Clones termination. Mom's flowering. Yep, this is an example of how it should not be done. The clones survived two cases of tip rot and a transplant after cleaning the tips. They finally developed some roots, but still didn’t make it. I kept only one, but I need two. So… the mom is about to start flowering after stretching, and I cut eight branches again to make a second clone. After some bending and tying, the mom returned to the flower room. If your light has a flower mode, now is the time to turn it on. The fast stretch period is over, so add some red light. It helps with yield. This time we’re going to do it right, using the experience from the first attempt at cloning. Check the clones 2–5 times a day. Keep the propagator lid closed at all times, and don’t let water touch the cloning medium. Also, the cubes shouldn’t be soaking wet, just moist. This balance between water content and airflow is crucial for future roots.

🌿 Frosted Guava Auto by Zamnesia | Pheno A | Week 7 (Flower Week 4) 🌱 The Room Is Coming Alive One of the biggest goals of this 8×8 Adventure has never been growing a single impressive plant. It's about building an entire ecosystem where every phenotype has the opportunity to express its own genetics while sharing the same environment, the same nutrition, and the same cultivation philosophy. Week after week, that vision becomes easier to see. Frosted Guava Pheno A continues doing exactly what she has done since the beginning—growing with balance, consistency, and confidence. While some plants steal the spotlight with explosive growth, she continues proving that steady development is often the foundation for exceptional harvests. Now entering her fourth week of flowering, she's no longer simply producing flowers. She's beginning to build real buds. And at the same time... The entire room is beginning to transform into a living sea of green. 🌸 Week 4 Flower – Everything Is Coming Together Standing at approximately 115 cm tall, Frosted Guava has stretched exactly as I hoped she would. Her vertical growth has started slowing naturally, allowing almost all of her energy to shift into flower production. Every branch now carries developing bud sites, and the individual flowers that appeared only a week ago are already beginning to stack together. The structure she built during vegetative growth is now paying dividends. Light reaches nearly every top, airflow remains excellent throughout the canopy, and each branch has enough room to develop without competing with its neighbours. She's becoming one of those plants that's simply enjoyable to watch every single day. 🍃 The Room Has Its Own Personality This week's report isn't only about one plant. It's also about the room itself. Walking into the tent now feels completely different compared to only a few weeks ago. The empty spaces that once separated individual plants are slowly disappearing as every canopy begins growing together into one continuous layer of green. The room feels alive. Every plant is stretching toward the light while simultaneously filling the space around her. Each phenotype still shows its own personality, but together they're becoming one complete ecosystem. That also means something else is approaching. Not because every individual plant necessarily needs it... But because the room does. Within the next week or so I'll likely perform the first significant defoliation of flowering. This isn't about removing leaves simply because I can. It's about maintaining airflow, allowing deeper light penetration, reducing excessive humidity pockets, and making sure every plant continues receiving the environment she deserves as the canopy becomes increasingly dense. Sometimes we don't prune for the plants. We prune for the room. 💡 Lighting Above... And Below The lighting system has also evolved alongside the plants. Above the canopy, the Future of Grow Black Series LED continues delivering approximately 1,000 PPFD across the tops of the flowering plants. For anyone new to growing, PPFD simply measures how many usable light particles reach the plant every second. In other words, it's one of the best ways to understand how much energy the plants receive for photosynthesis. Around 1,000 PPFD provides an excellent level of intensity for flowering under these conditions. Below the canopy, the Lumiflora under-canopy lighting continues adding another layer to the system. Rather than replacing the main light, these bars help illuminate lower flowering sites that would normally receive much less intensity once the canopy becomes dense. It's still early to judge the final results, but I'm genuinely excited to see how much they improve lower bud development as flowering progresses. Like everything else in this diary... The harvest will tell the real story. 