The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@fromseedtobecoming
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What a journey it has been from seed!
I made a lot of mistakes in the first few weeks of this growing journey. I feel like I had a mini-crash after finishing the first year of grad school, and although I am growing cannabis as part of my research project, I haven't been the greatest at paying attention to it. This is not an excuse. It has actually been a learning opportunity. I realized that my body needs proper schedules to function and grow, just like a plant.
The problems with the plant have really been my own problems. Let's just say that a plant may be the reflection of the grower. First, the light cycles were wrong and inconsistent. I thought that I could manually control the light schedule for the plants and be alright. However, I was wrong. My sleep schedule has been very inconsistent for the past few months. Mainly because we are living through a pandemic, and secondly because I am a graduate student 😂. How naive was it of me to think that a plant could follow my own rhythms? I guess it highlights my 'plant blindness.'
Second, the light intensity was low and PH levels high.
In the last five days, I have learned that plants are living organisms (I knew this, but my plant blindness is quick to dismiss it, I need to stop fighting these "plant voices" (signals)) that require a proper environment to grow, similar to humans. Of course, a plant is not human, but it is alive and living. It needs water, a regular schedule (light (active) /darkness (rest), oxygen, nutrients, and an overall good environment to grow.
Concern about the size of my plant at five weeks, I decided to conduct a few experiments at home.
Here are my notes:
Friday, July 23, 2021, I took the plant out of the tent at 6:00 AM and placed it in front of my backyard window that faces the Eastside, perfect for sunrise. On that day, I had a few errands to run, and when I arrived home, it was 2:30 PM. The sun was now hitting the West side of my house, and I had to move the plant in front of my bedroom window.
At around 7:00 PM, I went to look at the plant and noticed that its leaves were looking plumpy. So, I decided to take a timelapse to see what I would be able to record.
During "magic hour" (sunset), I recorded and witnessed the plant moving with the rhythms of the sun. Plant, like humans, function at their best when they are synchronized with their circadian rhythm. The pandemic has definitely disoriented us to the point that it has disrupted all of our schedules. To this day, I feel tired from everything we have all been through; how could I possibly think that a plant would thrive with such a messed-up schedule?
The time lapse made me realize that the plant needs some structure to thrive, and so do I. So, as much as I like to think that I can be disciplined and follow a plant's schedule, I cannot. So, I went to the store and bought the Globe Suite smart plug to automate and schedule the light cycle to 12hrs of light and 6 hours of darkness.
Saturday, July 24, 2021, the plant woke up to the set schedule of the lights.
I checked on the plant first thing in the morning, around 9:30 AM. The leaves look much greener and thicker than they did the day before.
Sunday, July 25, 2021.
I was away overnight and did not arrive home until 2 PM. The plant looks twice the size it was on Friday! Today, I will water the plant. I got a PH test kit and realized that the way that I measured the PH level, the first few weeks was wrong 🤦♀️🏽. I measured the PH correctly, to 5.9, and added some Reefertilizer grow nutrients to the water. I watered from the top, distributing the water evenly around the stem.
My partner pointed to me that the lights seemed dim for the stage of the plant's life. So I had my lights set at 100 watts running at 20 % 😅. I realized that I had not increased the light intensity since the first few weeks of vegetation 🤦♀️🏽. So I increased the intensity to 100 watts running at 60%.
Monday, July 26, 2021.
First check-in 7:00 AM: The plant looks like it loves all of the new changes that I have made! It is finally growing 🤗
The sun is out, but it is not as intense as it should be because tiny particles of smoke are present in our air due to the wildfires, and they create a filter that makes the human eye see the sun blood red. It is quite apocalyptic.
Regardless, I decided to take the plant out from the tent and record a time-lapse. It is fascinating how much movement plants have despite showing no noticeable signs of movement (to the human eye).
Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
It has been five days since I have made big changes to the plant's schedule and environment. The plant is finally showing good signs of growth, and its leaves colours have changed to a deep green. I am not watering the plant today, but I am spritzing it with water.
I decided to take another time-lapse of the plant, but this time inside the tent. As I was setting up the tripod for my camera, I accidentally increased the humidifier 🤦♀️🏽. Luckily, I noticed within a reasonable timeframe and reduced the humidity and made the environment better.
I increased the light intensity to 100 watts at 100%.
The plant will stay in the tent all day today because it is raining ☔️.
