💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 10 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno A 🌸 Sometimes the Best Thing You Can Do Is Watch Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter inside Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If you've been following this project, you'll know that the last few weeks have been anything but quiet. We had aggressive stretching. We had to reorganize the entire vertical space. We moved the carbon filter and extractor outside the tent. We raised the LEDs. We installed a second SCROG. We performed a major defoliation. We added another fan underneath the canopy. We adjusted the nutrition. Basically... we gave ourselves plenty of work. 😂 But this week? Not so much. And honestly... that's exactly how I like it. Because when the plants look this good, sometimes the smartest thing a grower can do is step back and watch. 🌿 PHENO A – NOW WE WATCH THE WORK Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A is looking absolutely beautiful. She's still standing at approximately 145 cm, with an enormous amount of flowering structure developed throughout the plant. And this is where I'm particularly enjoying the project now. We're finally getting to see the results of all those decisions we made earlier. The long vegetative period created the structure. The first SCROG helped organize it. The stretch showed us where we needed more control. The defoliation opened the plant back up. The second SCROG gave those tall flowering branches additional support. Moving the ventilation equipment gave us valuable vertical space. Raising the LEDs gave the tops more breathing room. And the additional airflow helped keep everything moving through that newly opened structure. Now? We're watching the plant do its thing. 🌸 ✂️ THE RESULTS OF THE DEFOLIATION ARE BECOMING VISIBLE One of the things I'm paying particular attention to this week is the result of the heavy defoliation we performed previously. At the time, the plants looked dramatically different. We removed a substantial amount of foliage because the canopy had become extremely dense. But the objective was never simply to make the plants look cleaner. The objective was to create a more functional flowering structure. And now we're seeing why. There is much better visibility through the plant. The flowering sites have more space around them. Air can move through the structure more easily. The individual branches are much easier to follow. And most importantly... the plant doesn't look like it's struggling because of what we did. Quite the opposite. She's continuing to develop beautifully. This is the part of the process I find fascinating. You make a structural decision weeks earlier... and then you have to wait. You don't immediately know what the final result will look like. Now we're beginning to see it. And I have to say... I'm very happy with what I'm seeing. 💙 💡 INTRODUCING THE LUMIFLORA UNDER-CANOPY LIGHT And because we're apparently incapable of leaving the setup completely alone... 😂 we've introduced another piece of equipment. This week, we're adding the LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum under-canopy light. The reason is very simple. These plants have become BIG. Really big. 😂🌿 At this stage, the upper canopy is receiving plenty of light from the main fixtures. But once you have a plant with this much vertical structure and this much foliage, the lower portions naturally receive less direct light. That's simply what happens inside a dense canopy. So instead of trying to solve that by constantly removing more foliage, we're experimenting with providing additional light from underneath. The LumiFlora unit is 150W full spectrum, with additional emphasis toward the red portion of the spectrum. We're positioning it underneath the canopy so that we're able to provide supplemental light to areas that would otherwise receive considerably less from above. And I'm particularly interested in watching how the lower flowering sites respond over the coming weeks. We're not trying to replace the main lighting. We're complementing it. The main fixtures continue doing the heavy lifting from above. The LumiFlora is simply giving the lower canopy another source of usable light. And now... we watch. 🌱💡🌸 🕸️ THE CANOPY IS FINALLY WHERE WE WANT IT The second SCROG is also doing exactly what we hoped it would do. The flowering branches are now supported within the upper structure, rather than being allowed to move wherever they want. This is particularly useful with Pheno A because she has so much vertical growth. The first SCROG helped create the architecture. The second is now helping support that architecture. And together they have transformed what could have become a very difficult flowering structure into something much more manageable. Looking through the canopy now, you can actually see the work we've done. And that's probably my favorite part of this week. We're not building anymore. We're seeing the result of the building. 🌬️ AIRFLOW – LETTING THE CANOPY BREATHE The airflow arrangement we established last week is also staying in place. With the additional Zamnesia clip fan underneath the canopy and the upper airflow working across the plants, we're keeping air moving through multiple levels. That becomes particularly important now that we're supplementing the lower canopy with additional lighting. The goal is to keep the environment moving and avoid stagnant pockets developing underneath the plants. Again... nothing dramatic this week. And that's good. 