week 5 when the thrips first showed themselves. I noticed them cuz some silver stains started appearing on some leaves. you can see them better under LED light. So, I sprayed Neem Oil all over the plant. I could notice that if you don't do it well, spraying and rubbing the leaves with a piece of cloth, the oil will also create some stains. 2nd topping. killed some thrips this week, they're cute and didn't seem to harm the plant seriously. Neem oil worked fine to control them. No other pests that I could notice + Defoliation + LST Flowermind (4ml + 0.5g)

Hi all and thanks again for watching my post🤗. From now it's all about waiting and patience😁. Next step is flushing, I think to start next week. I let the pictures and grow log to speak. Peace✌️

2/8 (day 43 flower) Full drain and fill today. Replaced CO2 as well. Plants are maturing at different speeds so harvest will be interesting to say the least. After seeing the stress nanners from late last week, I decided to leave the nutriemts at a slightly elevated level until closer to the end of week 7. Top off nutrients are right around 450ppm. 2/9 (day 44 flower) Had to support one branch with a wooden dowel on the back left plant. The buds on that plant are getting so large and heavy. It is making the branches lean over other colas and block the light. This is why I decided to support it slightly, but I think the branches could support more before truly snapping - just not interested in pushing the limits and obscuring other buds. 2/12 (day 47 flower) Adding supports where needed for heavy colas that are toppling over. Trying to keep the canopy from falling over and creating humidity concerns during these last few days of flower. Buds are nice and dense covered in trichomes! Reservoir PPM is very stable along with pH - a nice change from last grow where my pH was swinging wildly. 2/14 (day 49 flower) PPM of the reservoir is rising when checking in the evening (650ppm), indicating it is no longer up taking nutrients at the same rate - time to begin the flush. Full drain and fill of the reservoir during the evening, 350ppm, 6.1 pH after drain and fill. Top off water will be strictly pH adjusted and hydro guard. Buds are getting heavy, so working to manage the weight and stability of the canopy. As seen by the extra strings and dowel rods showing up as the week progressed.

