the lower canopy. I'm really excited to see what this experiment brings. And of course... thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us the platform to document all of this. The successes. The mistakes. The unexpected moments. The experiments. The lessons. And now... the frost. 😂💙🌸 Most importantly, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. We're getting deeper into flowering now. The plants are looking incredible. The frost is everywhere. The flowers are stacking beautifully. The systems are working. And we're finally at the stage where we can sit back a little and enjoy the work we've spent so many weeks building. Four girls. One room. Same environment. Incredible F1 uniformity. Two LumiFlora under-canopy lights. One very frosty future. Let's see what comes next. 💙🌸🌿 Until next week... More frost. More flowers. More observation. And hopefully... even more reasons to stand in front of the tent and say: "Oh my God..." 😂💙 Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

Require regular trimming and maintenance to keep them healthy as much as possible so the girls can thrives…. Take up a lot of water for sure. But will update on the way and picture . Other than that I’m happy and satisfied and will look into Cereal Milk from Premium Cultivar as well. On day 12 will take it down from hang drying in 3 b 3. I will grow 6 plants from here on out instead of 12 . Give room for plants to space out.

half way through the first week of flower and the stretch is in full effect. canopy is going to be completely full in a few days, scared for my dwarf white runtz in the middle of the group, itll get swallowed

Tag 28 – Neue Basis, stabiler Blick nach vorn 🌡️ Klima & Setup Die Bedingungen laufen weiterhin stabil. Temperatur und Luftfeuchte sind im Rahmen, auch wenn man merkt, dass durch die größere Topfmasse das Feuchtigkeitsverhalten etwas träger geworden ist. Mit Blick auf die kommende Abwesenheit wurde zusätzlich Reis als Mulchschicht eingebracht – weniger Verdunstung, weniger Trauermücken, stabileres Wassermanagement. 🌱 Pflanzenstatus Fruit Bomb Punch Durch das Topping deutlich eingebremst, genau wie geplant. Zeigt aktuell noch gelbliche Verfärbungen und leichte Stressreaktionen, vermutlich durch das Zusammenspiel aus neuem Substrat, Nährstoffverteilung und Eingriff. Wirkt noch nicht ganz „angekommen“, aber im Rahmen – das reguliert sich. Strawberry AK Weiterhin die ruhigere Vertreterin, aber konstant. Kommt stabil durch die Phase, ohne große Auffälligkeiten. Chicken & Waffles Hat sich sehr gut angepasst und steckt den Stress am besten weg. Wirkt aktuell am stabilsten und verarbeitet das neue Setup ohne sichtbare Probleme. ⚠️ Stress & Reaktion Der Doppelstress aus Umtopfen + Spruzit-Behandlung ist weiterhin sichtbar: Blattreaktionen leichte Verbrennungen insgesamt noch nicht voll im Wachstumsmodus Aber alles im erwartbaren Rahmen – die Basis passt. 🔮 Ausblick Jetzt geht’s darum, dass sich alles im neuen Medium stabilisiert. Sobald die Wurzeln richtig greifen, kommt der nächste Schub von allein. Gerade jetzt zeigen sich die ersten Unterschiede – genau das, was den Run spannend macht. Der Terp-Test läuft – am Ende entscheidet das Glas. 🌱 🇬🇧 Day 28 – New foundation, steady forward view 🌡️ Environment & Setup Conditions remain stable overall. With the larger pots, moisture behavior has slowed down a bit. Added a rice mulch layer to reduce evaporation, control fungus gnats, and improve water retention during the upcoming absence. 🌱 Plant Status Fruit Bomb Punch Clearly slowed down by topping, as intended. Currently showing yellowing and mild stress signs, likely from the combination of new soil, shifting nutrient availability, and the topping itself. Not fully settled yet compared to the others, but within a normal range. Strawberry AK Still the calmer one, but steady. Moving through this phase without any major issues. Chicken & Waffles Handled the transition the best so far. Looks the most stable and adapts to the new setup without visible stress. ⚠️ Stress & Response The combined stress from transplant + Spruzit treatment is still visible: leaf reactions minor burn marks not fully back in full growth mode yet All expected – nothing concerning. 🔮 Outlook Now it’s all about root establishment in the new soil. Once that kicks in, growth will accelerate naturally. Differences are starting to show – exactly what makes this run interesting. The terp test is running – in the end, the jar decides. 🌱

Hello everyone. As you can see, the 150 by 150 centimeter tent is filled up almost completely. There's maybe a little bit of room left in the right corner, but overall it's pretty full, and we still have two weeks of stretch to go. The amount of branches are quite dense and overlapping making it difficult to give an accurate count without risking an error. My second MAC 1 F1 hybrid is sleeping at the moment, her first time in flower, so the first time she experienced the sleep, a darkness of 12 hours. I will update the video tomorrow to add some pictures of her. The big one in the 150 centimeter tent is today in day eight of flower. I wish you a nice day. Best regards, Growfather.