😂 When everything is working properly, you don't need to keep changing it. NUTRITION – KEEP FEEDING, KEEP WATCHING The girls are continuing with the established PLAGRON Hydro feeding program. The current recipe remains: PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L 🌱 PLAGRON Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L 🌸 PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L pH adjustment as required The plants are responding very well to the feeding, so there's no reason to make unnecessary changes. That's another lesson I'm learning from this project. When the plants are telling you that they're happy... listen. 😂💙 There's no prize for changing something every week. Consistency is part of the experiment too. 🌸 THIS WEEK'S REAL EXPERIMENT So, what are we actually doing this week? Honestly? We're watching. 😂 We're watching how Pheno A develops after the major structural work. We're watching how the flowering sites progress. We're watching how the second SCROG supports the branches. We're watching how the airflow performs through the opened canopy. And now we're watching what happens when we introduce supplemental 150W full-spectrum lighting underneath the canopy. This is the point where I don't want to interfere unnecessarily. We've already done the work. Now we need to give the plant the opportunity to show us what that work achieved. 🌡️ CURRENT GROW CONDITIONS 🌸 Flowering: Week 10 📏 Height: approximately 145 cm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 ☀️ Day temperature: 27°C 🌙 Night temperature: 27°C 💧 Relative humidity: 61% ⚗️ pH: 6.01 ⚡ EC: approximately 2.49 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature: 26°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: 24°C 🌬️ CO₂: approximately 666 ppm 💦 Watering: approximately 1.6 L per plant / 24h ? Pot size: 8 L 💡 LumiFlora Under-Canopy: 150W Full Spectrum 🔬 SAME ROOM. SAME ENVIRONMENT. ONE VERY INTERESTING PLANT. This is still one of my favorite aspects of Project Blue Tent. We're documenting individual phenotypes while keeping the overall environment consistent. Same room. Same lighting environment. Same irrigation. Same nutrition. Same cultivation philosophy. And yet each plant still develops its own character. Pheno A has certainly made herself known. 😂💙 She's tall. She's vigorous. She's heavily branched. And she's giving us a fantastic opportunity to see what happens when a large flowering plant is managed through multiple stages of structural training. Now we're simply waiting to see the flowers take over the story. 🌸 FROM TRAINING TO FINISHING We've spent a huge portion of this project talking about growth. Training. Stretch. Canopy management. Defoliation. Support. Airflow. Lighting. But now we're entering a different part of the journey. The structure is established. The canopy is supported. The room has been reorganized. The airflow is in place. The nutrition is stable. And now the plant gets to concentrate on finishing. That's why this week feels different. There isn't a huge intervention to announce. There doesn't need to be. The work has already been done. Now we're watching the result. And sometimes... that's the most exciting part. 💙🌸 💙 LOOKING AHEAD Over the coming weeks, I'll be watching the response of the lower canopy particularly closely. The LumiFlora under-canopy light is now part of the experiment, and I'm interested to see how the additional supplemental lighting influences the development of those lower flowering areas. At the same time, we're continuing to monitor the upper canopy, environmental stability, nutrition, and overall flower development. No major changes planned. No unnecessary interference. Just observation. Because right now... Pheno A is doing exactly what we want her to do. And I'm very happy to let her continue. 🌸💙🌿 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU A huge thank you once again to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for giving us the opportunity to explore these Blue Waffle F1 phenotypes individually. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line and for supporting the plants throughout this vigorous cycle. A massive thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage system that keeps this ecosystem running smoothly. Thank you to LumiFlora for the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy light, which we're now putting to the test as part of the next stage of this experiment. And of course, thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us the platform to document the entire journey. Most importantly, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. We've spent weeks building this canopy. We've stretched it. Bent it. Supported it. Opened it. Reorganized the room around it. 😂💙 And now? We're finally at the fun part. We sit back... we watch... and we let Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A show us what she's capable of. Until next week... More flowers. More observation. Less interference. 🌸💙🌿 Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

