The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@TheCannaProphet
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~Humboldt Seed Co. AMHERST SOUR DIESEL~
???Secret origins???
The mystery of the unknown🧐
Amherst Sour Diesel is a cannabis seed whose origins are kept a secret. This wonderful vigorous marijuana plant will reward your work with large, elongated, compact buds complemented by a rich complex aroma. Indoors it performs best with a short growth and outdoors, in temperate, warm, dry and Mediterranean climates or in a greenhouse. A marijuana plant that boasts balanced properties.
-Top-notch flavor and effect
-Idyllic feelings to treat the senses
-The aroma of this cannabis hybrid is a pleasant combination of ripe fruit and oil. The flavor is rich and complex, with hints of tropical fruit, oil and exotic wood.
-The effect, typically Sativa, is euphoric, uplifting, powerful and long-lasting. A cannabis strain Sativa lovers will know how to appreciate.
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Tech Specs:
~Amherst Sour Diesel~
Feminized
Genotype: 20% Indica / 80% Sativa
Cross: Chemdawg x Amherst Super Skunk
Suitable for: Indoors and outdoors
Indoor flowering: 65-70 days
Indoor yield: 400-600 g/m2
Outdoor harvest time: Late October
Outdoor yield: 2000-3000 g/plant
Outdoor height: 2-3 m
THC: 27%
CBD: 0.1%
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THE SETUP:
~Planted into Jiffy Peat Pellets that were hydrated with de-chlorinated water with SuperThrive added then ph'd to 6.0 @ 80℉
~Grown 100% organic in 10g fabric pots with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g of Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g of Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g of Dr. Earth Flower Girl 3-9-4, 1tbs/g of Dr. Earth Bat Guano, 3/4 cup of Down To Earth Azomite and 1 tsp/g Down To Earth Fish Bone Meal.
~24hr light cycle during Germination / 19/5 light cycle for Vegetation and 12/12 for Flower
~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed and weekly Compost Tea's.
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WEEKLY UPDATES:
9/20- 💥BOOM!💥 Week Six of flower is here and my girl's in high gear, stacking her flowers and pumping out trichomes!
Today I watered her with 1.5g de-chlorinated water with 5ml/g of Botanicare CalMag+ added, then ph'd to 6.2 @ 72℉. I turned her pot and plucked a couple of yellow shade leaves...the basic daily maintenance.
9/22- I didn't water her yesterday as she looked great and was 'praying' hard. Today she was given 1.5g of de-chlorinated water which was ph'd to 6.2 @ 72℉ which I gave her through her drip pan (bottom chuggin) and I also gave her pot a turn.
She continues to have a great deep green color that is beautifully contrasted by the snow white trichomes piling up on them! Her height has not really increased but she is extremely bushy with tight node spacing which will necessitate plucking some leaves to keep the light penetrating into her canopy.
9/24- We're getting close to wrapping up Week Five of flower in a couple of days and she'll be past the half-way point with the most exciting weeks yet to come!
I didn't water yesterday and today I went ahead and Top Dressed her with 2 tbsp/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 3-9-4, 1 tbsp/g Dr. Earth Gold Premium 4-4-4, 1/2 cup Down To Earth Bio-Fish, 1/3 cup Down To Earth High Phosphorus Bat Guano and 2 cups of Worm Castings.
I watered in the Top Dress with 1.5g of de-chlorinated water which was ph'd to 6.2 @ 72℉ and let her enjoy her meal! 😜
9/26- After her heavy watering on the 24th I didn't water yesterday and when I checked her today at 'lights on' and she still had some weight to her pot and her leaves were praying hard so I held off on watering today and will hit her tomorrow with her usual 0.75g watering.
~Thanks for stopping in! Things should be getting a lot more interesting in the coming weeks...Stay lifted and be Blessed! 😎🙏~
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@Nickeluring
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This lovely girl is just getting more and more beautiful. She is packed with buds that are swelling very well. They are nice and sticky to touch.
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@eltiiocultiveta
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Desgraciadamente el cultivo se quedó estancado en altura y demás. Estoy decepcionado pero la próxima saldrá mejor, no haré tantas podas y quizás cultive automáticas para cosechar rápido
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@GanjaReaper
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Took some nice pictures with my microscope at the begin of this week
from a underdeveloped budrot bud. So the other buds might have more and better thc on it.
This is the end of the 6th week of flowering.
Gave the plants only enzymen, because I don't know how long I can keep them going on flowering with this climate.
Therefore I rather not feed them( there are still alot of nutrients in the soil), so they are not full of nutrients when I have to suddenly harvest them.
As you can see, they take the nutrients out of the leafs as well, because they don't get nutrients from my watering.
Might give them some Humic-Blast as well, in the new week.
