Week 11 for Gigi! Third week of flowering. Finally I can see trichomes and flowers getting bigger. She grown up in height as well. At the end of this week I've raised the lamp 5cm more than usual because I've seen some yellowing on the central cola. Turned the pot 180° again. Next week I'll defoliate her again for the last time. Day 72: watered with only pure zym and calmag. I don't wanna overfert her too much. Day 77:watered again with same solution. Next week I'll defoliate and add all the nutrients plus Plagron's green sensation. See ya next week guys! I love this community and all the people who encourage me everyday to do my best, seriously guys, this means a lot to me. Thank you again 🙏

02.11.'24 After 5 days of drying, this little girl who was a little bigger than a meter gave 950 grams and a little bit of popcorn...this picking was 870 and a little bit of popcorn, and 4-5 weeks ago during a storm, one branch broke, which yielded about 100, but let's say 80 for sure, a total of 950 grams of beautiful, huge, potent buds

Los cogollos empiezan a engordar y los principales empiezan a pesar y las ramas se retuercen y doblan, nada que no se pueda arreglar con cuerda. Olor bastante fuerte, mucha resina pegajosa en los cogollos.

10 days of darkness during the flush begins. Had great results with Wanda and her genetics. Blessed for a first grow. Cut Wanda down at the end of the week. She’s now drying. I will be giving a thorough review for my harvest diary. Excited to share what I’ve experienced and learned from this grow.

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Getting ready to flush the sleepy joe tomorrow

I had been through a rough week/ kinda i am a first grower i think i do all the mistakes as i can by focus on different problems... I find out she is a He too wonder how good this to me. Now the pollen sack blowed up marked pictures and the following bottoms could be affected by it. I wonder the out come and i decided i make it in any means. Upgraded to add in the fan finally i had solutions. Also cut lower weaker parts to gain more power on the top that is already flowers. Thanks a lot for a member to keep advice me.

