🚂 Cash Express – Pheno B Week 6 | Elegance in Every Leaf Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! One of the greatest joys of a phenotype hunt is discovering that every plant has its own personality. Some demand attention with explosive growth. Some race toward the finish line. Others quietly develop into something special without ever asking to be the centre of attention. Cash Express Pheno B belongs to that last group. She isn't the tallest plant in the room. She isn't the fastest. She isn't trying to compete with anyone. She's simply growing exactly as she wants to—and every week she becomes a little more beautiful because of it. 🌿 A Plant That Speaks Through Her Leaves One of the first things that catches my eye every time I visit this lady is her foliage. Large, perfectly formed seven-finger fan leaves stretch confidently toward the light, creating one of the cleanest leaf structures in the entire room. They're deep green. Healthy. Symmetrical. Every leaf almost looks like it was carefully drawn before nature decided to build it. For me, leaves tell an important part of a plant's story. Long before the flowers reach their full potential, healthy foliage tells us that the engine driving everything underneath is working exactly as it should. And this engine is running beautifully. 🌼 The Flowering Story Begins Flower development is now becoming more obvious throughout the canopy. The first clusters of white pistils continue multiplying, and what were small pre-flowers only a week ago are now beginning to resemble true bud sites. This is one of my favourite stages of cultivation. Every day the changes are subtle... Yet when you compare photographs from one week to the next, it's amazing how quickly those tiny flowers begin stacking into something much more impressive. She's still directing a good portion of her energy toward the final stretch, but you can already see that her priorities are changing. Less focus on producing new branches. More focus on building flowers. Week by week, she'll continue shifting her energy away from growing taller and toward creating the dense blooms we're all waiting for. 🍃 Sometimes the Best Training Is No Training This week has been wonderfully uneventful. No defoliation. No heavy training. No major adjustments. Just a little gentle leaf tucking whenever a fan leaf decided to shade a developing flower site. I've learned over the years that these early flowering weeks are often best approached with patience rather than scissors. The plant is making enormous hormonal changes during this transition, and I prefer disturbing her as little as possible while she settles into her new rhythm. Sometimes growers feel the need to do something every day. Sometimes the smartest decision is simply to observe. This week, observation was more than enough. 🍽️ Feeding The nutrition program continues supporting both the final stretch and early flower development. This week's feeding included: • Terra Bloom – 1.9 ml/L • Pure Zym – 1 ml/L • Sugar Royal – 1 ml/L • Power Buds – 1 ml/L Along with small pH adjustments using Lemon Kick and pH Plus whenever necessary. Unlike some of her sisters, Pheno B isn't asking for much more just yet. A few older leaves have begun naturally giving back some stored nutrients, but nothing suggests she's under stress. It's simply another reminder that plants recycle energy where it's needed most. For now, she's happy. And so am I. 🌡️ Environment The flowering room continues running exactly as planned. • Day temperature averaged 29°C • Night temperature remained around 25°C • Relative humidity averaged 60% • Solution temperature stayed close to 24°C • Root zone remained near 21°C • Atmospheric CO₂ averaged 639 ppm With stable environmental conditions and consistent feeding, the plant can dedicate nearly all of her energy to flower production instead of constantly adapting to changing conditions. Consistency is often the secret ingredient behind healthy gardens. 📸 Behind This Week's Photos This week's photographs highlight something I absolutely love about this phenotype. The architecture is incredibly elegant. The internode spacing is balanced. The branching remains clean and open. And those beautiful seven-finger fan leaves frame every developing flower site almost perfectly. The close-up shots reveal fresh pistils reaching confidently into the light, while the full-plant photographs show a structure that should provide excellent airflow throughout flowering. There's a calm confidence about this plant. She isn't trying to impress anyone. She simply looks comfortable being herself. Sometimes those are the phenotypes that surprise you the most by harvest day. 🔍 Looking Ahead Next week should mark another exciting step in her journey. I expect the stretch to begin slowing as the flowers take over as the plant's primary focus. Those small clusters of pistils should begin stacking together, giving us our first glimpse of the colas she'll eventually produce. We'll continue with the same philosophy: Minimal interference. Gentle leaf tucking when necessary. Careful observation. And letting the plant decide the pace. Sometimes the best growers aren't the ones who do the most. They're the ones who know when to simply watch nature do what it has perfected over millions of years. 💚 Thank You A huge thank you to everyone following this adventure. Whether you've been here since Germination Week or you've only just joined the journey, your encouragement, conversations and shared experiences continue to make these diaries incredibly rewarding to create. Special thanks to: 💚 GrowDiaries for bringing growers together from every corner of the world. 🌱 Zamnesia for providing the Cash Express genetics that continue revealing a unique personality with every passing week. ? Plagron for supplying the nutrition program supporting every stage of this grow. 💡 Future of Grow LED for delivering powerful, consistent lighting throughout the flowering room. 🌿 TrolMaster for maintaining the stable environment that allows every phenotype to perform at its best. And finally... Thank you to every grower, supporter, silent reader, friend and curious visitor who stops by these diaries. Every comment, question and discussion makes this project even more enjoyable to share. I'll see you all next week as Cash Express Pheno B continues writing her own story—one leaf, one flower and one beautiful week at a time. Growers Love, and happy growing everyone. 🌱🚂💚