|»» LOG DISCLAIMER: Not intended as a grow guide. Grow logs are posted 3 weeks later and are for my own personal learning reference. ««| Introduction - Week 09 Summary - Ensign's log, stardate 17505.5, Another great grow week! Growth is ramping up and wow TKO is thriving! Compared to the beginning of the week, growth has just exploded! By the end of the week, she’s bushed out with growth! Almost time to start scrogging! Most of the week was tending and training the veg tent. As for the Heady OG BX1 phenos, got the DNA sex test results and found my first regular female! One ended up being a male and had to be culled. The female (#1 pheno), was planted into the 30-gallon fabric pot and has already begun to take off with growth! Veg tent has been looking green and healthy! The gnat population was ramping up towards the middle of the week. Received the nematodes and inoculated the entire garden. Plan to start stringing up the scrog frame soon. Anyways, Onwards to next week! [START OF WEEK 09] ========================================================== ---------- [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ---------- Heady OG BX1 #1 - WEEK 09 - Full Veg Heady OG BX1 #2 - WEEK 09 - END [Culled] TKO - WEEK 08 - Full Veg ----------- [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ------------ Garlic Budder OG#1 - WEEK 02 - Full Veg Garlic Budder OG#2 - WEEK 02 - Full Veg Gorilla Goat #1 - WEEK 02 - Full Veg Gorilla Goat #2 - WEEK 02 - Full Veg 06/16/25 → 06/22/25 This Week's Estimated Goals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DLI: ~19 mol/m²/d PPFD: ~300 μmol/m²/s VPD: ~1.0 kPa This Week's Meter Readings & Averages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Light On/Off: 16:00 - 10:00 | Wattage: ~325.5W [LV04] Distance From Canopy: ~48”, 0.00”, 36” DLI: ~16.46 mol/m²/d PPFD: ~254 μmol/m²/s VPD: ~0.99 kPa Soil %: [46.3, 43.0, 47.9, 56.0, 43.0, 42.6, 42.1, 45.6] ========================================================== Day 01 - Monday - 06/16/25 - Total Days: 064 ----------------------------------- Daily Averages ~[+01:00] - Temps: 86.4°F [30.2°C] - Humidity: 76.4% - VPD: 1.02 kPa - Soil %: [46, 43, 48, 57, 42, 41, 41, 46] ----------------------------------- - [+01:39]: Night check on the 4x4 tent. --- Aye! The garden is looking green and healthy! --- Both Heady OG BX1 phenos are ramping up with nodal branching. Definitely can transplant, but still waiting on the DNA sex test results. --- Wow TKO is raging with growth! She has grown beyond her 20-gallon pot and has almost reached the sides of the tent. - [+01:43]: Took the starting weight range of each pheno before watering, ------ Heady OG BX1 #1 » 338g → 217.9g ------ Heady OG BX1 #2 » 351.5g → 252.6g --- General Solo Range: [Dry] » ~65-75g - [Initial Cup Weight] + ~25-45g « [Wet] --- All phenos were last watered 2 days ago. --- While on a scale, --- Gently misted the straw mulch of each cup with RO water. --- Focused on the straw and sprayed as evenly as possible. --- Misted 10-20 sprays. Waited a moment, then misted again. --- Repeated this process for each cup. --- There was a bit of runoff. Had to wait longer for the soil to re-hydrate before watering slowly again. - [+02:36]: Took the saturated weight of both phenos after watering, ------ Heady OG BX1 #1 » 325.1g ------ Heady OG BX1 #2 » 343g --- Marked the final wet weight on the back of each cup. Also marked the watering date on the front. - [+02:41]: Decided to tape the Farmer Freeman DNA plant tags to the side of the solo cups. They were getting in the way of growth. --- Placed both phenos back into the tent. - [+02:45]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data: ------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] --------------- ------ 45% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Pheno #1] ------ 43% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Pheno #1] ------ 45% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO] ------ 57% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO] ------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ---------------- ------ 40% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1] ------ 40% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2] ------ 41% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1] ------ 44% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2] --------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55% --------- General: 30% [Dry] | 45 - 60% [Moist] | 70% [Wet] - [+02:48]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent. --- Wow the veg garden is growing along beautifully! --- All mother phenos are looking healthy and thriving! --- Gnats are continuing to increase and still waiting on the nematodes. --- No signs of flooding and environment looks stable. Great! --- Not much else to do tonight. Grow strong ladies! Day 02 - Tuesday - 06/17/25 - Total Days: 065 ----------------------------------- Daily Averages ~[+01:00] - Temps: 86.7°F [30.4°C] - Humidity: 75.6% - VPD: 1.07 kPa - Soil %: [46, 48, 47, 57, 42, 41, 42, 43] ----------------------------------- - [16:11]: Evening check on the 4x4 tent. --- Garden is looking healthy! --- Heady OG BX1 phenos are looking green and wow growth is exploding! May need to defoliate soon, but looking green! Grow strong little ones! --- Ooo yea! TKO is bushing out! Growth is looking really healthy and perky! --- Getting warmer in the garden, but VPD levels look okay and all plants are thriving in the higher humidity. Nice! - [16:16]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data: ------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] --------------- ------ 45% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Pheno #1] ------ 42% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Pheno #1] ------ 45% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO] ------ 56% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO] ------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ---------------- ------ 42% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1] ------ 41% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2] ------ 41% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1] ------ 42% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2] --------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55% --------- General: 30% [Dry] | 45 - 60% [Moist] | 70% [Wet] - [16:20]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent. --- Looking great ladies! --- Veg growth looks healthy and perky! --- Gnats are still ramping up, but no signs of flooding. - [16:22]: Quickly checked on the auto-watering system. --- System is still charged and no leaks or kinks found in the tubing. - [16:33]: Checked the humidifiers. --- Tanks are still full and no leaks found. --- Not much else to do in the garden today. Great! Day 03 - Wednesday - 06/18/25 - Total Days: 066 ----------------------------------- Daily Averages ~[+01:00] - Temps: 87.0°F [30.6°C] - Humidity: 76.8% - VPD: 1.02 kPa - Soil %: [46, 42, 48, 56, 42, 44, 42, 42] ----------------------------------- - [13:05]: Alright! Got the email with the DNA sex results from Farmer Freeman! --- CA-CAW!! --- Ahh yea! --- Got a FEMALE! --- Also got a male. --- The #1 is the one! --- Not looking for males so gonna have to cull the #2 pheno. --- Anyways, hyped that I finally got a female Let’s go! - [22:57]: Night check on the 4x4 tent. --- Ahh yea! Garden is looking beautiful! --- Ca-Caw! I got Headies!! --- First off, --- Females only! Heady OG BX1 #2 has gots to go! --- RIP. --- Alright! --- Need to water the female #1 pheno and plan to transplant tomorrow! - [23:12]: Took Heady OG BX1 #1's starting weight range. ------ Heady OG BX1 #1 » 325.1g → 215.5g --- General Solo Range: [Dry] » ~65-75g - [Initial Cup Weight] + ~25-45g « [Wet] --- She was last watered 2 days ago. --- While on a scale, --- Gently misted her straw mulch with RO water. --- Tried to keep the top growth dry. --- Misted 5-10 sprays. Waited a few seconds, then misted again. --- Made sure to reference the watering weights. - [+00:03]: Repeated this process until the cup weighed 331.7g --- There was a bit of run off again. Waited a bit before re-watering. Need to slow down Ensign. --- Marked the watering date on the side of the cup. Marked the saturated weight on the back. --- Placed her back into the tent. --- Looking great girl! --- Ca-Caw! Finally found my very first regular female! --- Until now, every female cultivar I’ve grown has been feminized. --- Wow she looks healthy! Already 7-fingers deep into veg and looking green! --- Could easily have transplanted by now, but going to wait until tomorrow. --- Personally I like the rootball to be nice and well established before transplanting. --- Anyways, - [+00:08]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data: ------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] --------------- ------ 50% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Pheno #1] ------ 42% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Pheno #1] ------ 46% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO] ------ 56% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO] ------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ---------------- ------ 40% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1] ------ 42% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2] ------ 41% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1] ------ 48% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2] --------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55% --------- General: 30% [Dry] | 45 - 60% [Moist] | 70% [Wet] - [+00:10]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent. --- Looking beautiful and healthy! --- All mother plants are green and perky! --- Woah the gnat population is ramping up! --- Glad I received my order of nematodes and already have them stored in the fridge. --- Plan to inoculate tomorrow! - [+00:23]: Did a bit of super-crop training. --- Pinched and bent over the taller branches. --- Oops! Broke a few more branches. The Garlic Budder pheno’s branches are way more brittle compared to the Gorilla Goat phenos. Mulched the trimmings. --- Heal and grow strong my ladies! - [+00:27]: Checked the humidifiers. --- Tanks are still full and no leaks found. --- Getting hyped for the transplant! Let’s go! Day 04 - Thursday - 06/19/25 - Total Days: 067 ----------------------------------- Daily Averages ~[+01:00] - Temps: 85.9°F [29.9°C] - Humidity: 76.5% - VPD: 1.00 kPa - Soil %: [47, 42, 48, 56, 46, 43, 43, 47] ----------------------------------- - [16:02]: Evening check on the 4x4 tent. --- Garden is perky and looking healthy! --- Heady OG BX1 #1 is looking green and ready to be transplanted! --- Woah TKO is getting larger by the day! Defoliation aside, haven’t done anything but (auto) feed straight RO water. --- Even the cover crop is raging in both pots. Nice! - [17:04]: Ca-Caw! Okay! Time to transplant Heady OG BX1 #1 into the 30-gallon fabric pot! --- The 30-gallon pot has been already pre-amended and ready for some Headies! --- Alright let's go cutty! - [17:06]: Gently removed the solo cup from the fabric pot leaving a perfect hole. ------ Sprinkled 1/16tsp of Great White, --- Dusted the sides of the hole. --- Also sprinkled a bit