Welcome growfessors to the harvest of Mandarin dreams! These 5 ladies got chopped down this week, the three pheno 1 strains have nice dense buds, very sticky! One pheno 2 is very fluffy, airy buds and the other pheno 2, is someplace in between, not rock hard, but close to it. Last time I'll be growing this strain, she was easy to grow, but not a smoke I enjoy, the indica hits harder as the buds cure and I'm not that interested in couch lock. Will update in 7-10 days with dry weight.

# 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 12 ## ? Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno A ### 🌸 More Photons, More Flowers, and a Beautifully Balanced Ecosystem Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And honestly, my friends... LOOK AT HER! 😂🌸 We're now moving further into flowering, and I'm genuinely happy with what I'm seeing inside this little ecosystem. Four plants. Two different cultivars. One tent. One shared environment. Our beloved Blue Waffle F1 girls are sharing the space with their Pickle Lemon Haze F1 sisters, and every plant is giving us something interesting to observe. But today, we're putting the spotlight on Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno A. Because even though she's sharing the same tent, the same reservoir, and the same environmental conditions as the other girls, she deserves her own report and her own moment to shine. And this week, we made a couple of small but meaningful adjustments. We lowered the temperatures and humidity slightly, increased the power of our overhead LEDs, and kept the entire nutrition recipe exactly where it was. No unnecessary changes. No complicated interventions. Just a little refinement of the environment and a lot of appreciation for what these beautiful cultivars are showing us. Let's get into it! 💙🌿 ### 🌸 WEEK 12 – A SMALL CHANGE THAT MAKES THIS WEEK INTERESTING Not every week needs to bring a major transformation. Sometimes, the most interesting updates are the ones where we make a few adjustments and observe how the plants respond. That's exactly where we are now. The major structural work has already been completed. The canopy has been organized, the second SCROG is in place, and the under-canopy lighting experiment is underway. Now we're concentrating on maintaining a comfortable environment while the flowers continue developing. This week, we made two principal adjustments: - We reduced the temperature and relative humidity slightly. - We increased the power of the overhead LEDs to the highest level we intend to use in this 1 × 1 metre tent. We're not running everything at 100%, and we're not necessarily trying to squeeze every possible watt out of the equipment. Instead, we're giving the girls a little more light than before while keeping an eye on how the whole ecosystem responds. And so far? They're looking beautiful! 😂💙 ### 💡 MORE PHOTONS – BUT WE'RE KEEPING OUR HEADS COOL Let's talk about the lighting, because this is one of the most interesting changes this week. We've increased the LED power to the maximum level we currently intend to use in this particular tent. Not necessarily the maximum the equipment can deliver, but the maximum we've decided to use for this setup. There's a difference! I honestly don't think we need to push the lights harder just for the sake of doing it. The tent is relatively compact, and we already have a beautiful, productive-looking canopy. But we also know that light is one of the important factors influencing plant development and flower production. So we're giving the girls a little more photon availability and observing how they respond. The goal isn't simply to turn up the lights and hope for the best. It's to find a sensible balance between light intensity, temperature, humidity, and the plants' overall condition. More light can be beneficial when the plants can use it effectively, but more isn't automatically better. The response depends on the intensity reaching the canopy, the environment, and how comfortably the plants are handling the conditions. That's why we're not jumping straight to 100%. We're increasing the available light while keeping the ecosystem balanced. And now we watch. Because the plants always get the final word. 🌿💡 ### 🌸 THE WHITE PISTILS ARE CHANGING, AND THE FLOWERS ARE FORMING This is where things are becoming particularly beautiful. The white pistils are developing and changing as the flowers continue to form. The flowering sites are becoming more defined, and the overall structure is starting to show us more clearly where this plant is heading. When I look at Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A, I see a plant that's moving through another stage of her flowering journey. We're no longer looking only at the framework we created during vegetation. We're watching the flowers develop within that framework. The branches, the canopy organization, the training, and the support system are all part of the picture, but the flowers are increasingly taking centre stage. And the close-up photographs make it even more enjoyable to follow. Every week gives us another opportunity to compare what we're seeing now with what we saw before. The pistils. The flower structure. The developing resin. The way the plant is progressing. It's a beautiful process to document. And she's giving us plenty of reasons to keep the camera ready! 📸💙 ### ❄️ THE FROST IS STILL ONE OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS TO OBSERVE I have to mention the frost again, because you know me... 😂❄️ I love getting close to the flowers and seeing all those little details that are easy to miss when you're simply looking at the whole plant. The developing flowers and sugar leaves give us so much to appreciate through the camera. And that's one of the things I love about keeping a detailed diary. You can see the plant from a distance and appreciate the structure. Then you get closer, take a photograph, and discover an entirely different level of detail. We're documenting the plant as she develops, not just taking pretty pictures. Although, let's be honest... the pretty pictures certainly help! 