Good start to flower

These have been growing kind of slowly but I got the temps up a little this week by adding some extra light and am getting vpd dialed in. These will only be in this tent for a few more days I am just starting to harvest the main tent so once that is done they will be moved to the Gorilla Grow Tent and put under the new Growlightscience LEDs so we can see how the perform full cycle. The autos will have to get moved back into this tent once I flip the main tent but the photos will prob need a few weeks of veg before that happens. Been doing foliars with the Growzyme from greenbuzz as well before lights out every other night which seems to make them happy. I think theyll take off over the next couple weeks.

Bienvenidos de nuevo! Esta semana he seguido regando con agua hasta el corte, no he dejado que las hojas se pongan más amarillas porque los tricomas habían llegado al punto de madurez que más me gusta. Se nota que cyco tiene productos muy buenos por el simple echo de que después de dos semanas de agua siguen bastante verdes. Actualizo la semana como semana de floracion simplemente porque no tomo pesos en húmedo, después de un par de días colgadas pasaré a manicurarlas, y para cuando seque subiré pesos. Creía que sacaría flores extrañas por el calor, o que tendría algún problema más serio a la hora de cultivar en esta época,todavía falta secarla bien, pero a simple vista creo que me acerco al peso de la anterior cosecha, ojalá. Subiré más fotos en cuanto tenga la manicura echa, un saludo!

After realising that it was the temps in my reservoir changing causing my ph levels to change I have now sorted the issue and levels are a lot more stable. This week I will begin diluting/flushing my system by just adding water ph 6.2 to the reservoir before I do a full system change for the final 2 week flush Starting to see a lot more too her now and her buds are starting to bulk. I'm really pleased with how she is turning out and I can't wait for harvest! Happy growing 🌱

All is going well, the girls are looking good. Only providing Calmag and powder KoolBloom now. Buds are starting to thicken up and overall nice and healthy, raised her up a bit in-line with the other girls in the tent.r

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It was a beautiful week for the plant. She drank a lot, the flowers are maturing wonderfully. Lots of sun for the end of flowering, I'm going to start giving only water from now on I only use water so as not to destroy the microbial life in the soil and to be able to cultivate again in the same place.

