🍑 Passion Fruitz by Zamnesia Week 6 | The Plant That Refuses to Follow the Schedule Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! Some plants race ahead. Some quietly keep pace with the rest. And then there are plants like Passion Fruitz... Plants that politely ignore our expectations and decide to follow their own calendar. Week after week she continues growing, building, and strengthening herself, while many of the other ladies around her have already begun flowering. At first glance someone might think something is wrong. But that's exactly why this project exists. Sometimes the greatest lessons come from the plants that refuse to do what we expect. 🌱 Why This Project Exists One of the goals of this entire 8×8 Adventure has never been simply to grow beautiful plants. The real objective is education. Every plant in this room receives exactly the same opportunity. The same room. The same light schedule. The same nutrients. The same temperatures. The same humidity. The same CO₂. The same care. The only thing that's different... ...is the genetics. By documenting every phenotype individually, we can see something many growers never have the chance to observe. Plants are individuals. Even sisters from the same seed pack don't always make the same decisions. And Passion Fruitz is giving us the perfect example. 🌿 Still Growing... And That's Perfectly Fine While many of her neighbours have already started producing flowers, Passion Fruitz remains comfortably in vegetative growth. No pistils. No stretch into bloom. No rush whatsoever. Instead, she's investing every bit of energy into building herself. Her canopy has become noticeably fuller. Her branching is becoming stronger. The stems continue thickening, and every new node adds to an increasingly compact and healthy structure. She isn't falling behind. She's simply following her own biological timetable. 🌎 Genetics Always Have the Final Say One of the biggest myths surrounding the 12/12 From Seed method is that plants immediately begin flowering simply because the lights are set to 12 hours. This project has shown the opposite. The light schedule tells the plant the season. The genetics decide when she's mature enough to respond. Whether it's a photoperiod plant... An autoflower... Or completely different phenotypes from the very same variety... Every plant reaches that moment in its own time. Passion Fruitz has become the living proof of that. She's reminding us that growing isn't about forcing nature. It's about learning to observe it. 🍃 A Compact Beauty Although she's still one of the smallest ladies in the room, she might also be one of the healthiest. Her foliage is deep green and full of life. The internodal spacing remains incredibly tight. Every growing tip looks vigorous, with fresh new growth appearing almost daily. This week required almost no intervention. A little gentle leaf tucking here and there was enough to improve light penetration while allowing her natural structure to continue developing uninterrupted. Sometimes doing less is exactly what the plant needs. 💧 Letting Her Write Her Own Story Her feeding program remains focused on healthy vegetative development, providing everything she needs while avoiding the temptation to push her faster than she's ready to go. There's no special treatment. No attempt to force flowering. No drastic adjustments. Just consistency. One of the biggest lessons growing has taught me over the years is that patience often produces the best results. Every plant deserves the opportunity to grow at her own pace. 🌡️ The Environment Remains Stable As with every plant in this project, Passion Fruitz continues enjoying stable environmental conditions that allow her genetics to express themselves naturally. Current conditions include: • Day temperature: 29°C • Night temperature: 25°C • Relative humidity: 60% • Solution temperature: 25°C • Root zone: 21°C • CO₂ concentration: 636 ppm Keeping these conditions consistent removes as many external variables as possible, allowing the genetics—not environmental fluctuations—to tell the story. 📷 This Week's Gallery This week's photographs beautifully capture the stage she's currently in. The full plant portraits show just how compact and symmetrical she's becoming. The close-ups highlight vigorous new growth emerging from every node, while the overhead shots reveal an increasingly dense canopy that continues to expand despite the absence of flowers. Sometimes a plant doesn't need buds to be beautiful. Sometimes healthy growth tells the entire story. 🔮 Looking Ahead Sooner or later she'll decide the time has come. And when she does... We'll be ready. Until then, I'm simply enjoying watching her teach us something many growers only discover after years of experience: You can give every plant the exact same environment... The exact same feeding... The exact same lighting... The exact same love... And they'll still choose different paths. That's the beauty of phenotype hunting. That's the beauty of nature. And that's exactly why every lady in this project deserves her own diary. 💚 Thank You Thank you so much for following another chapter of this 8×8 Adventure. Projects like this remind me that growing isn't about chasing identical plants—it's about understanding and appreciating the incredible diversity hidden within every seed. A huge thank you to: 💚 GrowDiaries for providing an incredible platform where growers from around the world can learn, share, and inspire one another. 🌱 Zamnesia for providing the genetics that make this phenotype hunt possible. 💜 Plagron for supplying the nutrition supporting every stage of this journey. 💡 Future of Grow LED for delivering the light powering this entire project. 🌿 TrolMaster for helping maintain a stable, carefully controlled environment day after day. And finally... Thank you to everyone following along, asking questions, sharing knowledge, and growing with me. This little lady may not have started flowering yet... But she's already become one of the best teachers in the room. Sometimes the plants that take the longest to reveal themselves end up leaving the biggest impression. Growers Love, and Passion Fruitz is proving that every plant blooms exactly when she's ready. 🌱🍑💚

