04/03/2020 Day 28 of flowering first pistils are fading and tons of new pistils popping up everywhere! Whew! Got a couple nice pics this week, getting a faint scent of tangie and berries Mmmm! Leaves are getting pretty frosty

The weather's not very rainy and there's not much heat, some caterpillars have eaten the lower leaves a little, but it's fine.

I’ll start by saying I’m NOT using both bud blood and bud ignitor in one solution, I am using bud blood on the rear tropicanna poison plant and bud ignitor on the front one to test the outcome of them individually to see the best results! I tied down and defoliated twice in the week and have switched to 12-12 yesterday so they’re transitioning now and should be in bloom by week 7! I made some extract them made some gummies successfully I might add and added the photos in the diary!

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The buds are rockhard and very frosty i never had a haze flower like that

Day 54. Im about 3 or 4 days away from a 1 week flush and then a 48hr no water. Prior to harvest. Buds are very nice and dense and the smell has really increased.

So I finally got myself a EC meter and I'm thankful sice I was watering with a very high EC (3.2) and I've been lowering it down up to 1.6, and also I've watering them every day with plenty of runoff. Hopefully everything with run smother now!

What a mission, finally I am at the end of my four cycle, she’s my last plant to be harvested, sadly she lost 60% of her bud, her main stem and a lot of brunches snapped 😭😭😭😭😭😭 off during heavy rains, I cannot believe it, it has been four months last I posted, 😂😂😂😂, I so sorry, rest assured she reached harvest and there is proof, what a journey… so many times I wanted to give up and uproot her, but look at her now, she’s the most potent strain in the 4th cycle, and trumps everyone with aroma, taste and high. Cannot wait to do it again, this time with mOre maturity and care. She gave me 63grams, though the scale says 67, the plastic I weighs 3 grams.

🌿 Woche 16 – Mentha de Croco 🇩🇪 Die beiden Mentha de Croco entwickeln sich weiterhin fantastisch! 💚 Die linke Pflanze hat inzwischen etwa 180 cm, die rechte beeindruckende 193 cm erreicht 🌱. Beide sehen wunderschön aus und wachsen weiterhin extrem säulenförmig nach oben – echte Wolkenkratzer im Garten! 🚀 Leider gab es gestern ein schweres Unwetter mit starken Windböen 🌩️🌬️. Dabei sind beide Pflanzen umgekippt. Durch ihre hohe, schlanke Wuchsform sind sie einfach etwas anfälliger für solche Wetterlagen. Ein schwererer Topf als die 30 Liter hätte hier sicherlich für mehr Standfestigkeit gesorgt. Zum Glück ist der Schaden überschaubar geblieben. 🙏 Lediglich einige Blätter sind abgebrochen, ansonsten haben beide Pflanzen das Unwetter erstaunlich gut überstanden und wirken weiterhin kerngesund. 💚 Beim Wiederaufstellen konnte ich außerdem sehen, dass die Wurzeln den Topfboden bereits vollständig durchwurzelt haben – ein gutes Zeichen für ein kräftiges Wurzelsystem. 🌱 Morgen gibt es wieder einen frisch angesetzten Komposttee, um das Bodenleben weiter zu fördern und die Pflanzen für die nächste Wachstumsphase optimal zu unterstützen. 🍵 Ich bin gespannt, wann die erste Pflanze die 2-Meter-Marke knackt! 🌿📈 🌿 Week 16 – Mentha de Croco 🇬🇧 Both Mentha de Croco plants continue to perform beautifully! 💚 The left plant has now reached approximately 180 cm, while the right one is an impressive 193 cm tall 🌱. They both look absolutely stunning and keep growing in a very upright, column-like shape—true skyscrapers in the garden! 🚀 Unfortunately, a severe thunderstorm with strong winds hit yesterday 🌩️🌬️, causing both plants to tip over. Their tall, narrow structure makes them naturally more vulnerable to these conditions. A heavier container than the current 30-liter pots would definitely have provided better stability. Fortunately, the damage was minimal. 🙏 Only a few leaves broke off, and overall both plants came through the storm remarkably well and still look incredibly healthy. 💚 While standing them back up, I also noticed that the roots have already fully colonized the bottom of the pots—a great sign of a strong and healthy root system. 🌱 Tomorrow they’ll receive another freshly brewed compost tea to further support the soil biology and keep them thriving. 🍵 Now it’s only a matter of time before the first plant breaks the 2-meter mark! 🌿

Weird growth on the leaves of one of my plants. Looks healthy otherwise. White widow is beginning to pop out for life.

Going well

Week 5 Day 28 to 35 Faster and faster they happily grow! Only the black berry showed me coupe of spots on some couple of leafs but nothing serious.