around the top soil. --- Great! Time to transplant! --- It’s been a day since her last watering. --- To loosen and unstick the rootball from the cup, I gently squeezed the sides before pressing the bottom upwards. --- Once fully loosened, I simply Vulcan-gripped the base of the plant and flipped her upside down. - [17:14]: Heady OG BX1 #1 easily dropped straight out of her cup! --- Ca-Caw! These are my roots! --- Wow roots look white and healthy! --- Did not break up the rootball. --- Gently flipped her over before carefully placing her into the pre-inoculated hole. - [17:16]: Pressed and evened out the top soil. --- Also decided to chop and drop the cover crop. --- Using a pair of trimmers, - [17:25]: Trimmed most of the cover crop. Basically trimmed everything above the pot. --- To help with the transplant, going to give 2 cups of wetting solution. --- Adding in a few extra microbes. - [17:36]: Filled a measuring cup with 2 cups of RO water. ------ Added 1/64tsp of Quillaja Saponaria Extract [60] ------ Added 1/64tsp of Recharge ------ Added 1/16tsp of Horticultural Aloe ------ Added 1/16tsp of Horticultural Coconut ------ Added 1/8tsp of Mycrobe Complete --- Mixed the solution and poured both cups straight into a pump sprayer. - [17:42]: Misted the straw mulch with the wetting solution. --- Took my time and tried to go as evenly as possible. --- Done with the transplant! - [17:44]: Took the weekly height and light distance measurements. ------ Heady OG BX1 #1 was about 4.75" tall. ------ TKO was about 17.5" tall. ------ Heady OG BX1 #1 was about 48" away from the grow light. ------ TKO was about 36" away from the grow light. - [17:54]: Took general PPFD readings. ------ Heady OG BX1 #1 was around 254 μmol/m²/s which gives a DLI of 16.46 mol/m²/d under an 18/6 light cycle. ------ TKO was around 312 μmol/m²/s which gives a DLI of 20.22 mol/m²/d under a 18/6 light cycle. - [18:05]: Checked and updated the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data: ------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] --------------- ------ 45% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 42% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 48% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO] ------ 56% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO] ------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ---------------- ------ 43% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1] ------ 41% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2] ------ 39% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1] ------ 42% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2] --------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55% --------- General: 30% [Dry] | 45 - 60% [Moist] | 70% [Wet] - [18:07]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent. --- Veg garden is looking great! --- Pots are flood free, but gnats are definitely back! --- Oops! --- Found a couple branches that did not survive the last super-cropping. Both found on Garlic Budder phenos. --- Cut and mulched the dead branches. - [18:38]: Okay! Time to apply the nematodes! --- This time going to also add in some microbes along with some Beauveria Bassiana and Bacillus Thuringiensis (subspecies Israelensis). - [18:48]: Filled a pitcher with 16 cups (1 gallon) of RO water. --- Also filled another pitcher with 8 cups (24 cups total). ------ Added 1/64tsp of Beauveria Bassiana Plus ------ Added 1/8tsp of Quillaja Saponaria Extract ------ Added 1/4tsp of Recharge ------ Added 1tbsp (3tsp) of WDG3000 Extra Strength BTI ------ Added the entire packet of (5 million) Nematodes - [19:26]: Mixed the solution before pouring 4 cups straight into a pump sprayer. --- Misted the solution onto each pot in the veg tent. - [19:53]: Took my time and watered each pot slowly. --- Also switched out the yellow sticky traps. --- Going to also inoculate both pots with the nematode solution. - [19:57]: Filled the pump sprayer with 2 cups of the solution. --- Misted the straw mulch for the 20-gallon fabric pot. - [20:03]: Repeated this process for the 30-gallon fabric pot. --- Nice! Heady OG BX1 #1 is looking a lot happier! --- As for the rest of the solution (~4 cups), inoculated various houseplants throughout the house. --- Should help to prevent or at least reduce the chances of another infestation. - [20:22]: Checked the humidifiers. --- Tanks are still full and no leaks found. --- Wow what a day! --- Finally have this grow cycle’s veg phase started! --- As for the veg tent, will continue to check back on the gnat population. Hopefully this treatment works! --- Grow strong my little ones! Day 05 - Friday - 06/20/25 - Total Days: 068 ----------------------------------- Daily Averages ~[+01:00] - Temps: 85.6°F [29.8°C] - Humidity: 76.9% - VPD: 0.97 kPa - Soil %: [47, 42, 48, 56, 46, 46, 43, 49] ----------------------------------- - [23:03]: Night check on the 4x4 tent. --- Ca-Caw!!! Ah yea! --- Heady OG BX1 #1 is looking beautiful and really starting to perk up! --- Also wow TKO is dominating the tent! Growth is blowing up and nodes are continuing to branch out while staying pretty short and bushy. - [23:14]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data: ------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] --------------- ------ 46% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 42% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 45% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO] ------ 55% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO] ------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ---------------- ------ 44% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1] ------ 44% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2] ------ 45% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1] ------ 45% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2] --------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55% --------- General: 30% [Dry] | 45 - 60% [Moist] | 70% [Wet] - [23:15]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent. --- Wow! Incredible mother growth! --- All phenos are looking perky! --- Pots are also looking great and gnats seem to already ramping down. Nice! - [23:18]: Checked the humidifiers. --- Tanks are still full and no leaks found. Day 06 - Saturday - 06/21/25 - Total Days: 069 ----------------------------------- Daily Averages ~[+01:00] - Temps: 84.5°F [29.2°C] - Humidity: 76.6% - VPD: 0.94 kPa - Soil %: [46, 42, 48, 55, 41, 42, 42, 42] ----------------------------------- - [08:02]: Quick morning check on the 4x4 tent. --- Ca-Caw! Good morning my ladies! --- Heady OG (BX1 #1) is looking green and healthy! --- TKO is continuing to do her thing and wow she is a beauty! She has almost filled the entire quadrant. - [08:06]: Quickly checked on the 3x3 veg tent. --- Veg garden is looking beautiful and healthy! - [20:23]: Night check on the 4x4 tent. --- Ahh yea! Garden is beautiful and raging with growth! --- Heady OG (BX1 #1) is starting to fill in her pot and growth is looking healthy! --- TKO is looking bushy and perky! In terms of veg growth she’s way ahead of Heady OG and will probably need another defoliation soon. Her fan leaves are getting huge again! - [20:39]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data: ------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] --------------- ------ 46% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 41% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 53% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO] ------ 55% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO] ------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ---------------- ------ 40% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1] ------ 41% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2] ------ 40% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1] ------ 41% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2] --------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55% --------- General: 30% [Dry] | 45 - 60% [Moist] | 70% [Wet] - [20:40]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent. --- Veg garden is growing along beautifully! --- Mothers are all looking healthy. --- Growth is looking perky and ready for more training! - [20:48]: Super-cropped all phenos in the veg tent. --- Flattened out the canopy by bending a few taller tops. - [20:55]: Quickly checked on the auto-watering system. --- System is still charged and no leaks or kinks found in the tubing. - [20:59]: Checked the humidifiers. --- Tanks are still full and no leaks found. Day 07 - Sunday - 06/22/25 - Total Days: 070 ----------------------------------- Daily Averages ~[+01:00] - Temps: 84.3°F [29.1°C] - Humidity: 76.3% - VPD: 0.95 kPa - Soil %: [46, 42, 48, 55, 42, 41, 42, 50] ----------------------------------- - [20:04]: Quick morning check on the 4x4 tent. --- Ahh yea! Headies is looking perky! --- Heady OG (BX1 #1) is green and getting larger! --- Wow! TKO has been doing her thing and bushing out with more tops! Growth has reached the scrog frame and looks extremely healthy! --- Will need to start stringing up the frame in a week or two. --- Grow strong my girls! - [20:06]: Quickly checked on the 3x3 veg tent. --- Mothers are looking healthy and growth is perky! --- Pots are also looking great and gnat population is definitely lower. Nice! - [19:00]: Night check on the 4x4 tent. --- Garden is vegging along beautifully! --- Heady OG (BX1 #1) is looking great and starting to stretch upwards! --- TKO is just raging with healthy veg growth! Tops have already stretched beyond the scrog frame! Will definitely need to string the frame next week. - [19:06]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data: ------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] --------------- ------ 46% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 41% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1] ------ 48% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO] ------ 54% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO] ------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ---------------- ------ 40% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1] ------ 41% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2] ------ 40% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1] ------ 52% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2] --------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55% --------- General: 30% [Dry] | 45 - 60% [Moist] | 70% [Wet] - [19:08]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent. --- Veg growth is healthy and green! --- Gnats population is down and no flooding. Great! --- Easy night in the garden! - [19:15]: Checked the humidifiers. --- Tanks are still full and no leaks found. - [19:41]: Time for another grow board wipe! --- Been an interesting month or so. --- Finally made it through the germination struggle along with a couple rounds of DNA sex testing. --- Cycled all mother plants and did a full veg tent reset. --- Also applied more nematodes. Still have more on the way and plan to apply again more for a preventative integrated pest management regiment. --- Still need to string the scrog frame next week. --- Onwards Ensign! [END OF WEEK 09]