🌬️ Airflow – Creating A Living Environment One aspect that's often overlooked is air movement. Good airflow isn't simply about pointing a fan at the plants. Inside this room, multiple oscillating fans create moving crosswinds that constantly change direction, preventing stagnant pockets of humid air from developing between the branches. At the same time, cooler air naturally enters from the lower section of the room while the extraction system continuously removes the warmer air accumulating near the ceiling. This constant vertical air exchange creates an environment where fresh CO₂ is continually introduced, humidity remains balanced, temperatures stay remarkably stable, and every leaf continues transpiring efficiently. Healthy airflow is one of the quiet heroes behind every successful flowering room. 🌡️ Environment Environmental conditions continue remaining beautifully consistent: • Day temperature: 29°C • Night temperature: 25°C • Relative humidity: 60% • Root zone temperature: 21°C • Solution temperature: 21°C • CO₂: Approximately 639 ppm This gives the room a VPD that's right where I want it for this stage of flowering. For growers unfamiliar with the term, VPD (Vapour Pressure Deficit) describes the relationship between temperature and humidity, helping determine how efficiently plants transpire and move water and nutrients through their tissues. Rather than chasing individual numbers, I prefer building an environment where temperature, humidity, airflow, irrigation, and lighting all work together as one complete system. Another question I often receive concerns CO₂. The reading of roughly 639 ppm isn't coming from bottled supplementation. It's simply the natural level inside my home, helped by continuously exchanging fresh household air through the grow room. During the evenings, with the family inside and normal household activity taking place, those natural CO₂ levels remain more than adequate for this style of cultivation. Sometimes simple really does work. 💧 Nutrition The feeding program remains unchanged this week, allowing the plants to continue flowering without unnecessary adjustments. Current feeding: • Terra Bloom • Pure Zym • Sugar Royal • Power Buds • Green Sensation Maintaining consistency often produces better results than constantly chasing new recipes. The plants certainly seem to agree. 👀 Looking Ahead Over the coming week I expect flower production to accelerate noticeably. The stretch should finish completely, bud sites will begin joining together, resin production should become increasingly visible, and Frosted Guava will start investing nearly all of her energy into building flower density rather than producing new height. The canopy itself will likely become full enough to justify the first flowering defoliation, improving airflow and ensuring every flowering site continues receiving excellent light throughout the room. It's one of my favourite moments of the grow. Everything starts feeling like a real flowering garden. 🙏 Final Thoughts Frosted Guava continues reminding me that consistency often beats drama. She hasn't demanded constant attention or complicated corrections. Instead, she's simply responded to stable conditions, balanced nutrition, quality genetics, and a healthy environment by doing exactly what nature designed her to do. Watching this room slowly evolve into a complete flowering ecosystem has been just as rewarding as watching any individual plant grow. Every week the pieces fit together a little more. A huge thank you once again to Zamnesia for making this incredible project possible, Plagron for providing outstanding nutrition, Future of Grow for the incredible Black Series lighting, Lumiflora for adding a new dimension with their under-canopy lighting system, AutoPot for keeping the root zone thriving, Mammoth Tents for providing the perfect home, TrolMaster for maintaining precise environmental control, Prima Klima for outstanding ventilation, and to everyone following this journey here on GrowDiaries. Your encouragement, comments, and shared passion for growing continue making this 8×8 Adventure an absolute pleasure to document. Until next week... Growers love and happy growing! 🌱💚

This is the beginning of each week. So I flushed them and switched nutrients. They were mag deficient, nitro toxic. Not PH actually. I'm adding co2 next week after I seal the room. I think I need to back the PAR down to 800 but they are still alive and it's over half way done. How any more weeks? I thought this was a 65 day auto. Hydro in a 5 gallon pot could add up to three weeks I heard with Autos. could these go 12 weeks total?

420Fastbuds FBT2314/Week1 Week 1 update on these new sprouts. Been a week since they sprouted and so far seems good. I did switch from misting the top soil with my sprayer to feeding 500ml of water and 1/4tsp/gal strength General Hydroponics Calimagic about every other day. Over all Happy Growing

Last few white hairs left, fan leaves have yellowed off nicely beautiful pink purple colours coming through! Absolutely stinks cheesy kush smell. At one point I thought it smelled like prawn cocktail crisps 😉😂 let me know if you agree and I'm not imagining it!! Great strain would defo run it again!!!

