Here is the grower-style English version:
Well, here we are at the halfway point: 35 days of veg, 35 days of flower, and about 35 days left. Probably less, but it looks cleaner this way.
So, what’s interesting this week?
The main thing is the smell. They are starting to stink pretty nicely, so I’ve started using the ionizer. Everything except #3 smells more or less the same: mostly sweet chemicals, so I guess GG#4 is taking the lead there. Somewhere in the background you can catch some berries, but not right away.
I don’t really know what Kush is supposed to smell like, but I had a chance to try DC Kush last year, and this smell reminds me of it a lot. Sweet, herbal, with that little bitter grapefruit-like edge.
But the real star here is #3. Straight from the breeder’s description: blueberry pie.
No, you don’t get it…
Imagine one of those closed pies from cartoons. You move closer, and first you get that sweet baked smell. Then boom — blueberry filling explosion. And it keeps getting stronger and stronger until everything is covered in blueberries and there is no escape.
Crazy stuff. I’ve been smelling this plant for a while now, and it still impresses me every time.
Also, a new little gadget arrived: a 2-in-1 pH/EC meter with automatic temperature compensation, auto calibration, and most importantly, for lazy asses like me — dry storage. Rinse it in RO or distilled water, close it, put it away. AquaMaster P110Pro.
A couple more goodies for the nutrient soup from APTUS also joined the party. I always had this feeling that something was missing from my salt-based mix, even in coco.
So, meet:
Topbooster — amino acids with a small amount of NPK.
ENZYM+ — enzymes.
I’m not going to write a love poem about them. If you want, you can look them up and read what they do.
I liked their silicon product, so I decided to test these two as well, mainly to push flavor, smell, and cannabinoids as far as possible. Everything else is already covered.
One more thing. I decided to refresh my crop steering knowledge a bit, because I had a couple of unclear moments. And honestly, there’s not much place to refresh it properly except with AI, so I used Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
Turns out, I was doing some things wrong. Not everything, of course, but I definitely messed up the vegetative irrigation strategy.
Drain should be happening gradually during the whole P2 phase — the irrigation shots that maintain substrate moisture during the day. Not all at once after the first big irrigation, like I was doing with a generative strategy.
So basically, I was sending the plant a slightly wrong signal.
Well, no big deal. The main thing is to catch it in time and correct it.
Buds are swelling, stigmas are not dying off, so overall everything still looks fine.