🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 4 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno B (Folder 14B) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 For those joining the adventure for the first time, this project follows four individual plants, each grown under exactly the same conditions while being documented separately from seed to harvest. By giving every phenotype its own diary, we get to appreciate how different personalities can emerge even when genetics, lighting, nutrition, and environment remain identical. Today we're visiting Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant B. ⸻ 🌱 Week Four – Trusting the Process Last week was an exciting one for this beautiful lady. After showing excellent structure and vigorous lower branching, she received her very first topping, redirecting her energy away from a single dominant leader and encouraging a wider, more balanced canopy. This week, however, wasn't about making more cuts or introducing new training techniques. Instead, it was about stepping back. After putting a plant through any high-stress training, I always like to give her time to recover naturally before asking anything else of her. Healthy plants often know exactly what to do when we simply provide the right environment and stay out of their way. Plant B proved that once again. Rather than slowing down, she responded with impressive vigour, pushing both new leaders upward while the surrounding side branches continued filling out beautifully. Sometimes the best training technique is simply patience. ⸻ 🌡️ Environmental Conditions Consistency remains one of the biggest goals inside Project Blue Tent. Stable environmental conditions allow the plants to recover quickly while maintaining uninterrupted vegetative growth. This week's average conditions were: • 🌡️ Day temperature: 27°C • 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative humidity: 68% • 🥥 Root zone temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient solution: 18°C • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.88 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: approximately 450 ppm • 💡 Light schedule: 18/6 The combination of stable temperatures, proper irrigation, and the even light distribution from the Phytonaut LED continues creating an ideal environment for vigorous vegetative growth. ⸻ 🥥 Feeding Adjustments Over the last couple of weeks, all four plants developed a slightly lighter shade of green. Since every plant displayed the same colour while remaining healthy and growing vigorously, it became clear that they weren't struggling—they were simply asking for a little more food as their metabolism accelerated. Rather than waiting for deficiencies to develop, I responded by increasing the base nutrients slightly. Current feeding now consists of: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.8 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.8 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L By the end of the week, the results were already becoming visible. The newest growth across the room is gradually deepening in colour while maintaining the vigorous pace of development that has characterised this project from the beginning. It's always satisfying when small adjustments produce exactly the response you were hoping for. ⸻ 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant B Plant B continues proving why every phenotype deserves its own diary. Although she shares the same genetics as her sister, she's expressing herself in her own unique way. Her recovery after topping has been incredibly smooth, and the two new dominant tops have quickly established themselves. Around them, the secondary branches are climbing confidently, creating a naturally balanced and increasingly bushy structure. One of the things I enjoy most about this phenotype is how symmetrical she has become. Looking down from above, it's easy to see the canopy beginning to spread evenly in every direction, giving her the kind of architecture that should work beautifully once future training begins. Her stem continues thickening nicely, the internodal spacing remains compact, and the leaves stay upright throughout the day, showing no signs of stress following last week's topping. The lighter green colour that was present earlier is already beginning to improve following the feeding adjustment, while the constant production of fresh growth leaves no doubt that she's thriving. Healthy plants have a way of speaking without words. This one certainly looks happy. ⸻ 🔍 Looking Ahead With the topping now fully behind her, the next stage will simply be allowing this beautiful framework to continue developing. The goal is to let both new leaders strengthen naturally while encouraging the lower branches to catch up, creating the even canopy that will later make training and flowering far more efficient. For now, there is no need to rush. She's building exactly the kind of foundation I was hoping for, and sometimes letting the plant dictate the pace is the smartest decision a grower can make. Every day she becomes a little fuller, a little stronger, and a little more interesting. ⸻ 💙 Thank You A huge thank you goes to Zamnesia for the incredible Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics and for providing the complete ecosystem that makes Project Blue Tent possible. Another heartfelt thank you goes to Plagron for supplying the Premium Coco Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line, helping these ladies develop strong roots and healthy growth week after week. I'd also like to thank GrowDiaries for giving growers around the world a place to share knowledge, document their journeys, and inspire one another every single day. And finally, thank you to everyone following this project. Whether you've been here since germination, recently joined the adventure, leave comments every week, or simply enjoy watching these plants evolve, your support truly means a lot. Project Blue Tent is about learning together, celebrating every stage of the grow, and showing that every phenotype has its own story worth telling. I hope you're all having an amazing week, and I can't wait to share the next chapter with you. Until next time... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 💚🌱