GrowDiary Finale: The Epic Chapter 8 – The Final Countdown Before Harvest 🚀🌿 Welcome to the final official update of this run before the big C-Day! 🗓️ Here we stand—after weeks of measuring, regulating, training, and hoping—at the absolute peak of this grow featuring High Society and Zupernova (Compound Genetics). While a carpet of aroma lies over the tent that could practically deserve its own zip code, we look back on a journey full of precision, tech upgrades, and plant magic. ✨🌱 1. Setup & Tech: The Unsung Heroes A great grow is no accident; it is the synergy of sharp observation and well-tuned technology: 🛠️🔬 Strains in the Tent (High Society & Zupernova): Both Compound Genetics strains are displaying their top-tier lineage in this late-game phase: 🏆 High Society: Impresses with dense, heavily trichome-frosted nugs and a complex gassy/bakery terpene profile. ⛽🍰 Zupernova: Steals the show with striking purple fades and a sharp, sweet-and-sour terpene punch. 💜🍋 Personal Highlight – High Society’s Redemption: In my previous run, I really struggled with High Society. She couldn't handle the heavy feeding schedule that Zupernova tolerated so easily—two plants didn't survive, and I ended up scrapping the harvest. This time around, I fine-tuned the nutrients, and the transformation is mind-blowing! While Zupernova delivered her signature top-tier performance once again, High Society finally showed her true elite potential with unreal trichome coverage and incredible terps. 🤩🌟 Climate Upgrades & VPD Control (GGS Controller & AC-10): We refined our environmental setup even further by adding a GGS controller to the loop. Working alongside the Spider Farmer AC-10 controller, we kept absolute command over airflow, circulation, and VPD. During this final stretch (Week 8), RH was strictly pushed below 40–45%. This doesn't just protect against dreaded bud rot (Botrytis); it also signals to the plants: "It's getting dry, pour out more resin for protection!" 🌬️💧 Canopy & Height Differential (115 cm vs. 150 cm ): The main colas reached up to 150 cm, while the middle canopy settled at 115 cm. Due to light intensity drop-off (Inverse-Square Law), the upper buds ripen about 5 to 7 days faster under direct photon exposure (higher PPFD). While the tops at 150 cm are already showing a beautiful amber touch, the 115 cm layer is right in the sweet spot of roughly 70% milky and 30% clear. 📏💡 1. Soil & Nutrient Strategy (Hesi & Biobizz): Phasing out the feeding schedule in Week 7 and running pure water (flush) in Week 8 paid off completely. The foliage has faded into a spectacular array of autumn yellow, deep purple, and lime green—the plant is depleting its final reserves, ensuring an extremely smooth and flavor-rich vape/smoke. 🍂🌈 2. Trichome Check: The Microscope View A look through the macro lens confirms: We are at the sweet spot! 🔬✅ * Gland Structure: The glandular trichomes are fully turgid. The heads are massive, packed with terpenes and cannabinoids. 💧🌿 * Color Spectrum: On the headbuds, we see the magic ratio of roughly 80% milky to 15% amber—exactly the mix that yields a powerful, multi-layered high without instantly locking you to the couch. 🛋️ 3. The Roadmap to Harvest Day The switch will be flipped this coming weekend. Until then, we stick to the protocol: 🗓️🌿 Drying out the substrate: The pots will receive no more water starting mid-week. Slightly dry soil speeds up the drying process after cutting and prevents stagnant humidity in the tent. 💧🚫 * Final Dark Phase ( 24–48h): Lights go completely off before chopping to promote the breakdown of residual starches and protect terpenes from light degradation. 💡🌑 Drying Room Setup: Target climate for the drying area is set to 18 °C and 55–60% RH with constant, indirect airflow. 🌬️🌡️ Conclusion & Outlook This run has been a masterclass in plant training, environmental control, and patience. A huge thank you to the community for following along, commenting, and riding this wave! 👏🌊 Next stop: Harvest, Dry Trimming, and Curing! ✂️❄️🌿