Transplanted into a 3 gallon fabric pots. Cut off couple of the dried tips off the blue gelato, not sure what's up with it, the other two girl got topped left the gelato alone you can see why other than little blue everything is looking as I expected

Very slow growing this week (even thought it was a long one as I was counting days wrong) but i think its entered flowering. Its definitely stretched a whole lot. Side branching is pretty nice on both plants so hopefully it'll be a decent yield considering the pot size. Gonna stick with 10 litre pots now. Adding in more bloom nutes seems to have helped clear up the spots so i'm grateful for that. Gonna keep feed at this level until the biobizz runs out in a week or two. Heat is still an issue as you can see from the leaves taking on the classic taco shape. I still have a small 4 inch inline fan that im not using, would that be better for temps than passive intake? But still, good progress considering it's pushed 40c a couple of times.

I just moved this wonderful lady on her 4th week of life, I moved her into a 25l pot, and I'm starting to lst her. Let's see how she performs. Hope to be able to make a big nice bush

This is the July 13th update: So far Indoors is doing much better than outdoors. I expect a much more significant yield from the indoor ladies. I do see more trichome development on the outdoor girls, but the bud development is kind of loose and airy. I hope they taste good!

8/5 (Day 49)- The start of a new week! Last few days have been a little rough and I have unfortunately been unable to keep up the post. Dealing with a back injury so it’s been difficult just to keep up with the feedings. We are looking pretty good though and starting to feel a bit better. The last few days I’ve been slowly but surely trying to get a good defoliation in which I feel was needed very badly. Opened up a lot of place for light and airflow. Messing with the back left plant and OMG my hands got sticky quick! I leaned in for a close smell and all I can think of when I smell is candy, a very sweet smelling candy. It shocked me how sweet and yummy the smell was. All conditions for the environment are stable and kept in check. The girls are taking down 4-5 gallons a day now. Will continue to update this week. Thanks! 8/6 (Day 50)- Just monitored and checked in on everything today. Starting to feel better so not too worried about the change out in the morning. Gonna up the light and ppms a bit tomorrow then monitor very close the next few days. I think they should be good. Everything staying in check. 8/7 (Day 51)- Changed res and new fresh food for the ladies. I increased light power a little as well as PPMs. Going to monitor next few days, then when my back is 100% gonna do one last round of defoliation and trimming as well as put up the trellis net. I know it’s a bit late but the two plants on the right may need it. 8/8 (Day 52) - Just have been monitoring and refilling the res today. They are drinking 4-5 gallons a day. I also did a light light defoliation. I will be going through in the next day or so to do a bit more in depth defoliation to open up for more light and air. These girls grow and recover so fast. 8/9 (Day 53)- The two plants on the right are continuing to stretch quite a bit! The left plants seem to be short bushier plants, also im very sure I could have easily dont something to stunt them and not realize, but they seem to be pretty darn healthy. Did some defoliation, I've honestly been plucking leaves here and there everyday and focusing specifically on a plant when I feel it gets too bushy. They bounce back very quickly so that has been my method along with tying some branches down and bending here and there. 8/10 (Day 54) - Wow that back right girl is really growing. She has really been stretching the last two days. Just monitoring and adding to the res every so often. They are continuing to drink 4-5 gallons a day and all conditions stay in check. I did move one fan to get more airflow through the bottom of the canopy. I feel like I have constantly been moving things around this grow, trying to get a feel of what's best for the plants. As always, tips and recommendations appreciated!

Day #22: The day after defoliation day... And for now it seems that the #AutoGelato ladies are recovering pretty fine, but let's not be too enthusiastic... Things can still go wrong in the next few days, but if all goes well I will be bending the ladies down in a day or two... One of the ladies is growing very nice, all branches seem to be growing towards the same height, exactly like you want them to do... Day #24: The Gelato Auto ladies from @Fast_Buds are recovering very good from their topping and defoliation last week. I must say that my LED lights from Lientec LED are helping a lot with their high quality light... Today I will start with LST, so I can create as many 'main'-branches as possible 😋 Day #26: I decided to LST just two plants for now. The rest is growing good and has a lot of branches at even height... I'm also almost at the point that I won't be adding Fulvic to the water anymore. So in week 5 the plans will only have FloraGro and FloraMicro as nutrients. Day #28: Tiny buds are slowly developing over the garden. Plants are still looking extremely good, growth is very good for 8 plants, 2 are a little behind in growth. But they were behind, before topping and LST already... In the new week, the lights will be slowly set to a higher power setting, so when blooming starts, they already have the best light they can get...

I think I need 15-20 days to harvest.?