Going very well divine seeds

Seeds Genetics provided me this Strain to make a Growers Diary. This is the first time I'm growing a Durban sativa strain. Got 9 seeds from the 10. Can happen. Will germinate the seeds in a paper towel. This always works for me. 💸💸💸💸💸💸 Buy seeds from Seeds Genetics Co. Copie the link doen below! https://seedsgenetics.nl/product/durban-poison-gefeminiseerd/

Fast and SIMPLE patio grow, perfect for an impatient grower. 72 days from seed to harvest. Could have taken some of the branches at 68-70d. Responded well to pinching back growth to encourage branching. Tested yield by leaving one plant natural and pinching back the other. Pinching back produced way more bud and the plant didn’t seem to mind. The smaller plant only produced 8 bud clusters and those were fairly airy, but showed amber hues a little sooner. Maybe she got less light than the bigger plant. They were both LOW on sunlight. The last 3 weeks of the grow were non-stop rain and storms, very little sunlight. So the girls didn’t stack ‘em up like I wanted. Gotta have light to make bud!! Vegetative growth the first 8 weeks was phenomenal. It wasn’t until the rains set in that progress slowed to a crawl. They were a few feet apart and both facing the equator with daylight to dark exposure. The sun itself wouldn’t cooperate though. Both plants were fed and watered the same. Soil was the same etc.... Only used commonly available garden center nutes. Wanted to demonstrate that a person could take the leap with their first patio grow without having to invest in a lot of special grow stuff. You can! but you at least need decent sunlight. I didn’t weigh the fresh harvest very accurately. I took whole stems to hang them by, and my good scale isn’t that big. I used a bathroom scale and weighed myself holding an empty box and the box again with the harvested plant difference was about 3 lbs. Once I trimmed off the fan leaves and cut it off the roots and trunk it was under a pound. I won’t trim them super tight because very little of it will be smoked, most will be used to make infusions, but I’ll remove as much stem as possible. Curing and storing in C-vault with 62% Boveda packs.

Time to start the flushing

Let´s start a new week 😎👌 Day36 very sunny and warm... "Hilde 2.0" goes well 😎👍🙏 Day37 starts with massive cloudy weather but later it turns into a sunny afternoon 😏🙏 Day38 was cloudy and rainy and not so much sun around here 😳😵 Day39 damn cloudy and rain....wth is this summer doing 😵😧 Day40 wth is wrong with this summer 😡 cloudy and rain and no sun 😵😨 Day41 little bit summer came back 🙏 cloudy but with some nice sunny times 😎👍

Régénération de la culture du printemps que j’ai ressorti dehors au mois d’avril et que j’ai re nourri et elle est reparti on va essayer une 2 em récolte. C’est vraiment un essai pour le fun

✌️🎃 Thank you for checking my cultivation. ✂️ Defoliation Time’s 🌷 Started flower stage 🤕 #3 doesn't look good yet

Stressing them out let’s see what they got

Will post more pictures and thoughts after, it’s done drying and curing

Day 22: Dos-Si-Dos showing first signs of pistils. A little early, she must have found the bottom of the pot. Will start adding in Liquid KoolBloom and adjusting nutes for flowering on next feed. Tent temp: 78º RH: 55% PPFD 600 VPD: .6 kPa Day 23: A few small pistils in the undergrowth. Fed 5ml FloraMicro, 6ml FloraGro, 4ml FloraBloom, 2ml CALiMAGic, 1ml RapidStart, 2.5ml ArmorSi and 1ml Floralicious Plus PH: 6.2 Solution Temp: 69º PPM: 900 Tent Temp: 79º RH: 56% PPFD: 600 VFD: .60 kPa Day 24: Watered only PH: 5.8 Tent Temp: 79º RH: 56% PPFD: 600 VFD: .60 kPa Day 25: Fed 4ml FloraMicro, 4ml FloraGro, 6ml FloraBloom, 2ml CALiMAGic, 1ml RapidStart, 2.5ml ArmorSi, 1ml Floralicious Plus, 1ml Liquid KoolBllom and 10ml FloraNectar PH: 6.2 Solution Temp: 69º PPM: 900 Tent Temp: 79º RH: 56% PPFD: 600 VFD: .60 kPa Day 26: Watered only PH: 5.8 Tent Temp: 79º RH: 56% PPFD: 600 VFD: .60 kPa Day 27: No water no feed. Let grow. Tent Temp: 76º RH: 56% PPFD: 600 VFD: .60 kPa Day 28: Lite defoliation and LST. Fed .5gl 4ml FloraMicro, 4ml FloraGro, 6ml FloraBloom, 2ml CALiMAGic, 1ml RapidStart, 2.5ml ArmorSi, 1ml Floralicious Plus, 1ml Liquid KoolBloom and 10ml FloraNectar PH: 6.2 Solution Temp: 69º PPM: 900 Tent Temp: 77º RH: 55% PPFD: 600 VFD: .60 kPa Day 29: Do-Si-Dos looking quite nice. Good node spacing. Starting to stretch in her first few days of flowering. No water no feed. Bumped light up one notch on the controller to 8. Tent Temp: 76º RH: 52% PPFD: 750 VFD: .66 kPa