Will harvest them in 1 or 2 weeks depending on climate + growth of buds.
The front plant buds didn't swell that much but the plant behind keeps flowering, not much but bit by bit.
It's understandable because the day temperature is between 10-20 degrees fahrenheit and night temp is between 5-12 LOL
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@growmcbud
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Harvest, Nr. 3✌️I can say the Dos Si Dos 33 from Barney's Farm is a very nice Strain. Medical Benefits for me=+++++
You have the typical taste of the Gelato in there.
I have 3 different Phenos Types. ✌️🍀
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@Kirsten
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16.2.25:
I decided to check out the lower canopies of all plants to see if I need to get rid of any foliage.
I did get rid of a few small branches and leaves.
However, whilst I was doing this, I saw more garden pegs from my LST remaining.
There were about 6 or more in Pink Mist alone. Additionally, on Watermelon, there were some left in, too.
I'm so annoyed to see that because the plants are really stretching, and I could've potentially disrupted this by leaving the pegs in for all this time without realising it.
🤞 that I haven't compromised things too much. We'll see.
I watered today with 2ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.3 containing the following nutrients;
♡ .8g Green Leaf Nutrients PK booster
♡ .5g Ecothrive Biosys
I ordered quite a few things for the garden. I got Greenleaf Nutrients Sea K(elp) and Mega Crop Parts A+B. To go with their PK Booster I got last month. I'm excited to try it all together. Next run, maybe just using these. We'll see how it goes.
18.2.25:
The plants are going crazy for water! Everything is getting used right up so fast!
Today, I decided to add some more Black Strap Molasses to add some carbs and other micronutrients. I'll add the jar with the label in the photos section above.
I watered a very small amount to each plant.
What I put in:
♡ Black strap molasses 150g
♡ 2g Sea K(elp) Greenleaf nutrients.
I dissolved everything in 4ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4.
19.2.25:
I received the majority of the garden purchases that I made. I'm still waiting for the Ecothrive Life Cycle. I wanted to top dress, but it's been delayed unfortunately.
I am using my Greenleaf nutrients products which I bought on Amazon. I got the Mega Crop 2 part system Part A and Part B. I have the Sea K(elp), and the bud explosion PK booster.
I really wanted to get some of their sweet candy asking read many positive reviews. Unfortunately, for me, this is unavailable to buy currently. So that's a little disappointing.
I needed to do a good watering so when my nutes were delivered today, I got excited 🤗
I watered 2ltrs of dechlorinated water per plant, PH'd to 6.4, containing the following nutrients:
♡ 1g Mega Crop Part A
♡ 1g Mega Crop Part B
♡ .5g Sea K(elp).
The plants drank this up within a few hours.
I'm going to try and hold off on watering in hopes that my Ecothrive Life Cycle will arrive so I can top dress and water it in then.
20.2.25:
My Ecothrive Life Cycle arrived yesterday, and the plants are ready for their top dress and a good watering in.
I have some Biobizz Light Mix, Canna Coco,and perlite. I'm going to use this as a base to mix my amendments in.
I'm going to fill my 5 gallon bucket with about 4.5 gallons of my top dress mix. I will distribute this across 6, 4-5 gallon pots. Then I will water in well with Greenleaf nutrients Mega Crop Parts A+B and Sea K(elp).
I've made a crude attempt to video mixing my top dress. Don't listen to the audio. lol, my YouTube didn't stop playing whilst I recorded this 😂
So anyway, I added the following amendments to the above base mix of 4.5 gallons;
♡ 3 TBSP Ecothrive Life Cycle
♡ 3 TBSP Vitalink Bat Guano
♡ 3 TBSP Ecothrive Charge
♡ 1 TBSP RHS Mycorrhizal Fungi granules
♡ 6 TBSP Ground Cinnamon.
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@Cannabeast40
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Welcome back to yet another short update☺️
Transplanted and filled with tender care and love 🤗 A bit colder temperatures then inside the veg tent , but I’m not worried at all🤩
Videos show the process, hope you enjoy 💯💚
See you next week🤩
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Light source:
Medicgrow SpectrumX
880W LED
Build in PPFD
4 controllable spectrums V1, F1, VS, FS
Visit https://medicgrow.com/ for more informaton.
Light measurement:
Apogee MQ-610 & Apogee DLI-600.
Fertiliser:
Organics Nutrients
https://www.organicsnutrients.com/en/
Green Buzz Nutrients
Discount Code: GD42025
Grants 25% with a minimum Order value at 75 Euro.