Día 22. El estirón ha frenado. Las plantas están empezando a llenarse de flores. Se me hace extraño tener las plantas con esta forma, dado que siempre he usado cortes y LST. Se ven bastante bien, aunque cada vez que las miro, me dan ganas de cortarle alguna otra rama. Pero no quisiera mermar el rendimiento. Ya a esta altura sería más.contraproducente que otra cosa. Pero creo que debí haber sacado más ramas de las que saqué. Día 24. Fui un iluso al pensar que el crecimiento había frenado. Hoy ya las plantas tienen 5 cm más que hace dos días. Voy a tener que doblarlas si siguen a este ritmo. Tuve que hacer un video, ya que no tengo lugar para sacar fotos en contra picado. Veo que se están llenando de flores y empiezo a imaginar el resultado final. Día 26. Las plantas crecieron otros 5 cm en estos dos días. Ya estan 65 cm. Me empieza a preocupar, por lo que supongo que voy a tener que doblarlas un poco. Seguramente solamente doble las dos mas altas cruzadas entre si. Vengo ilusionado, pero sospecho que van a ser necesarias entre 7 y 8 semanas. Tuve que agregar solución, ya que había bajado mucho el nivel del depósito, y agregué un poco de bud blood. Voy a seguir usándolo hasta el momento del PK. Seguiré actualizando.

It is a vigorous plant with very uniform branching, high resinous and high yield, if you grow from seed there are a few different phenos that I got, equally as good

Ideally you want to drastically up your PK Week 5 of flower. Unfortunately adding PK late last week forced me to ramp up by 2ml/gal every day until 9 ml/gal to avoid shocking the plants. These plants were growing super bushy despite being Sativa dominant. Definitely played it too safe Week 3, gonna go heavy next run.

The tent is definitely overcrowded, they're starting to really take-off. I need to get the females I'm going to force pollen outside but it's still too cold. I may have to make a makeshift grow area for a month. Aquarium water: 6.82pH 395 PPM 73.4⁰F I used Bloom City pH Down until I hit 6pH

Is day 38 for this girl and I took two other leaves from her I think she is starting to make the change of stage but also is recovering from the cuts, hope she can stretch good🙏🏻🌱💚 Is day 42 I took 2 leaves more to give more ligth, and I'm hoping she take it well , she is changing stage and I hope she can stretch tomorrow im giving some flowering nutrition, she have this weird but cool shape I love it , however she looks stressed, let's see how she does 🙏🏻🌱💚

Week 11 flower - day 82 flw - day 140 of cycle Time has come for this beauty. Lemon Cherry pie has a stunning look. The purple color always call attention. The smell is a bit creamy and pie. Full covered in trichomes and nice dense nugs.

Still lookin happy, water only around 6.5 ph. I will start some LST next week 👍🏼 I will also give a 1/4 dose of advanced nutrients sensi cal mag next week because that's one issue I've ran into, usually nearing flower and I feel weekly small doses helps negate any issues. LED lights seem to increase the need for cal mag at least in my environment. The auxiliary shoots off the main are interesting! It's definitely going to be more of a bushy structure and fun to LST! ✌️🏼 ♥️

02/03/25 Short facts: - 58cm high - Light is @80% but in a distance of 24 to 35cm - 600 to 740 ppfd - VPD increased to 1.0 but I only do get it up to 0.9 - Defoliated again --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- She has grown significantly again, becoming taller and producing more leaves. I had to defoliate her once more, but she has already regrown some leaves, so I'll probably have to defoliate her again this week. I'm really impressed, she's doing so well!

Week 5 done and dusted and these girls have started their flowering stage, stoked! This week has been a bit slow growing for them unfortunately, I've been super busy and haven't been tending to them as much as I would have liked. I started the week with an over water and then neglected them for a few days and and they dried right out. They were not looking happy. I then top dressed the girls with Herbi's all natural nutrients, 2.5 tablespoons of bloom and 2.5 of Veg mixed in with 5 tablespoons of Worm castings for each girl and i got back to regular watering. They've sprung back up to life but I can't help but think it's another bit of stunt they didn't need. This Gorilla Cookies girl also got another light defoliation yesterday to let the light penetrate through to all the budsites. She's looking happy enough. Hope you all had a good week and thanks for checking in 🙏

The scent is becoming noticeable throughout the whole room. It’s kind of like very ripe banana and… fresh sweat. But not in a disgusting way. It actually reminds me of a gym after someone had a banana protein shake 🍌💪 That’s just my personal perception — I can’t describe it any better 😜 A calcium deficite has been spottet 😢

day 44 - The growth process continues unabated. I am waiting for the desired size. 8 days after flowering it didn't grow as much as I thought it would, so we went back to the growing season. 👽 day 49 - I decided not to cut the leaves anymore after much defoliation. It easily tolerates strong stress easy to grow.

Early transplantation from 0,5 liter pot to 9l airport. Plant seems healthy and growing very strong and beautiful. the taproot was already reaching the bottom of the pot so maybe was not that early, just maybe.

