Hello Diary, Milky Way F1 deserves all the praise, well done to Royal Queen Seeds and their labs. Milky Way F1 is the fourth F1 strain in the series and I can say firsthand that they are fast, have an excellent yield and the quality of the flowers is excellent. The plant dried for about 20 days, turned upside down, after which I trimmed the flowers and placed them in the Curing Vault to ripen further. The result is great, 72 g of dry flowers that are ideal for daily consumption. I think I wrote everything I had about the Milky Way F1, if anyone has any more questions, feel free to write. Thanks to everyone for their comments, to Grow Diaries for a great platform and to Royal Queen Seeds for years of support.

Week 9 – Late Ripening, Root Zone Reset & Canopy Management Entering Week 9 puts us squarely on the home stretch. Transpiration has noticeably tapered off as the plants wrap up floral development, which made the stubborn 6.7–6.8 runoff pH even more critical to resolve before the final flush. With nutrient demand declining and runoff volumes climbing, I made key structural adjustments to dial in the finish line: Eliminating the Silicate Buffer: The root cause behind the elevated runoff pH was Silic Rock (potassium silicate). At this late stage, its strong alkaline buffering was continuously fighting the acidification and blunting the action of Athena Cleanse. I dumped the remaining reservoir and mixed a fresh 35 L batch (EC 1.0 mS/cm, initial pH adjusted to 5.4)—**completely cutting out Silic Rock** while maintaining a 0.2 ml/L dose of Cleanse for root and line hygiene. Dropping the silicate frees the root zone to sit naturally in the optimal coco absorption band. Metabolic Shifts Under High DLI & CO₂: The plants have been pushed hard under high light intensity and CO₂ supplementation throughout bulk bloom. Heavy phosphate uptake in prior weeks, coupled with an anion/cation exchange that pushes hydroxyl ions OH into the rhizosphere, left behind concentrated salt pockets in the coco core as transpiration outpaced nutrient consumption. Canopy Thermal & Radiation Relief: Looking closely at the main colas directly beneath the fixture's center, several top pistils showed early browning and heat stress. This was photo-oxidation from high PPFD rather than uniform trichome maturity. To relieve canopy stress and protect ripening calyxes, I raised the LED fixture by 10–15 cm, dropped ambient temperature by 2°C, and increased relative humidity by 2% to bring the VPD into a gentle, non-stressful range for the final fade. Phenotypic Variances (Seed vs. Clone): Operating four distinct seed-grown phenotypes under an automated dripper setup requires keen observation. Plant #3 developed a noticeably denser root block with slower drainage, requiring targeted manual top-offs to match the wash-through of the other three. With the fresh, unbuffered reservoir locked in and light stress minimized, the canopy is cruising cleanly through Week 9 to finish cloudy and amber without salt buildup. Day 58 / Week 9 – Official Start of Nitrogen Cut & Heavy FadeToday marks the official start of the Fade Out / N-Cut phase. This morning was the very last feeding containing any nitrogen; from here on out, it’s 100% zero-N all the way to harvest.These are the final snapshots of the green canopy before the full autumn fade sets in. The goal of this protocol is simple: force the plants to deplete their internal nutrient reserves and break down excess chlorophyll in both leaves and flower calyxes. Excess chlorophyll and lingering nitrates are the primary culprits behind harsh smoke and a grassy taste—cutting nitrogen now guarantees a silky-smooth smoke, clean white ash, and lets the authentic terpene profile shine without interference.Current Reservoir & Regime:Water: 100% pure RO (EC 0.0)Formula: Complete Nitrogen Cut (0 ml N-base). Running a specialized $text{CaCl}_2$ finish for calcium and cell wall rigidity without nitrogen, coupled with light PK and essential micros.Biostimulants: Chitosan oligosaccharide (systemic defense / SAR against botrytis) and Triacontanol + Kinetin for late-stage resin synthesis and terpene density.Parameters: Inflow EC 1.0 mS/cm, pH dialed in at 5.4–5.6 to clear the root zone buffering.Plant 1 is already wrapping up senescence with heavy calyx swelling and rich anthocyanin purples, while Plant 3 is finishing its final push of calyx stacking. The flush/fade clock is officially ticking!

