💙 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! 🌱💙

Start of week 7 - days 23 to 29 April Week Temperature and RH: Max - 28.9c - 68% Min - 20.0c - 50% 25/4/2020 - After 7 days pot feeIs light gave her 1.5L RO water with: GHE Terra Aquatics Cal -Mag - 40 PPM Biobizz Acti-Vera - 40 PPM Biobizz Heaven - 40 PPM Biobizz Top-Max - 10 PPM Biobizz Grow - 10 PPM Biobizz Bloom - 10 PPM Biobizz PH Up RO Water - 4 PPM About 162 PPM (exceded a bit 150) PH 6.7

05/31/2024 : flowering week 8, almost done but BB isn't full yellow yet and there are still too much clear TC on flowers. I may harvest main colas at the end of this week and let the rest for another week... or cut everything and make some bubble hash with lower parts. Anyway, it smells very good now! 😁 06/03/2024 : as top buds were foxtailing, I cut everything that turned purple and got almost 240g wet material (now in dryer for about a week). I reset LED to 30cm from new flat canopy, with DLI 36~45. There are still a lot of buds to come!😍

Grow report week 6: The recovery and the training Hello dear growers and growerettes, it’s time for an update on my grow. My plants have completed the sixth week and have grown further. But they also mastered some challenges that I will tell you about. The recovery This week I had to save my plants that suffered from a nutrient deficiency. The reason for this was the combination of osmosis water and BioBizz fertilizer, which the plants did not like. I came across reports on the internet that reported the same problems and switched back to normal tap water. The plants already started to turn yellow and showed signs of a calcium/magnesium deficiency. On the day of realization, I fertilized the ladies with normal tap water, as well as twice a week a mix of water, Acti-Vera and Fish-Mix from BioBizz as a foliar fertilizer. To be on the safe side, I watered two liters per plant today after almost complete drying out of the pots, which is a lot, but I wanted to make sure that the soil is equally well supplied. Since I have fabric pots, I worry less. I believe to recognize that the plants will make it, as their development has improved greatly. The next two weeks will show it. The training This week I continued the low-stress training and bent and tied the plants further. The low-stress training is a method to gently bend and tie the plants to improve the light distribution and air circulation. The goal is to keep the plants low and wide and promote more side branches and flower clusters. The training works very well with the gained experience now. The plants are bent in one week and will then be allowed to come up again. I hope all the work will pay off despite the short weakening of the plants. The outlook I am very satisfied with the result of the sixth week. My plants have recovered well and trained and have shown great growth. I look forward to the next two hopefully healthier weeks. Thanks for stopping by and see you next week! 😊

👋🏻 All growing well! I have let them grow naturally this week without much interference. I have been rotating the pots every few days and have also added another lower fan to help with airflow. Today I added some sticks to help open the canopy and I plan over the next week to start securing some branches down with wire along with some light defoliation. ✌️🌱☘️

sorry for not uploading photos instead of that i upload video. plants doing good. plant number 2 showed one male flower on week 5 on whole plant but was caught in time and removed. From that time male flowers didnt appear

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This week I am going through and pulling the large fan leaves off , she is a slow flowering plant so I'm just doing my best to be patient with her !!! A true gem with an unique structure !!! I think this girl is gonna be a 10 week flower , she is just starting to get smaller flower spots . Still a beast !! Added a CO2 bag directly above the canopy , added a 150 watt "blurple" light above GG#4 S1( number 2) More picture notrs and videos to follow !!

Well I'm a bit upset last week I ended up dropping my ph meter in a tank of nutes I was mixing and by the time I got it out the meter was junk. I was planning on flushing the crystal but had to wait another week for the meter. I suppose the good thing to take from this was I found out why I was having issues with my plants. When the new ph meter came in I went to check my run off and my nutes that I had all ready mixed up. It turns out that my meter i had been using this whole grow was off by about -2-2.5 so this whole time I had been feeding the plants at around 3ph smfh. I cant believe they look how they do knowing what went on this whole time. Fastbuds crystal meth is 3days into flush and i will be cutting it down this weekend most likely. Mephisto hubbabubbasmelloscope is smelling like sweet sweet candy and is thick in resin Bighead seeds freeze berry/ blueberry crumble has a dank pungent stank to it and also is frosty but larrfy Big bomb is still growing thick and have bud sites everywhere Now I'm ready for the next batch and ready to get dialed in!