💜 Purple CousKush Auto by Zamnesia | Pheno B | Week 14 👑❄️ The Compact Queen Has Come Down — Small in Size, Massive in Character 💜🌸✨ Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! 🌱💚 Well, my friends… Our second Purple CousKush girl has officially come down. 👑💜✂️ And before anyone starts asking… Yes, she's compact. Yes, she's a smaller plant. And yes, she's absolutely beautiful. 😂💜 Because let's be honest here: not every plant needs to take over the entire tent to deserve our attention. Some plants are tall. Some are wide. Some stretch like they're trying to escape the room. And then we have girls like Purple CousKush Pheno B. Compact. Dense. Beautiful. Full of character. And carrying her own little piece of the 8×8 Adventure with her. 💜🌸❄️ I'm genuinely happy with this girl. We've watched her develop, photographed her flowers, explored her macro details, and compared her expression with her sister. And now, her time in the flowering tent is over. We took her into the studio for some final photographs, and after that, she was hung upside down in the tent to dry. Now? We wait. 😂🌿 No rushing the next chapter. No pretending the whole story is finished. Her flowering journey has reached its end, but we still have the drying, trimming, final observations, and everything else that belongs to her harvest report ahead of us. So let's give our compact Queen the spotlight she deserves. Because she might not be the biggest girl in the room… but she has absolutely earned her place in this adventure. 💜👑✨ ──────────────────────── 📢 FIRST, A QUICK EXPLANATION ABOUT THIS FLOWERING REPORT Some of you might be wondering why we're publishing a flowering-week update when the plant has already been harvested. Fair question! 💚🌱 As we've explained in the previous individual harvest reports, GrowDiaries has limitations on the number of photographs we can include in a single update. And when we're reaching the end of a plant's flowering journey, there is simply too much to document properly in one report. We have the final photographs from the tent. We have the studio session. We have the individual flower shots and macro details. We have the harvest itself. And then we have the drying, trimming, and final report to come. Trying to squeeze all of that into one update would mean sacrificing photographs and details that deserve their own space. So we're keeping the same approach we've used for the other girls. 🌸 **This flowering-week report:** Her final appearance, the studio photographs, and the end of her time in the tent. ✂️ **The harvest report:** The next stage of her journey, with the relevant harvest and trimming details. That way, each stage gets its own space, and every phenotype keeps her own individual record. Because this is not a general report about the entire room. This is Purple CousKush Pheno B's diary. Her journey. Her photographs. Her story. 💜📸 And even though several plants may reach harvest around the same time, I want each one to receive the attention she deserves. No copy-and-paste endings. No mixing sisters together. No forgetting the smaller girls. 😂💜 Every plant gets her own chapter. And this week, we're celebrating our compact Queen. ──────────────────────── 🌱 A QUICK RECAP — HOW DID WE GET HERE? For anyone joining this diary for the first time, let's quickly revisit the experiment. The 8×8 Adventure has been running on a **12/12 light schedule from seed**. That means the plants were grown under a twelve-hours-on, twelve-hours-off schedule from the beginning, rather than being given a separate extended vegetative period before switching the lights. The idea was to document how different genetics and phenotypes would develop within the same general room environment under that shared schedule. And what a journey it has been! 🌱 Different plants. 🌿 Different sizes. 🌸 Different structures. 💜 Different flowering expressions. ❄️ Different levels and appearances of frost. And plenty of surprises along the way. The room gave the plants a shared environment, but it didn't make them identical. Some grew taller. Some remained compact. Some developed more open structures, while others built denser-looking flowers. And Purple CousKush Pheno B? She's been one of our compact girls throughout the journey. She never needed to be the tallest plant in the room. She never needed to compete with the giants. She simply developed in her own way, giving us a beautiful individual expression to document. And that's precisely why we separate the phenotypes into individual diaries. Because the differences are the story. 💜🌱 ──────────────────────── 👑 THE COMPACT QUEEN — SMALL PLANT, BIG PERSONALITY I want to make something clear this week. I'm not disappointed that she's a smaller plant. Not even a little bit. 😂💜 Would a larger plant have occupied more space in the tent? Of course. Would she have looked different in the overall canopy? Absolutely. But does that make her less interesting? Not to me. Purple CousKush Pheno B has her own identity. She's compact. She's dense. She's beautiful. And when you look at her photographs, you can appreciate the character she developed throughout the run. There's something satisfying about following a plant from the early stages and seeing how she eventually presents herself at the end. You remember the earlier updates. You remember her development. You remember the differences between her and her sister. And then you arrive here… with the plant harvested and the final photographs in front of you. That's the full journey. And I'm happy with what this girl has given us. 💜👑🌸 Not every plant needs to win a size competition. Not every plant needs to dominate the canopy. And not every plant needs to be judged by a single number. The important thing is that we document what actually happened. And this girl deserves to have her story told properly. ──────────────────────── 💜 TWO SISTERS, TWO INDIVIDUAL STORIES Of course, we can't talk about Pheno B without remembering her sister, Purple CousKush Pheno A. Two plants from the same cultivar. Two individual diaries. Two different expressions to observe. And both have now reached the harvest stage. 