Day 92 – Standing strong and swelling up! After a week of mixed conditions here in Ramsgate — cool mornings, occasional coastal winds, and sudden heat bursts above 24°C — this plant is showing what true resilience looks like. Despite last month’s stormy surprises and some early stem stress, the FastBuds genetics continue to shine. Buds are stacking beautifully, calyxes are swelling up, and there’s a confident push toward the final phase. You’ll notice a bit of natural fade on the lower leaves — a classic sign of energy being redirected toward flower production. No intervention needed. This is outdoor minimalism at its best: nature-led, no bottles, just strong soil, sunlight, and observation. Each cola is now forming a clear crown, and internodal spacing has tightened. The smell is still subtle outdoors, but richer day by day. I’m continuing with a hands-off approach — just water, light breeze, and the occasional nod of respect to Mother Nature. To anyone growing outdoors: never underestimate what the sun and time can do with the right soil and genetics. 💚

Pulled down side branches using Twisties. Will be putting her on to flower soon.

Beginning of week 8! Things are going well in the tent, new life is thriving and ladies are coming along nicely!

Day 49 and moving along. Wanting to run these 21 more days max, the Jedi cookies I think I can take to that point but one of the CBD crack might be done sooner. Other than that things are chill, wanting to see some bud growth this week.

- Diminution bloom connoisseurA&B à 1ml/L, diminution Méga pk à 0,1g/L. - Augmentation Terra Flores à 4ml/L , augmentation resin boom à 4ml/L. Bientôt le Bloombastic pour durcissement des Colas et augmentation des sucres. Je pousserait les phéno Sativa a 14semaines + ou - et les indica a 11semaines. Haga clic y siga a mis amigos cultivadores. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌲🌲🌱🌱🌱🌱🌲🌲🌱🌱🌱🌱🌲🌲 Click and follow my producer friends leave your comments or opinions #LoveUnityAndPeace

Waiting for first signs of life … While we are, I thought I’d give you a short explanation on the software’s graphics in case you did not follow my first diary. The one to the upper left, as its headline says, is the temperature graph. Most important line is the red one, showing the leaf temperature measured with an infrared temperature sensor. As there are no leaves yet, it is pointed towards one of the pot’s wall at soil level. Air temperature from a sensor that usually hangs around somewhere around top level is violet, and the grey line is the outside temperature close to the tent, helping the software to determine if a main blower action will effectively lower temperature. As I learned from the first grow a plant day that corresponds to the natural day can cause enormous gaps both to temperature and humidity, I inverted the plant day now, starting their night at 11 a.m. So after the first day temperature will only vary around 1.5 °C, which is of course due to the low light intensity too. Humidity graph on the upper right is quite crowded. Main line is the blue one, tent air humidity, which on this first day was between excellent 65 – 70% most of the time. For the moment humidifier is electrically disabled. There is quite some excess humidity on the tent floor and no reason to push this any further. Outside air humidity is grey again and taken from the same outside sensor that reports outside temperature. The soil humidity sensors are simple analogue capacitive sensors which have their flaws. I am interpolating their measurements to have a somewhat smoother reading, but as you can see from the turquoise humidifier reservoir reading (in legend named as plant soil hum 1), they can get confused when humidity is very high and start to report random numbers for some time. The most important graph for all growing stages is the lower left one, where the pink line meaning plant VPD should be inside the green optimum range for somewhat perfect conditions. This cannot be attained all of the time – dehumidifying isn’t as easy as humidifying –, but software tries its best to do so. Outside VPD is grey again. The last graph is more for amusement than anything else. The light intensity sensor is hard to position correctly, and everything you see about illumination and DLI (orange and green, plus grey for the accumulated 24 h DLI) should be taken with some spoonful of salt. Any resemblance to real world professional instrument readings can be considered purely coincidental. The violet line is the CO2 reading from such a sensor, and you can see that its tiny peaks correspond to even tinier black peaks at the bottom of the graph, reading TVOC values which in this case, once they will be more than possible measurement irregularities, can be interpreted as smell. ------- End of week 1: All seeds germinated. I wasn’t at home most of the time, and it turned out using the humidity sensor to monitor the humidifier’s tank wasn’t good for the stability of the system. Arduino crashed, so there are no pictures yet and no graphs to show. I have the feeling light was a bit low as the seedlings grew a bit tall, but with lights now up to 20% I guess this problem is fixed. More tomorrow when I have some more data to share. Even more end of week 1 (I extended this week to 9 days as I cannot tell when the seedlings started to show): Lights are at 40%, meaning 40 W in total. No reason to give them new water until next week. As some flies showed up from the BioBizz soil, I added 2 yellow cards. So far, everything in normal ranges. I’ll switch the control to grow phase soon which will raise the VPD slightly by 0.5 kPa. It’s interesting to see the CO2 level started to climb by 50% during their last night and has not come down to baseline afterwards. I restarted the app to check if the sensor had lost its calibration, but it still sits at around 660 ppm now.