PURPLE KUSH / KANNABIA SEEDS WEEK #7 OVERALL WEEK #6 VEG This week she got fresh growth from her topping she split into 4 tops somehow so she bushy! Stay Growing! Thank you for stopping by and taking a look it's much appreciated!! Thank you to KANNABIA SEEDS!!! PURPLE KUSH / KANNABIA SEEDS

03/01 - (M) - Currently in pre-flower - She is growing amazingly - No deficiencies, wilted leaves or visual que's - I have changed her feeding program to daily micro-dosing between clean water and nute feed alternating days - She will be transferred into the 4x4 flower tent within the week. 03/01 - (C) - The clones are coming along nicely - Transplanted the 7 into 1 gallon pots last night - The substrate is the same as the mother with an added top dressing of worm castings last night - Increased feed formula on some of the nutes (Nitrogen/Silica and Cal-Mag) - High humidity/High heat is the name of the name the game - Specs to follow Clone specs - Week 2 Height - 13 Inches Temps - 82°(f) Feed Temp - 65° (f) Humidity - 79 - 81% Watering Vol - 2 cups every 3 days Nutrient Feed - Nitrogen - Silica - Cal-Mag - Microbes - Kelp - Horti Grow - Myco

The plant responded very well to fim it is growing steady I wish I can leave her vegetating for another week but the other plants in my tent are growing at an incredible rate of speed so I have to rise this one in order to catch up with the rest canopy that's why I flip them to flowering schedule 12/12 I have been defoliatin in order to prepare them for maximum light penetration into the canopy for the flowering cycle . I will continue to update thank you for reading and have a happy grow.

BEGIN WEEK 7 - Day 43 - 12/4 - No Water. Light 18hrs. No adjustment. Mostly even spherical canopy formed; I'd say seems pretty decent for first ever growing experience! :D Start flowering Mid-Week 7 - Day 47. Day 44 - 12/5 - A cup of plain water. Light 18hrs. Day 45 - 12/6 - No Water. Light 18hrs. Day 46 - 12/7 - Bloom Ferts. 1.3 + 0.9 ml/l Light 18hrs. No adjustment. Day 47 - 12/8 - Start official Flowering - Light 12/12. 2 cup Plain Water. Day 48 - 12/9 - Light Water. No adjustment. Day 1 into Flowering. Day 49 - 12/10 - 1.5 Bloom + 1 CalMag. Day 2 into flowering. Red streaks on stems. Bright yellowish green new grown leaves seen. Question. Overall looks good. Concerned about bright yellow new growth and red streaks on stems. END WEEK 7.

Esta es mi primer planta que cosechó con éxito, y estoy muy feliz con mi resultado final 😄 obtuve una muy buena cantidad de flores premium con alrededor de 15% de thc (desde mi punto de vista claro 😅) Tuve algunos problemas durante el cultivo, principalmente que deje que se estirara mucho, debi hacerle LST a la punta principal para que no siguiera aumentando la altura y tener más flores del mismo tamaño, las flores más bajas quedaron chicas y les faltó madurar un poco, también tuve problemas de sobrefertilizacion aun a pesar de que seguí las instituciones de los fertilizantes y de sus indicaciones que me dieron los de servicio al cliente, incluso ya teniendo en cuenta eso siempre use la menos de la dosis de la base ya hasta que crecieron más le fui aumentando, igual creo que es muy cierto lo que dicen de que “menos es más” a la próxima empezaré usando muy pocos nutrientes, aparte creo que si hubiera usado unos leds más potentes, las plantas hubieran aprovechado más los nutrientes, pero igual me sirvió de experiencia, pienso cultivar de nuevo esta genética y sacarle más provecho. Muy recomendada 👌🏻😁