Non pensavo che queste Fast Flowering potessero crescere così velocemente! E sono curioso di vedere come prenderanno spazio le radici ora che le ho travasate nei loro vasi finali! Anche qui le piccole macchie sulle foglie sono di zeolite pure 10 micrometri di Dogma Organics e il terriccio è stato preparato con il loro 4 componenti Super Soil che è una vera bomba…diversi guani, letame bovino, micorrize, vermi compost arricchito con acidi umici e fulvici, Cal Mag fatto di rocce triturate meccanicamente, ceneri arboree e febacee tritate ecc…ditemi voi se non è un Super Terriccio questo!? In attesa delle prossime settimane 👀

Hi everyone 🤗. Everything is going great 👍. There are no defects or anything unusual :-). Today the Blue Cheese Pheno 1 became the first time rinsed, and now only gets 0.4 Ec water for the next 10 days ca :-). Everyone else needs a while. otherwise there is not much to report this week. I wish you all a nice week, stay healthy 🙏🏻 and let it grow 🌱

Auto Malawi × Northern Lights – Woche 8 Die Malawi hat diese Woche tatsächlich nochmal etwas zugelegt. Nachdem sie zwischendurch eher so aussah, als hätte sie beschlossen, den Grow persönlich zu boykottieren, werden die Colas langsam dicker. 😅 Vor allem im Vergleich zur letzten Woche ist sichtbar mehr Blütenmasse vorhanden. Wirklich kompakt werden die Buds allerdings nicht – die Struktur bleibt ziemlich luftig und fluffig. Dafür hat sie mehrere schöne längliche Colas aufgebaut und mittlerweile auch eine ordentliche Schicht Harz angesetzt. Optisch geht sie inzwischen deutlich in Richtung Herbst. Die großen Fächerblätter werden immer heller und gelber, teilweise kommen rötliche und violette Töne dazu. Die Zuckerblätter und Blüten sehen dagegen noch wesentlich besser aus. Nach den Problemen der vergangenen Wochen scheint sie jetzt einfach alles, was noch da ist, in die Blüten zu stecken. Viele Pistillen sind inzwischen orange/braun geworden und haben sich zurückgezogen, an einigen Stellen kommen aber weiterhin frische helle nach. Sie ist also definitiv weit fortgeschritten, aber fertig sieht sie für mich noch nicht aus. Unterm Strich: Diese Woche endlich sichtbar dickere Buds – nur eben Malawi-typisch eher fluffig als steinhart. 😁

15 Day dry then trimmed using the Trim Bin. Curing with Grove bags, first harvest filled 3, 1/4lb grove bags. *Updating with clone pictures of this pheno in late flower labeled in diary as you look through, If I pop a new seed of this strain Ill start another diary

This week has been all about shaping the plant. I’ve learned from last that the colas weren’t the same height, because I let the plant do it’s things with just a bit of training. Now I know what to look for so I’m trying my hardest. I top dressed this week with crab meal, Gaia green all purpose 4-4-4, insect frass, kelp meal, bone meal, azomite, and covered it with a healthy serving of worm castings (about an inch to 2 inches). All of which was sprinkled on all the chopped and dropped leaves/branches. I believe in adding biomass to soil, especially for an indoor growing who is money conscious. Doing that can help save me money going back to the store for more soil.

AM3 was a bit of a leaf monster, but it was a smaller plant that finished after just 7 weeks of flower. AM2 brought the beef and is stacked top-to-bottom. Have some minty aroma at harvest, but we'll see how that progresses as it dries and cures. AM3 is already in the curing bucket and still has some mintiness. Being a smaller batch of buds, it was dry after 9+ days. Definitely a variety that benefits from a few weeks of curing. Still had a little grassy smell on AM3 as it entered cure. I expect these to be good smoke.

