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🌱 Sour Diesel — Week 10 From Seed (Week 5 Flower)
The comeback story.
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🔁 Quick Recap — The “Unhappy Girl” That Didn’t Quit
This Sour Diesel started as the most challenged plant in the room.
Slow growth, stress signals early on, and clearly behind her sisters.
But plants don’t quit — they adapt.
She stayed smaller (~60 cm), but instead of stretching for size, she focused on recovery and survival. And now, in Week 5 of flower, we’re seeing something special:
👉 A full metabolic comeback
👉 Active water uptake (~1.2L/day)
👉 Healthy flower development despite early setbacks
This is why we document everything — not just perfection, but resilience.
🔬 Macro World — What We’re Really Seeing
This week, we zoom in — literally.
Macro photography shows us what the eye misses:
✨ Trichomes (The Frost Begins)
• Tiny resin glands forming on sugar leaves and calyxes
• At this stage: mostly clear → early cloudy
• Function:
• UV protection
• Pest defense
• Secondary metabolite production (terpenes, cannabinoids)
👉 This is the plant saying: “I’m protecting my flowers now.”
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🌸 Calyxes (The Core of the Flower)
• The actual reproductive structure
• Each calyx = potential seed site (if pollinated)
• Now stacking and swelling slowly
👉 This is where your final yield is built.
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🌿 Pistils / White Hairs
• These are stigmas, part of the female reproductive system
• Their job:
• Catch pollen
• Signal reproductive maturity
At Week 5:
• Still mostly white → plant is actively building, not finishing
• Upright and fresh → healthy hormonal signaling
👉 White pistils = growth mode
👉 Dark/orange pistils = maturity progression
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🌡️ Environment & Feeding (Dialed In)
You kept it consistent — and that’s why she bounced back:
• 🌡️ Temp: 28°C
• 💧 RH: 60–65%
• ⚗️ pH: ~6.0
• ⚡ EC: 2.4
• 🌬️ CO₂: ~1000 ppm
• 🚰 Water intake: ~1.2L/day
👉 That water uptake is key — it tells us:
roots are active → metabolism is running → recovery is real
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📸 Plant Structure & Expression
• Smaller frame, but balanced structure
• Bud sites forming across the plant
• No wasted energy — everything is focused
👉 She didn’t win the height race…
👉 But she’s still in the quality game
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🧠 What This Plant Teaches
Not every plant is a monster.
Some are:
• Stressed early
• Slower to adapt
• Smaller in size
But with stability and patience:
👉 They recover
👉 They produce
👉 They surprise you
This is grower discipline — not chasing perfection, but supporting the process.
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🎒 Official Introduction — Mr. Baggy
He’s been around… now it’s official.
Mr. Baggy is part of the team.
From garden runs to studio sessions — always present.
A reminder that even in serious work…
👉 we keep it human
👉 we keep it fun
👉 we keep it ours
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🔮 What to Expect Next Week (Week 6 Flower)
• Calyx swelling will accelerate
• Trichome production will increase visibly
• Pistils may begin slight color change in some areas
• Aroma profile will start developing deeper layers
⚠️ Key focus:
• Watch EC → avoid pushing too hard now
• Maintain airflow (density is coming)
• Stay consistent — no big changes
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🤝 Gratitude
From grower to growers:
Big love to:
• The GrowDiaries community
• Everyone following — OGs & new
• Supporters, challengers, silent watchers
And to the people behind the tools:
• Plagron
• Zamnesia
• The lights above us
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🌱 Closing
She started as the weakest in the room.
Now she’s a reminder:
👉 Growth isn’t always fast
👉 Progress isn’t always big
👉 But resilience… always shows
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🙏 Thank you for your patience and continued support.
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Explore the Gear that Powers My Grow
If you’re curious about the tech I’m using, check out these links:
🔆 Lighting & Environmental Control
• Future of Grow — Advanced LED lighting technology
https://www.futureofgrow.com/
DISCOUNT CODE: DOG20
• Lumiflora — Under-canopy LED lighting
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• TrollMaster — Environmental controllers and automation gear (past collaboration)
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Genetics
• Zamnesia Seeds — Genetics used in this project
https://www.zamnesia.com/
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🌱 Soil, Substrates, Boosters & Root Support
• Plagron — Substrates, bio mixes, and supportive products
https://plagron.com/en/
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🎒 Storage, Curing & Preservation
• Grove Bags — Curing and storage solutions
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📸 Photography Equipment & Tools
(Not sponsors, but part of my creative toolkit)
• Sony A6700
• Sony full-frame macro lens + few more
• Stacking photography workflow - learning
• iPhone (for behind-the-scenes shots)
We’ve got much more coming as we move through the grow cycles. Trust me, you won’t want to miss the next steps, let’s push the boundaries of indoor horticulture together!