⚗️ FERMAKOR – Neutralisation & Filtering (Final Stage) 🧠 “From reactor to bottle — the first real batch.” --- 13.10.25 — Pulled about 1L of the finished FERMAKOR extract into a 5L bucket and added roughly 2L of clean water. Let it sit for a bit to calm down and cool off before touching the pH. Sample came back around pH 6.8–7, totally non-caustic — exactly what I wanted before acidifying for storage. Started adding phosphoric acid (59%) slow and steady, stirring between each pour. Ended up using about 50ml total before the colour flipped red on the GHE drops, landing the mix right around pH 3–3.5. No foam, no violent reaction, just smooth. Smell turned clean and metallic-sweet — the kind of smell that tells you it’s done reacting. --- Filtering setup Used a pillowcase and cheesecloth layered together as the filter stack. The pillowcase handled all the heavy junk, the cheesecloth grabbed the fine silt. It came out thick, dark amber, glossy — zero grit. I’ll leave it to rest overnight, open, just to let any tiny bubbles or gases clear out before bottling. --- Final note This batch is officially FERMAKOR B Concentrate V1.0 (1:4). Storage pH locked between 3.3–3.8, ready to bottle and shake before use. This one’s rich in P, K, Mg, and micros, while Calcium Nitrate will handle the N and Ca on the A-part side. --- 🌱 Closing the diary That’s it for this round — extraction phase complete. I’ll be closing this diary here and opening a new one called “FERMAKOR A+B Test Grow – V1.” Testing starts Monday, 20.10.2025 on a single plant. Time to see if this brew actually works in the tent. 📸 All images videos to be added later — filter setup, pH colour, and final concentrate.

Excited to get these things dried and cured. The terpene profile is really interesting, if a bit on the lighter side. I'll report back on the smoke report.

Semana 4 (del 23 al 29 de abril) Los espacios para las flores estan preparados, y las flores estan en pleno crecimiento. 25 de abril Riego con 1.2l x planta 2A + 2B + 1.5 Candy + 1.5 Big Bud + 1 overdrive + 1 B-52 + 0.16 Mammoth P + 2.5 Calmag Ph 6.1 EC: 1.2 T:20°C Periódicamente quitamos hojas que vamos viendo tocadas o que estorban. 25 de abril Los trips siguen ahí, no son muchos y parece que no prosperan demasiado pero estan ahi. Riego foliar con spruzit y tec fort para mantenerlo controlados y hoy esperamos que nos llegue diatomea para erradicarlos del todo. Quitamos las hojas que vemos que molestan o que son un poco inútiles porque no les da demasiada luz. Cada día que pasa se ven más flores y más grandes. • Malas noticias, el medidor de EC se averio y los vores del riego pasado fueron erróneos, pero ya tenemos nueva herramienta y solucionaremos los pequeños problemas causados. 29/4 Riego con 1.1l por planta 2 A + 2 B + 1.5 Big Bud + 1.5 Overdrive + 1.5 Candy + 2 Sensizym PH 6.1/6.2 EC 1.72/1.8 ms 18/19.8°C Ayer pusimos varias trampas adesivas azules para trips por si hay alguno que no vaya dando saltos de planta en planta. Hoy realizamos ultimo ( esperemos) riego antiplagas, usaremos 1.5ml•l de aceite de nem y 20g por litro de tierra de diatomea que por lo que dicen es mano de santo. Esta semana las temperaturas han subido un poco; en encendido oscilan entre 25-27°C, estos últimos días siendo más de 26-28°C. Todo sobre la marcha, algunas plantas como la bubba parece que se está adelantando porque es bastante rápida 50-55 dias, la Muffin berry ( que la teníamos en 1.2m ) la hemos tenido que doblar 45° para que no se nos vaya de altura. Por lo demás vosotros diréis 😁

** COST ** TO RUN - Used previous ⛺️ setup : $0.00 - Monthly electricity : $36.73 <-- other ladies sharing ⛺️ - 1 Gallon Fabric pot : $0.10 - Bonsai wire : Apx. $0.03 - Reused soil from last run : $0.00 FOR NUTRIENTS - Jadam Microbial Solution : $0.00 - Fermented Plant Juice : $0.00 APPLYING - JMS : 30ml / 1 Litter - FPJ : 30ml / 1 litter TOTAL COST : $36.86 Throughout the week, I give JSM, and fermented plant juice once each ^^ Hope you guys have a wonderful day today ^^v *** Please Like, comment & share *** Highly appreciated -----/-----<@