20/07/2020 - auto cinderella jack is exploding with new healthy growth. Peanut butter cookies looks to be getting too big for its starter pot. Auto critical cheese is lagging behind but was planted a couple of days after the rest as I was struggling to get the seed to pop

Día 69 (25/03) Su hermana Gorilla Cookies FF muestra una ligera necrosis... me preocupa... Día 70 (26/03) Necrosis en Gorilla Cookies muy avanzada en solo 2 días. Hablo con el gran @dogdoctorofficial y me hace ver que estoy regando mal... He dejado que se seque demasiado el sustrato! (como en la fase vegetativa) Y la Gorilla Cookies FF al ser la planta más grande y que más agua pide, está demasiado sedienta... Voy a modificar los patrones de riego para que el problema no persista en Gorilla Cookies FF ni aparezca en las otras plantas! Riego 0,5 Litro H20 sin nutrientes. TDS 225 PPMs - pH 6,6 Día 71 (27/03) Riego 1,25 Litro H20 + Wholly Base 3 ml/l + Solid Green 1,75 ml/l + Early Flower 0,75 ml/l + Big Bloom 1,5 ml/l de Gen1:11 TDS 1150 PPMs - pH 6,2 Día 72 (28/03) La necrosis en Gorilla Cookies FF se ha detenido 😁 y las flores siguen creciendo Observa alguna mancha de necrosis también en Wedding Cheesecake FF y decido a subir un poco la lámpara Ahora el PPFD en apical es de unos 830 PPFD Día 73 (29/03) Riego 0,5 Litro H20 sin nutrientes. TDS 225 PPMs - pH 6,6 Día 74 (30/03) Riego 1,25 Litro H20 + Wholly Base 3 ml/l + Solid Green 1,75 ml/l + Early Flower 0,75 ml/l + Big Bloom 1,5 ml/l de Gen1:11 TDS 1150 PPMs - pH 6,2 Día 75 (31/03) Detecto una ligera necrosis en Purple Lemonade FF y en Wedding Cheesecake FF. Voy a aumentar un poco la distancia de la lámpara para tener un DLI de 37, por si fuese estrés por luz. 💦Nutrients by Gen1:11 - www.genoneeleven.com 🌱Substrate PRO-MIX HP BACILLUS + MYCORRHIZAE - www.pthorticulture.com/en/products/pro-mix-hp-biostimulant-plus-mycorrhizae

June 29: looking good at the start of a new week. Hot again and risk of thunderstorms so the plants are up against the house tonight. Plant has reached lowest of three rungs on the tomato cage and I’m trying to get a few colas to go around on the outside. July 1: Happy Canada Day. Warm again today with a risk of thunderstorms. July 2: cool today (about 12 C high) so watered with 27 C water in morning to help keep things growing. Also topped fourth time to make the 16 cola manifold. This is the best way to shape photoperiod plants…all the work is up front and it produces nice uniform buds that are easy to process during harvest. Two stems on the piece that broke are healthy but smaller than the others. Should even out with time. Watered with full nutrient mix. July 5: looks good. I was gone for a couple of days after the last round of topping and just noticed today that I had done seven and had missed one which has now been dealt with.