End of week 6 flowering From this week to end ROW only, that will enough for flush the soil. 2 or 3 weeks

Wow! These plants have bulked up like crazy this week. The cola on #2 is about 7" tall and 3" wide at it's center mass. The smell is crazy, overpowering almost, oranges and burnt motor oil. The trichomes are mostly cloudy right now, very little clear heads. The amber is just starting to show, almost like a blush. Waiting a couple more days for some more amber then harvesting!

These were in dark tent with ac and 3- 6 inch fans and exhaust going. I thing the ac is making the humidity rise as its at 60% rh and im shooting for 65 degrees F TEMP. FOR A 10-12 DAY DRY. sTILL HAVE TO ACTUALLY CHECK THE BUDS FOR DRYNESS NOT JUST RELY ON SOMEONE ELSES PROGRAM. i BITCHED ABOUT THIS GROW THE WHOLE WAY AND I GOT 11 OZ WET SO I am axctually thrilled. If i can get this stuff to dry and cure and not end up smelling like hay, i will be thrilled beyond imagination.. so 12 more days or whatever it ends up being but thats goal. I am watching this dry and cure like a hawk!!! WILL UPDATE WITH DRY WEIGHT BEFORE I disapear in a cloud of smoke to be a good sport and a respectible growdiaries member with complete grows. Peace!

This week we should really see these colas blow up and start stacking really strong. The mixer of 7 hours of sun and 17 hours under my LEDs has really helped my girls grow strong. Nothing compares to good old Mother Nature.

"Chugging" along this week. Weather is hot, girls are loving the all time drip system. Forgot that my nutes and hot sun dont mix well and created a bad case of algae. Will monitor more often and maybe increase the drip flow

I have missed a week or two since last update due to all sorts of personal problems and not taking videos or photos. The plants have grew a lot as they finally took off and they have been topped and tied down to create a table like canopy almost line mainlining but without taking smaller stems off

Woche 4 – Blüte beginnt 🌱 Mit dem Start der 4. Woche habe ich die Beleuchtung auf 12/12 umgestellt. Damit ist jetzt endgültig die Blütephase eingeläutet. Bei der Z42 und der Biscotti ist bereits ein deutlich stärkerer Stretch zu beobachten. Beide legen ordentlich an Höhe zu und entwickeln sich momentan ziemlich dynamisch. Die Papayton macht ebenfalls einen guten Eindruck. Sie bekommt immer kräftigere und ordentlich entwickelte Triebe und füllt langsam ihren Platz aus. Insgesamt wirkt die Entwicklung sehr vielversprechend. Jetzt bin ich gespannt, wie sich der Stretch in den nächsten Tagen weiter entwickelt und wie schnell sich die ersten richtigen Blütenansätze zeigen.

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September 23 2019 6AM- Here we are! Week 10! Feels like just yesterday they were seedlings! Great bud growth, frostier than frosty the snowmans ass! 🤣. Going to get a microscope to look in there and see if they are milky yet or not! More and more hairs are going orange, i have been lollipoping these bad girls like crazy. September 23 2019 10AM- Got a microscope! So damn cool!😱 September 24 2019 6PM- The Smell is so sweet it is amazing, almost like candy! i took some popcorn buds and they are currently drying! that is where i got those sugar leaves from, i continue to defoliate the bigger leaves covering the buds from all that beautiful light.😘 September 25 2019 7AM - Today i started the flawless finish by advanced nutrients!!😎 September 25 2019 6PM -The buds have honestly thickened up over night it seems to happen as i blink lol i love growing, amazing strain! definitely recommend this strain for beginners as you can see i made many mistakes! September 26 2019 6PM - i took the videos and photos when i took the ladies outside for the first clean water flush through the whole thing. i will continue flawless finish both are looking amazing. the smell is so good, Those popcorn buds i took off are so amazing i can not wait to have the full finished product!😍