As always, this is shared for educational purposes, aiming to spread understanding and appreciation for this plant. 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.
It’s not digital enhancement or AI; it’s pure photography — a way to reveal the plant’s beauty in microscopic depth, from trichome to petal.
You’ll even see a few shots of "ghost me" capturing the shots — camera, lens, setup — because every grow deserves not just to be cultivated, but documented like art.
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I dont like how long she need to be ready, but she is a Gorilla, so she can take so many time she want. I mein look how big she is, i love the Master recepi from advanced nutrients.
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Die Gorilla cookies auto hat sich auch wieder von ihrer besten Seite gezeigt. Nach 6 wochen blüte solche wunderschöne buds zu entwickeln ist einfach ein Traum.
Ich kann jedem nur fastbuds empfehlen.
Egal ob outdoor oder indoor.
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Day 64/F22: 8/13
-in a rush again, watered BD 1.5L and got runoff (late day watering yesterday), watered the rest at 1L and all got runoff except GB, gonna let dry out until tomorrow
-runoff ppm for orange was 6.4ph 320ppm
-planning on dropping second net tomorrow
-very pleased with bud production so far and they dont seem phased by the haircut
*all journals are day by day so i apologize if this diary feels slow
Day 65/F23: 8/14
-GB 3L feed (no runoff)
-BD 2.5L feed
-shang/orange 1.7L feed
Day 66/F24: 8/15
-BD 2.5L feed-373 ppm runoff
-Shang 1.7L feed- 447 ppm runoff
-Orange 1.7L feed- 453 ppm runoff
-GB 3L feed- 445 ppm runoff
Day 67/F25:8/16
-BD 2.5L feed
-Shang 1.8L feed
-Orange 1.8L feed
-GB 3L feed
Day 68/F26: 8/17
-BD 2.5L feed
-Shang 1.8L feed
-Orange 1.8L feed
-GB 2.8L feed
Day 69/F27: 8/18
-BD 2.5L feed
-Shang 1.8L feed
-Orange 1.8L feed
-GB 2.8L feed
Day 70/F28: 8/19
-BD 2.5L feed
-Shang 1.8L feed
-Orange 1.8L feed
-GB 2.8L feed
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10/21/20
😻 We're documenting a day early because we'll be gone for a weekend camping trip...The plants are progressing beautifully and perpetually praying, they're absolutely loving this new MarsHydro! We decided to move the light from 24" to 30" to try widening the nodes a little before dropping back to 24", we're in unamended Promix so we typically start thinking about feed this week but being autos we're going to take it slow and wait on color ques before making that move (probably next week for sure)...thanks for reading and happy harvests everyone!! ❤️💡🌱😽💨
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10/25/21
😺 We gave all plants a very, very light feeding (<3ml/gal) to see how they tolerate it, its super early but a few were already beginning to wash out ..We started bending plants today, low stress only for these girl and everything looks great so far! This MarsHydro is intense, the node spacing is extremely tight on all plants and growth has been really steady (especially these last few days), we couldn't be happier! Thanks for reading and love all around growmies!! 😻
❤️💡🌱..
⚡Mars Hydro/SP-3000⚡ Specifications ⚙️:
Diodes: Samsung LM301B / Osram 660nm (960 total!)
Driver: Meanwell 300watt 🔌 (300W±5% @AC120V-277V)
PPF: 824umol/S ☢️
PPE: 2.8 µmol/j 〰️〰️
Lifespan: >50k hrs ⌛
Veg Coverage: 3 x 5 ft 🌱
Flowering Coverage: 2 x 4 ft 🌼
Weight: 10.1 lbs (4.6kg)
-The SP-3000 uses an aluminum heatsink (no fan) and the driver can be placed outside the tent 🌡️⬇️
-IP65 waterproof ratings, tolerant to high humidity grow environments 💦 ..
-Up to 30 of these lights can be daisy-chained together and all controlled from a single light! 💡~💡~💡~💡~💡
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the center was broken, during LST.
I hopee it will survive and continue to grow or will not receive severe stress. otherwise we will have to continue growing without it
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9th Week
I'm trying to address the deficiencies, I believe it's due to using coconut substrate. I am gradually reducing the daily light exposure by 1 hour until reaching 12/12. As it's the first time with Delta 9 in the cultivation, I have trow it foliarly.
