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What's up ouens. I can sit here and say I have wanted to do everyone a favour and skip the boring part of veg but to be really honest, I just wanted to make sure I do not have any fuck ups while posting a diary. I know it is part of the game and that is why we are here...... to learn. I had a bit of a fuckup on my first scrog grow so I was abit hesitant. I managed to isolate the problems which I will briefly discuss in this diary and ironed them out with a couple of minor changes. So here goes. Strain: Mango Sapphire by HSO Medium: Coco/Perlite Nutes: Calmag, GHE/TA TriPart and Ripen always fed at a PH of 6.0 Lights: 2x 480watt (DIY build and the other Kingbrite) 10 clones were taken and rooted for 2 weeks. Once they were done, they we moved into small 12cm pots, vegged out for 3 weeks and then only the best 8 would be transplanted to 20cm pots. Vegged for 3 weeks and then transplanted into 20Lt Fabric pots. When the plants were moved into their 20LT Fabric Forever homes, the net was lowered and the tucking began. Once the net was filled to about 100%, the lights were flipped. Day before flip Day 2 of Flower This is where my last mistake was made. Previously, when I flipped the plants into flower after filling the net, something went wrong. I have a slight suspicion the plants did not flip when I flipped and it felt like the stretch went on waaaaay too long before showing any pistils. I think the first bud sites were visible at day 20. This is very late. Even after soooo much defoliation there was still tons of growth coming up. I ended up having a shit ton of bud but everything was popcorn because there wasn't any place for the buds to fatten up. So how I solved it this time was to do a flip but make sure the plants would go into flower. The lights were switched off for about 30 hours and when they came into their first day of flower, I would keep them on an 11 hour on and 13 hour off cycle just to make sure nothing carries on vegging. This seemed to work very well. After day 2 a stretch was already visible and I could see this time it was on the money and that each site would stretch out into their own space. The ladies ended up stretching so nicely that I had to source an extra net very quickly to help support the buds. Luckily @John Stonedwell came to the rescue and donated a second net to the ladies which they were very happy for . The ladies are now on day 46 of flower and should be finshed by the week 8 mark which is in 10 days. They have been getting Ripen until now and soon they will have all the nutes removed with clean water to try get the plants to start fading and consuming the last bit of nutes that is left in them. They will only get clean PH 6.0 water from today until they are done. So far I am extremely happy with the progress. No hickups at all this time. I feel like this was a good grow and that there will be some very nice product coming out. It is smelling unreal in there. Not strong at all so I am not using a carbon filter this time. I would put it on the very sweet and fruity side. Can't wait to taste them. Thanks to all the guys on the forum that I have learnt from, spending hours observing every step they take to try immitate their grows has helped me learn and understand what is needed for a succesful grow. I look forward to sharing the last few updates into harvest and eventually a final report on the dried product. Thanks for watching.

So far I am really liking what I see! Still early days though. The critical banana has been impressive from seed, hardly plants and been super easy to grow. Results look pleasing so far. Will obviously be doing more updates as the grow progresses and once we can see more bud development on the plants then I will take of each plant and list the name and number. For those wondering, this is the write up on the Critical Banana: CRITICAL MASS (BILBO CUT) X BANANA PUNCH by Old School Genetics Critical Mass (Bilbo cut) is one of the most cultivated cuts of all time. This cut is extremely productive, with an intoxicating aroma of sweet fruit and musk. I used a selection of Banana Punch from Symbiotic Genetics as my male, looking for that perfect combination of old and new. This is what the Banana Punch looks like: Nice frosty strain, however it suffers from smaller buds like majority of the frosty strains out there. Critical Mass is known for it's big donkey dicks... So combining the two, hopefully gets us a nice mix between bud size, density, and frost while keeping some of the great terps from both. This is a picture of the Critical Banana: I If I can get a pheno with nice dark leaves and darker bud to help make the trichomes pop, good yield and frost and some sweet, sweet terps.

Talk about blowing the lid off that shit on a FRIDAY! Lol very very nicely done my man. That deserves a big pat on the back. Crushed it!

Day 34 Had to drop a net down past the top colas. I can just see they'll be flopping all over the place pretty soon. Otherwise after 2 weeks of pollination, seed development is well under way. 36 days to go

The bar has officially been raised

So let's do a bit of an update shall we. Not the best pictures - apologies and the phone makes it seem as if there are some serious dark spots in the tent which is not the case. When I receive my new phone, hopefully the I will be able to take some better quality pics. Here we have the Platinum Punch: The Bananium: Pineapple Chem: Critical Banana: The GG Wedding Mints, stacking nicely. Canopy shot, cannot remember of what - I think the Crescendo and Pineapple Chem... I am happy with everything in this tent so far. Was hoping to see a bit more frost on the GG Wedding Mints but maybe they will catch up with time. The Critical Banana seems to be packing on the frost already and obviously the In House strains are doing the same.

I'm so amped to see that critical banana perform. One of the strains I would like to run myself as well.

Yeah boy. Been begging you to post your mad ass shit, thank you Watch this space....

This man knows

I appreciate you dude. It's true, I hit em pretty hard, prob too hard. But I just love the training process so much, it's so fun. I guess I kind of prefer veg to flower a bit. There's more to do and plan for, and work towards.

Trim jail!

So much life happening that giving more frequent updates on the garden is a mission. The 4 veg girls are on day 21 of flower today already. This is a strawberry Sugar cookies run, with a ssc clone reversed and dropping first pollen today. Tortoni #1, Quattro Kush F3, Ssc, and a Cheese getting pollinated. Pretty excited to combine the ssc and the tortoni... 2 of the frostiest cuts that have been hunted and grown out over the last 2 years. Tortoni Strawberry sugar cookies Cheese Quattro Kush F3 Reversed Ssc

Day 45 Seed set is good. Clones have been vegging 4 weeks and are pretty much ready to move into Flowering in a week or 2.