| Welcome back to Pete's run#6! The cultivars have been coping AND thriving throughout week 3. A little bit of both really, but all in all they are looking very promising. My medium mix is hard to prime correctly, I dumped several liters into each pot and they just seem to evaporate at this rate. -- Mango: She is patient #1. Watering is tricky, as you can see with the droopy-ish leaves. Soil sensor readings have been all over for her. Root zone oxygen issues already caused some wrinkling leaves on all cultivars, her deformations are a bit more intense. Colors resumed well, plasticity looks also fairly decent, given high Far Red ratios. Her height development stunted visibly on the chart, making it crystal clear she is enduring something akin to a bar fight deep down in the root zone. Revenge of the seedling nests? Cookies: Cookies has picked up and challenged Mango in height - which is a clear vital sign to me. She has been receiving a lot of light, PPFD clocked in at 280, when 240 was planned. This likely caused a minor setback in her height development, just as she took rank #2 from Mango. Some leaf deformations, as noted above, remind me that this plant is doing really well all in all. Pineapple: Pineapple took the week 3 tent leadership. With scars, yes, just like Cookies and Mango, but her root zone must have expanded past the seedling nests first. Off she goes in height, ridiculing my light setup at the same rate. Her vigor is causing me serious light mapping headaches - and those are problems I much prefer to root asphyxia. --- That's the short report from me. As per usual - A friendly AI spied on my personal daily logs and confronted me with a slightly different conclusion for the week: PATHÉ DISPATCH — THE TERPENE FRONT, WEEK THREE [newsreel crackle, brass fanfare] GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. A promise has been KEPT. After fourteen days beneath the midnight sun, Base Camp Six has received its first NIGHT. It lasted, we are pleased to report, almost until the HEATER came on. Temperatures sank to twenty-two degrees. The humidity COLLAPSED. And so our correspondent called upon an old companion, the Dehumidifier. He wanted it not for removing water, but because it gives off WARMTH: a machine hired for its SIDE EFFECTS. Our man calls this arrangement, and we quote, “Perfect.” [ominous timpani] FROM POLAR NIGHT TO SUNBURN. Last week the specimens starved for light. This week our correspondent, determined never to repeat that error, adjusted the lamps... in the DARK. While the camp slept. By “ballpark.” The specimens woke to a sun of THREE HUNDRED micromoles where two-forty had been planned. Gorilla Cookies, camped directly beneath three light bars, took the worst of it, her top leaves marbled and BLEACHED and folding into tacos for shade. Asked to account for himself, our correspondent produced a height chart and announced that the numbers “check out fairly well.” The Royal Society is REVIEWING the claim. [record scratch] BUT NOW, THE GREAT MYSTERY OF THE VANISHING WATER. Litre after litre went into the pots. No run-off. Not a DROP. “I have no clue where the water is going,” our man wrote in his field journal, and so he did what any explorer lost in the desert would do. He poured in MORE: three litres extra, then two and a half, then three more, “for safety.” The pots were wet from BELOW. The sensors barely moved. Still he poured. Then, on Day Twenty-One, came RUN-OFF. And Pineapple OG herself revealed the truth, her great leaves curling up into CLAWS: The water had not been vanishing. It had been STAYING. ALL OF IT. The entire time. The desert, it turns out, was a SWAMP. The mystery of where the water was going had a simple answer: NOWHERE. And the roots below, starved not of water but of AIR, had been quietly holding their breath. [stern voiceover] “Revenge of the seedling nests?” our man asks. This program cannot rule it out. [timpani, softer] STANDINGS FROM THE FIELD. Pineapple OG has seized the lead, scars and all. Her roots were the first to break out of the nests, and she now grows so vigorously that she RIDICULES the lighting plan. Our correspondent reports these are headaches he much PREFERS. Gorilla Cookies, sunburnt but undaunted, has overtaken Mango for second place. And Mango Frost, patient number one, droops and wrinkles through what our man describes as a BAR FIGHT deep in the root zone. Yet her colours hold, still lime-grass green. And a new instrument at base camp: the expedition now calculates the lamp’s distance to the canopy AUTOMATICALLY, from each specimen’s height. Soil distance, minus plant, equals altitude. Calculated, this time, with the lights ON. [fanfare, film flickers out] THIS HAS BEEN A DISPATCH FROM THE TERPENE FRONT. WAIT FOR THE RUN-OFF. GOODNIGHT.