The end is near! These girls are maturing pretty quick, with the front plant looking ready for harvest tomorrow and the back plant less than a week after. Front is 95% cloudy with just a few reds here and there, while back is 70/30 cloudy/clear with no reds. Front buds are more elongated and thinner, while back buds are thicker and more compact looking. Both plants have nice solid buds already. Hardest part about this week has been watching them finish and NOT harvesting too early! Lowered the light by 10% just to help with heat management more than anything. With a few plants out of the tent the light is reflecting more off the walls and building a bit more heat. All good though, the end is in sight just gonna keep on doing my thing and let these girls cruise to the finish line.

Weekly Update: Aug 6th Textbook grow, no significant issues to address, super resistant to high heat which is consistent with the pheno's under high power FS-LED's. Dolomite lime top-dress early on has kept root-zone pH under control, due for another top-dress soon. 10% Runoff @ 2 gal (will be going up to 2.5 gal for 15-20%): 1900ppm, pH 5.5 (meh).

Fungus gnats blew up, so I had to surround the whole place with traps. Looks like I’ve thinned the population out for now, but I’ll be picking those little bastards out of the buds later — they stick like they’re welded on ) Runoff pH is way too high, so I decided to bring it down by feeding with a lower pH solution. Temporarily running 5.2 instead of 5.8. What can I say… this grow keeps throwing more and more experience at me, barely keeping up with processing it all. The more you learn, the more opens up)) Hope this won’t go on forever and the perfect grow is somewhere around the corner ) The smell has started to shift — moving more and more into gas and chem territory. I’m getting more convinced that all these berry/fruity strains should be chopped around the end of week 6, day 42–45, but this time I’m gonna hold her for about 9 weeks and see what’s left. The color has really started turning purple now, with the top buds darkening first. From next week I’ll start bringing her into autumn mode — I think by harvest she’ll be almost fully purple.

8 week We have 12 strong plants and one skinny one. They start drinking more then 1.5 l with one application of water. Smells really sweetly and fruity. I really love it!

It smells of nothing but diesel n a very pungent Kush smell the berries nor mango scent hasn’t quite poked thru yet but it definitely smells of quality bud in the veg closet ha may need to upgrade my carbon filter. Gonna move these ladies at the end of the week. Thanks for tuning in!

​🌿 Journal de Culture : Cherry Cola (Auto) ​Date : 25/03/2026 Âge : 62 jours (Semaine 9) Phase : Maturation (Gonflement et sénescence précoce) ​📊 Paramètres de mon espace ​Température : 24,5°C (Jour) / 20°C (Nuit). ​Humidité : 50%. ​Éclairage : Pure LED 240W réglée à 75% d'intensité, maintenue à 75 cm de distance. ​💧 Nutrition & Arrosage ​J'ai ajusté le dosage pour accompagner la fin de floraison : ​Apport : 4 ml de PK 5-8 (BioTabs). ​Le phosphore et le potassium sont essentiels maintenant pour durcir les têtes et maximiser le poids final. ​📏 Suivi des Plantes & Évolution ​Plante #1 (Celle aux pistils orangés) ​Taille : 41 cm (+1 cm depuis le 18/03). ​État : Elle est la plus avancée dans son cycle. Presque tous ses pistils sont devenus orangés/bruns, ce qui est un signe clair que la plante approche de la fin de sa production de nouvelles calices. Ses feuilles commencent à montrer des signes de sénescence (jaunissement naturel), ce qui signifie qu'elle puise ses dernières réserves pour finir les fleurs. ​Plante #2 (La Petite) ​Taille : 33 cm (+3 cm depuis le 18/03). ​État : Bien que plus compacte, elle est extrêmement dense. Ses pistils sont encore majoritairement blancs et longs, ce qui indique qu'elle a encore un peu de temps pour gonfler par rapport à sa voisine. ​🔍 Mes observations ​Le filet de SCROG est maintenant totalement rempli. La production de résine est impressionnante, les têtes sont littéralement givrées et la couche de trichomes descend jusque sur les grandes feuilles. ​L'odeur sucrée de bonbon devient plus complexe et lourde. La Plante #1 semble prête à entamer sa phase de rinçage très bientôt, tandis que la Plante #2 profite encore pleinement du PK pour épaissir sa structure. On sent que la récolte approche à grands pas . 30/03 apport d'eau à la plante 1 1 litres PH 6,3

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.

600-750 mmol Dimmer at the 75%

Hello everyone 😎 Week 6 of flower for the Amnesia Zkittlez🍭 Only 1 plant left then finito✔️ Very nice smell super sweet🤤 The buds are super sticky🔥

It has been a good week. The NTs are fattening and getting covered in ice! They are also loosing most of the lower leaves, I'm a bit afraid that they lose too many, I hope not! Now after two weeks of stretch it seems like they stopped ascending. I can't wait to see how this coming week will go!