😂💙 ### 🌡️ A LITTLE LESS HEAT AND HUMIDITY Alongside the increase in LED power, we've also reduced the temperature and relative humidity slightly. These adjustments go together as part of the overall environmental management. When we change the lighting, we're also paying attention to the conditions around the canopy. More light can mean a different thermal load, so we want to make sure the room continues operating comfortably. We're not changing every setting at once or rebuilding the entire environment. We're refining the conditions while keeping the rest of the setup consistent. And that's an important distinction. We already have a system that we're happy with. We don't need to reinvent it every week. We simply need to keep observing, make sensible adjustments when appropriate, and avoid changing things without a reason. The ecosystem is working beautifully, and the goal is to keep it that way. 🌿💙 ### 🌱 SAME NUTRITION, SAME RESERVOIR, SAME PHILOSOPHY Now, here's something that hasn't changed this week. The nutrition. We're keeping the same recipe in the reservoir because everything is progressing well, and there's no reason to introduce unnecessary changes just because we've adjusted the lighting and environmental conditions. Our current recipe remains: - PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L - PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L - PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L - PLAGRON pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L - PLAGRON pH Minus — 0.03 ml/L The pH Plus and pH Minus quantities are the recorded recipe values; the actual amount required for adjustment can vary with the source water and the solution. We're not changing the nutrient recipe this week. The plants are developing, the irrigation system is working beautifully, and we're happy with the overall progress. Keeping the nutrition consistent also means we're not introducing another variable while observing the effect of the lighting and environmental adjustments. That's part of what makes this project interesting. We make a change where we believe it makes sense, maintain the other elements, and watch what happens. Simple, consistent, and documented. 💙 ### 💧 IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE – THE QUIET HEROES One of the best things about this ecosystem is that the irrigation and drainage systems are doing their jobs without demanding constant attention. The girls are sharing the same reservoir, and the automatic irrigation system continues supporting the plants throughout the day. When these systems are working properly, it's easy to forget how important they are. But consistency matters. We want a setup that supports the plants while allowing us to concentrate on observing their development. And that's exactly what we're aiming for here. The equipment doesn't need to be the star of every update. Sometimes, the best compliment you can give a system is that everything is running as expected. No unnecessary drama. Just another part of the ecosystem working together. 💧🌿 ### 🕸️ THE STRUCTURE IS ESTABLISHED – NOW WE WATCH Remember how much work went into getting these girls to this point? The training. The topping. The SCROG. The defoliation. The management of the stretch. The adjustments to the available space. The additional support. The airflow improvements. There was a time when the main question was how we were going to manage the canopy. Now, the structure is established, and we're watching the plants develop within it. The second SCROG remains an important part of that support system, while the canopy organization helps us observe the flowering sites more clearly. We're not looking to make unnecessary structural changes this week. The plant has a framework, the support is in place, and the focus is on monitoring her progress. Sometimes, the best way to appreciate the work we've done is to stop interfering with it and see what the plant does next. And that's precisely what we're doing with Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A. ### 💡 TWO LUMIFLORA FIXTURES – LIGHT FROM BELOW Our under-canopy lighting experiment also remains part of the bigger picture. We're using two LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum fixtures underneath the canopy, arranged in an X-cross configuration. The main LEDs provide the primary overhead lighting, while the LumiFlora fixtures give us another way to explore supplemental lighting in the lower portions of the plants. It's an interesting addition to this setup, particularly because the plants have developed substantial vertical structure. But, as always, we're approaching this as an experiment. We aren't assuming that adding lights underneath will automatically produce a particular result. We're interested in observing how the lower flowering sites develop and how the complete lighting arrangement performs as the plants progress. The overhead power adjustment and the under-canopy lighting are both parts of the lighting environment, but they serve different roles. Now we continue monitoring the plants and documenting what we see. That's what this project is about: experimenting, observing, and learning as we go. 