This is the tester strain sent to me by @toon_town it's a #saskatoonberry x #afghani mystery .. She has been great since day one very good growth rate excellent structure and lots of bud sites formed and filling out .. she has 7 friends to start but we down to three two females and a male plant .. The selected male show resistance to cold, humidity, lack of water .. the male had lots of growth and will make a suitable plant for some pollen ...

Its starting to look more like a forest from each day that goes on. frost also starting to appear already and we are still early in flower ;) d.66 all good in the hood, ill will try to pull those 2 who are very close to the light more back to the wall, so the lower stalks can get light and space d.66 a little bit of bamboo and lst done without problems 🌞

Hey everyone! It’s been another fabulous week of the girls fattening up getting ready for the ever looming harvest time! The colas are huge and glistening like a glitter ball! The back right girl has been on flush since day 51, 2 more went on flush on day 53, and the final girl front right went on flush today, day 56! Over the week I gave 3 girls a really heavy defoliation taking the majority of fan leaves off to allow good airflow and try fattening up those lower buds. It’s still impossible to tell if I prefer defoliation or not but we are getting close to harvest so should have a definitive answer to that soon! The back right girl has had absolutely no defoliation or trimming through her life cycle. I still regularly think back to when we broke one of the girls and transplanted, the cannabis gods were on our side warning us 4 girls will be huge, we were very lucky or would be seriously short of space as of now. As the girls are going to be harvested at slightly different times to ensure each are at their optimum, I have had to construct a dry box. How I built my smell free DIY dry box: Take a large cardboard box, cut an extraction hole in the top at one end and mount some ducting and seal the gap around the edge. Cut a flap in the opposite end at the bottom which will be the passive intake and promoting a draft through the hanging buds. Poke some holes in each end of the box using a screwdriver and thread some thin rope or string through the box tying the ends together once finished to give you sturdy locations to hang some pegs from. Finally I attached an extra bit of card on one of the flaps at the top; this overlaps the slight gap in the top between the flaps that could allow light to enter. Once completed I put the ducting into one of the lower intakes of the tent; the negative pressure in the tent then uses the air in the dry box as a passive intake creating a smell free area to dry your cannabis outside of your grow tent. This also keeps a slight breeze flowing through the box to ensure even drying. Happy toking guys and hope you enjoy the pics and vids, thought it was getting hard to tell how big these girls were in pics anymore so the vids help a lot, and I was lazy this week! :P

Quick little video tour today. I'll sort a proper detailed update a little later this evening ☺️ 🌱✌️😉🤘🌱 Front row, left to right: Phantom OG, Wedding Cake Auto, G13 x Blueberry Headband. Back row, left to right: Glookies, Ayahuasca Purple, Peyote Cookies. The only girls receiving the Force nutrient are the Glookies and the Wedding Cake Auto but from now on, I'll only be feeding them plain water to cleanse them as much as possible before harvest. The rest of them still have a couple more weeks of feed before changing anything else 😎

3x frozen black cherry auto-anesia seeds 1x skywalker og runtz xl auto-sweet seeds smaller attempt: containers in the back contain- 10g seaweed guanokalong 8g veg pearls guanokalong 15g guano powder guanokalong 10g mykorizae biochar containers in front-nutrients plagron

week 1 flower is going well.

Buds starting to take shape only using lst and light defoliation exposing main bud sights to light.

Lots of dropping leaves , day 55 gave 3ml/l of bloom booster to all . They seem very hungry sour stomper 1 is super dense already topped sky stomper is slowly gaining weight for sure

5.8.25. 1st week of flower just started! I had some issues during 3rd week of veg. I was doing the tie down method but wasn’t going so good seemed to be stressing plant out to much. I stopped tying down took all ties off and now is putting on nice healthy growth! Full steam ahead! Thanks for checking out grow! Have great week! !