Here we are on day 28. On day 23 i spoted Spider Mites. Next day i been spray leavs whit neem oil, for now SM are gone i hope they will not come back. She coming along nicely😁🤩🤘✌️

26.12.24: I have noticed light stress on my plants. I had moved the lights further away and increased the light intensity to 70%. Unfortunately that created some issues. Namely severe palour of the leaves. To try and rectify the situation, I've dimmed the lights to about 30%, staying at the same distance, about 30 inches away. I measured the par levels, after I did this. They should a reading of anywhere between 40 and 150, at the canopy of the plants. They are all different sizes. This seems to have improved the colouring on all plants. After this evenings watering, I will monitor recovery and increase lighting intensity again slowly. I am also using the light cycle of 21/3, so the plants have many hours more light to absorb, than for example 12/12 or 18/6. 29.12.24: So I finally gave LST a shot, it's probably a bit too late, however I really want to get the most of the triploid pheno, and I went a little crazy and LST'd all plants except 2, as they're too small. I did that late last night, this afternoon I was amazed to see the plants turn their leaves back to the light source. I'm glad I overcame my fear of trying it. I'm very excited to see them adapt and progress! 😁 there are videos above with before and after of my LST process. I am pleased with the progress, considering all of my mistakes! Thanks for checking out my diary 🍃 ✌️

So amazing strain

Now its time to finish i have lollipop'd the plant. I did this with my Blueberry plant i used for clones and the remaining top growth has much larger fan leaves. I am confident it will focus the energy in the right places and i wanted this wrong to have beautiful bud filled trim :) Gonna flush it for a week and a bit then create space weed. 24hr dry time haha