This week great did a top dress couple days ago so just watering at a ph of 6.5 for now ...till flush in about 2 3 weeks

👋Hi 👋 So I’ve turned up the power 🔋🔋on the light 💡. 💨Upgrade the Co2 to an Exhale bag 💨, and added cam📽️ . 💦💦water ph6.3.💦🚿 Repositioned them as there putting some size on 🌿. 🍴Top fed with Eco Thrive-Cycle 🚿🚿watered at Ph6.3💦💦 🌡️🌡️Turned on the heat mats for nighttime🌚🕯️..as temperature 🤒 was dropping down to 16c 💨❄️.Now working perfectly 🕯️..Heat🌡️has stabilised now to 21c.🌡️🌡️🌚 Learning as I go and adjusting when need. ❤️and I can’t THANK everyone enough for Helping me with my two grows 🌿

Hello, I hope you're all doing well. I'll consider this week a complete failure. When I repotted my plants, I added mulch, but it was only 3 cm thick. As a result, my plants were miserable for four days because it was too thick. The soil was cold and remained very damp due to watering during repotting. It smothered the fallen leaves, some of which even turned yellow. It seemed like a magnesium and calcium deficiency and an unbalanced pH. I re-evaluated my approach and, most importantly, added a light layer of mulch. They've recovered well. It just goes to show that a small mistake can teach you something new every day. This week, I added: 2 g of Epsom salt: This powerful mineral is pure magnesium sulfate, one of the main components of chlorophyll produced by plants. It's a chelating agent: it allows the solubility of other substances (such as molasses, humic and fulvic acids, neem oil, and spirulina) and acts as a heavy metal sequestrant. 5 g of Micronized Wild Horsetail Spray: silica, defense 5 g Fish Hydrolysate: amino acids, proteins ppm 600 pH 6.5 Wishing you all a successful cannabis grow! **************************************************** Bonjour, J'espère que vous allez tous bien. Cette semaine, je la compterai comme nul. En fait lors de mon rempotage, j'avais fait un paillis, mais il était de 3 cm. Du coup mes pieds, on fait la gueule pendants 4 jours, car il était trop épais. La terre était froide, rester très humide dut à un arrosage lors du rempotage. Elle étouffait les feuilles tombées, elles ont même jauni pour certaines. Comme un manque de magnésium calcium et un PH non ajusté. Remise en cause et surtout un paillage léger. Elles sont bien reparties. Mais comme quoi une petite erreur et on apprend tous les jours. Dans ma terre cette semaine, j'ai rajouté. 2 g de Sel d Epsom: Ce puissant minéral est du pur sulfate de magnésium, l'un des principaux composants de la chlorophylle produite par le règne végétal. C'est un chélateur : il permet la solubilité d'autres matières (comme la mélasse, les acides humiques et fulvique, l'huile de neem, la spiruline) et agit comme un séquestrant de métaux lourds. 5 g de PRÈLE SAUVAGE Micronisée Aspersion : silice, défense 5 g HYDROLYSAT DE POISSON : acides aminés, protéines ppm 600 PH 6,5 Je vous souhaite à tous une bonne cannabiculture 👍👍👊😁😁😁

Eccoci qui... Ormai manca davvero poco ci siamo quasi.... Ora niente più fertilizzanti solo acqua ed attendiamo la maturazione.. Seguiranno aggiornamenti, grazie a tutti per il supporto🔥🌲❤️

bottom feeding

prima pianta tagliata...

Und damit ist auch die Cinderella Auto endgültig fertig. 🌿✂️ Nach der Trocknung ging sie zusammen mit der Purple Punch durch die Trimbowl. Am Ende sind bei Cindy 36 g trockene Blüten übrig geblieben. Etwas mehr Material landet dabei natürlich im Trim als bei einer sorgfältigen Handarbeit, aber da der Verschnitt sowieso weiterverarbeitet wird, ist mir die enorme Zeitersparnis das definitiv wert. Ein weniger schönes Thema waren leider die Seeds. Auch in Cindy habe ich einige gefunden. Die Gelato war allerdings mit Abstand am stärksten betroffen, während mir bei der Purple Punch bisher kein einziger aufgefallen ist. Woher der Pollen letztendlich kam, lässt sich im Nachhinein nicht mehr sicher feststellen. Geruchlich ist Cindy getrocknet sehr exotisch geworden. Allerdings fehlt mir genau das Aroma, das ich von der Cinderella aus früheren Zeiten in Erinnerung habe. Das macht sie nicht automatisch schlechter – nur einfach anders als erwartet. Bei der Wirkung dreht sie den Spieß dann komplett um. Für eine sativadominante Sorte hätte ich mit etwas deutlich Aktiverem gerechnet. Stattdessen ist sie von den drei bisher getesteten Hobbit-Hole-Damen mit Abstand die schwerste Nummer. Gelato war mit etwa 4/10 angenehm, aber sehr kurzlebig. Purple Punch brachte ein schönes, gemütliches 7/10-High über mehrere Stunden. Und dann kommt Cindy mit 9/10 um die Ecke und erklärt Körper und Gehirn gleichzeitig zum Sperrgebiet. 🤣 Geschmacklich ungewöhnlich, leider versamt und überhaupt nicht die Cinderella, die ich erwartet hatte – aber bei der Wirkung hat sie definitiv einen bleibenden Eindruck hinterlassen.

Stay tuned to see what the final few weeks in this 75 day run have in store these OG Skywalker Cookies 🍪

Will be flipping 7/6

Day 35 - Everything is going great so far, the Gorilla Girl is pretty short but smells amazing so far & has a lot of bud sites so I’m very curious to see how she turns out! Make sure to check back for updates & happy growing friends!✌️🏼🙏🏼🌱