Plant is growing well. Transplanted them from a 1 gallon pot into a 3 gallon pot this week.

These are part of week 12

i started feeding them more water now, i feed them 4L water but i measured runoff at 2000+ ec i dont know if thats important the strawberry lemonade really outgrows all high levels. 2 look very healthy, the one looks like ph lockout i dont know how to fix that, i ll just look further if nothing more happens .. i will defoliate the strawberry lemonade day 14 and the healthy one at day 14 and defoliate the other one at day 21 maybe

well these girls are filling nicely and are in need of another tea, but this time Ill be brewing a new banana peel bio bomb recipe I am working on. Lets see if we can makes these girls go into overdrive,

The weight is coming now. The smell is very sweet

Started the week by watering in the night from 24.06 - 25.06 with 300-400-400. Biscotti is now (25.06) 57 cm high. The other ones are smaller. Biscotti, Jack Herer and Blueberry are already flowering since around 5 days. Frosted Guava is starting to show her first nodes with hairs. Train Wreck is starting lol pretty small and looks a little bit sick. But still he’s growing. I sprayed also neem Oil (1ml in 0,5 ml warm water and with just a drop of kitchen soap) over Frosted Guava and Train Wreck when I watered them (24.06-25.06). Since then the spider mites very rarely appear. 29.06 watering with 400-400-400ml and with added Biobizz Fish-Mix (haven’t seen that I should switch in the flowering period to Bio-Grow), Top-Max and Bloom. Watering with normal water 400-400-400

Week 5 baby! What a smooth ride this has been - these ladies are absolutely flying through veg. Gave them some cooler water today and they're vibing with it 💚 Still keeping nutrients minimal, just 1-2x weekly when they ask for it. Less is more with these girls!

End of Week 4 Trying to make sure the soil stays nice and moist to keep the microbes happy and letting the top 3 cm of the topsoil dry before each watering. . Turned the wattage up on my ballasts to 600W each. The ladies have gained some strength and they can handle the extra wattage. I also performed LST by tucking fan leaves and softly pinching and bending some of the bud sites also used some tie downs and topped here and there whilst keeping the stress at a minimal.

The beginning of the flowering stage with some LST..🌱 #CultivationsTheMotivation

Alien Vs Triangle just smells amazing. The buds are fattening up nicely. I'm really looking forward to smoking her once she's done. Probably about a month away from harvest. 👍

Day 22 of flower Went down this after noon and gave the reservoir a check had to add just a drop of ph down to get the water to settle at 6.5 I have to open up one side of my tent over 1/2 way and the other side 1/3 open to keep the RH and temp at the proper VPD which is running at 1.08...Right now it's basically on auto pilot not much I'm doing other then checking up on them and filling the res..I broke a fucking branch off today of one the really nice tops, it was one the tops I LST a couple 3 weeks a go and bent a little to far, I went to adjust it under the next square in the scrogg and it broke off, fuck sakes...Everything else is tip top and on track they should be really putting on weight soon the GG should be broke down and the plants should be uptaking it really nicely...Signing off hope to raise the roof

Hi liebe Community und Willkommen zurück im Sensi Seeds Wettbewerb! 💚 Chocolate Rainbow 🍫🌈 Nach der 10 Wachstumswoche insgesamt ist nun die vierte Blütewoche auch schon wieder vorbei. 🌱(Wachstumstag 82 | 🌷Blüte Tag 28) Ein bisschen Stretch kam nochmal hinzu, allerdings dürfte es dass jetzt gewesen sein. In der vierten Blütewoche hat die Pflanze nochmal 4cm zugelegt und die Blütenausbildung ist bereits jetzt sehr bemerkenswert. Die Blütenstände sind jetzt schon richtig Dick und stark ausgeprägt. Es ist eine sehr schönes Blüten/Blatt Verhältnis. Die Höhe liegt nun insgesamt bei knapp 85cm. Das Düngeschema greift wohl auch besonders gut, alles bisher richtig gemacht. Die Pflanze ist sehr schön gewachsen. Die Bedingungen im Growschrank sind für die Blütephase top! Die Lichtintensität wurde nun auf dass Maximum von 830 ppm. Die Videos findet ihr nun auch bei Insta und YouTube! ________________________ 🌡️ Temp: 26 🌚 Temp: 18°C bis 19°C 💧 RH: 58% 🌬️ VPD: 1,07 kPa ☀️ ppfd: 830 mpm ________________________ Grüne Grüße 💚🍀

