Week 1 of Flower is officially complete, and with that, the stretch is on! The canopy is definitely filling out, and the Jelly Donutz (which was a couple of weeks behind the others) looks like it might end up getting crowded out. I adjusted the oscillating fans to make sure there was no wind blowing over top of the Jelly Donutz,  sometimes that can discourage them from stretching up into the wind, and I need the Jelly Donutz to stretch as much as possible. That being said, the two Hella Jelly’s and one Vanilla Frosting are thriving right now. Many bud sites are starting to appear and point up vertically now. The Hella Jelly and Vanilla Frosting clones have just now started to show roots in the Clone King. That means, this week, I will need to transplant them into small pots so I can maintain them as mothers, in case one of them turns out to be a keeper after harvest! Also, this week in the veg tent, I popped three Frosted Cherry-O’s autoflower seeds from Speedrun Genetics. Two will be growing in an Earthbox, and the other will grow in a 7-gallon fabric pot of living soil that I will feed via topdressing. I’m really excited to see how these autos grow in the Earthbox. The Earth Box is a sub-irrigated planter, which has a separate water reservoir below the soil that the plant can drink from directly (once its roots make it through the bottom grate). The corners of the Earthbox pack the soil tightly, and those corners wick the water up as the plant drinks. This, combined with the ability to really mound top-dressings under the plastic cover, (which keeps the top of the soil moist) is supposed to make the Earthbox a powerhouse for autoflowers. The feeder roots have access to all the nutrients they could need, and the bottom roots can tap into a sort of “underground spring,” where they can drink fresh water whenever they want. This will be my first time using an Earthbox with an autoflower, and I’m excited to see how it turns out. Keep an eye out for that diary to start later this week. The 4x4 is off to the races now, with week 1 of flower DONE! Happy Growing, everybody 😀

I had to harvest by layers due to height of the plant, so the harvest took time from day 88 to day 115, but the outcome was for sure worth it. This was may first indoor grow and presumably last for some time, but I took some great notes nevertheless. :) I would like to thank fast buds for providing me with this great genetics. I will for sure try some next next when the opportunity rises.

OVERALL: ~ Very happy with the grow, I really dialled everything in well this run. ~ She grew super fast, I put it down to the constant oxygenation of the rootzone along with consistent and constantly optimized light DLI and leaf to air temp variance. The extra Co2 helped push the plant to its limit in terms of heat, allowing it to push its hardest. ~ The lack of HST and Defoliation I feel let it finish faster due to lack of stress and stunting. The faster finishing time along with the big yield and efficient MarsHydro light, it hugely reduced my electricity costs per gram and freed up space much sooner for the next plant. ~ Turned into a very dense bush of buds, there is even smokable dense buds at the base of the plant due to the under canopy lighting (Not as dense as top canopy buds but still decent) ~ Ran a thin line between stressing the plant and letting it flourish. The buds came out big and very dense, also it's hard to see on camera but they're very frosty too (Prob from UVB) YIELD: ~ 145g (dry) in just 9 weeks from seed. ~ 753g (Wet) ~ 0.91g/watt GENETICS: ~ MSNL - Gorilla Glue Auto ~ my favorite strain, as you can tell by my username! STRAIN REVIEW: ~ Heavy hitter, like an indica but has some of that "feel it in your face" sensation of a strong sativa. Not as heavy or as strong as other GG#4's I have smoked, which would make me question the genetics used to produce the auto version. I will wait till after a cure and judge it again. TRAINING: ~ No defoliation or HST (Bar last week for pics) ~ A little LST and leaf tucking but largely just left the plant alone to do its thing. I felt chopping healthy parts off the plant would slow the plant down and leave it with less chlorophyll to photosynthesize the light. ~ I did prune by lightly plucking dead leaves away, when the plant was ready to let them go easily. DRYING ~ 20/21'C 50% RH with air circulation. ~ Homemade Drybox made using: 2 x Bankers Boxes ~ 2 x USB Desk Fans ~ 1 x Carbon Filter ~ 6 x Clothes Hangers UPDATE: Day 5 after Harvest: ~ Fast dried some small batches, as we couldn't wait to sample. ~ Chopped off branches as some are down to 12% moisture whilst bigger buds are up at 18%. Moving to paper bag for couple of days to even moisture out then transferring to jars CURING: ~Curing in jars 3/4 full. ~ Dark closet/18'C/50% RH ~ Jars burped once Hygro passes 65% and sealed when it drops to 58%. ~ Stabilised it at 62% and after 2 weeks I'll drop it some more and stabilise it at 58% to bring out more of the flavour. ~Sitting in jars with Boveda 62% at this stage. ~ Already tastes and feels great. WATER: ~ Condensed (Starting at 40ppm) ~ Disinfected prior to adding nutrients etc. (Using COOSPIDER UVC - 253nm & 187nm bulb) CLIMATE: ~ Ambient Air Temp = 29'C ~ 28'C LST ~ Leaf to air temp variance of between 1'C ~ Night Temp = 22/23'C ~ Day/Night temp differential 6-7'C ~ Under Canopy Temp: 26'C (Day) ~ 21'C (Night) ~ Relative Humidity = 50-60%RH (Avg. 55%RH) ~ VPD = 1.45kPa (Avg.) ~ Co2 ranges from 900ppm to 1500ppm (Avg. 1200ppm) AIR PRESSURE: ~ Ambient Air Pressure (outside tent) = Mean Avg. 1010 mbars (101 Kilopascals) ~ Actual Air Pressure (inside tent) = Mean Avg. 1005 mbars (100.5 Kilopascals) ~ Air Pressure Differential = up to 0.5 kPa range between inside & outside LIGHT: ~ UVB (High intensity @ 45cm) ~ 2 hours daily mid light cycle. ~ Warm White 3000K/White 5000k/Far Red (660nm) ~ At plant canopy = PPFD 900-1000umols/s/m2 ~ Lux 45,000-55,000 ~ Daily Light Integral 55-65 ~ Under canopy lighting ~ Blue (460nm)/ Red (630nm) NUTRIENTS: ~ Mostly Advanced Nutrients (For base nutrients and most additives, as only company I could find scientific data on) ~ Canna (For Calmag Agent and Cannazym) ~ Plant Success (Great White Mycorrhizae) ADDITIONAL GROW TECHNIQUES: INFECTION PREVENTION & CONTROL: Infection control practices i.e ~ PPE, Alcohol Hand wash ~ Gray room outside tent, ~ Carbon filter ~ HEPA filter ~ Plasma Ionizer ~ Inline UV-C germicidal bulb ~ Also using an additional higher powered COOSPIDER (UVC) 253nm & 187nm bulb, to disinfect the gray room outside of the tent once a week for 30 mins. ~ Ozone (o3) gas that is produced using the COOSPIDER, is then directed into the tent to further control any unwanted pathogens. ~ Ed Rosenthal (Zero Tolerance organic pesticide), sprayed once a week as preventative measure. On hand for heavier use (Once every 3 days before lights out for 15 days) in the case of an outbreak (No outbreaks yet, due to aforementioned preventative measures)