WEEK #12 - FIRST SIGNS OF BLOOM The bushes are doing fine, it seems. Checking the photos of last week, the progress is huge. Slush is almost same size as Skywalker now, 40cm in diaemter and about 25cm tall. Though not as compact /dense. In fact the SMC seems to be a very delicate and "soft"/dropping plant, while the Skywalker is a bit more sturdy. Really need to pull myself together to not remove mass (leaves) during stretch. 1-2 weeks to go, i think. Many leaves and high light intensity = thirsty much (and high humidity, but that shouldnt matter too much in this stage, err?). I think i will burn through all my fertilizer soon enough. But that's best for the plants surely. Installed the ScrOG net, 70x70cm tent kinda limiting already, a few more centimeters woulg be nice for air circulation and general spread of the plants. Hope to branch them out a bit more the folling days. At the moment i'm a bit concerned, also regarding the net, as i have usually sometimes removed the plants for care. Well, have to see if that's a major problem or just annoying in the future. Smell: not stronger than before (yet), very faint and not very distinct ("green"). Light: adjusted to appr. 35cm distance every other day, still 800 PPFD/µmol/m²/s - which could be a bit more in fact. Wish i had a "fast forward" function, can't wait. 👻 - - - Question(s): 2nd Fan under (instead above) canopy, after stretch seems reasonable? At the moment there's not enough space.