MATARO BLUE by KANNABIA Week #8 Overall Week #7 Veg This week she's doing good no issues it got hot but she didn't falter stayed growing. She not that bushy but she's a sturdy looking plant. Stay Growing!! Kannabia.com. MATARO BLUE

Que pasa familia, ya estamos de nuevo y actualizamos la segunda semana 😘 La verdad que están creciendo bien pronto tendremos que trasplantar para corregir la altura. El Ph Lo tenemos controlado en 6.2 y poco a poco van tirando. Todavía no echamos nada de productos Pronto bajaremos la altura del foco también. Esta variedad de @zambezaseeds no pinta mal familia 🙈

? 8×8 Adventure – Week 10 Blueberry Muffin – Pheno B The Small Delight Continues to Surprise Us 💚🌸 Hello everyone, and welcome back to another week of the 8×8 Adventure! 🌱💚 And last but certainly not least... Here comes our second Blueberry Muffin. If you've been following both phenotypes, you already know that these two girls may share the same genetics, but they certainly didn't receive the same instruction manual. 😂 And this week, Pheno B continues to play the same card she's been playing since the beginning: "I'm small. I'm slow. But look how beautiful I am." And honestly... She has a point. Because compared with the rest of the room, this girl is slow as fuck. 😂 But she's also becoming an incredibly beautiful, compact and increasingly dense flowering plant. So let's give this little delight the spotlight she deserves. ──────────────────────── 🌸 Week 10 – The Small Delight Pheno B continues to be one of the most compact plants in the entire room. At approximately 75 cm, she isn't trying to compete with the taller girls. She's not racing toward the ceiling. She's not stretching dramatically. She's simply building. Slowly. Quietly. And beautifully. That's actually one of the most fascinating things about having so many different genetics growing together. Some plants seem determined to conquer the room. Others seem perfectly happy occupying their little corner and making the most of it. Blueberry Muffin Pheno B definitely belongs to the second group. She's small. She's compact. She's increasingly dense. And she's absolutely covered in developing flowers. So maybe... small isn't such a bad thing after all. ?🌸 ──────────────────────── 🌿 Compact Doesn't Mean Unproductive This is something that's becoming increasingly obvious with her. Her size doesn't tell the whole story. She's not particularly tall, but she's building a very compact flowering structure. The branches are carrying numerous flowering sites, the flowers are becoming more defined, and the plant is gradually developing that dense appearance we've been watching for. She's basically concentrating everything into a smaller package. And I really like that. Because the purpose of this project was never to see which plant could become the tallest. It was to see what the different genetics would do when given the same opportunity. And Pheno B is showing us exactly what she wants to do. She's telling us: "I'm going to take my time." "I'm going to stay compact." "And I'm going to make it beautiful." Fair enough, girl. You do you. 😂💚 ──────────────────────── 🌸 The Flowers Keep Developing The most important change isn't her height anyway. It's what's happening at the flowering sites. And those are looking fantastic. The flowers continue to gain structure and definition, with fresh pistils covering the developing buds and the individual sites becoming increasingly substantial. There's a very noticeable difference between looking at her now and looking back at the early flowering photographs. She's no longer simply starting flower. She's building it. And because she's so compact, the flowers appear packed throughout her structure. This is where that small size becomes particularly interesting. Instead of putting a huge amount of energy into vertical expansion, she's gradually turning that compact architecture into a flowering structure. She's still moving slowly compared with some of her sisters... But she's definitely moving. And that's what matters. ──────────────────────── 💡 The LED Canopy – Feeding Her With Photons This week I also want to give the lighting another proper spotlight, because across these individual diaries we're seeing something fascinating. The Future of Grow LEDs continue providing the main artificial sun over the room. And every day, millions upon millions of photons arrive at the canopy. Those photons are the starting point for the energy that drives photosynthesis. But what I particularly enjoy about this setup is that we're not thinking about the canopy as a completely flat surface. The plants have depth. They have upper leaves. Inner growth. Lower flowers. Different angles. Different orientations. Different distances from the light. And that's where the additional contribution from Lumiflora becomes particularly interesting. By bringing light into areas that naturally receive less direct illumination, we're trying to make better use of the three-dimensional structure of the plants. Not simply: "More light." But: "More useful light reaching more of the plant." And with a compact plant like Pheno B, that's particularly interesting. Her flowers are packed into a relatively small structure. So managing how photons interact with that structure becomes another part of the equation. ──────────────────────── ☀️ The Plant Doesn't Know What Brand the Light Is One thing I always find fascinating about lighting is that the plant doesn't care about the logo on the fixture. She cares about photons. Where they arrive. How many arrive. How consistently they arrive. And whether the rest of the environment allows her to actually use them. That's why lighting can't really be separated from everything else. Light interacts with: 🌡️ Temperature 💧 Water availability 🥥 Root-zone conditions 💨 CO₂ 🌿 Leaf health ⚗️ Nutrition 🌸 Developmental stage Everything is connected. And right now, we're giving Pheno B a strong and consistent artificial sun while maintaining the rest of the environment as steadily as possible. She's responding in her own way. Which, apparently, means: very slowly. 