Ok so I decided to make a tea to make up for the fact I cannot get bio enhancer for a booster. I decided to make something very similar but with a slight twist. I'm going to give the plants the tea at the end of the week. It's a pretty basic tea, im holding back the nutes. My plants are still getting their main source of macronutrients from the bio grow. So let's boost the micro's👌 its pretty much a hand full or two worm castings, some dried kelp meal, small amount of liquid kelp, humic acid, molasses and some ground up charcole 😉 put it that in pourous bag and let it bubble away.

Hallo und Herzlich willkommen zu meinem neuen Grow mit der Forbidden Runtz double XL Automatic von Grower's Choice. Diese schreiben: "Eine Kreuzung zwischen „Forbidden Fruit“ und „Runtz“. Eine Sorte von Growerschoice mit sehr hohem Terpengehalt. Die Aromen waren das Wichtigste bei der Auswahl und Kreuzung dieser Genetik". Sehr süss und fruchtig soll sie sein, ganz genau mein Fall. Die URL findet ihr hier: https://www.growerschoice.nl/de/feminisierte-selbstbluhende-hanfsamen/forbidden-runtz-xl-auto.html#additional Tag 50: 1,75 Liter Wasser. Tag 52: 1,0 Liter Wasser. Tag 54: Die Forbidden Runtz double XL Automatic von Grower's Choice streckt sich nochmal 13 cm. 1,0 Liter Wasser. Tag 55: Die Spitzen der Seitenzweige sind voller Blüten. Schön, dass du dir den Grow angesehen hast. Bleib neugierig 👋😎

Finally those will become mother plants as well since some friends asked me for clones so i will keep up the diaries but i won't switch these ones into flowering yet. I'm planning to start my clones at the end of this month. I will be doing a main-lining with 15x15 rock wool and FloraFlex stuff 😎

I'm switching my nutrients from Foop to ILGM Bergman's Plant Nutrients. Shouldn't be a problem Foop works well with other nutrients. However, my irrigation lines were getting clogged and the smell. I think because I'm using small lines... Regardless I'm using 1/8 of 800ppm level=100 ppm.