🌸 Pink Rosay Auto by Zamnesia | Pheno B | Week 7 (Flowering) 🌱 Small Plant. Big Personality. Some plants demand attention the moment they emerge. Others earn it quietly. This little Pink Rosay continues to be the smallest plant inside the entire Project Blue Tent, yet week after week she reminds me that a grower's job isn't to judge a plant by its height, but to help it become the very best version of itself. Growing under my ongoing 12/12 From Seed experiment, she has followed a completely different path from her sister. While Pheno A reached confidently toward the lights, this compact little lady chose to stay low, building an incredibly tight framework instead of chasing vertical growth. If I had grown only this phenotype, I might have wondered why she stayed so small. Instead, growing both sisters side by side has become another beautiful reminder that every seed carries its own personality. And that's exactly why I love growing from seed. 🌸 Week 7 – A Tiny Plant Filled With Flowers This week the transformation became impossible to ignore. Every branch is now carrying clusters of bright white pistils that seem to multiply every single day. What was once a compact green plant is slowly turning into a collection of miniature flower towers, each one stacking neatly above the next. The flowers are still young, but they are forming with wonderful symmetry, and the bud sites are beginning to connect throughout the entire canopy. One thing I particularly enjoy about this phenotype is how proportional everything feels. Nothing is oversized. Nothing feels stretched. Every centimetre of growth seems to have been used efficiently. She may occupy very little space inside the tent, but she's making excellent use of every bit of it. 🌿 Structure & Growth Standing at approximately 63 cm, she has gained a little more height this week while remaining the most compact plant in the room. Her internodal spacing continues to be incredibly tight, producing a naturally dense structure that barely required any training to create an even canopy. The gentle Low Stress Training (LST) performed earlier continues paying dividends by opening the centre of the plant just enough to improve airflow and light penetration without disturbing her natural shape. One thing I've really noticed this week is how balanced her architecture has become. Instead of producing one dominant cola with scattered side branches, she's developing numerous evenly sized flowering tops that should mature together over the coming weeks. She truly feels like a miniature version of her sister. Smaller in every dimension. Just as beautiful. 🍃 Plant Health Health continues to be absolutely outstanding. The leaves maintain a deep emerald-green colour with excellent turgor from top to bottom, showing no signs of deficiencies, toxicity, or environmental stress. Leaf posture remains relaxed and confident, while new growth emerges clean and vibrant around every developing flower. One of the advantages of keeping her under close observation through hand watering is being able to appreciate just how consistently healthy she has remained throughout the entire grow. She isn't asking for special treatment. She's simply responding beautifully to consistency. 💡 Lighting – Every Photon Matters Being the shortest plant in the tent naturally means she spends much of her life beneath a taller canopy. This is exactly where the Lumiflora under-canopy lighting becomes especially valuable. While the Future of Grow Black Series 600W delivers excellent intensity from above, the Lumiflora bars help illuminate the lower sections of this compact phenotype, allowing light to reach bud sites that would otherwise spend much of the day in shade. For a plant with such dense internodal spacing, that additional light penetration could make a significant difference as the flowers continue stacking over the next several weeks. Sometimes the smallest plants benefit the most from thoughtful lighting design. 💧 Hand Watering & Nutrition She continues to be hand-watered rather than connected to the AutoPot system, allowing me to tailor every feeding while monitoring her progress on a daily basis. Current feeding: • Terra Bloom — 2 ml/L • Pure Zym — 1 ml/L • Sugar Royal — 1 ml/L • Power Buds — 1 ml/L • Green Sensation — 1 ml/L Maintaining: • EC: 1.95 mS/cm • pH: 5.8 Despite her compact size, she's accepting the current feeding schedule extremely well, maintaining excellent colour while continuing to build flowers across the entire plant. 🌡️ Environment The environmental conditions remain stable, allowing every phenotype inside Project Blue Tent to express its own genetic potential. Current conditions: • Day temperature: 29°C • Night temperature: 25°C • Relative humidity: 60% • Solution temperature: 21°C • Root-zone temperature: 21°C • CO₂: approximately 639 ppm Consistency continues to be one of the biggest contributors to healthy growth, particularly during these important early flowering weeks. 🌼 The Beauty of Letting Plants Be Themselves I think this little Pink Rosay teaches one of the most valuable lessons in growing. Many growers would have looked at her size several weeks ago and immediately assumed something was wrong. Some might even have started over. But plants don't all read the same instruction manual. Phenotypes exist for a reason. Some stretch. Some stay compact. Some focus on structure before flowers. Others race toward the lights. There isn't always a "correct" version. There are simply different expressions of the same genetics. By allowing every plant to finish its own journey instead of comparing it to its neighbours, we often discover that the quietest plants become some of the most memorable ones. Every plant deserves the opportunity to show us what it can become. 👀 Looking Ahead The stretch now appears to be over, and from this point forward I expect nearly all of her energy to be directed toward flower production. Those incredibly tight nodes should begin merging together into dense, compact colas as the calyxes continue swelling over the coming weeks. Will she produce the biggest harvest in the tent? Probably not. But I have a feeling she'll reward patience with beautiful, dense flowers that perfectly reflect her compact personality. Sometimes greatness doesn't come in the biggest package. 🙏 Final Thoughts This little Pink Rosay continues to remind me why I enjoy documenting every single phenotype. She isn't trying to compete with her sister. She isn't trying to become the tallest plant in the room. She's simply expressing the genetics she was given, and she's doing it with remarkable health, beautiful structure, and flowers that become more impressive every single week. As growers, it's easy to compare plants. The real joy comes from appreciating each one for what it is, not for what we expected it to become. A huge thank you to Zamnesia for these wonderful genetics, Plagron for providing the nutrition that keeps these plants thriving, Future of Grow for the outstanding lighting from above, Lumiflora for helping every lower flower receive the light it deserves, TrolMaster for maintaining such a stable environment, and to everyone following this journey here on GrowDiaries. Your encouragement, questions, and shared passion for growing continue to make every update even more rewarding. Small in stature. Beautiful in structure. And proving, one week at a time, that every phenotype deserves the chance to shine. Growers Love and happy growing! 🌱💚