🌿 Frosted Guava Auto by Zamnesia | Pheno A | Week 10 🦄 The Little Unicorn Keeps Shining Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! 🌿💚 Well... She's doing it again. Frosted Guava Pheno A continues to shine, and this week she's decided to add another little piece of personality to the story. She's foxtailing. 🦄🌿 And you know what? I don't mind it at all. Actually... I kind of like it. Because if there's one thing I've learned from growing different genetics together, it's that not every plant is going to write the same story. Some are uniform. Some are compact. Some build huge, dense flowers. Some stretch. Some do something completely unexpected. And sometimes... you get a little unicorn. 😂🦄💚 That's what I see when I look at this girl. She's beautiful. She's developing beautifully. She's carrying those incredibly deep greens. She's becoming increasingly frosty. She's moving deeper into maturity. And now she's adding some peculiar little floral growth to the equation. Honestly? Let's make this unicorn shine. 🌱 The 8×8 Adventure — Genetics Keep Talking For anyone discovering this diary for the first time, welcome to the 8×8 Adventure. The whole idea behind this project is simple: Put different genetics and phenotypes into the same general environment... and then watch what they decide to do. The plants share: 💡 The same lighting strategy 🌡️ The same environmental conditions 💧 The same general irrigation philosophy 🌱 The same nutritional program 🕛 The same 12/12-from-seed approach 🏠 The same growing room 👨‍🌾 The same grower And yet... they are all different. That's the part I love. Because when you remove as many variables as possible, the personalities of the plants become much easier to appreciate. And Frosted Guava Pheno A? She's definitely got personality. 🦄 Hello, Foxtailing So let's talk about the elephant in the room. Or perhaps... the unicorn. 😂 She's showing some foxtailing. And honestly, I'm perfectly happy to see it. Foxtailing isn't automatically something I consider a problem. Some genetics naturally produce those elongated, stacked floral structures. Environmental factors can also contribute in some situations, including excessive light intensity or heat. But looking at this plant, I'm not jumping to the conclusion that light stress is responsible. She's around 120 cm, so she's certainly not some enormous plant sitting directly against the lights. The overall plant looks healthy. The foliage looks strong. The flowers are developing. And she's simply showing a particular expression. So for now? I'm calling it what it is: Frosted Guava being Frosted Guava. And I kind of love it. 🍓 More Little "Fruits" for Me And yes... I'm going to say it. 😂 Those little foxtailing structures? To me, they're just more little "fruits" to enjoy later. I'm not bothered by them at all. If anything, they make the flowers look more interesting. More irregular. More individual. More peculiar. And I like peculiar. I like unique. I like plants that don't look like they came out of a factory. I like unicorns. 🦄🌿 Of course, foxtailing by itself doesn't guarantee more yield. But that's not really why I like it. I like the character it gives the flowers. And this girl has character. 🌿 Deep. Deep. Deep Green. Now... let's talk about that colour. Because wow. The lower leaves in particular are showing some deep, deep, deep, deep, deep green. 😂💚 I know. I'm repeating myself. But look at her. How am I supposed to describe that colour without repeating myself? She's GREEN. Beautifully, seriously, ridiculously green. And I love it. The foliage gives the plant an incredible visual depth, especially alongside the developing flowers. The contrast between the dark leaves and the increasingly frosty flower structures is absolutely beautiful. It's one of those plants where you can look at the photographs and immediately understand why I keep wanting to photograph her. She's got layers. She's got texture. She's got colour. She's got frost. And now... she's got little unicorn horns growing out of her flowers. 😂🦄 ❄️ The Frost Continues And underneath all that green? The frost continues to develop. The flowers are becoming increasingly mature in appearance, and the resin coverage is becoming more apparent as the plant moves further into the flowering cycle. This is where I really start enjoying the combination of photography and growing. At first glance: Beautiful flowering plant. Then you zoom in: Wait a minute... look at that. And then you zoom in again. More resin. More structure. More detail. More little floral formations. And suddenly you realize just how much is happening on a single flower. That's why I keep taking these photographs. The plant changes. The camera catches it. And week after week, we get another little piece of the story. 🌸 She's Moving Fast I also feel like Frosted Guava is moving quite quickly now. We're deep into flowering, and the flowers are clearly progressing toward a more advanced stage. The development is becoming more obvious. The structure is becoming more pronounced. The resin is increasing. And those little foxtailing formations are adding another layer to the flowers. She's not finished. There's still plenty of time left. But she's definitely heading somewhere. And I'm enjoying the journey. This is the part where you stop trying to predict every little thing and simply watch the plant mature. She's telling me where she's going. I'm just following along. 👑 Keeper Material? And here's another funny thought that crossed my mind this week. I'm not cloning these plants. I'm not keeping mother plants. I'm not building a keeper library from this run. That's not the purpose of this particular adventure. But... if I were looking for a keeper? I'd certainly be looking twice at this girl. 😂🦄🌿 Because she's got something. The colour. The structure. The flowers. The frost. And now this peculiar foxtailing expression. It's not necessarily about being the biggest plant. It's not about being the fastest. It's about having something that makes you stop and think: "That's interesting." And Frosted Guava has definitely achieved that. 🌿 No Need to Interfere The other thing I really appreciate about her right now is that she doesn't seem to be asking me for anything dramatic. She had her cleanup previously. She's got her space. She's got her nutrition. She's got her irrigation. She's got her light. And now? I'm letting her work. There's no reason to start changing things simply because she's doing something slightly unusual. If anything, this is exactly the moment when I want to observe rather than interfere. Because if the plant is healthy and developing well... why not let her show us what she's capable of? The foxtailing is part of her current expression. The deep green is part of her expression. The flower structure is part of her expression. And I'm here to document it. 