OK guys I'm starting at the beginning of week 5 so this one is only a few days after my last addition the the diary. I noticed the very first pistils so now we are in week 1 of flower. Punch 2 has dark greeb, curled down edges, maybe a nitrogen toxicity? I don't think I'm over watering, they didn't have water for 6 days when I noticed these symptoms. Punch 1 doesn't have the dark green edged fan leaves or the curling down, but there are some pale white spots and smudges at the ends of the fan leaves. Any ideas guys? I'm new to this so not 100% what is going on or how to fix. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys🎄

Plant keep growing great. As you can see at the leaves there are some of the tips of the leaves with bad color, thats because teh EC reached up to 1,8 so I added ph leveled plain water with 0,4 ec to lower the ec to 1,5 and the plant is responding really well, growing faster and with a healthy root system. The temperature was high also (near 30 degrees celsius) so i moved the lamp upper and i will setup an 100mm fan for extraction. The led panel is really really hot

About to start week 8 of flush

Day 78 - Was just about to go ahead and chop today but decided against it and will give her till the weekend. She’s at about 25% amber so just about where I’d like her to be so just letting her completely dry out before chopping. Day 79 - Just letting her go until the weekend when she’ll get chopped. Hopefully her being dried out gets her fattening up a bit before beforehand. She’s about 30% amber so thinking she’ll be right about 40-50% but chop day.

Small update Everything is going pretty well, nothing has really changed accept size. Still feeding through the autopot system. Nutrients have been upped slightly to 3ml per litre I think they are ready to flip over now but not sure wether to put them into a scrog for another week. They are pretty low and bushy on there own but I’m not sure if they would benefit from a lot of defoliation and lollipopping as the plants aren’t very tall anyway.

Bueno esta semana fue un cambio total. Cambié la alimentación por toda la línea top crop. Hice un riego de 500 ml con 1 ml de top veg , 1ml de Green explosion Y 0,50 aprox de deeper y barrier. A los dos días regué con 300 ml y 1 ml de top veg. El próximo riego lo voy a hacer con 500 ml de agua sola. Para luego volver a empezar como con el primer riego nada más que con 2 ml de top veg por riego y tal vez ya no utilice deeper y agregue big one. Debería inclinarla un poco más ? Solo voy a realizar lst. No voy a hacer poda apical . Saludos 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

Another week has flown by! The girls are doing great, cruise control this week as I have just been monitoring RH and temps. Trying to keep them as low as possible, I’ve been getting as low as 74 during the day and 68 at night. I finally took a look a look at the trichomes with my jewellers loop, lots of cloudy, and a few amber around the leaves and top colas, but still lot’s of clear trichomes. I’ve ordered myself a wireless/usb digital microscope to assist with the process, and looks like it will be here just in time to determine harvest day. 😎🎄 I started by eliminating the nutrients at the beginning of the week. I typically allow for 3-4 pure water feeds before I harvest, and at the rate they have been drinking, this should be enough to get through the 7-12 days they have before harvest. I don’t flush, but rather “rinse” with normal water amounts, allowing the plant to use up the remaining nutrients in the soil. This also allows me to recover most of the soil from my grows and reuse ♻️ with other soil mix. There has been great debate and a great deal of bro science out there for many years, but the recent studies suggest there is no difference in end result when it comes to flushing or using nutrients right until the end, if a proper dry and cure is performed. What do you think? What do you prefer to do? Thanks for reading this far, leave me a comment with your preferred method 👊🇨🇦❤️

High GD community, Week 13, Both girls looking good, but when it get a closer look, there some browning tips on the pistils. Im not pleased with it, bcs im sure its no sign of maturation. There has to be a shoc or drought, lights? I dont know, ive dropt the output a tiny bit. But im not that sure thats the real issue. Ive measured the soil and it seems pretty cold. Like 17.2 and 18.2 celcius for the 1 with infrared heatingmat 5w. Im using less nutrients now 2, so could this be a reaction. I diddnt go cold turkey on them. But its a changer. They also start to drink more, and there was 1 day it felt all a bit lighter then normal. But deffenitly not bonedry. So I got a lot of questions to get some answer to. This weeks watering💦 was at the usual ph 6.2 and only 1 feeding a week. 4 waterings this week. Thats it for this week Grow safe buds and feel free to check out my other ladies.🌿🌿🌿👍 🙏🍀🍀🍀🙏

Another few days, cut her half, ready end of the week ♥️👍 03/01 trichomes still blanc 05/01 trichomes not ready

🗓️ Week 11 – Flower Week 7 ✅ Things got interesting this week: After raising the input EC to 2.0, the runoff jumped to 2.2–2.6 EC – a clear sign of salt saturation in the medium ⚠️ pH remained stable at 6.2–6.3, and no visible signs of overfeeding so far. Starting next watering, I’ll reduce the input to 1.6–1.7 EC to restore balance between uptake and residuals in the substrate 🌱 Despite the spike, Cherry MAC Muffin is handling it well – no signs of stress or lockout. The buds are getting noticeably frostier and denser, resin production is in full swing ❄️🔥 📸 Visual update – Cherry MAC Muffin She’s still stretching slightly, but the buds are stacking beautifully – covered in trichomes, with purple highlights showing in the sugar leaves 🍒💜