OG 4Q24 Flower Week 5 (Plant Week 8) Orangegasm (Fem) [ IRIE Genetics ] 12/12 @ Bolt (Day 21) Germination: 20 November 2024 #3A Earliest Harvest Date: 9 February 2025 #3B Latest Harvest Date: 19 February 2025 _________________________________________ Start of Week: [Wed Jan 8, 2024 CR2 4Q24 29:F:4:1] End of Week: [Tue Jan 14, 2024 CR2 4Q24 35:F:4:7] OrangeGasm Fertigation: - MAX: EC: [ 2.7, mS] - LightIntensity Optimal: [ 850, µMol/m2/s] ______________________________________ Lighting Strategy - As we’ve 3 Distinct Levels, Tops, Mediums, Bottoms - Our tops are within 15” of the light, the Mains 25” - GOAL is to Reduce LIGHT DISTANCE, as Long as TOPS are NOT LIGHT DISTRESSED. - Tops will be 1200+ µMol/m2/s - Mediums ~ 850 µMol/m2/s - Bottoms: 500 µMol/m2/s We Want OPTIMAL (850 µMol/m2/s) At the SECONDARIES of TALLEST PLANTS. - Secondaries are the stems with flowers emerging from the Two Mains - ~ 12 - 14 Flowers per STEM. __ Wed Jan 8, 2025 OG 4Q24 29:F:4:1 Refresh Reservoir, 4 Gallons Filtered/pH’d TAP Water, ph: 7.2, EC: 0.3 mS/cm   Environment Temp: RH: VPD: PPFD: EC: [ 2.7, mS/cm] Evaluating Runoff EC vs CHOSEN EC (Delta EC) ∆: - IDEAL: Within 200 ppm, ≤ 0.4, mS/cm - Acceptable: 200 - 300 ppm, ≤ 0.4 - 0.6 mS/cm. - CAUTION: 300 - 400 ppm, ≤ 0.6 - 0.8 mS/cm - DANGER: 400 ppm, 0.8 mS/cm - [x] Post Grow Diaries Refresh Reservoir: - [x] Primer A&B: [ 72.1, ml] - [x] SLF-100: [ 40, ml] - [x] pH UP: [ 1, ml/gal] - [x] Photosynthesis Plus: [ 24, ml] - [x] 4 Gal Filtered Tap, pH’d to 7.4, EC: 0.3 - No Silica until we have 2 MORE Days Clear Filter (Xeribird Manifold Filter) - EC: [ 2.7, mS/cm] Monitor Filter - [x] Some indication of beginning PSP film (Started PSP Today)
IF THIS Continues - it’s PSP … ;-( Runoff: - [x] 2 Gallons. # We ran 2 Extra Minutes, adding 50% to the overall feed. IFF 30 seconds delivers ~380 ml, then the 2 Minutes yields a couple more gallons . . . We’ll Know THURSDAY NIGHT (No Add’l Fertigation Events beyond programmed 8). - [x] EC: 3.5 - [x] EC Delta: 0.8 (400 ppm) # CAUTION LEVEL __ Thu Jan 9, 2025 OG 4Q24 30:F:4:2 Reclaim Dehu # @1400 - [x] 1 Gal Refresh Reservoir: 1 Gal Dehu - Primer A&B: [ 20, ml] - SLF-100: [ 5, ml] Monitor Filter # @1900 - [x] If Clear Filter - Start Silica . . . - Filter has BARELY any Buildup - But Pink (PSP?) Film. No Affect to Fertigation Runoff - Amount: [ 1, Gal] - EC: [ 3.3, mS] - EC ∆: [ 0.6, mS/cm]: Acceptable REDUCED Fertigation Time to 25 Seconds from 35. __ Fri Jan 10, 2025 OG 4Q24 31:F:4:3 Runoff - 1 Gal, ec: 3.0, ec delta: 0.3-ideal Defoliation - [x] Remove All FAN LEAVES up to the Penultimate Node (Leave TWO Sets of Fans At Top, for now . . .) - [x] Remove FIRST nodes ABOVE TOP, all plants - [x] Pick up 4 Gallons of ‘purified water’ Refresh Reservoir - 2 Gallons, EC: 2.7 - [x] Primer A&B: [ 40, ml] - [x] SLF-100: [ 10, ml] __ Sat Jan 11, 2025 OG 4Q24 32:F:4:4 Runoff - Amount: [ 1250, ml] - EC: [ 3.5, mS/cm] - EC ∆: [ 0.8, mS/cm]: Caution We’ll leave the feed volume at 20 seconds as long as plants are happy. Raise to 25 sec if else. __ Sun Jan 12, 2025 OG 4Q24 33:F:4:5 Reclaim Dehu - [x] [ 1.4, gal] Refresh Reservoir - Amount: [ 1.4, gal] - EC: [ 2.7, mS/cm2] - The Rooted Leaf Primer A&B, SLF-100, Photosynthesis Plus Runoff - Amount: [ 0, ml] - EC: [ n/a, mS/cm] - EC ∆: [ n/a, mS/cm]: Warning __ Mon Jan 13, 2025 OG 4Q24 34:F:4:6 - [x] Defoliate Rear 4 Plants __ Tue Jan 14, 2025 OG 4Q24 35:F:4:7 Runoff: - Amount: [ 2, L] - EC: [ 4.0, mS] - EC∆: [ 1.3, mS/cm2]: DANGER - [x] Raise Fertigation to 40 Seconds per Event - [x] Reclaimed 1 Gal Dehu - [x] Res Refresh 1 Gal @ 2.7 mS/cm2 - [x] Primer A&B, SLF-100. - [x] Cleaned Manifold Filter with H2O2 - The Bio film embeds in the mesh. Has to be destroyed to remove it seems. Replaced and Checked

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Night 87 since seed touched soil. In total darkness, after work i came to check huge rain damage - found bud rot. #1 goes down. Day 94. Last two girls are down, this summer adventure is over ! If early spring, in theory you can have two auto harvests easy, even in UK ... Happy Growing !!!

we are reaching the final stretch, many trichomes are already amber but the girls continue to grow. This week I made some adjustments to the LST and super hydration because they were alone for 5 days. One of the polymerized flowers has already formed several small seeds. The citrus scent is prevalent on the grown.