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Es war eine sehr gute Woche nun bin ich in der neunten Woche ich habe Heute wieder in Hansa als Oberflächendüngung benutzt 1g sind vorgegeben und ich habe wieder ein wenig auf die Oberfläche gestreut und nach gegossen.
In den letzten drei Tagen habe ich insgesamt sechs von den großen Blättern entfernt damit die Seitentriebe mehr Licht bekommen.
Ich werde sie denke ich in ein bis zwei Wochen in die Blüte schicken.
Außerdem habe ich mir noch eine kleine Lampe nichts besonderes vielleicht bringt sie ja eine kleine Unterstützung gekauft diese sehen Sie auf dem letzten Bild.
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Day 36 I guess I can call it bloom. Nice strong pistils shooting all over. She is the tallest so far making me raise my lights a little more.
Day 38 Now Californian Snow is the tallest :) Ztrawberry stopped at a perfect height, it looks like she's gonna develop into a beautiful lady. Fat white pistils all over 😻
Day 39 Happy girl got 2500ml cm bg bb bh 6.3ph ~1EC She is perfect, symmetrical, stopped stretching at about 50cm, flowers are mostly leveled, branches are strong, leaves point up unless I water. I think she's also turning purple. Beaut 😻
Day 42 I think I saw some burnt tips but she still looks super happy and healthy. The most vigorous plant I've had.
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Info:
Unfortunately, I had to find out that my account is used for fake pages in social media.
I am only active here on growdiaries.
I am not on facebook instagram twitter etc All accounts except this one are fake.
Have fun with the update.
Hey everyone 😃.
Another week of beautiful growth goes by 😀.
She continues to develop very well and beautifully.
All shoots were topped up again.
I think I'll go back a few more times do topping before it goes into bloom :-).
The tent was cleaned and the humidifier refilled 👍.
Otherwise nothing exciting happened this week.
I wish you all the best and have fun with the update 👍.
Stay healthy 🙏🏻
You can buy this Strain at :
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Type:
Quick Sherbet
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Genetics:
75% Indica / 25% Sativa
Sunset Sherbet X Black Lemon
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Vega lamp:
2 x Todogrow Led
Quantum Board 100 W
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Bloom Lamp :
2 x Todogrow Led
Cxb 3590 COB 3500 K 205W
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Soil :
Canna Coco Professional +
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Fertilizer:
Green House Powder Feeding
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Water:
Osmosis water mixed with normal water (24 hours stale that the chlorine evaporates) to 0.2 EC. Add Cal / Mag to 0.4 Ec Ph with Organic Ph - to 5.5 - 5.8 .
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16.2.25:
I decided to check out the lower canopies of all plants to see if I need to get rid of any foliage.
I did get rid of a few small branches and leaves.
However, whilst I was doing this, I saw more garden pegs from my LST remaining.
There were about 6 or more in Pink Mist alone. Additionally, on Watermelon, there were some left in, too.
I'm so annoyed to see that because the plants are really stretching, and I could've potentially disrupted this by leaving the pegs in for all this time without realising it.
🤞 that I haven't compromised things too much. We'll see.
I watered today with 2ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.3 containing the following nutrients;
♡ .8g Green Leaf Nutrients PK booster
♡ .5g Ecothrive Biosys
I ordered quite a few things for the garden. I got Greenleaf Nutrients Sea K(elp) and Mega Crop Parts A+B. To go with their PK Booster I got last month. I'm excited to try it all together. Next run, maybe just using these. We'll see how it goes.
18.2.25:
The plants are going crazy for water! Everything is getting used right up so fast!
Today, I decided to add some more Black Strap Molasses to add some carbs and other micronutrients. I'll add the jar with the label in the photos section above.
I watered a very small amount to each plant.
What I put in:
♡ Black strap molasses 150g
♡ 2g Sea K(elp) Greenleaf nutrients.
I dissolved everything in 4ltrs of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.4.
19.2.25:
I received the majority of the garden purchases that I made. I'm still waiting for the Ecothrive Life Cycle. I wanted to top dress, but it's been delayed unfortunately.
I am using my Greenleaf nutrients products which I bought on Amazon. I got the Mega Crop 2 part system Part A and Part B. I have the Sea K(elp), and the bud explosion PK booster.
I really wanted to get some of their sweet candy asking read many positive reviews. Unfortunately, for me, this is unavailable to buy currently. So that's a little disappointing.
I needed to do a good watering so when my nutes were delivered today, I got excited 🤗
I watered 2ltrs of dechlorinated water per plant, PH'd to 6.4, containing the following nutrients:
♡ 1g Mega Crop Part A
♡ 1g Mega Crop Part B
♡ .5g Sea K(elp).