💜💜 Throughout the flowering weeks, we were able to appreciate their individual structures, compare their flowers, and explore their appearance through the camera. We also had a little photographic confusion with some of the macro stacks earlier in the journey. 😂📸 That was a useful reminder that when you're photographing and processing lots of images from two sisters at the same time, proper labelling matters! But the important thing is that both girls have received their own reports and their own space in the project. We're not trying to pretend that they're identical. We're not trying to force them into one combined story. We're documenting what each one became. And now, with Pheno B harvested, we can close her flowering chapter and move into the next stage. Her sister has her story. Our compact Queen has hers. And both deserve to be remembered. 💜👑 ──────────────────────── 📸 ONE LAST STUDIO SESSION Before saying goodbye to her time in the tent, we took Purple CousKush Pheno B into the studio for some final photographs. And I'm very glad we did. 💜📸✨ There is something special about taking the time to photograph a plant at the end of her flowering journey. During the grow, we're constantly looking at the bigger picture. The tent. The canopy. The other plants. The environment. The overall development. But in the studio, the focus changes. It's just her. Her structure. Her flowers. Her details. Her individual expression. And that's exactly what I wanted to preserve. Because once the plant has been harvested, this particular moment is gone. We can photograph the dried flowers later. We can document the trimming. We can explore the next stages. But we cannot recreate this exact view of her standing at the end of her flowering journey. So we took the photographs. We gave her a little studio time. And we let our compact Queen have her moment. 😂💜👑 Not every plant needs to be enormous to look beautiful in front of the camera. Sometimes, all you need is a plant with character and a grower who enjoys documenting her. And you know me by now… I always have room for another photograph. 📸😂 ──────────────────────── ❄️ DENSE FLOWERS, BEAUTIFUL DETAILS One of the things I enjoy about looking back at Purple CousKush Pheno B is how much there is to appreciate when we stop focusing on size. The overall plant gives us one perspective. The individual flowers give us another. And the closer we look, the more details become visible. 💜🌸❄️ The flower structures. The textures. The trichomes. The pistils. The individual differences from one flower to another. These are the details that make plant photography so enjoyable. You can walk past a plant every day and become familiar with her appearance. Then you take the time to photograph her properly, and suddenly you're looking at her again with fresh eyes. That's what I love about documenting the 8×8 Adventure. We're not just recording that a plant existed. We're preserving a visual record of what she became. And Pheno B has given us a beautiful collection of moments to look back on. She's compact. She's dense. She's beautiful. And she deserves to be remembered exactly as she is. 💜📸✨ ──────────────────────── 🌿 THE SAME ROOM — BUT NEVER THE SAME STORY This is still the heart of the 8×8 Adventure. One shared room. One general environmental strategy. One lighting ecosystem. One overall approach to nutrition and care. And individual plants expressing themselves in different ways. The point was never to make every plant look identical. If that had been the goal, there wouldn't be much of an experiment to document! 😂🌱 Instead, we've watched different genetics and phenotypes develop alongside each other and recorded their individual progress. Purple CousKush Pheno B has been part of that experiment from the beginning. Her compact structure is part of her story. Her flowers are part of her story. Her differences from Pheno A are part of her story. And now, her harvest is another milestone in that record. This is why the individual diaries matter. When we look back later, we can follow the progression of one plant without losing her identity among all the others. The room may be shared. The story isn't. 💜🌿 ──────────────────────── 💡 THE LIGHTING JOURNEY — SAME PHOTONS, DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS The room has been running with the upgraded Future of Grow Black Series lighting setup, including the additional Black Series 600W fixtures that expanded our lighting capability. LumiFlora has also been part of the lighting ecosystem, helping illuminate deeper areas of the canopy. One of the interesting things throughout the adventure has been seeing how different plants developed within that shared environment. The lighting system provided the same general opportunity across the room, but each plant still expressed her own structure and characteristics. And that's the point. The equipment helps create the environment. The genetics contribute to the individual expression. And the photographs help us document the result. ☀️🌿💜 A massive thank you to Future of Grow for supplying the additional fixtures and giving us the opportunity to explore the expanded setup throughout this run. ──────────────────────── 🌬️ SHE'S NOW HANGING — AND THE WAIT BEGINS After the studio session, Purple CousKush Pheno B was harvested and hung upside down in the tent. And now… we wait. 🌿⏳💜 This is where the diary moves into a different phase. The flowering chapter is complete. The plant is no longer standing in the canopy. The studio photographs have been captured. And now we give the drying stage the time and attention it needs. There's no need to rush ahead in the story. We'll document the next steps when it's time to do so. For this report, I simply want to record where she is now: harvested, photographed, and hanging in the tent. The next chapter will cover the relevant harvest and trimming details. And after that, we'll continue building the record of her journey. Because the end of flowering doesn't mean the end of the diary. It means the story has moved forward. 