😂 But beautifully. ──────────────────────── ? Her Own Little Architecture If I had to describe this phenotype in one sentence, I'd probably say: She's becoming a little compact powerhouse. Not a huge plant. Not a dramatic plant. Not the plant that's going to win a height competition. But she's developing a very interesting architecture. The flowers are sitting close together. The branches are supporting a dense structure. The foliage remains lush. And the overall plant is becoming increasingly compact as flowering progresses. That's her personality. And I'm not trying to change it. This is one of the things I enjoy most about phenotype work. You can guide a plant. You can manage it. You can shape its environment. But eventually... the genetics introduce themselves. And Pheno B has introduced herself quite clearly. "I'm the small one." 😂?💚 ──────────────────────── 💧 Keeping the Roots and Irrigation Consistent While the plant above the substrate is taking her sweet time, the root environment continues receiving the same consistent attention. Current watering remains around: 💧 1.3 L per plant / 24 hours The solution is approximately: 🌡️ 25°C and the substrate is around: 🌡️ 26°C The idea remains exactly the same as throughout this project: Keep the root environment as consistent as possible and allow the plant to determine what she does with it. We're not increasing inputs simply because we think a plant should be growing faster. We're watching. We're measuring. We're responding. And with Pheno B, that patience is particularly important. Because if we tried to force her to behave like one of the faster phenotypes... we'd be fighting the very characteristic that makes her interesting. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Nutrition – Staying Steady The feeding strategy also remains stable. We're continuing with: • Terra Bloom — 2.2 ml/L • Pure Zym — 1 ml/L • Power Buds — 1 ml/L • Sugar Royal — 1 ml/L • pH Plus / Lemon Kick — as required Current readings are approximately: ⚗️ pH — 6.0 ⚡ EC — 2.0 mS/cm And once again... She looks happy. Beautiful green foliage. Healthy flowering development. No obvious reason to start changing everything simply because another week has passed. The best feeding strategy isn't necessarily the one that changes the most. Sometimes it's the one that gives the plant exactly what she's already responding well to. So for now... We stay the course. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Summer Is Still Summer The environmental conditions remain very close to our previous week. We're currently around: • 🌡️ Day temperature: 29.9°C • 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C • 💧 RH: 60% • 🥥 Substrate temperature: 26°C • 💦 Solution temperature: 25°C • ⚗️ pH: 6.0 • ⚡ EC: ~2.0 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: ~693 ppm • 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 • 💧 Watering: ~1.3 L/plant/24h • ? Pot size: 15 L • 📏 Height: ~75 cm Summer continues to make absolute temperature consistency a little challenging. Some days are warmer. Some days are cooler. Sometimes we're fighting for that perfect number and the weather simply says: "No." 😂☀️ So we're doing what we can. The variables we can control are kept as stable as possible. And rather than obsessing over a single degree here or there, we're looking at the whole environment and, most importantly... the plant. And the plant looks good. ──────────────────────── 🌬️ Dense Is Beautiful – But We Still Watch the Canopy As Pheno B becomes more compact and increasingly dense, canopy management remains something we're keeping an eye on. The plant doesn't need dramatic intervention right now. The major structural work has already been done. At this stage, we're mostly observing how the flowers and foliage develop within that compact architecture. The more dense the flowers become, the more important it becomes to maintain good airflow through the room and around the plants. We're not trying to turn her into an empty skeleton. Quite the opposite. We're preserving that beautiful lush structure while making sure the environment around it remains manageable. It's a balance. And that's what we're watching. ──────────────────────── 💡 Every Flower Has a Different Relationship With the Light Another thing I love about photographing her at this stage is seeing how differently the flowers sit within the canopy. Some are facing directly toward the LEDs. Others are tucked between leaves. Some receive additional light from the inner-canopy setup. Others are naturally more shaded. That's normal. A plant isn't a perfectly engineered solar panel. It's a three-dimensional living structure. And our lighting strategy is simply trying to give that structure the best possible access to photons without unnecessarily disturbing the plant's natural architecture. Future of Grow provides the main light. Lumiflora helps bring additional illumination into the less-exposed areas. And then... the plant decides what to do with it. That's the part we can't program. And honestly? That's the fun part. ──────────────────────── 📸 The Camera Is Starting to Tell the Story The photographs this week are another reminder that size really doesn't tell the whole story. Look at those flowers. Look at the structure. Look at the density. Look at the colour. This girl may be slow... but she certainly isn't boring. 