En la segunda semana de floracion le he sujetado un par de hojas muy grandes a la rama porque estan tapando las demas plantas, ahora solo utilize el engordador de cogollos, he tenido que dejar el calentador encendido porque con las 12 horas de luz la habitacion se esta enfriendo mucho y las temperaturas han bajado hasta los 16 grados, prefiero no estresarlas pero por lo demas van bien. He notado tambien que algunas hojas grandes de abajo, como que se pudren o se ponen muy debiles y se caen solas.

Week 5: The bud growth is in full swing

37 días de floración

Things are goin by smoothly started to give them some calimagic in low doses so they can get use to it. The upper 4 more so towards the left I believe are white Runtz because they all have similarities, and the bottom three in a triangle are all mac and jacks because again they all have similarities, the last two smaller ones I believe may be gelato but I still don’t know. Goin to start giving them low dose feeds and gradually increase it. I’m gone try my best to upload every Thursday and make a YouTube video as well I will provide all links once things are set in stone. Any input is appreciated happy growings growmies

The moment that the top slightly burned, does not soar, rather surprised that it is not massive, because on top of more than 200,000 lux, the top left call fell off the leash and rested directly on the reflector for some time, but as we can see in the photo, a couple of flowers

Today being the 6/2/25 i can say happily that's she has recovered well from last week. From the stem snapping but as you can see she is doing amazingly well for what I have put her through, it was a bag seed and from what I can see it's got good genetics. And smells like lemon haze to me but time will tell. I have released her from her shackles and now I will just let her grow free till crop I may introduce a net not too sure yet

Starting week 3 like this ! Bud sites are legions and it seems like stems gonna be full of buds ! Can’t wait to put this lady alone into the 4x4 tent !!! D Day homies! This baby is finally into her new home ! Now I can play with her legz!!!

*****Week 17 growth – March 27 to Apr 2, 2021 – Week 8 flower ****** We are in the first full week of flush now. Color change time and more swelling😃👍 GDP x GSC should have some purple in her......there certainly is in both. I have missed CL1 though, due to my actions. Pushing the nutes and lights is showing signs this week and both are fox tailing now. CL2 is holding it together though better than CL1........she said F you and shot her tips way up. Tails coming up the side of the bud as well, not excessive but they are prominent. They feel dense, yeah I squished a couple😏, so they should still have a good finish. CL2 is the looker right now and will have more dense buds I suspect but CL1 is showing that she can make some chunky LARGE buds if given what she wants.......without excess🙂 Frost levels on both girls is very high and looking sparkly😎 Aromas have been coming out more now and I pick up sweet and kind of floral......F I don’t know fully on these ones right now but it’s freaking good......smells like good weed!!! Running these both again I think. I was going to let CL1 go but color isn’t everything....CL1 should have fatter buds and I think she deserves another chance👍 CL2 is a given she will be run another time as well🔥❄️ 🔥❄️🔥❄️🔥 The girls are drinking well with being watered almost everyday. Moving into the phase of letting the pots dry right out before adding more water to ensure they are finishing all the nutrients in the media. Again, really just keeping them watered when they want it and taking pictures at this point😎 Little more detail….. Mar 27/21, Day 50 - 4L plain water at 6.0pH - Mar 28/21, Day 51 - 4L watering today with RO water. - 30ppm and 6.1pH Mar 29/21, Day 52 - cold in the tent today so turned the heater back on to brin up to 77 degrees. It was holding at 74, a little low. - nothing watered. Mar 30/21, Day 53 - 4L watering with tap water at 5.8pH - Mar 31/21, Day 54 - watered late in the day with only 3L of RO water - 25ppm and 6.1 pH Apr 1/21, Day 55 - dry out day Apr 2/21, Day 56 - light power reduced again and down to 300 watts. - plain water with tap. - 3L each 280ppm and 6.1pH Through week 8 and going into 9 now. Still some nutrient to keep working on in the leaves......give them a little more time💪

Soaked Seed in RO water for a day. Already saw tap root exposed....Nice! Used my dibber planted 0.5" deep | Domed | Lights off | Heater set to 79°F | Humidifier 70%. Popped 3 days later. DLI 19