💡🌸 ### FOUR PLANTS, TWO CULTIVARS, ONE BEAUTIFUL ECOSYSTEM This is one of the things that makes Project Blue Tent so enjoyable for me. We have four plants sharing one tent, representing two different cultivars: Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1. They're growing in the same room, sharing the reservoir, and experiencing the same general environmental conditions. And yet every plant deserves to be documented individually. I know I've mentioned how uniform these plants can look, but I still find it fascinating. Sometimes, looking across the canopy, the plants appear remarkably similar in their overall development. At the same time, we need to leave room for individual differences to show themselves as flowering progresses. That's why I'm keeping separate phenotype reports. A shared environment gives us a useful basis for comparison, but it doesn't mean every plant will necessarily respond identically. Each one has its own development to document. And today, that's Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A's moment. She's looking fantastic, and I'm genuinely happy with the way this ecosystem is progressing. ### 🌿 WHY THIS WEEK MATTERS – AND WHY IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE DRAMATIC I think this is an important point to make. This week matters because we've adjusted two environmental variables: temperature and relative humidity. We've also increased the overhead LED power to the highest level planned for this tent. Those are meaningful changes to observe. But this doesn't mean we need to make the week sound more dramatic than it is. We haven't changed the nutrition. We haven't introduced a completely new training technique. We haven't rebuilt the room. We're refining an already established setup. And sometimes, that's exactly what a good grow update should document. Not every week needs a breakthrough. Not every adjustment needs to produce an immediate, obvious difference. Some changes need time before we can properly evaluate them. So we're recording what we've changed, appreciating what we're seeing, and giving the plants time to respond. That's how we learn. And that's why I enjoy documenting the entire journey rather than only showing the big moments. The quiet weeks matter too. 💙 ### 🌸 CURRENT GROW CONDITIONS - Cultivar: Blue Waffle F1 - Phenotype: Pheno A - Flowering: Week 12 - Height:Approximately 145 cm - Light schedule: 12/12 - Day temperature: Reduced slightly; current value to be confirmed - Night temperature:Reduced slightly; current value to be confirmed - Relative humidity: Reduced slightly; current value to be confirmed - pH: 6.01 - EC: 2.24 mS/cm, last recorded value - Solution temperature: 25°C, last recorded value - Substrate temperature: 24°C, last recorded value - CO₂: Approximately 666 ppm, last recorded value - Pot size: 8 L - Watering volume: Approximately 1.6 L per plant per 24 hours - Main lighting: LED power increased to the maximum planned level for this tent - Under-canopy lighting: 2 × LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum fixtures - Nutrient program: PLAGRON Hydro - Nutrient recipe: Unchanged this week Note: The previous recorded readings are retained where no new measurement was provided. They should not be interpreted as newly measured values for this week.* ### 🔭 WHAT I'M WATCHING NEXT Now I'm particularly interested in seeing how the girls respond to the updated environment. How will Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A progress with the increased overhead light intensity? How will the slightly reduced temperature and humidity affect the overall balance of the room? How will the flowers continue developing? How will the lower flowering sites progress under the supplemental LumiFlora lighting? And will the similarities between our Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1 plants continue as they move further through flowering? We don't need to answer all those questions today. We need to keep the environment consistent, observe the plants, and record what happens. That's the beauty of a project like this. We're not simply trying to reach the finish line. We're learning along the way. ### 💙 FINAL THOUGHTS – KEEP EVERYTHING SHINING Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A is looking beautiful, and I'm genuinely happy with the direction this ecosystem is taking. The flowers are forming. The white pistils are developing and changing. The structure is established. The nutrition remains consistent. The irrigation and drainage are working beautifully. We've slightly reduced the temperature and humidity, increased the overhead LED power, and kept the rest of the system stable. And that's the story of this week. A few deliberate adjustments. No unnecessary changes. And a beautiful plant continuing her flowering journey. I don't believe we need to push every setting to its absolute maximum to prove that we're doing something. We need to find a balance that makes sense for the space, the lighting, and the plants themselves. That's why we're not running the LEDs at 100%. We're giving the girls more light while keeping the whole environment in mind. And now we let the plants show us how they respond. I'm really, really happy with this room. Four plants. Two cultivars. One ecosystem. And so much still to discover. Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A deserves her own spotlight, and this week she's getting exactly that. Keep the environment balanced. Keep observing. Keep learning. And remember that sometimes the best decision is the one that allows you to appreciate what you've already built. 💙🌸🌿 ### 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and giving us the opportunity to explore these beautiful Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1 cultivars. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting the girls throughout this journey. A massive thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, curved scissors, and clip fans that have become important parts of this ecosystem. Thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic irrigation and drainage system that continues helping us maintain consistency throughout the tent. And a special thank you to LumiFlora for the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy fixtures that we're using to explore supplemental lighting beneath the canopy. And of course, thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us the platform to document the journey, the experiments, the lessons, and the beautiful moments along the way. Most importantly, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent! 💙 We're continuing to learn, observe, and enjoy the process, one week at a time. Until next week... More flowers. More observations. More learning. And hopefully, even more reasons to stand in front of the tent, look at these beautiful girls, and smile. 😂💙🌸 Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone!🌱💙