💡 Let the Unicorn Eat Photons The lighting strategy remains consistent across the room. The Future of Grow Black Series LED continues providing the main overhead illumination, with Lumiflora contributing additional under-canopy lighting. The upper canopy is receiving strong light, but I'm not seeing enough here to confidently blame the foxtailing on light stress. And that's an important distinction. Just because a plant is foxtailing doesn't mean: "It must be the light." Sometimes it's genetics. Sometimes it's environmental. Sometimes it's a combination. Sometimes... it's simply what that particular plant likes to do. So rather than inventing an explanation, I'm watching. And right now? The unicorn appears happy. 😂🦄 💧 Still Providing, Still Watching The flowering nutrition remains consistent with the room's established program. 🌸 Terra Bloom — 2.2 ml/L 🌱 Power Buds — 1 ml/L ✨ Green Sensation — 1 ml/L 🍯 Sugar Royal — 1 ml/L ⚗️ pH adjustment — as required Current solution parameters remain around: ⚗️ pH: ~6.0 ⚡ EC: ~2.0 mS/cm Watering remains approximately: 💦 1.3 L per plant / 24h Nothing special. Nothing secret. Nothing specifically designed to create foxtails. We're simply providing what the room requires and allowing each phenotype to respond in its own way. And Frosted Guava? She's responding beautifully. 🌡️ Week 10 Conditions Current recorded conditions: 🌸 Flowering: Week 10 📏 Height: 120 cm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 🌡️ Day temperature: 29.9°C 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C 💧 Relative humidity: 60% ⚗️ pH: ~6.0 ⚡ EC: ~2.0 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature: 25°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: 26°C 🌬️ CO₂: 639 ppm ? Pot size: 15 L 💦 Watering: ~1.3 L per plant / 24h The room remains stable. The plant remains healthy. And the phenotype continues doing its own thing. Exactly what I want from this experiment. 📸 This Week's Gallery I absolutely love the visual personality of this week's gallery. You've got the wider shots showing the whole plant and its structure. Then the flowers. Then the close-ups. And that's where the story really becomes interesting. The deep green foliage. The developing flowers. The resin. The pistils. The increasingly mature structures. And then... those little foxtails. They give some of the flowers a slightly unusual appearance. And that's exactly what I like. They're not all perfectly symmetrical. They're not all identical. They're peculiar. They're unique. They're different. And I genuinely enjoy that. 🦄 I Like Unicorns Maybe that's the easiest way to explain it. I like unicorns. 😂🦄 I like finding the plant that does something a little different. The plant that makes you stop. The phenotype that gives you a feature you weren't necessarily expecting. That's one of the reasons phenotype hunting is so much fun. You can start with the same genetic name... and still end up with plants that express themselves completely differently. And sometimes one of them gives you something that makes you think: "If I were keeping clones, I'd probably want to keep an eye on you." Frosted Guava Pheno A is starting to feel like one of those plants. ✨ Still Shining But underneath all the talk about foxtailing, there is something much more important: She's beautiful. That's the headline. The foxtailing is simply part of the story. The plant remains lush. The colour is gorgeous. The flowers are developing. The resin continues to build. She's progressing toward maturity. And she's doing all of this without demanding constant attention. That's a pretty good combination in my book. She's not asking me to fix her. She's asking me to provide. So that's what we'll do. Provide. Observe. Photograph. Learn. And enjoy. 🔮 Looking Ahead Now I'm really curious to see how those flowers develop from here. Will the foxtailing continue? Will it become more pronounced? Will some flowers remain more compact while others continue stretching their floral structures? How much more resin will she develop? How much more will those beautiful flowers swell? And what will she look like when she finally decides she's finished? Those are the questions I want to answer. Not by guessing. By watching. Because that's the whole point of this adventure. We create the conditions. The plants provide the answers. And Frosted Guava is currently giving us some very interesting answers indeed. 💚 Final Thoughts — Let the Unicorn Shine Week 10. And Frosted Guava Pheno A continues to be one of those plants that makes me smile. She's beautiful. She's green. Actually... very, very green. 😂💚 She's frosty. She's developing beautifully. She's moving deeper into maturity. And yes... she's foxtailing. But I don't mind. Not every unusual characteristic needs to be treated as a problem. Some genetics naturally do it. Environmental factors can sometimes contribute. But I'm not seeing a reason to immediately blame the lighting here. So I'm going to do something much simpler. I'm going to appreciate it. Because it makes her flowers unique. It gives them character. And I like unique. I like peculiar. I like plants that surprise me. I like unicorns. 🦄💚 And even though I'm not keeping clones from this adventure... I have to admit: this girl looks like she would be keeper material. 😂 But that's not the mission. The mission is to watch. To document. To learn. And to let every phenotype tell its own story. Frosted Guava Pheno A is definitely telling hers. Deep green. Beautiful flowers. Increasing frost. A little foxtailing. A lot of personality. And absolutely no shortage of shine. So let's not change what doesn't need changing. Let's keep providing. Let's keep watching. And let's make this beautiful little unicorn shine. 🌿❄️🦄✨ 🙏 Thank You Another week. Another chapter. Another beautiful expression from the 8×8 Adventure. A huge thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers a place to document these journeys, compare phenotypes and learn from each other. Thank you to Zamnesia for the Frosted Guava genetics that gave us this fascinating girl. Thank you to Plagron for supporting the nutritional side of the adventure. Thank you to Future of Grow LED for the main lighting driving the room. Thank you to Lumiflora for bringing the under-canopy lighting dimension into the experiment. Thank you to TrolMaster for helping keep the environment stable behind the scenes. And, of course, thank you to everyone following along. For every comment. Every question. Every observation. Every person who comes back week after week to see what these plants are becoming. That's what makes documenting this adventure so enjoyable. And Frosted Guava? She's giving us another beautiful chapter. She's not perfect. She's not supposed to be. She's peculiar. She's unique. She's a little bit of a unicorn. And honestly... that's exactly why I like her. 🦄💚 The deep greens. The beautiful flowers. The frost. The foxtailing. The personality. The possibility. Even if I'm not keeping clones... she's definitely making me wonder what a keeper selection from this expression could look like. But for now... we provide. We observe. We photograph. And we let her shine. Let's make her shine! 🌿❄️🦄✨ Growers Love & Happy Growing! 💚🌱