💜🌱 ──────────────────────── 😂 THE GROWER'S JOB CHANGES AGAIN Throughout a grow, there are different moments when the grower's role changes. Early on, we're observing the young plants and documenting their development. As they grow, we watch their structure and how the different phenotypes express themselves. Later, the focus shifts towards the flowers and the final stages of the flowering journey. And now, for Pheno B, that flowering chapter has reached its end. The work changes. The observations change. The photographs change. And the diary changes with it. For now, she's hanging in the tent, and the next report will cover the following stage. I'm not going to invent details about the final harvest result before we've documented them. We'll share what we actually observe, just as we've done throughout this project. That's the point of keeping a diary. Real observations. Real photographs. One stage at a time. 💚🌿 ──────────────────────── 🔍 WHAT COMES NEXT? Our compact Queen's story continues. 📸 **The final flowering photographs:** Captured before she left the tent. 🌬️ **The drying stage:** She's now hanging upside down in the tent. ✂️ **The harvest and trimming report:** Coming in the next chapter, with the details documented at that stage. 📚 **The individual diary:** Her journey remains separate from her sister's so we can follow her development properly. And, of course, we'll continue sharing the experience with everyone following the 8×8 Adventure. No need to rush the next chapter. We'll get there when we get there. 😂💜 ──────────────────────── 💭 FINAL THOUGHTS — SMALL IN SIZE, BIG IN CHARACTER Week 14. Purple CousKush Auto by Zamnesia. Pheno B. Our compact Queen. 💜👑 She's been harvested. She's had her final studio session. She's now hanging upside down in the tent. And I'm genuinely happy with her. She's not a huge plant. We know that. But I don't think that should ever stop us from appreciating what she has given us. She's compact. She's dense. She's beautiful. And she's an individual phenotype with her own place in this adventure. We grew her under the same 12/12-from-seed approach as the other plants in the room, documented her development week after week, and watched her express herself in her own way. Now we have the final flowering photographs to look back on, and the next stage of her journey is waiting. I'm not calling this an ending. It's a transition. The flowering chapter is finished. The drying stage has begun. The harvest and trimming report will come next. And we'll keep documenting what happens along the way. Because that's what this project is about. Not just showing the biggest plants. Not just celebrating the most dramatic results. But giving every phenotype her own space, her own record, and her own moment in the spotlight. And this girl? She deserves every bit of it. 💜🌸❄️👑 Thank you, Purple CousKush Pheno B, for being part of this adventure. You might be compact, but you've never been forgotten. Now let's give you the spotlight one more time in this flowering chapter. Let her shine. 💜✨ ──────────────────────── 🙏 THANK YOU A huge thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us the space to document the individual journeys of the 8×8 Adventure and share them with growers around the world. 💚🌱 Thank you to Zamnesia for the Purple CousKush genetics and for giving us the opportunity to follow these two sisters throughout the run. 💜🌸 Thank you to Plagron for supporting the nutritional side of the adventure. 🌱 A massive thank you to Future of Grow for the Black Series lighting and especially for supplying the additional fixtures that expanded the lighting capabilities of the room. 💡☀️ Thank you to LumiFlora for helping illuminate the deeper areas of the canopy. Thank you to TrolMaster for helping us manage and monitor the environment behind the scenes. And, of course, thank you to everyone following the 8×8 Adventure. Every comment. Every question. Every observation. Every person who takes the time to follow these individual plant journeys. It genuinely means a lot. 💚 And to Purple CousKush Pheno B… thank you for giving us another beautiful story to document. You have reached the end of your flowering chapter, but your journey isn't finished. We'll see you again in the next report. ──────────────────────── 🌿 COME JOIN OUR DISCORD COMMUNITY! If you're not already part of the community, come and say hello! 💚 DogDoctorOfficial Discord: https://discord.gg/dogdoctorofficial Join us to discuss growing, equipment, photography, experiences, and all the things we learn along the way. There are community conversations, shared experiences, discount codes, competitions, and giveaways to enjoy. Whether you're experienced or just starting out, you're welcome to join the conversation. Come share your journey, ask questions, and meet other growers. We'd love to see you there! 🤝🌱💚 ──────────────────────── 💚 GROWERS LOVE, MY FRIENDS! That's another flowering chapter completed in the 8×8 Adventure. One more girl has come down. One more individual story has reached a new milestone. And one more collection of photographs has been added to the record. 💜👑📸 Our compact Queen is now hanging in the tent, and we'll let the next chapter arrive in its own time. Thank you for following her journey. Thank you for appreciating the smaller girls as much as the big ones. And thank you for being part of this adventure. Growers Love, my friends. 💚🌱 See you in the next chapter of the 8×8 jungle… where the photographs keep coming, the individual stories keep unfolding, and every plant gets her chance to shine. Purple CousKush Pheno B… small in size, beautiful in her own way, and forever part of the adventure. 💜👑🌸✨ Let her shine.