5/5 MONDAY Took out the AC Infinity lights and just went with the 2 cheap blue and red lights. Samsung 301B.. H?....great lights but so powerful and no blue red combo. I noticed the plant grow towards the red spectrum LED than the whiter ones on the AC system. There are 2 on each bar. I use the AC lights as auxiliary when I get need it for taller plants with lots of vegetation. 2pm looking great. '"Sir, I have seen nae deerskin treaty, nor have I seen fairies or water sprites. But what I do have are Malay coins, enough to bury you. Prayer beads, not enough to get you to heaven. And hashish, enough to ease my grieving when the East India Company slit your throat, which, of course, they will." ― Brace in a conversation with James. 5/5 11pm Monday night, MORNING for me.....WHAT IS THIS????? CONKEY IS ALIVE!!!!!! CONKEY IS ALIVE!!!!!! CONKEY IS ALIVE!!!!!! CONKEY IS ALIVE!!!!!! CONKEY IS ALIVE!!!!!! HOLDY SHILT I CANT BELIVE IT, NOW WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO???? I GOT OUTSMARTED BY A SEED!!!!!! A-FUCKING-GAIN!!!! HOW CAN I NOT BE SMARTER THAN A SEED....??????🚨 5/6 1230am..... ALL OF THIS IS SOMEONE ELSE FAULT....... Now I have a freakshow Siamese twin plant, PERFECT. When Im not flying off in a rage about things I break....it's a fucking comet of disaster.... I typed comedy you stupid ficler.... Maybe I keep them in the same pot and call them Cory & Trevor!!! 2am They are getting a little humid so I have to open the top for a while. The cheaper lights work better. and are less than 15w 5/7👍🚨Looks like Cory & Trevor are fighting 😂😂 5/8 looks good. 8am getting great photos on small iPhone by pulling back a little bit so it doesn’t focus too far behind. 5/10 2am. I was able to empty my disgusting body of toxic shit...these plants are rebuilding by digestive tract and systems. A multi-year painful endeavor I have achieved through weed. so fuck you if you dont like it. I will defend my rights with overwhelming force. if you try and take it. you know exactly what I mean and yes this means you badgey mc fafo. 5/11 12 pm

Another week has gone by. She’s stacked pretty good and fairly dense buds. Be interesting to see if they fill out or frost up more. We shall carry on waiting it out. ✌️🏻👊

Hi all . Here we go again on some Fast buds auto genetics from one of the markets go to for autos. Having been a long term grower of fast buds and some of their tester fast flowering photoperiods too , I expect great things .lol My choices of strain came from hours of deliberating and looking through their extensive auto range. so tempting to hit the "classic" series and go with what I know but being ever curious , that was soon surpassed by some new kids on the block and here we have it. Their rise to the surface was only 3 days total for husks off and opening coty leaves. Now a week on from seeding , they are ready to get busy. They all look as they should and are at present in subdued lighting to get them rooted first. I will be moving them under their own light soon but want them to get comfortable in the soil mix first too. So day 1 is under way and we are in for some beautiful buds no doubt. Thank you Heather @Fastbuds . lets get this going now.

added perlite and deatomaceus earth for gnats.