This is week two of flowering. It looks happy and has stretched 👍🎃👌a lot

So iam into my 2nd week flower. Iv had a few problems but got over them. They are all but 1 about 55". But have a beast in the corner she's 4and half foot tall and looking amazing. On wards n upwards.

After another weekend spent away from home, on day 26 both Opiums present at 30 cm height, having grown big and bushy. Their thirst increased, I will water them when their next day starts. And do some more LST. Not too long until I can install the scrogging net. I am really impressed by their progress. They developed a lot of branching side branches and look really healthy and bushy. In contrast to what I wrote before, I think I can stay a few days longer with the current 80% 18/6 lighting scheme. Leaf positions do not show signs of light hunger, so no reason to change. Watered them with 1.5 l each on their 27th morning, this time adding some flower fertilisers too. Compensated their relief with some more LST. I can see in timelapse video they are tmelselves compensating this stress easily; it’s amazing to see how fast they turn their heads. You’ll see soon too. For reference: Pot diameter is approx. 25 cm. So lady #1 spreads about this much, lady #2 is even about 10 cm more. Guess they’ll make a very dense scrog surface, but first let’s have them have their stretch. Day 28 evening revealed ladies are getting thirstier. The holey pots might be helpful in root development, but they are not when it comes to keeping the tent clean. Because of their structure, water runs out in respectable quantities each time they are fed, which takes a long time to evaporate and adds to air humidity of course. Which on the other hand is currently quite ok. Outside air temperatures are around 30 °C the last days, so a bit more humidity helps to keep the VPD in range. Which is quite ok as I still cannot complain about their growth – around 2–3 cm each day currently. Grow video for day 28 (sorry about the interferences! Due to the control hard- & software being offline I cannot silence the blower(s) when a photo is taken anymore) shows steady growth and very vivid movements again. Dropping of their leaves around their evening is possibly due to me watering them again as soil was surprisingly dry already. On their day 29 evening, it’s clear to see how much they are stretching: They really gained 5 cm since yesterday! Lights are close to 30 cm, so I think I’ll reposition things a bit when their next week starts. Attached video shows the day’s progress. They say you cannot scrog an Automatic but seeing the development speed and bushiness I decided to give it a try nonetheless. I guess the buds can profit from being a bit more apart from each other if I handle to fiddle them through the holes in time. I rearranged the lights to be at about 45 cm apart from the tops and set the lights to 100% at a 16/8 lighting scheme, waking them up one hour later than before and sending them to sleep one hour earlier. Last day of this week, day 30, shows that growth speed has even increased. Lady 1 crosses the scrog net already which is positioned at 46 cm above soil. Gave them slightly enhanced water again, 2 l each.

Week 5 Apricot auto left 4 Strawberry Gorilla right 4

The plants grew well this week, as did all the clones. Any extra rooted clones have been planted outdoors as a further experiment. We moved all the clones into a Veg room. Even though the large room is not in flower and still also in veg, we had to separate the plants due to lack of space. Also setting up for mother, clones and SOG in the future. The plants were defoliated and training continued. There are 2 weeks of Veg left hoping to have some very large plants for flowering. Aiming for large flowers.

