We’ve rolled into Week 4, and it has been an absolute blast thanks to the gorgeous, non-stop sunshine we’ve been getting. I decided to take a bit of a bolder step with this girl and topped her at the beginning of the week. Some growers are hesitant to top autos, but she handled it like an absolute champ! She didn't even slow down for a second and just kept growing right through it. To support her shape, I’ve also been adjusting the LST alongside the topping. Just like her sister, I added a layer of pine bark on top of her soil to protect the upper layer from drying out under the sun. I'm still keeping the watering schedule down to just twice a week using straight tap water plus a bit CalMag. She has completely recovered, looks super healthy, and is charging forward. Head over to my other diary to see how the Black Orchid Auto is enjoying her sun-drenched week!

Two out of three were fed with nutrients today on 8/10 2/3 were fed with plain ph water on 8/12. Back plastic pot still drying from plain water feed on 8/10

This grow was incredible—hands down the most enjoyable in years! The harvest may not be massive as I’m still fine-tuning my system, but it’s more than enough for me. The aroma is phenomenal, absolutely mouthwatering, and brought tears to my eyes while trimming. I’m thrilled to taste the final product!

11.12.2025 Her smell is wonderful and she got even stickier than ever. What a strain! The split main-stem is growing fantastically and the main-bud is reaching the top again. She is very thirsty and nearly everyday I have to refill her container, even if it is just 5 or 6 litres. Definetely she will take much longer than her Agent Orange Company. 🌸💜

Every 8 months in my house... a whole crop gets harvested.

La cuarta semana ha llegado y nuestras tres amigas están entrando en una fase espectacular. Comparadas con la semana pasada, el cambio es muy evidente: los cogollos han ganado bastante volumen, están mucho más formados y la resina empieza a cubrirlos por completo. El armario cada vez huele más a floración y las tres siguen avanzando a muy buen ritmo. 🍭🌸 🍡 Mochi La más alta sigue siendo una auténtica protagonista. Respecto a la semana pasada, sus flores han engordado claramente y las colas están mucho más definidas. Se aprecia una cantidad de resina enorme y una estructura de cogollos cada vez más compacta. Mochi está entrando en su mejor momento. 💎 🃏 Jinx Jinx ha dado un cambio espectacular. Sus cogollos están mucho más grandes y densos que en la semana 3, con una cobertura de tricomas que ya llama muchísimo la atención. Mantiene una estructura muy equilibrada y está llenando prácticamente todos sus puntos de floración. Una auténtica explosión de flores. 🔥 ? Jellybean Jellybean tampoco se queda atrás. Comparada con la semana anterior, sus flores han ganado muchísimo cuerpo y ya presenta numerosas colas bien formadas. Está especialmente cargada de resina y mantiene ese aspecto sano y vigoroso que la ha acompañado durante todo el cultivo. 🍬✨ Semana 4 de floración superada y el cuento se pone interesante. Las tres están evolucionando a toda velocidad: más volumen, más densidad y, sobre todo, muchísima más resina. Ahora empieza la parte en la que cada semana promete una sorpresa nueva. 🌱💎 Saludos y buenos humos amigos growers 🐭💚

Blacky reacts quit well on my low stress training. It‘s raining and raining…🤨

Everything is going well for the ladies so far. Really can't complain. Plenty of stretching for the durban kinda put me in a situation like this strain usually does to me lol. Looks like I'll be tieing her down around the tent supports again to keep her from kissing the lights. No,I think we're all done stretching and we should be able to kick back and watch the buds stack!

Day 120 30/08/24 Friday Feed again today 😁 She seems to be loving it! Day 122 01/09/24 Sunday De-chlorinated tap water pH 6 only today Picture and video update ✌️💚 Day 124 03/09/24 Tuesday Feed again today using de-chlorinated tap water pH 6 with calmag. Noticing her starting to stack them tops out 🤩 Day 126 05/09/24 Thursday (End of week) De-chlorinated tap water pH 6 only today full 5L no run off now. Will up to 6L next week.

I've already cut a few buds this week, so that the effect is not too deadly and suitable for work

Beautiful colas all over. Since flip growth has been super sayin..

First time taking clones. Took 6 and 6/6 rooted. Put 5 in the grow tent and eventually took one out to make space for the dehumidifier.

Day 22 - All ticking along nicely...apart from a smart timer issue the last 2 days!!! :/ At least it was light stuck on rather than off so no early flower initiation!!! Got everything reset and all looks good so far. Will be using programmable timers for flower, JIC!!! Funny thing I noted while making the time lapse, the plants still "Went to sleep" at the time they should...even with the lights on and woke up when they should! Was quite interesting to see! Apart from that, just LST and plucking some bud covering leaves. Dropping the SCROG screen tonight and this will most likely be the last week of veg. As EC was dropping slightly by end of last week, have upped the EC by 0.1 Happy Growing all!!! 💪

Trimmed them, everything is filling in nicely. See signs of nuet burn flushed them and they reacted nicely. Soil has poor drainage need more perlite or change the soil next time.One plant is almost finished compared to the other 2. This is partly due to air flow. Need to get another circulating fan. Seen some fruit flies will need to deal with these so they dont eat the flowers. Lights are close to the plants but I can not move them any further away. With a few weeks left this might cause a problem. Will have to keep an eye on it. I will have to, for the next grow, change how I set up the tent. Uploaded video of plants to show the progress on all 3 sharks.