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@new2medicine
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4/7 Day 31 (AM) - Things have been going relatively well over the last several days, with the exception of the one plant that has been unhappy throughout the grow. I did some light pruning to remove brown/dying fan leaves from the struggling plant but have otherwise been focused on tucking leaves under future bud sites, and keeping an eye on the two that were topped late in week 4, both of which are sending out new shoots. All seem to want nutrients now. I've been very light-handed with the nutrients but started giving them small amounts at least every other watering. At week five it feels like a lot of things are on autopilot now, just normal maintenance like topping off the humidifier and occasionally poking my head in to check on things. Glad I didn't abandon the sickly plant. New growth looks healthy, and it just might pull through.
Update (4/8- Day 32 AM): Feeding was very well received by all plants. It's taking some getting used to. I tend to use very little in the way of fertilizer (have read too many horror stories). Still, these guys are showing signs of being hungry on a regular basis, and their daily uptake of water is considerably more than when I started. For the time being, I have been using about 50% of the recommended amount of FF Grow Big, close to a normal recommended amount of CalMag, and about 50% of the recommended amount of P-K (due to deficiencies noted in some leaf margins). I've been testing the runoff and it's coming out between 6.5-6.6 consistently. No signs of drooping or overwatering. Right now, they appear to be happy if watered about every other day, and they're taking on about 1/2 gallon each pretty consistently. Next time I'll probably use nothing but pH adjusted water, just to avoid nutrient build-up.
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@tsf_homegrow
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Die letzten Tage waren wir etwas aus der Spur. Sie hing etwas durch da ich nicht optimal gegossen hatte. Ich hab einen kleinen Teil der Wurzeln weiter frei gelegt und sie weiter und Form gehalten. Entscheiden das oben am Haupttrieb noch 4 weitere Seiten Trieben entstehen dürfen. Und dann wird es langsam auch Zeit sich Gedanken zu mache sie in die Blüte zu schicken. Aber ein paar Wochen darf sie noch wachsen. Happy growing💛✌️
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We've been a bit off track the last few days. She was drooping a little because I hadn't been watering her properly. I've exposed a small section of the roots and kept her in shape. I've decided to allow four more side shoots to develop at the top of the main stem. And then it will slowly be time to start thinking about putting her into flowering mode. But she can continue to grow for a few more weeks. Happy growing! 💛✌️
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@JKent19
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Swapped the plants this week as I realized I could use the 200w light to cover both the smaller plant and the lower canopy of the larger one more effectively. Hopefully this will allow sufficient light to cover more of the plants, as the lower canopy of the larger plant was 30 inches from the light! Now since I can lower the bigger light to accommodate the shorter plant, I can cover the left side of the bigger one, lowering the light to 23 inches, which is definitely better. The buds don't seem to be filling in quite as quickly this time but they are definitely making progress! I am guessing about another month, but who knows? I'm going to let them take their time and let me know when they're ready. Other than that was a pretty uneventful week, as I'm kind of coming into the final stretch I have stopped the lst and only trim the leaves that are blocking bud sites. They definitely appear more stressed than they have been, with a lot of bright purple stems connected to the leaves, but to me they look healthy enough to make it to the finish line!
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@KcKoolaidMan
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Hey hey! What’s up everyone pretty excited to start a new diary got a few new things going on so I’m pretty excited!!
I germinated four purple lemonade seeds directly in the substrate and one in a Peatpod. The other plant in a Peapod is a bubble gum that I am giving to a friend.
I made myself a 5 gallon bucket Deepwater culture system that I am growing the one plant in The Peatpod in. I am going to LST and trellis everything. I am running the cyco full like on both the hydro and soil plants but will only use grow xl on the soil plants.
Pretty excited about this run can’t wait to update this in a few weeks! Take care and stay safe friends!
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@TheBulldozerSicily
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Come si evince dalle foto le talee sono oramai diventate piccole piante e stanno crescendo molto bene e in salute, oggi dopo 14 giorni cambiamo la soluzione per raffrescare acqua e nutrienti!!!
Happy growing!!!
Venerdì 19/01/2024
Inizio controllo ec 1444 ph 6.5
Cambiamo l'acqua
Partiamo da 75 lt acqua demineralizzata, otteniamo ec 345 ph 7
Aggiungiamo
135 grow 90 micro 45 bloom
75 sensizym 75 calmag 75 rhino skin 75 nirvana 75 bud candy
Ottenendo ec 1602 ph 6.1
Ci aggiorniamo la prossima settimana 🥂
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@MrsGreen_98
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Since joining growdiaries I’ve seen that 420 Fastbuds are one of the (if not) the most notorious genetics on here.. so I’ve got my hands on some Fastberry seeds (which with the promotion I got one free!!) I’ve been very bored with the kind of weed I have been smoking recently the taste of the buds aren’t too great so I’m very excited to give this strain a try with the promise of berry flavoured weed!!! Happy growing!