Allora....quinta settimana di vegetativa alcune piante mostrano dei segni di carenza date dal fatto che non c'erano i nutrimenti corretti, adesso che finalmente ho tutti i nutrimenti Giusti in teoria questi problemi dovrebbero scomparire, nelle prossime settimane vedremo come si evolverà la situazione, questa settimana le travaserò nel vaso finale poi farò ancora un paio di settimane di vegetativa e quando saranno pronte le metterò in fioritura.

Nov 29: They seem to be accelerating in veg growth but I see a small portion of the leaf on the smaller plant either grew in mutated or somthing cut it, I haven’t seen a single bug in the box so I don’t think it’s that but you never know, and the bigger plant has some issues near the base of its stem, I noticed it before I did the LST and now I’m wondering if I should have addressed that issue before starting the LST. Let me know what you guys think! Dec 2: Walked into the room and noticed a faint smell, wasn’t any smell last night when I started the LST on the slower girl. Further inspection showed some white pistols on the bigger girl, I believe she is the culprit for the smell as the other seems about a week behind. They are both now LST‘d and leaf tucked. Enjoy the pics and vid’s! Dec 6: I have tied down some of the longer chutes on the bigger plant (will see in week 5 update) to create more airflow and light penetration as I didn’t even realize how bushy the stem and node sections had gotten. I have also cut the chutes coming off the first true leaf. I don’t think I will make any cuts to the smaller one as it’s already a slower growing pheno. Going on a trip starting the end of week secede to late week 8, so I have a automatic feeder coming from Amazon, and I will continue using it through flower to reduce open tent time.

Lowered the light a little to 50cm. The humidifier works pretty good. In combination with the hygrostat, the humidity ist conctant between 68 and 70%. Added 2ml/l alga grow and 1ml/l of power roots. Watered only once until now

Empezamos la semana 3 de crecimiento desde que brotaron sus primeros cotiledones, su crecimiento es explosivo!! Pronto empezaremos hacer cortes apicales para empezar a entrenar y luego poner el Scrogg!!!!

The final Week, before harvest! She has some massive towering buds! 2.5 gallons of water is lasting this plant 5-6 days before drying out, and ready for more.. She was harvested instead of being watered!

WEEK 16 - (06/13/2021 - 06/19/2021) Week 8, Day 50 - FLOWER: 06/13/2021 After inspecting the trichome development for the last 7-10 days or so, I’ve decided that today would be the ideal time to begin flushing. The American Pie #1 does not look like it’s ready to begin flushing quite yet, as she appears to be about a week behind in maturity. Despite that, I’ll still begin flushing her today too. Recycled water: 70ppm, 69℉ + pH Up: 7ml Mixture: 95ppm, 6.4 pH, 69℉ ppm/ppm = runoff/soil JB#1 - 895/800, 6.1 pH AP#1 - 529/434, 6.5 pH AP#2 - 365/270, 6.7 pH GC#1 - 624/529, 6.3 pH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 8, Day 51 - FLOWER: 06/14/2021 Did a trichome check on the plants today. Spent more time with the Jelly Banana to better determine her maturity level. She actually looks like she is ready to harvest today. I’d say trichomes are 75-80% milky, with an amber trichome here and there. I’m going to try and push her through at least one more low-ppm watering and test the runoff. If I start seeing more amber trichome development, I will cut her down. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Week 8, Day 54 - FLOWER: 06/17/2021 Recycled water (8 gallons): 69ppm, 5.8 pH, 70℉ + HydroGuard: 8ml + pH Up: 3ml Mixture: 82ppm, 6.0 pH, 70℉ ppm/ppm = runoff/soil JB#1 - 688/606, 6.5 pH GC#1 - 602/520, 6.5 pH AP#2 - 633/551, 6.9 pH AP#1 - 685/603, 6.5 pH -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [SUMMARY] I expect this to be my last full week of flower. All the girls are looking ripe for the chopping. The aroma that bursts out of the tent when I unzip it every time is heavenly. American Pie #1 is still about a week behind in maturity, but she will get cut down with the other plants regardless. Jelly Bananen started to turn a lime green color so she'll probably get chopped and hung up in the next few days when my second tent arrives (4x2 AC Infinity). That wraps up this week! See you ladies and gentleman in the next entry. 🙏

25/07/19#7 week of flowering

Getting ready to flip to flower in a week or two with some trellis work. I should've shaved the legs of these ladies but I was unprepared for clones this week so I'll probably shave them this weekend. I'm happy with the results thus far. 🎋🌲🍃