1/17 - Entered Week 3 Today, Everything is going good so far. Just have been watering with fish tank water only. I have been adjusting plant ties so the light penetrates lower branches, in hopes of more tops. I have also been leaf tucking and adjusting lower branches over bigger leaves. #1 is growing at a pretty fast pace, faster then others, and is showing signs of multiple branches coming to top, #2 is doing good, I have been trying to get more light to lower branches, hopefully in the next few days will see progress, but overall it is growing at a good rate. #3 is doing alright, its growing at an okay pace, I started LST on it yesterday and have noticed branches emerging. #4 is still quite small, but growing at an alright rate, when it's a little taller will attempt LST. Overall, everything is going great! 1/18 - Yesterday I discovered white specks on leaves, did some research, one thing I found that could've been issue was my humidifier running tap water, I immediately cleaned out humidifier and filled with distilled water. After doing that did further inspection I saw a gnat in soil, only seen one so I killed him, turned off lights and fans, sprayed neem oil spray on soil and over plants very lightly, turned on fans , let dry for about 15mins and turned light back on. I did some research on neem oil and what I understood is that it's okay to use in veg but not quite flowering. Hoping this will be the last time using it, going to get sticky traps for future. Going to keep an eye on white specs and make sure they don't get worse, some wiped off but others didn't. #1 is starting to show pistil hairs. Everything still the same, added a very small amount of calmag to fish tank water in jug. 1/19 - Not to much to update , just have been filling humidifier, and watering. Tent is staying 80 degrees and 70% humidity VPD around .9-1. The white specks on leaves aren't going anywhere, but I don't notice any additional specks. 1/20 - Mid-day - Last night around midnight I started LST with #4, her lower branches looked like they had some growth so hopefully we get some good results with it. I've been adjusting canopy, bringing branches to open spots. Watered full pot today with just fish tank water, pot was a bit dry. Ordered Branch benders and Trellis net last night hopefully it comes just in time. 1/21 - Received Trellis net today, Going to attempt SCROG, This will be my first time attempting will see what the results will be and if it's helpful, If you have any tips or suggestions let me know. I put around 4inches above canopy's, so hopefully in a few days will get to toggle with branches. Tomorrow, I have adjustable, and 90 degree branch benders coming in, will be testing those out also. Everything is going smoothly so far. Thank you for all the support, and if any questions or suggestions feel free to drop below. 1/23 - Feeling bad that I missed a day of documenting, but did receive LST clips yesterday and I'm absolutely loving them. Even though they are on the cheaper end, they still seem to get the job done. Plants haven't met Trellis net yet, but hopefully in a few days #1 will start getting ready to train on SCROG. I'm very excited for week 4 and really can't wait for what it's going to bring. Also, while writing this, I did have some sad news, While attempting to LST a smaller branch, I accidently got to rough, and it broke off, my first lesson. Since then, I've been being a lot more careful with these girls knowing they are about to enter flower. Thank you so much for the support, Check out my Instagram for daily uploads, Check Bio 💪 Will follow you back 👊