Der erste Run ist durch 😍 ich bin mit dem Ergebnis sehr zufrieden und freu mich schon darauf es rauchen zu können 🙏 naja ein kleines bisschen konnte ich schon schon Naschen 😋 nach dem Wet trimm habe ich die Buds im DryFerm Bag´s zum trocknen in das kleinen Zelt gehängt. Dabei fiel ein kleines bisschen Scherenhash in meine Tüte 😎 Die Schnittreste lagen ohne DryFerm Bag ca. 1.5 Tage mit im Zelt. Anschließend 2 Tage in der Gefriertruhe um Dry Sift zu machen. Bei 14g Verschnitt fielen 0,7g feinstes Dry Sift aufs Tablette. 🙌 The first run is done 😍 I’m very happy with the result and can’t wait to be able to smoke it 🙏 well, I already got to nibble a little bit 😋 after the wet trim, I hung the buds in the DryFerm bags to dry in the small tent. A little bit of trimming hash ended up in my bag 😎 The cuttings were left in the tent without a DryFerm bag for about 1.5 days. Then 2 days in the freezer to make dry sift. From 14g of leftover trim, 0.7g of finest dry sift came out on the tray. 🙌

Week 2 of Bloom

No more training, switched the lights to 120W+660nm+UV+IR. I had to increase the distance since the new QB is much hotter. The weather was very humid - AC working all the time, still 26.2C at night, usually 25C during daytime, 45% RH during day, 52% RH at nighttime .

Packing up a bit now. Colours are amazing, really deep purple nearly both black leaves and bright red calyx's. Absolutely stinks too, like a really pungent nose burning smell haha almost unpleasant, fruitiness is there and it's like a berry and liquorice maybe, it's really strange . A few Amber trichomes are forming but very few. Going to check back next week and see how far off before I start flushing.

3 are really flowering, one is pre flower and one is still veg. Still all are quite healthy, no signs of seeds so lucky I seemed to have culled the male soon enough. The one I topped once is 2.3m but the ones I topped twice are only about 2 meters and started flowering first. Finally it is sunny and the plants are loving it. Looks like I have another 4-6 weeks of flowering before I can harvest

Estou trabalhando com fertilizantes orgânicos, comecei com Enraizante de lentilha, hoje comecei a fazer regas foliares e estou tentando usar uma técnica que aprendi para adicionar cálcio naturalmente na água, assim variando entre regas normais com água coletada da chuva e com água calcificada. possivelmente na próxima semana já mudarei os vasos. Essa técnica pra calcificar a água aprendi através da minha vó, ela cozinhava ovos e usava a mesma água pras raízes e nisso tem diversos pontos científicos, a casca do ovo tem grandes fontes de cálcio ao serem fervidas esse minério se desprende e se fixa na água, se tornando um tônico extremamente nutritivo. Fica a dica orgânica pra quem esta passando por problemas com baixo nível de cálcio Estou cultivando Arruda e Lavanda junto, elas afastam insetos e desfaçam o cheiro da cannabis, bom pra enganar aquele vizinho X9

Wow. I honestly cant believe how well she turned out for me. Filled out super nicely. Nice big fat frosty nugs. I cant wait until the final cure is done. And I get a final weight off her.