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@Fibro_Witch
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Things are going great. These girls are getting nice and frosty. They are so easy. And the smell! Oh she's heavenly! She's almost sickeningly sweet. I'm very excited to try this strain. Last year I was more on the Indica dominant bandwagon, since I use Kratom during the day for pain management. But my obsession with CBD Blue Shark has me excited for more balanced hybrids. I've been having an issue with the quality of Kratom I've been getting from vendors so I may have to start in on wake&bakes, which FastBuds says this strain is perfect for!
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@DogDoctorOfficial
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one more week up we go, and after intruducing the AC to the Girls, and rase some of them up closer to the ligth ( i did this because the most of my SG are 3 phingers from the ligth lol, so bringing the ligth down was not an option )now i realize that the BB and the AP are showing some spots on the older leaves with i think it migth be nutrients problem, so i'm intruducing Calmag Agent and see how they react. Appart from that they all look amazing, the smell is starting to show off in all of them, it's like a rainbow of fruity smels with a sweet taste going from one strein to another, so far the one i think is the winer in tha smel factor is the PG, man, she's becoming and amazing white frosty smly litle plant <3 the same is happening to all of her siters in my litle love garden.
So let's see how the wee goes, i'l try and keep it updated the most i can,
Stay safe
Peace out
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So day 31 F and i intruduce Calmag and lower EC to 1.8 , now let's seeee :)
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@Mr_nugs_lover_David
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She's looking gorgeous,I lsted the talles branches to get a more even canopy. Let's see how she turns out,I'm loving to grow this strains her performs well with lst and all types of training,she's being fed only using 100% organic and bio amendments by florians living organics and guanokalong and also my lactobacillus serum home made,it is being a pleasure to grow her.
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@emeraldlabs
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Deep breaths... alright well things changed rapidly this week. She went downhill quick. Signs of potassium deficiency, but that shouldn’t be a problem. Thinking, after checking runoff, she faded a little too acidic (I had stopped checking regularly as I’ve had minimal issues on previous 5 grows). She got a nice flush, with final run off reading at 6.4. She only has 2 weeks or so to go, so not panicking; if anything just a learning experience. Her flush was yesterday; she’s scheduled for feeding on Tuesday, so we will see how things go.
Video/photos taken 63 days after breaking soil.
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@sh4r4k
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Moin Leute neues Update.
Erstmal sorry das länger nichts kam.. hatte viel um die Ohren und habe es immer vor mir her geschoben 😆
Bei den Ladys hat sich einiges getan. Sie befinden sich aktuell in Blütewoche 6 und so wie es aussieht gehts ihnen prächtig.
Die Dünge Menge habe ich natürlich in den letzten Wochen angepasst und gieße jetzt 2L pro Topf alle 2 Tage. Ich denke das passt soweit auch😃
Ansonsten gibts viel viel zu erzählen.. Bis hoffentlich nächste Woche 😂🙏
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@goodcall
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First things first, the smell coming from the lemon is absolutely delicious! Super super, almost like candy with a super sour hint to it. I am so keen to taste her!
LSD-25;
Fattening and fattening, she's starting to stack on the weight now, I'm hoping for another 3 weeks before chop.
Lemon OG Haze;
The buds are really starting to form now, I'm hoping to have some nice looking colas come next Friday. Imma giver her probably 5 weeks at this stage, but she is a bit of a slow grower so we'll see.
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@WakeAndBake
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The ladies are going on 12 hours from today and Ready for massive buds can't wait to see them flowering 😍 🙌 🥦🥦🥦🥦🍀🛫👽💪
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@greenthumb86
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day one of flush for most of these girls 😁 : update the only one not in flush is the afghan mass
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@the_medicine_grow_uk
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All done and dusted on this bad boy. Nice big bushy auto that did its job from the beginning. It was always harder work than the Do Si Dos and with what I’ve hung up to dry I don’t think it’ll have a larger harvest either. The smell is super strong and very fruity and will give an updated the final smoke and weight. 🙌🏼
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@Pirangueiro
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started to resin! I think more 4 weeks they will be done. Peace bros 🙌🏻✌️🏻✌️🏻
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@Arkain_Jenetics
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All but the cpie auto has germed. I didn't like using the rockwool. I realized I like to see Taproot. Before just putting it in medium. So I put all of the seeds out of the rockwool and put em in their forever home. But the cpie had not even begun to open and it still hasn't and I can't find it. So I'm putting another one of my bx2 skunks in called temporarily called skunk v3. I got seeds from five different back crossed with Mexican and afghan phenos I created from breeding the original seeds my gpaw got in the late 80# after my gpaw came back from war he started growing
So yes I have og genetics. But I'm creating my own line of f1s -f4s and bxs.