Chopped the second Frostbanger after a week's flush. As you can see from the pics she is a beauty. Very good leaf to bud ratio will be easy to trim. Smell is strong. Next up will be the gorilla zkittles. Which is the biggest in the tent by far. But it's taking a while to ripen up. Then that's just leaves 1 frostbanger which I planted a couple weeks after the rest. The Frostbangers are just like photoperiods. Even for F3s they have been very stable. I can't wait to try the F8 banana purple punch 😳. This will be the last update unless I decide to add a week for the plant that's behind. Which also looks very good. If not I'll do a review and give the final weight in the next update. Very happy with this run. 🌱❄️💨

May 02 Entering preflower, I think I don't have much training time ahead but I'm sure I'll be able to get her even and clean. Some small branches are trying to pop out under the already 6-7 ones but I just can't get light on there, we'll see later on if I harvest in sequence! This won't be the most successful grow but it will have been a realllllyyy instructive one. Next one if there is soon will most likely give better result. So far, without being too harsh, I think she's doing great still. Might not be in the most perfect healthy state but it's not a big deal in the sense that she's still pretty happy right now and that's fine with me. From start she has been on 24 hour non stop and I don't see any problem with it. In any case you are sure to not halt her growth by doing so and each one of these led should consume about 6 watts. On 8 we get to a grand total of 48 watts which is very fine. Current light setup might have been upgraded to a potential increase in yield of 25 to 35 % I'd guess. But for the price I paid for all of this, it's very much worth it. Doubling the light setup would raise me to a 100 watts, and light coverage would be sufficient to grow 4 autoflower. Since I only have one plant I'm keeping it on the not too expensive side without sacrificing too much, but a third setup of 4 led with 2 reptile UV led would probably increase significantly the final quality and quantity. In any case, even tho I can say it has pained me to train her since she's so small and bushy, I would probably keep this strain around for sentimental reason, I really see value in life itself and this plant is part of mine, eheh. Good night guys. May 03 I think I can notice 4 pistils growing out of the main head. Magnification from camera. It took me another hour or so to train her but I think it's worth it. I'm at about 9 new heads that are getting a good amount of light, I don't know what will happen to the other smaller ones under these 9s, we'll see if they have time to produce anything ^^. Funny expectation, if the branch don't stretch a good inch from today to 4-5 days in the future, this is gonna be chaotic there xD. Aye aye, I'll be away from pretty girl for roughly 2 day. I gave her about 350 ML of water 2 days ago. Since she has shown minor sign of problems relating to soil ph, I gave her 1 part decarbonated Perrier with about 2.7 part neutral water. Perrier is made from source water which contain macro-nutrient essential to plants. It's PH is also officially cotted at 5.5. There is debates on whether or not carbonated Perrier would be beneficial to a plant, but here I choosed to play narrower. I'm still spraying her with water once in a while. I am progressively lowering the frequency since she is approaching flowering and I don't want the humidity level to raises to much, for any question just message me. Aight, guud night. May 05 Just came back, she need water, it's obvious to me since I know her grow rate which has been slower the past 2 day it seems, pot feel lighter and soil dry ^^. I'm a little bit sick and I just came back so I'll relax a bit and take care of her later tonight. I'll try giving her 600 ml of water this time, she's getting bigger and with flowering approaching I think it's time to look for a increase. Fan leafs did increase in volume from the newly trained branch, but it feel like she has been going at 75% of her speed, but it might also be her entering flowering phase so slowing her vegetative growth, I'll post more picture after training of her later tonight, good night ;) May 07 I have read somewhere that cannabis plant often go for a good stretch before the flowering really kick in and I think that's what she's heading for. I am quite satisfied with the current evenest of each tops, I am expecting the main branch to grow higher even tho she's pretty much equal for now. I think it's normal and as long as possible I'll pull her down from the need of light coverage but everything should be fine, I don't think there will be any problem with the light. I am really looking forward to see how high she will stretch. Ideally, I don't want her to grow too big, but I am very interested in the idea of her being full of tops. The bigger the branch, the better nutrient are delivered and if light is managed correctly, you'll end up with a bigger harvest, bigger colas. So far I gave her nutrient 1 time, she got nitrogen toxicity because the soil is in fact rich enough for pretty much the whole grow, when I bought my fertilizer I thought about the fact that autoflower grow pretty much all in one at the same time but with that soil, I should have gone for something more on the P and K side. I am considering buying a new small amount of fertilizer for cheap, that is better adapted to my need. I do have little worries about micro nutrients but I do believe I am stressing a bit for nothing. In worst case I'll just answer to her need which is totally fine. Have a nice day !

Flowering coming on really well now and things seem to be going ok, one plant stretching a lot faster than the other so hopefully it slows down want these to be a little smaller in size than my previous grow

Blütetag 16 🌺 1,5 l Osmosewasser bei PH 6,3 mit Calmag, Bio-Heaven, Fish-Mix, Bio-Grow, Top-Max, ALG A MIC und Bio-Bloom. Blütetag 19 🌺 1,5 l Osmosewasser bei PH 6,3 mit Calmag, ALG A MIC und Eisen-Dünger F06. Blütetag 20 🌺 Lollipopping Sunlight Evo 3-60 60% 55cm Abstand (ca. 625 PPFD) 22-25 Grad Celsius bei 50-55% Luftfeuchtigkeit. VPD 0,8 - 1,0 kPa

Die Pflanzen sind stark in den Stretch gegangen und zeigen deutliches Längenwachstum. • Wuchs: Die Triebe schießen nach oben, das Netz sorgt für eine stabile, gleichmäßige Struktur. • Farbe: Kräftiges, gesundes Grün – keine Mängel oder Stressanzeichen. • System: Durch ein Missgeschick wurde das Setup unfreiwillig zu einem semi-hydroponischen System umgestellt. Eine Pumpe wurde hinzugefügt, um die Wasserzirkulation und Sauerstoffversorgung zu verbessern. • Gesamtzustand: Trotz der Umstellung reagieren die Pflanzen hervorragend – vital, stabil und bereit für die beginnende Blütephase.