😂? And that's why these individual diaries are so valuable. If we only photographed the entire room, Pheno B might disappear into the bigger picture. But when we isolate her... we can appreciate what she's actually doing. A compact flowering plant slowly becoming denser. Week after week. She's writing her own story. And I'm very happy to let her take her time. ──────────────────────── 🧠 Slow Doesn't Mean Behind This is probably my favourite observation this week. Pheno B is slow compared with the rest of the room. There's no question about it. Some of her sisters are moving much faster. But that doesn't mean she's behind. She's simply developing according to her own rhythm. There's a difference. A plant doesn't know that another phenotype next door is growing faster. She doesn't care. She has her own genetic programme. Her own structure. Her own timing. And our job is not to make every plant identical. It's to understand them. And this little Blueberry Muffin is teaching us patience. Lots of patience. 😂 ──────────────────────── 🔮 Looking Ahead From here, I'm keeping things simple. No unnecessary changes. No chasing height. No trying to force her to become something she's not. We're going to continue providing: 💡 Quality photons 💧 Consistent irrigation 🥥 Stable nutrition 🌡️ A controlled environment 🌬️ Good airflow ⏳ And plenty of time Then we'll see where she takes us. The flowers are continuing to develop. The plant remains beautifully green. Her structure is becoming increasingly compact and dense. And if she wants to take her time... well... we have time. ──────────────────────── 💚 Final Thoughts – Small, Slow & Beautiful Every room has those plants that immediately demand attention. The big ones. The fast ones. The dramatic ones. And then there are plants like Blueberry Muffin Pheno B. She quietly sits there. She doesn't stretch like crazy. She doesn't try to dominate the canopy. She doesn't rush. She simply keeps doing her thing. Slowly. Very slowly. 😂 But beautifully. She's becoming an increasingly compact flowering plant, and I really like the direction she's heading. The lighting is giving her plenty of photons. The irrigation remains consistent. The nutrition remains steady. The environment is being kept as stable as summer allows. And now... we let her continue. Because maybe the small delight doesn't need to become a giant. Maybe she just needs to become the best version of herself. And that's exactly what we're going to let her do. ?🌸💚 ──────────────────────── 🙏 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for giving us the opportunity to explore these Blueberry Muffin genetics and discover just how different two phenotypes from the same cultivar can become. Thank you to Plagron for supporting the garden throughout this flowering journey. A massive thank you to Future of Grow for providing the main LED lighting and giving these girls the photons they need to keep building. And thank you to Lumiflora for helping illuminate the deeper and less-exposed areas of the canopy and making this lighting experiment even more interesting. Thank you to everyone following the 8×8 Adventure on GrowDiaries. This project continues to remind me why I love documenting plants individually. Same genetics. Same room. Same general conditions. And yet... completely different personalities. Blueberry Muffin Pheno B may be the smallest and slowest girl in this particular race. But she's beautiful. She's becoming dense. She's developing flowers. And she's doing it her way. So let's give our little delight the spotlight. She deserves it. Until next week... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💚?🌸

Things are looking real good now. Blueberry is in full stretch and she’s gonna be a big girl. Grapefruit coming along real nice after early struggles. I am having some issues with light burn on my blueberry, but I think it’ll be alright. Absolute explosive growth from the blueberry monster this week. She’s up to 43 inch and I’m loving the spacing she has. As you can see, not very much lst going on here, but that’s how I like it. Grapefruit has been chugging along real nice. Just starting to flower now and she’s a bushy gal. I’m really looking forward to the flowering weeks ahead. I think these two are gonna be pretty.

Ho iniziato ad implementare fertilizzanti perché alcune foglie si stavano ingiallendo...hps agro 150watt La prima cosa che ho notato è stata la crescita esponenziale della pianta

We will harvest in a few days, as the humidity has risen considerably in the growing area and I prefer not to lose anything from this growing cycle.