Skunk v3 grew really short. 2 foot gallon fabric pots and after 14 weeks at chop ( I know it's early for a photo but I did this grow natural to see had the best natural traits I'm looking for. And it only grew to maybe MAYBE a foot. And yielded the most densest and biggest colas out of all of them despite being more than a foot shorter than the rest of the phenos I had going. So now I will have two bx F1 skunks growing instead of just one.
MY GOAL IS TO IDENTIFY THE SKUNKIEST OF THEM ALL. AND ENHANCE IT WITH SOMETHING GASSY ANNNNND SOMETHING LEMONY. HENCE GROWING THE CRITICAL THUNDER. AND THE SPECIAL QUEEN AND THE Royal GORILLA
I HAVE HORROBLE MEMORY SO I APOLOGIZE IF IM LATE ON WEEKLY UPDATES. BUT I TAKE PICTURES AND JOT DOWN IN MY HAND WRITTEN JOURNAL EVERY TWO DAYS.
THANKS FOR LISTENING TO ME YAALLL.
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@PhinolaGreen
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11. Woche
Sie reift weiter fleißig aus und produziert massiv Budmasse, wunderschön mit anzusehen. Denke in 7 Tagen ist sie soweit 😊
Ich habe die gestern alle gespült. Insgesamt habe ich 4x Wasser durch jeden Topf laufen lassen.
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12/11/21
😻 Week 10 and we're in the final stretch! It hasn't been the most beautiful run but these buds smell amazing! The MarsHydro has been hanging at 22" for a little while now and all new growth looks perfect... We're absolutely going to CRUSH the next grow under this light! I think we could get a half lb under her with very little effort with one of our photoperiod strains.. some of the colas are getting really fat, i suspect the biggest will have the girth approaching that of a coke can..the fact these are producing as well as they are is a miracle to me, we may revisit this strain and provide better conditions ..We'll upload progress again in a couple days, thanks for dropping by!!
⚡Mars Hydro/SP-3000⚡ Specifications ⚙️:
Diodes: Samsung LM301B / Osram 660nm (960 total!)
Driver: Meanwell 300watt 🔌 (300W±5% @AC120V-277V)
PPF: 824umol/S ☢️
PPE: 2.8 µmol/j 〰️〰️
Lifespan: >50k hrs ⌛
Veg Coverage: 3 x 5 ft 🌱
Flowering Coverage: 2 x 4 ft 🌼
Weight: 10.1 lbs (4.6kg)
-The SP-3000 uses an aluminum heatsink (no fan) and the driver can be placed outside the tent 🌡️⬇️
-IP65 waterproof ratings, tolerant to high humidity grow environments 💦 ..
-Up to 15 can be daisy-chained together and all controlled from a single light! 💡~💡~💡~💡~💡
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12/14
Trichs coming in long and fast, another 1- 2weeks and they should be covered in crystals!!..this strain looks beautiful under the glass, bravo @Seedsman ! 🌱 👏 😺
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@Tropicannibis_Todd
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ALRIGHTY THEN GROWMIES 😎
👉SHES PRETTY MUCH READY JUST WANT MORE AMBER👈
We just hit week 13 and all is well , have to admit she's just killing it super happy with how shes coming along 😃 ....... Just waiting on her to ripen up 👈
👉Had to bring out the Bamboo sticks a few week ago as she's putting on the weight 👈
And she's filling out the pot perfectly👌 Lots of tops 👈
👉NutriNPK NUTRIENTS USED FOR FEEDING 👈rain water to be used entire growth👈
👉www.nutrinpk.com right now get 10% off using SPRING2022 as the coupon code👈
Lights being readjusted and chart updated .........👍
I GOT MULTIPLE DIARIES ON THE GO 😱 please check them out 😎
👉THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO GO OVER MY DIARIES 👈
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@DaddyPrime2
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i was surprised that she was done on 2/15/25
spidermites had completely taken over one bud so i decided to check trichomes and she seemed ready.