This girl is on her last week fade coming in hard has strong lemon candy scent coming through jus can't put my finger on it smelled really good though under canopy lights have got the bottom of her looking fantastic nice and thick trichome coverage getting thick going to start hitting her with a carboflush and start getting her ready to harvest the added cal mag stop the spotting cause they live there cal mag in the middle of flowering running 6.2 ph lights at 100 percent she gets a half gallon of water every couple of days so here's to another week of growing lfg

"what a space-that's how a girl is" but I like to watch how she changes :) every day the suitcase is just more beautiful to me:).

Aggiorniamo prima il diario di questa settimana datosi che il weekend sarò in Svizzera...ormai come ogni anno le dutchfemseeds autofiorenti in outdoor biologico sono una soddisfazione immensa,crescono rapide e resistono agli afidi, hanno iniziato a riempirsi di infiorescenze resinose e profumate e colorate. Giorno dopo giorno sembrano migliorare gradualmente e fino ad adesso promettono grandi soddisfazioni perché ormai hanno una struttura perfetta, molto diramate e molte di loro superano già il metro di altezza! Forza Dutchfemseeds autofiorenti in Italia! Un abbraccio a tutti

Hallo zusammen 🤙. Sie wächst sehr schön und macht keine Umstände.

She is flowering more and more each day and getting bigger than I expected haha. I have had to construct a makeshift "scaffold" around the tent so I can hang the light higher. The leaves are now slightly to big for the tent, so I hope she dosent get much bushier. Lots more pistels, and lots more growth, quite happy. # new tent coming 😁

11/16: I had to move a bunch of seedlings into the closet and decided to just go ahead and run the lights at 24/0 for these last several days. I've got the lights to within 8 inches on all of the flowering plants and as little as 6 inches on a couple of them😈. It's been cold out, so I've been able to keep my temps nice and low. I also have a 6500k floodlight on in there to "winterize" the environment a little more. 11/18: (bugles sounds) Introducing....The Frost Queen and Princess! I harvested the last two Orange Sherbets today...Wow, just wow!😍 11/20: Today I harvested the last two Wedding Cheesecakes and all three Gorilla Cookies. Kind pressed for time, so I just did a cursory trim before taking some photos and washing them. The Gorilla Cookies are every bit as dense as the Wedding Cheesecakes. The gigantic WC has a few seeds here and there, so if I don't spot any spent nanners on her, I'm gonna assume the pollination was done by the short/bent Strawberry Pie that I deliberately left a few male flowers I spotted on. That would make for some kind of special auto hybrid right there.. Well. that's a wrap on this crop. I'll do harvest reports on each strain as soon as they've cured a little bit, but I can tell you already that I'm gonna love most of them. Aromas are incredible!

Week 5 flower going well. Nothing much to report. Increased the drip as she is taking in more water. Turned up the fans to 100% for maximum flow, and due to that, the tent got a bit warmer and a bit dryer so the exhaust fan and humidifier are working a bit harder. 75-77 deg F, 50-60% RH. Not sure if the lights are to intense or if it’s purple coming through, but at the highest tops there seems to be a bit of discolouration on the newest growth, just at the tips of the new buds. But I’m looking really close and it may be purple, not brown. I’ll keep an eye on it and turn the lights down if symptoms worsen. This plant is growing strong and getting chunky. Hopefully she keeps growing well until the end. Thanks for the views…keep calm and grow on!

These girls are rocking . Looks like they have at least 5 weeks left

Day 51 - Really bushing out and getting wider. Some more hairs are visible, yet no real bud production yet. Roots are long and healthy looking. Still going strong with the same nutrient mixture. Day 53 - Topped up water today and had a casualty unfortunately. 😕 Day 56 - Switched lights to 12-12 to try and induce the flowering process on day 54. Today they are looking like they have more hairs coming along. Also topped up water again. Plants are still growing very fast. And getting bigger and bigger.

XL is just about finished now cloudy with a few amber trichs and stems are struggling to hold their own weight up so I started the flush yesterday with aspirations to pull her in a few days . She’s just a beast this girl incredibly phat dense fruity buds with a real kick in the chest on exhale ( yes I’ve expressed dried a few nugs , I don’t care what anyone says I love smoking a bit of fresh weed ) , some of these buds are gonna be 3oz each dried it’s the epitome of an XL strain . Like I said a flush this week then she’s out . I couldn’t get her out for pics or to take pics of the orange coz the XL is just weighty and starting to bend under her own weight …best problems .