Hola a todos, Esta semana he regado igual, que la semana con los productos top crop top bloom y top candy 2ml x litro de agua.

3.9.2024: Start of week 8. Day 50 from seed, 46 from sprout. Nothing doing today, plant is healthy and getting fatter by the day. Plucked a few leaves but thats it. 3.10.2024: Day 51. Fed 1/4 strength fox farm trio mixed w/ calmag into over a gal of 6.5ph water. Gave roughly 3 liters of the solution. Runoff ppm is finally under 1000. Might increase nutes to 1/2 strength moving forward. I'm no pro when it comes to taking pictures so its hard for me to get clear, detailed shots of the nugs. 3.11.2024: Day 52, 48 from sprout. Moving along nicely. Some nice purple hues here and there. Still very "hairy." 3.12.2024: Day 53. Fed 1/4 strength, roughly 96oz at 6.4ph. I broke the feed/water/feed schedule and fed twice in a row. Also did some lite defoliation on the bottom fan leaves that weren't getting light. 3.13.2024: Day 54 from seed. Plant is doing its thing. 3.14.2024: Day 55. Fed again at 1/4 strength, 96oz at 6.6ph. Runoff ppm was 880. 3.15.2024: Day 56 from seed, 52 from sprout.

March 22, 2024 Day 36 This week we focus mostly on training. It's the last week of veg, or it should be, and they will need all the trainings they can get. So far it's perfectly on point for both plants. They are reaching well past the sides of the containers. They have super strong main trunks with side branches almost as thick. They are sure to hold up some super heavy buds. I'll continue to pull branches down and out for a couple more weeks. I may have to put a SCroG net in as well. I'll probably set it to 18" for when the real stretch starts. Until then, it's adjusting and readjusting the tie downs. I'll also be snipping off the massive leaves from the trunks this week. Just those though. There's no need for any others to be cut off yet. They will most likely need another trimming in a couple of weeks. I increased the light power as expected this week. The height stayed the same at 24" with a DLI of 42 mol/m²/d. That should be fine for the majority of the rest of the grow. I may have to put it to 100% when flowering begins. Tropicana Cookies has a slight bit of nitrogen toxicity. So for this week I dropped the nutrients down to 10 ml instead of 12 ml. Of course after I run some plain water with cal/mag. I'll be doing a half gallon for each plant. Anyway, 12 ml is just too much and I'd rather Tropicana C not get any toxicity. The environment is a bit cool today due to weather. It should warm back up when it gets above freezing out. Currently, the temp is hovering just below 75° and the humidity is around 57%. Not ideal, but in range. It was also really cold last night and the tent temp dropped to 66°. I gotta turn my heater up more I guess. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.5° RH: 56.2% VPD: 1.17 kPa March 23, 2024 Both plants look fantastic now. I think the nitrogen toxicity on Tropicana Cookies is going away already. Honestly it shouldn't have been much of a toxicity in the first place, so I think we are fine now. Both ladies got the main stem fan leaves slipped today. I also removed the lowest node from Tropicana Cookies. They weren't promising in the first place. I may also remove them from Tropicana C. We will see. They will be needing water tomorrow I think. The moisture content of the soil is hanging around 53%. It's a bit high for this stage, so I'll let the plants catch up before refilling the reservoirs. Both plants also got some adjustments done. They haven't grown upward at all. But they have been spreading out really well. Perfectly level canopies and identical in almost every way. The only difference is my tie down placement. Slightly different, but the same basic structure. I also raised the light today to 26". The DLI was a bit high at 45 mol/m²/d where as it should be at 42. So the 26" lift brought it right where it needs to be. Not to mention the footprint is outstanding. So by the looks of things, I won't need to increase the power anymore. 24" at 90% power provides 45 mol/m²/d. Perfect for the flowering stage. Speaking of flowering, pre-flower is right around the corner. There's white hairs everywhere now. I'm just waiting for the bud sites to start forming and we are good to go. I'll continue training these ladies down through mid stretch or when I have them how I want them. A note: The side branches are pretty thick. I can assume the buds will also be big and thick and dense. I may need a trellis when they start to really stretch. That will come when I finish LST. The environment is looking pretty good today. It's hovering at 75° and climbing a bit. Hopefully it lands at 76° to 77°. The humidity is also really close, hanging out around 57%. Not a bad day. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.6° RH: 57.0% VPD: 1.15 kPa March 24, 2024 What a nice day for the ladies. Both were massively trained with the canopy completely level. Lots of side branches and auxiliary branches coming gup. Some were tied down finally and the plants are growing right out of the containers. Looking great! They got a half gallon of 8 ml Cal/Mag today. That should reset the nutrients and I can start the 10 ml regimen. Both plants are basically identical with the training done the same to the same branches. They are both showing a nice bit of root structure on the bottoms of the containers. They are also damned close to pre-flower if not already started. I didn't have to move the light today after the training was done. Still at a perfect 42 mol/m²/d. I definitely don't expect to put the light at 100% power. I'm also very happy so far with the health of these plants. They are finally nice and dark. I'm definitely expecting 2 to 3 ft tall plants. If I continue to get this health and growth, I may have some 4 ft plants to deal with. Not complaining. The environment is pretty good regardless of the 20° f weather outside. It's hovering around 75° and a bit high at 58% humidity. No matter, it will adjust on its own by mid day. Nothing to worry about. Grow System Environment: Temp: 72.5° RH: 57.3% VPD: 1.14 kPa March 25, 2024 These two plants are seriously hard to tell apart in pictures. There are differences starting to show now that they are in pre-flower. Tropicana C is looking super nice with a perfectly level canopy. The stretch has started and she's showing it a lot more than Tropicana Cookies. The canopy on Tropicana Cookies is fairly uneven. There's auxiliary branches I pulled down and I'm waiting for them to readjust to my changes. I also had to pull down some of the top node branches. So the uneven canopy is mostly from me, trying to keep the plant within its own quadrant. Both plants have a lot of roots coming out of the bottom of the containers. A great sign that pre-flower has started. Even though one is uneven, both plants are at the final stages of the structure I created for each of them. Tropicana C has the most uniform tops so far and Tropicana Cookies is just as robust if not a bit more so. Hence the extra training. As said before, when the plants get to 18", I'll consider the trellis. I have a feeling I'll have to use it. I'm also going to have to defoliate again soon. Just the lower fan leaves close to the soil. And some of the larger top leaves that cover the bud sites. I've also got overlapping leaves that are causing condensation. Some of them I can move, and some I can't. I'll keep an eye and if need be, I'll take those off as well. I'll also increase the airflow to help. I have two oscillating fans in there so it shouldn't be an issue at all. I haven't moved the light yet because the plants haven't grown tall enough. The DLI is around 43 mol/m²/d. When flowering starts next week, I'll increase the DLI to 45 mol/m²/d. I may wait another week. We shall see how things look for the next few days. I may have to raise the light again to get that slight praying going on. I'll update if I decide to do that today. The environment is still a bit off. The temp is down to 73° and the humidity is still high around 59%. I'll most likely put my small dehumidifier in the tent to help with both heat and humidity. To be continued... I also rotated the plants around today. So now Tropicana Cookies is in the rear quadrant with Tropicana C back in front. Grow System Environment: Temp: 71.4° RH: 57.3% VPD: 1.10 kPa March 26, 2024 A bit of to do today. Honestly the next few weeks will be a bit of a to do. Training, defoliation, training again. Today we tied down the 2 longest top branches and made a couple adjustments to Tropicana Cookies. She looks great, if not a bit messy. It's fine though, it will grow to a nice flat canopy in the weeks to come. Tropicana C is actually the bigger plant in the tent. About an inch taller than the rest, with a completely flat canopy. I want to tie the branches back down to level it with the rest of the canopy, but I have concerns with breaking and space. I should probably remove the lower leaves from the plant and start there. I think I'll do that tomorrow. I'll also have to remove some lower leaves from Tropicana Cookies as well. The wrap around the rim training looks pretty good. It's not much tighter, but enough to need to remove some