Hey! Welcome to week 8! Karen is mid way through her flowering stretch. Please check back to last week as I update daily so the week is now complete. I count about 20 colas now. Day 51: Have reconfigured the tent, see video. Karen is now 36cm and still stretching. Karen has more light now. Smell is still there hits you when you open the tent. Fertigated 2l. Day 52: Height: 39cm. Karen's scent is heavenly. I have reconfigured again and installed some upgrades. Better reflector. Much bigger carbon filter. Increased airflow. Better config. More efficient pot layout. Karen is lovely. I am grateful to her and for her, so I wrote her a little poem, I hope she liked it. "Karen! Oh Karen! The phoenix of flowers, Three lowly weeks she struggled in vain, Shadowed and starved for five hundred hours, He slowly wept to witness her pain. Karen! Oh Karen! I P-H'd your showers, and in the fourth week you started to gain, Hallowed and hard you survived as you cowered, I thought you meek, I was wrong once again. Karen! Oh Karen! Forgave me my howlers. She set a pace, a pace she maintained, Now shes a girl at the peak of her powers, And so I'm a geek, with buds on the brain." Day 53: Approx 48h into a simulated dry spell. Alright I think it is time for Karen to get her first MAJOR defoliation. I will update shortly with photos and info. I will also be doing some gentle LST to separate the colas a bit. Day 53.5: Defoliation and LST. Finally got chance to photograph that bunda. Enjoy! Day 53.75: Bit of a fail. Messed up the timer and the lights ended up being off for about 3 or 4 hours. Because I was cooling the room (open window) to keep temperature in the tent down, without any light the temperatures absolutely plummeted as it is sub-zero outside. By the time I realised and turned the lights on, the temp in the main tent had dropped to 14 degrees celsius. Whoops! How is that for mistreating your girl? Defoliated about 80% of her leaves, 4 nodes, significant LST, then stuck her in the cold and dark for 1/6 of a day. Not to mention she is now almost 3 days into a "dry spell". There do not seem to be ill effects, and Karen has already begun to respond to the LST; all the colas that had been changed in angle are now upright again. The dry spell I keep mentioning, there is a method behind my madness, I have spotted one or two small flies and I think they may be fungus gnats. I am starting to suspect that the 2nd seedling in the Purple OG Punch Auto grow was actually beheaded by fungus gnat larvae. So I am drying out the mediums as much as I dare. I am closely monitoring the plants, so far the only one I have had to break the drought for is Enigma; all the girls in big pots haven't even noticed it's dry yet. How far am I going to push it? Well I will judge it on a plant by plant basis, but quite honestly I am hoping to see physical signs of thirst before I breakdrought. Of all the plants the two I think will respond most strongly to this will be Karen and Bertha, because of where they are. Karen here is actually probably 4 weeks into flowering rather than two, so about now is a good time to give her a little hydration stress. I do not think I will push it past 5 days, as RH is 34%. By now all the plants will be compensating for the lack of moisture and the high temperatures and low humidity. They will be taking more and more moisture out of the coco, and as the coco dries further and further down, those plants that have space will start desperately growing roots to find moisture. Mark my words, 24 hours after I end this drought, every plant in the tent will throw out crazy growth. Day 54: Ended drought and fertigated 6l, no run off, I will re-fertigate tomorrow. Karen is still stretching her height post LST is now 37cm. The two tallest colas seem to have stopped but the other colas are still stretching. Day 55: Alright so it has been 5 hours since lights on, and Karen is looking in good shape, all her drooping leaves have perked back up and she has added quite a bit of foliar growth. The colas are all still rising, except perhaps the two tallest. This girl is absolutely loaded with pistils, I'm starting to see trichomes on the sugar leaves, but trich production hasn't started in earnest yet. She has a least 20 colas, and 6 of them are thicker/taller than the primary cola at her tip. Every one of her nodes has reinforced itself with a bulbous growth and these cola branches are swelling rapidly. I am increasingly of the opinion that, all being well, this girl is going to surprise us all with her yield. My first grow, which was just mucking about really, I got 60-70g of the two main plants, and they were just bare sticks with 2 colas. Although her height is less than theirs was, 2/3 of their height was bare stick... whereas every mm of her is befoliaged and living. So in terms of the height of the actual cola I think they were about comparable in usable space on a per cola basis. The main difference being that Karen has 20+ colas whereas they had 2 primary and 2 lower. I know that it is probably unrealistic to expect more than 70g from a single auto grown indoors. Nevertheless my gut tells me this baby could achieve at least 100g, perhaps as much as 150g. The next few weeks will determine that, but given where we were in week 3 I will be grateful for any yield of quality bud. I have dropped the lights down to 18/6 from 'tonight' onwards. I really have no idea how long we have left for Karen. According the the "brochure" she flowers for 7-8 weeks, with a total crop time of 9 weeks. The problem is I don't know what a total crop time is? Does that mean from seed to finish? If so Karen is clearly not going to be anywhere near that timescale.I am going to go ahead an assume that, for my plant anyway, the first 4 weeks were veg weeks. I think it is fair to count week 5 and 6 as flowering because pistils were popping out very early in week 5 if not before. So that makes this week four of flowering. I am going to assume 8 weeks rather than 7, so I think we have another 4 full weeks give or take a week. On that basis I am expect harvest week to be around week 12 or so. I am not fixed on this though, I am determined not to harvest this girl early. Day 55: Photos taken 00:00 9/3/23 Strong 24h of veg growth as predicted. Day 56: Existing leaves continue to swell. Stretch appears to be slowing. I've taken so many media this week that I cannot scroll down far enough to select a recent thumbnail. Probably Karen's biggest week in terms of changes. She is looking like she is going to impress. Height 39cm.