Thanks every week to my sponsorship Super Sativa Seed Club Big ups to the awesome Purple OG Punch Auto The faster lady is now 5 cm tall, probably im just witnessing a winner pheno The other two little sisters are now in the final pots, i know changing the house for the auto ladys is not the best option due to stress but the first week use to be difficult for me to keep moisture in bigger pots Added 8 regular grass seeds per pot to ensure draining, adding N and preventing nutrient block Right now the three ladys are in the final 3L pots I know optimal case would be a 3gal, but as im using 50w LED instead of 150w LED i just expect normal size plants, I don’t really want MONSTER plants because i live with them in the same room, if i let the three ones get XXL i will need to rent another room 😂😂 Honestly with this new auto strains that develops up to 25% THC and XXL yields I won’t grow photoperiodics anymore, never again, it depends on my happinesses at the end of this diary Just as i realise indoor is my method, before this i had 3 outdoor grows and i never finished a single one due to plagues and complications, so i want to go slow but safe Thanks to take your time to read, i hope my info could be useful! Peace!! 🖖🏼

1/14: All 3 are looking great! This morning, I did a foliar application of big bloom and fulvic acid, then about 5 hours later I watered them with about a half-gallon of rainwater each and added armor si, humic acid, endoboost myco/tricho, liquid molasses, and a bunch of cal-mag. Today, I also I wired up and mounted my new samsung sun board strips (660nm/730nm) and my Solacure FlowerPower UVB fixture. I'm running the deep red/far red bud boosters a few hours per day right now, but will run them for the entire photoperiod once I start flowering them. I'll run the UVB for 4 * 15-minute sessions a day for the full flowering cycle, and if they don't protest too much I'll increase each session by 5 minutes and evaluate again. Some strains are more forgiving than others and I've got 5 different strains in this space...so really not sure much time I'll get away with exposing them to the deadly rays without damaging them too much...😈 1/15: I received one of the rapid led/growmau far red initiator pucks today. With the placement of my UVB light, I'm realizing I'll need another far red puck to have even and intense far red coverage, so I'm ordering another with Prime delivery and waiting to start flowering until I receive it. I sprayed them down really well with ph adjusted rainwater tonight to rinse off nutrient build-up from foliar applications. 1/16: I'm really excited to try flowering under 14/10. I grew photos indoors on an off for 15 years before I semi-retired. If I added up all the additional flowering time I could have done through the years if LED technology existed, I'd have had an extra truckload of bud to smoke. I did another application of Axiom Harpin a|b Proteins this evening, right before dark. I'm expecting a big growth burst this week, leading up to the flower stretch. I really need them to trigger under 14/10 within 4 or 5 days🙏 ...if not, I'll switch to 13/11 and wait a few more days🙏😟..if still no pistils are poppin, I'll go to 12/12 and chalk it up as bad luck or varietal indifference to Pr and Pfr manipulation. 1/17: I fed each of them about 3/4 gallon of full strength veg nutes. This will be the last. I'll go with half-strength veg and half-strength bloom for a week, then go with full strength bloom nutrients until I start flushing them in 6-8 weeks. 1/18: I installed the second far-red flowering initiator today and got all my timers configured for flowering: ========================================= timer#1 - power strip with qb's and red boosters 10:00am -12:00am timer#2 - (dual/independent setting) sideA- 3-way cube with uva bars 10am - 3pm 7pm - 11pm sideB- flowerpower uvb 1pm - 1:15pm 4pm - 4:15pm 7pm - 7:15pm 11pm - 11:15pm timer#3 - far red pucks 11:00pm - 12:15am timer#4 - sub-canopy tube 10am - 1pm 3pm - 6pm 8pm - 11pm ======================================== I also did some testing on the timers and sealed myself into the closet to check for any light leaks. All good.👌 1/19: Tonight is their first long night. It's ON!👍 1/20: I watered them today with about a half gallon each. I'm seeing calcium and magnesium deficiencies here and there, so added some boomerang and heavy cal-mag-Fe along with liquid molasses, humic acid, and endoboost myco. I also foliar fed with big bloom and fulvic acid. That's it for week 4-