Mon 8th March - after a few days of being in a damp paper towel stored in a dark warm place she’s popped a little tap root. I will leave until tomorrow then I’ll plant her directly into her final 3 gallon pot. 🍁
Tue 9th March -
Placed into her final pot gave her a little water and placed dome over her until she pops.
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@KcKush
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*Increased PPM from 650 to 750
*Transplanted into 5 gallon pots.
*Placed inside grow tent 5x5. Might start flowering tomorrow.
*Might take clones.
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@Nilkoz_
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Week 7 – Substrate Saturation & Major Recovery Flush
This week was noticeably tougher than the previous ones.
After showing strong development for several days, the plant suddenly slowed down and displayed clear signs of stress: halted growth, reduced leaf vigor, and poor nutrient absorption.
A quick diagnosis revealed the cause: an excessively high EC in the substrate, leading to a severe root lockout. ⚠️
Despite the difficult situation, the corrective intervention was heavy, precise, and absolutely necessary.
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🌧️ Major Blockage – Excessive EC in the Root Zone
The symptoms matched a classic salt buildup:
• stalled vertical and lateral growth
• leaves showing tension and mild droop
• delayed response to watering
• slightly uneven color
The conclusion was straightforward:
👉 The root zone was overloaded with mineral salts, preventing the plant from taking up nutrients and even basic moisture.
Without a fast and well-executed flush, things could have worsened quickly.
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💧 Intensive Flush — 18 Liters at pH 6.2 (No Nutrients)
To restore balance, you performed a deep, controlled flush:
• 18 liters of water
• pH calibrated to 6.2
• no nutrients added
This reset allowed you to:
✔️ remove a significant portion of the salt buildup
✔️ rehydrate and oxygenate the substrate
✔️ restore proper root metabolism
✔️ rebalance the soil’s pH
The final readings after the flush were excellent:
• Runoff PPM brought down to 900
• Substrate pH stabilized at 6.5
These values are completely safe and give the plant a clean base to recover from the lockout.
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🔄 Plant Response — Still Weak, but Improving
Although the plant hasn’t fully bounced back yet:
• leaf posture is slowly improving
• color is becoming more uniform
• the root zone is breathing again
• growth should restart within the next 48–72 hours
A slight delay after such a heavy flush is normal and expected.
The priority now is letting the plant recover at its own pace.
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Nutrients — Mandatory Pause
After such a deep reset:
• no nutrients were given
• the substrate must stabilize before feeding resumes
• the plant needs time to re-open nutrient pathways
Overfeeding too early could recreate the same EC issue. Patience is key.
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🌬️ Environment & Structure
Despite the setback:
• the structure remains solid
• the LST framework is still intact
• environmental conditions stayed stable
• no pests or diseases are present
The problem was strictly chemical (EC-related), not environmental.
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🌸 Next Step — Wait for Clear Signs of Recovery
Before training, shaping, or switching to 12/12:
👉 wait for visible new growth and fully opened leaves.
Once you see fresh, healthy movement, you can gently reintroduce nutrients at reduced strength.
Only then should you consider whether to extend veg or plan the flowering transition.
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🔥 Conclusion — A Difficult Week, But a Clean Save
Week 7 brought a serious challenge: a heavy nutrient lockout caused by excessive EC.
However, your response was fast, precise, and completely on point.
The 18 L flush at pH 6.2 successfully:
• cleared the excess salts
• stabilized the substrate
• restored a safe pH of 6.5
• brought the EC back to manageable levels
The plant is now on the path to recovery, and the worst has been avoided.
Next week should show clear progress.
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@Mr_Motalovah
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Hello growers and tokers! 👋 👩🌾 🧑🌾.🔥💨
As you can see these ladies are growing nicely.
They're both at the same height 59cm but one is wider than the other.
Quite nice so far. That's 12cm in one week same as the Royal Gorilla.
Evenly spread canopy, the one that had better shape from the start now has longer colas.
Both are stacking nodes nice and tight.
They have a nice green color to them but you can't really appreciate that in the pictures.
I'm still trying to get a hand of this new phone, I might just go back to the camera. 🤔
Starting to get a little shine to them, I think this strain will be the first in forming trichomes.
They give off a nice smell but I can't put my finger on it yet.
Feeding 1,5L each, every other day. Will be increasing as they ask for more.
How do they ask for more?
When feeding if the soil is drier than normal I give a 150-200ml increment of water.
I do that until they stop feeding so much then i just maintain that amount.
I start reducing if it takes longer to dry.
That works good for me. The old finger in the dirt trick. 👍
Nothing like knowing exactly what your ladies need first hand.
**Info and pictures were taken at day 12 of flower.**
Hope you enjoyed this week's update. Stay tuned for next week. 😃
If you like this check out the other diaries of the strains in the tent. 😄
Take care and stay safe!
One love!✌️🏽