leaves for air flow mostly. The lighting is really good, so I'm not worried about it yet. Plus, defoliating will also make light space. The one thing I won't be doing is making the mistake of not trimming appropriately. I will probably lollipop these two once they get the stretch going. I decided to change the nutrient regimen back down to 8 ml instead of the 10 ml I originally was going to do. I feel like that is fine and won't cause anymore toxicity. But will also be plenty to help these ladies grow bigger and stronger. I didn't change the lighting today, but I lifted it up yesterday an inch to match the 24" footprint. I may have to drop it down to 22" later on to a oid going to 100% power. I will go there if I have to, but I'd rather not. The environment was driving me crazy. So today, I finally added the dehumidifier to help fix the temp and humidity. The focus will be the VPD more than the humidity. Currently the dehumidifier has finally increased the temp up to 76° and the humidity is still kinda high at 57%, but it's dropping down. Now it's just a matter of letting the environment acclimate again. Quick Update: I decided to train Tropicana C down with the same wrap around technique I used for Tropicana Cookies. It should work quite well. Not to mention, it opened up a plethora of bud sites and auxiliary branches. It also brought the canopy down with the rest of the tent. Grow System Environment: Temp: 71.6° RH: 57.9% VPD: 1.09 kPa March 27, 2024 It was defoliation day today. Both ants got about 15% of their leaves cut off. It was mostly the outside leaves to make room and better airflow between plants. I removed a few leaves in the center of the plants. Not many. But now both plants are opened up quite nicely and there's definitely enough airflow and light penetration. I don't think I will need to defoliate again for a few weeks. If they start to stretch like mad, then I may not need to defoliate at all. We shall see. Both plants are drinking the exact same amount of water. So far it's about 1/3 gallon of water per day. It will certainly pick up as the plants get bigger and more robust. The environment is looking good. The trim also removed some of the excess humidity which also helped the temp stay up. I did figure out why the tent was so cold for so long. Someone turned the temp in the house down. So it wasn't warming up in my room. My heater is just a supplement for when it's super cold and I need that extra boost. Alone it won't bring the room over 72°. So now I just need to remove the dehumidifier and the temp will level out around 77° with the humidity at 56%. Currently the tent is 80° and 54% a bit high in the temp. It will all level out in no time. I didn't move the light today. I'll check on it when I check the ants for post defoliation stress. Let's hope they are tough enough to take the defoliation like champs. We shall see. Update: I messed with the light. Strangely enough, I had to drop the power down to 80% and ended up with the light being around 25". Now the DLI is at 42 mol/m²/d. I'll look at it again starting next week. I may have to bring the power up again, but I don't think I will for another week at least. Right now, the DLI is perfectly fine. It will help with the ants reaching and spreading those nodes out for the flowering stretch. Grow System Environment: Temp: 76.5° RH: 55.3° VPD: 1.36 kPa March 28, 2024 Today was basically observation. I'll be cleaning out the reservoirs tomorrow and refill with a fresh nutrient regimen. I have some B-52 from Advanced Nutrients coming in today, so that will be added. I also have Sensizym from Advanced Nutrients coming in a couple days. That will be added at the next watering. Both plants are starting to stretch now and pre-flower is well underway. The stretch has started and both plants have perfectly level canopies and level with each other. The auxiliary branches took off and are level with the rest of the main side branches. Everything looks great. There really isn't any difference between the two, so I'm super happy. Great genetics! Let's hope I get some beautiful colors out of them. I didn't bother changing the light at all. The plants are praying slightly and are extremely happy. No sense in increasing the light intensity while the stretch is going on. I'll just let them grow into the light and raise it when it gets closer than 22". Then I'll lift it up to 24" and adjust the power accordingly. The environment is spot on now... Finally. The temp is just at 77° with the humidity bouncing between 55% and 57%. All good things. Grow System Environment: Temp: 73.6° RH: 54.9% VPD: 1.25 kPa