GMO Cookies Served with Extra Curiosity ?🍪 Week 14 — Harvest Report | Fresh Frozen Experiment And here we are. Week 14. Harvest week. And honestly… the room looked absolutely unreal. Before we even touched the scissors, before a single branch was cut, before the freezer bags started filling up, there was already this feeling in the room that these girls had become something special. Massive structures. Heavy flowers. Long spears. Dense tops. Colors everywhere. Deep greens. Fading yellows. Lime tones. Hints of gold. Dark shadows between swollen calyxes. And then the smell… Oh man. The smell. This is one of those cultivars that genuinely makes the room feel less like a grow room and more like walking into a kitchen where someone is preparing something loud, greasy, savory, and unforgettable. The GMO side of these genetics speaks immediately and unapologetically. Garlic. Onion. Savory funk. That unmistakable “food terpene” profile that GMO became legendary for. But underneath all that aggression, there is still sweetness hiding in there too. Cookie dough warmth. Earthiness. Creamy backend notes. A weird balance between offensive and delicious that only certain genetics can truly achieve. And honestly? We loved it. But before diving fully into this week, let’s do what we always do and quickly recap the journey, because by now many people arrive only at the final reports and never see the earlier stages of the diary. So first of all: yes… once again we divided the harvest into multiple reports 😄 And honestly, we know it starts becoming a cliché at this point. But there is simply too much here: * too many photos, * too many details, * too many observations, * too many experiments, * too much resin, * and too much love for the plant itself to throw everything into one rushed update. This run deserved time. From seed until now, this GMO Cookies run was grown under a 12/12 from seed cycle using the F.O.G. LED setup, inside the Mammoth Elite tent environment, with careful environmental management throughout the run. The girls received multiple rounds of LST, selective defoliation, and continuous observation to maintain airflow and light penetration while still allowing the plants to express themselves naturally. And express themselves they absolutely did. These plants developed huge vascular systems and incredibly thick stems by the end of flower. Once harvest began and we started cutting branches down, the insides looked almost like miniature tree trunks. Thick water highways running through the center, dense supportive tissue everywhere, strong skeletal structures carrying massive tops from beginning to end. You could physically feel how much water and energy these plants had been moving daily. Some stems genuinely felt more like wood than plant tissue. And that strength translated directly into the flowers themselves: dense, heavy, greasy, stacked, and extremely aromatic. Now here comes the part that will probably make some people cry a little 😄 Because normally, growers harvest and dry most of their flower for smoking… while only freezing smaller amounts for hash washing later. We did the exact opposite here. Most of these girls went directly into the freezer. And yes… intentionally. Why? Because this plant was screaming hash potential from the beginning. The resin texture, the greasy leaf rub, the finger stickiness, the way trichomes smeared across gloves, the density of the heads, the aroma intensity… everything about this cultivar felt like it was asking to become fresh frozen. So after removing fan leaves and preparing the flowers carefully, we separated the majority of the buds specifically for freezing. Not whole plants. Not stems. Not unnecessary material. Just flowers. Pure bud material prepared for future washing. Final fresh frozen numbers landed around: 755.5 grams total including bags, which leaves us somewhere roughly around the 700–730g range of actual fresh frozen flower material once packaging weight is removed. And honestly… that is incredibly exciting. For anyone unfamiliar with fresh frozen: this means the flowers are frozen immediately after harvest instead of being dried first. The goal here is preservation. Fresh frozen material helps preserve volatile terpenes, delicate aromatic compounds, and resin characteristics that can partially disappear during traditional drying and curing. Later, this material can be processed into: * ice water hash, * bubble hash, * live hash, * live rosin, * or other solventless extractions. And despite some people debating whether water itself should technically count as a “solvent,” the reality is that this process remains one of the cleanest and most beautiful extraction methods in cannabis culture. Ice. Water. Movement. Separation through resin density. That’s it. And based on what we already felt from simply handling these plants? This could become something truly beautiful later on. Even during harvest, the resin behavior was already honestly ridiculous. The gloves became sticky almost immediately. Fingers started collecting greasy residue after only small amounts of handling. The scissors became coated quickly. And the texture of that resin… dark, oily, greasy, almost greasy-food-like in character, which feels incredibly fitting for a GMO cultivar. This is the type of resin that makes hash makers smile instantly. Now of course, we did not freeze absolutely everything. We intentionally kept select flowers aside for traditional drying and curing because we want to compare the expressions later: * cured flower terpene profile, * versus fresh frozen hash expression, * versus eventual solventless extraction results. That comparison itself is part of the experiment. And honestly, that is one of the beautiful things about growing: sometimes the harvest is not the end of the project. Sometimes harvest is simply the beginning of several new ones. The flowers we kept for drying are currently hanging under controlled conditions while the frozen material quietly waits for its transformation later on. And yes… there will absolutely be future reports about the washing process. About the ice water extraction. About the resin quality. About the yields. About the terpene preservation. About the final hash itself. But for now? This week belongs to the harvest. To the skeletons. To the colors. To the smells. To the giant branches hanging in silence. To the freezer bags packed full of greasy flowers. To the excitement of possibility. And honestly… to experimentation too. Because growing is not only about repeating safe formulas forever. Sometimes it is also about curiosity. Trying things. Learning. Observing. Comparing. Taking risks. Seeing what happens. And this entire harvest feels driven by exactly that spirit. We also brought these girls into the studio before harvest because honestly they deserved their final photoshoot. And wow. They looked incredible. Some shots leaned cinematic and dark. Others focused on vivid greens and flower structure. Some highlighted the towering spear-like colas. Others focused on greasy closeups and texture. And under the studio lights, the resin coverage became even more obvious. The flowers looked almost wet in certain angles. Sticky. Alive. Heavy. Exactly the kind of flower that instantly tells you: “This is not going to stay clean for long once trimming starts.” 😄 Which brings us to next week. Next week will likely focus on: * drying, * trimming, * resin collection, * finger hash, * scissor hash, * handling techniques, * curing preparation, * and possibly the beginning of the washing process if time allows. If not, the washing report will arrive later as its own chapter. And honestly? That feels right. Because this run deserves patience. Now before ending this report, as always: Thank you. To Zamnesia. To Plagron. To F.O.G. To the gear. To the platform. To the community. To the growers sharing knowledge every day. To the silent supporters. To the curious people discovering the diary for the first time. To the macro lovers. To the hash makers. To the flower lovers. To the skeptics 😄 To everyone spending even a few seconds here with us. This plant may already be harvested… but honestly? This story still feels far from over. 🌱 📲 Don’t forget to Subscribe and follow me on Instagram and YouTube @DogDoctorOfficial for exclusive content, real-time updates, and behind-the-scenes magic. 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Let’s celebrate it responsibly and continue to learn and grow together. With true love comes happiness. Always believe in yourself, and always do things expecting nothing and with an open heart. Be a giver, and the universe will give back in ways you could never imagine. 💚 Growers love to all 💚 📸 P.S. – The Eye Behind the Lens All photos in this diary (for now — except for the ones showing the camera, which I took with an iPhone) are taken with a Sony A6700 paired with a Sony full-frame macro lens and a few more. Photography is part of the story — it’s how we share the fine textures, the glow, and the quiet details that words can’t always capture. I’ve also started experimenting with photo stacking — a technique where multiple images, each taken at a slightly different focus point, are layered together to create one perfectly sharp image from front to back. 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