The plants drank this up within a few hours.
I'm going to try and hold off on watering in hopes that my Ecothrive Life Cycle will arrive so I can top dress and water it in then.
20.2.25:
My Ecothrive Life Cycle arrived yesterday, and the plants are ready for their top dress and a good watering in.
I have some Biobizz Light Mix, Canna Coco,and perlite. I'm going to use this as a base to mix my amendments in.
I'm going to fill my 5 gallon bucket with about 4.5 gallons of my top dress mix. I will distribute this across 6, 4-5 gallon pots. Then I will water in well with Greenleaf nutrients Mega Crop Parts A+B and Sea K(elp).
I've made a crude attempt to video mixing my top dress. Don't listen to the audio. lol, my YouTube didn't stop playing whilst I recorded this 😂
So anyway, I added the following amendments to the above base mix of 4.5 gallons;
♡ 3 TBSP Ecothrive Life Cycle
♡ 3 TBSP Vitalink Bat Guano
♡ 3 TBSP Ecothrive Charge
♡ 1 TBSP RHS Mycorrhizal Fungi granules
♡ 6 TBSP Ground Cinnamon.
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This was the last photos and video I took before I chopped them. One of the girls started to yellow on the sugar leaves quiet badly!
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Lots going down this week! I threw up a couple pictures today (day 74) I'll add more pictures and videos later on but I wanted to get this week started...
Day 70;
Nothing much to report except we got the new Optic 8+ 120°lens LED installed!! We got her put up around day 69. It's the 2nd optic weve bought and love these lights! The plants reacted immediately and we only started them at 80%veg brightness 20%bloom. Increasing 10% or so a day.
I also built a cloning station so I can take cuts tomorrow just incase we fide a unicorn!🤞
Day 71;
Officially on 12/12 light schedule now! I've decided to keep #2 in her 3gal pot. #1 gets the 10gallon smartpot. Both are doing terrific. I top dressed with .5 table spoons per gallon of soil on both plants using Papa's Perfect Poop. Made buy Michigan made mix m3 soil company. Its 5-10-2 using 100% organic fossilized bat guano
Day 72:
I defoliated both plants today. Fairly heavy but not extreme. I took all the larger fan leaves out that were blocking the lower bud sites.
I also took clones today. 2 off each plant. 1 of each clone went into an ez-cloner that uses spraying water to root them. The other 2 cuts I put in a hydrofarm cloner that submerges the stems in aerated water until rooting.
Day 73;
The girls both bounced back and are praying beautifully after the defoliation. Both loved it! I can definitely see the start of new growth already on the lowers. I'm keeping the clones on 24hr light schedule. I know its addition stress but it's easier for me.
Day 74:
Literally nothing happened today. I sat and stared at them for maybe 2hrs but that's about it tho lol
Day 75:
A bit done today. I rearranged the tent hoping to give the girls a bit more leg room(you can see #2 in the picture is growing all funny because of space) I also watered #2 tonight. I'm finding the Choc Mint OG do not like much water. I also took them out of the tent for some glamour shots. You can really see what difference 7gallons of soil can make in terms of size. #1 is nearly a foot taller. Both are starting to stretch. Curious how much that is. Put #2 out in shades place outside to harden up
Day 76:
Not much going on. I watered number 1.
Day 77:
Big day today. 3 days ago I put #2 outdoors in shade to acclimate. I know I rushed that a bit. Should have let her harden up a bit more first, but I wanted her in the ground and growing roots while she has time. Its gonna be close but I figure all my other outdoor plants are just starting to flower so why not? My tent was a little crowded so being outside will give her the best chance possible!
The Gear:
4x8 grow tent
2x Optic 8+ LEDs
AC Infinity t6 fan
8,000 btu portable air conditioner
50pint dehumidifier
Happy Frog Soil
Mother nature
1 person dedicated to the plant
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Flipped them to flower approximately 6-7dsys throwing hairs shitty camera on my phone never grown Auto before but these two ladies are performing more like photo period the older they get. Gave up on them automatically going to flower switch to 18/6 six days ago finally seeing signs of flowering from the research I've done I believe because I'm growing DWC format which atones to there size any comments would be appreciated
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07-07-2024:
Start von Woche 3 im Endtopf.
13-07-2024:
Die Pflanzen entwickeln sich super und geben seit der Düngung ordentlich Gas.
Sie werden in den nächsten Tagen entlaubt, dürfen sich dann vom Stress erholen und gehen dann in die Blüte 🍃