I've been pulling fan leaves steadily , nice little buds have started to form now along with a few trichomes , the angel is starting to build now as well

HOW ARE YOU GUYS? once again the temperatures drop drastically and the DROUGHT is always here.. the sandy and cracked soil indicates that this summer wants to continue.. Weekly impressions 🙀This week I dedicated myself to stabilizing the plants that were really suffering from the strange climate aversions. The leaves are yellowing at an exponential rate. Will there be anything left for the end of flowering? I'm afraid, unfortunately that heat wave really upset them. 😮😍FRISIAN DUCK Note. if you let it grow without any pruning technique it will be much more abundant, the most spectacular and truly resistant to everything. FRAKSHOW fantastic variety tastes just like monsters and sweets, it's a shame to have seen them suffer in geotextile containers. Z strawberry I feel two phenotypes one mixes amsterdam oldschool and uses the other totally fruity uses fantastic strangely unstable? resistance is not a must. the yield favors a few high quality buds. HONEY CREAM the undisputed queen goes from the lightness of the cream and sweet honey to traits with imperceptible mentholated notes. TOUGH like the resistant stone it does not become unbalanced with the weight that still remains in the xl we will see later..😵 SPAECIAL QUEEN the little bitch is HUGE she's losing a lot of leaves I hope I get to see the buds.

Fat Bastard is a good one. Everyone loves it's aroma. This one looks like it turned out a bit leafy. I do think I remember hitting it with extra nitrogen once, n it didn't get reported, so that all plays I'm sure. I'll see how leafy it ends up when all is done

2020-07-05 New week. Reduced nutrients because of the slight burn on plant 2... and plant 1 drinks so quickly that it rapidly raises PPM so I have to actually find the right sweet spot. It's drinking about a gallon a day? Plant 2 is still a week behind and slightly stunted but the flowers are coming out. They are more compact than Plant 01. This is supposed to be the same species but I'm getting 2 very different phenotypes on the exact same nutrients.. not very strong genetics? Not sure. 2020-07-05 2020-07-05 2020-07-08 Forgot to take pics this week! Here you go! Plant 01 has grown so insanely strongly and is producing so many nice looking bud sites, i am blown away!! I have had to 'supercrop' the top by bending the stem very carefully and adding a wire knuckle so that it wouldn't immediately just stand back up overnight. I tried this with 2 experimental colas and they perked back up and stayed laying down. They will slightly obstruct the lower flowers but the tops all looked so promising, I couldn't bring myself to cut them. I will seriously have to cut down on veg time next grow! I can easily stop at week 5 in the future with these seeds and grow up nice buds. 2020-07-11 Updated with yesterday's photos. Changed nutrients today, stuck with 1600 EC for plant 01 and went back down to 1400 for plant 02.

Week 9 plant - vertical growth slowed down, packing on the buds quite nice. smelling great, quick counted 11 colas Week 8 plant - stretched quite a bit this past week. hairs everywhere, bud growth is starting to come in. quick counted 12 colas. Just added water to the res, ph went up a bit so dropped in 1ml of ph down to bring it back to 5.6, around 790-800 ppm. Did a light defoliation on the bottom of the plants, pulling off weak/dying older fan leaves mostly. Minor tucking of fan leaves on the top to expose more colas to the light. Adjusted the light to 18" from the tallest cola.