What up Growmies, this one grew hella fast maturing in 9 weeks from seed to harvest fast. Buds is true to their name. This one has some serious resin on the flowers reminding me of some sort of a gelato Gorilla glue cross, but we shall see when it's released! I could be far off lol. I had no problems growing her. She was really easy and happy her whole life. She's a great one for extractions! Thank you grow diaries and thank you fastbuds for the opportunity to show the world my organic gardening skills! I appreciate all the support from the growing community here on grow diaries. Big thanks for my followers!

ULH1 is finishing its weird flowers, will be harvested in a couple of days because its almost done and i need the pot for the AH2. WOuld let her more time if she had normal flowers... ULH2 is putting some weight in the flowers this week. AH1 is growing like a real monster. The weather is better than a couple of months ago, so im sure both AH will grow big ^^, feeding her high, she seems to eat a lot . AH2 the lil baby is rooting and waiting for a new final pot.

Finally, 25 weeks i believe... Mold, mildew, bud rot, rain, humidity, crazy wind, frost. Somehow these girls turned out just fine and I am so proud of the end result. I am late posting, everything is pretty much all cured up and ready to smoke. Just finished making some stocking-stuffer jars for friends and family for Christmas. It was interesting to see the different phenotypes from each plant. One was named Average Girl, medium size, medium height. Then there was Big Bitch. She was the tallest and had the skinniest nugs. Next was Dolly.. She had the fattest cones of the 4.. a little shorter than Average Girl. And last was Runt... She was about 2 weeks behind her sisters and about a foot shorter, but she did not get any mold or mildew, and her buds were ginormous. I let her go an extra 2-3 weeks later than her sisters, bringing her into the garage every night at 7 pm, and then waking up at 7 am to put her outside. By far, my favorite plant was Runty. She finished up so nice. Overall smell is Kushy blueberry diesel cat piss with a hint of citrus. Wouldn't grow this strain again just because it did not handle the weather well, and I like a kushier final product, on the taste and nose. That being said, I am a very happy guy right now. Over and out.

Wow, they are growing! Began LST on day 26 and have been working them daily. We did run into our first speed bump. Noticed that some newer growth near the tops of the plants had white/yellow tips on leaves. Using a CMH, I was concerned my light was too close. I moved the light up quite a bit but continued seeing new growth with this problem. Realized it was likely minor nute burn from FFOF... wow it really is as HOT as I have heard... something to consider on future grows. I have left the light up higher though, as I read multiple accounts of people using CMHs near top of tent with no negative effects. To this point, I have seen no stretching or anything that would cause me to lower the light. I did do a light cal/mag feeding once this week but do not believe it has anything to do with the burn. Reading other grow diaries for this strain, and using RO water, I wanted to begin feeding at a low ppm. Maybe not the best idea considering, but we live and we learn. Photos/video are day 29 since breaking the soil.

The colors are showing on this lady! They are beautiful! I couldn't believe how much she came into her own. I started to flush her and she's been hungry anyway. I taper off the nutes like nature intended. So last week was probably less than I added on the site. I will go back and fix it.

Transplante para vasos de 18 litros, antes estavam em vasos de 4 litros

We have hit day 35 and everything's looking great! Only 2 girls out of 8 have started flowering in the past day or two, the remaining six have shown sex and I'm anticipating flowering to begin sometime this week. I gave them a full feeding today. I'm using H&G Coco A+B, which is used from seed to harvest, unlike many other nutrient brands. I will start using H&G Bud-XL in the next few days, luckily I got a bottle before the shops close for Christmas. I didn't expect these autos to get so big so fast, but I'm definitely not complaining. Update day 37 - 26/12/20 I fed the girls their first dose of bud-xl today. 5/8 girls have started to flower now, hopefully, in the next few days the other 3 start up! Update: Day 40 - 29/12/20 6/8 girls are flowering now, the two that aren't are the 2 weird pheno runts.. I've submitted a grow question regarding the 2 weird girls. I'm hoping that they're simply late to flower and not a photoperiod.. I've been feeding the girls 1-2 litres each every day, with a plain PH'd water run every 7-14 days. Update day 41 - 30/12/20 All the girls have started to flower now :D I'm incredibly happy to see them so healthy at this point too I was almost going to put the 2 runts outside but I'm leaving them inside at this point. Thanks for stopping by! Merry Christmas/Happy holidays to all :)

Will try to log weekly 😅