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[0:35]Episode one kicked everything off. I popped organic frozen bag from seed and laid the foundation for the entire grow. From building rich super soil recipes for veg and flower stages to focusing on clean practices. From plant training to proper watering, I laid the foundation, dialing in the environment. Setting the roots up for success and letting nature do the heavy lift. This stage doesn't look flashy, but it determines everything that comes after. No shortcuts, no bottle fixes, just patience, intention and trust in the process. You want to see exactly how I did everything from day one, make sure you watch episode one because this is just a quick recap. In episode two, the plants wake up, growth explodes, the canopy starts to form and the real magic begins. It's currently week one of flower. Since installing the trellis net, flipping the light schedule of the ion board has 33 to a flower schedule of 12 hours on and 12 hours off. This canopy is showing nothing less than promising signs of healthy, happy plants. Praying top sites across what seems to be a pretty even Steven's canopy. It's a beautiful site for sore eyes. It's now time to set the stage for the big yields. Setting that stage is done with pertinent canopy maintenance and also with pristine environment conditions. At this current juncture, I would I would argue I'm dialed and it feels freaking nice, pardon my French. I do need to stay on top of what I've been doing and everything else should fall into place for me to knock down. I am doing some maintenance today. It's a slight defoliation day and I would like to clean the bottom skirts up to ensure the plants are optimizing their energy outputs to the top flower sites. Many times, I assume my tent is filled wall to wall until the first major defoliation. Then often, I see holes in which I can optimize yield output. The benefits of defoliating are plentiful. Improved light penetration. The light will reach deeper bud sites, promoting even growth. A lot more air flow, which reduces humidity pockets and lowers the risk of mold or powdery mildew. When it comes to defoliating of the top canopy, I aim to only remove 20 to 35% of the foliage at a time. I don't overdo it. This normally will let the plant recover for a week before assessing the maintenance required again. And often, what goes hand in hand with defoliating, it's cleaning the bottom skirts, aka lollipoping. I am for one, not a big larf guy. I don't waste larf, however, I do like to eliminate or minimize it. Cleaning up the lower skirts can prevent larfy buds and without that larfy growth sucking up energy, the plants can redirect that energy, nutrients and growth hormones towards upper bud sites. This also does help manage the potential risks of pests or mold. It keeps plants clean and allowing them to have more air flowing through the plants. After all that is said and done, the plants should look clean and open underneath with all the main colas exposed to strong light up top.
[4:10]It's been a busy few days of maintenance work. Every tent required the same treatment.
[4:30]In the dry room, things have been more calm. Luckily for myself and these hanging flowers, winter is here and it's allowing my dry room to stay a little cooler. Maintaining the humidity is the easy part. Trying to get temps to stay in the sixties is more of the concern. A huge part of the aromas and flavors, smoothness, will be derived from how I dry.
[5:04]Based off my found dates, it's the middle of week four flower inside the AC Infinity 3x3 tent. This is when things start to get exciting. They are in thriving living soil, built from scratch with compost, worm castings, Gaia green amendments and a healthy population of microbes working around the clock. At this stage, the focus is maintaining balance. I sound like a broken record, but this whole environment thing is kind of the bee's needs when it comes to health.
[5:34]I'm keeping temps around 77 Fahrenheit lights on, 68ish when the lights are off. With the humidity around 45 to 50%, I should be in that sweet spot, which keeps the VPD stable. This on paper should help push tricome production without stressing the plants. I can already see a thick layer of frost build up across the sugar leaves and the turpine profile is exploding. This tent smells like citrus, fuel and sweet earth. Every watering is done slowly and evenly, making sure the soil stays moist but never soaked. No bottle nutrients in sight, just a soil food web doing its thing.
[6:21]The AC Infinity system keeps the air moving and the environment locked in while the plants naturally express their full genetic potential. Week four is all about observation. Watch the stacking, check for even light coverage, and let the biology handle the feeding. When you grow organically and keep the environment steady, the reward is frosty, aromatic flowers that truly represent clean living gardening at its best.
[6:56]I'm in week four of flower. Today, I'm doing a simple top dress feeding to carry these girls strong into the later stages of bloom. At this point, the plants are stacking nicely, but they've used up a good amount of what was in the soil from the last feeding. So to keep that momentum going, I'm applying a mix of Gaia Green 284 Bloom and organic worm castings. The worm castings feed the microbial life in the soil and help release nutrients slowly. While the 284 Bloom provides that perfect ratio of phosphorus and potassium. Exactly what the plant needs to build dense resin coated flowers and enhance turbine production as we move into late flower. First amendment is a solid layer of worm castings. Think of this like a slow release nutrient blanket that keeps the biology thriving. I use four tablespoons per one gallon of medium used. Then, I'll sprinkle in the 284 at one tablespoons per gallon of medium. I then gently dig the amendments into the soil surface. The last ingredient though, is water. The water is going to help activate those nutrients and wake up the microbes. Within a few days, I will start to see the plants respond, leaves praying up, buds swelling and color deepening. By top dressing now at week four, I'm giving the microbes time to process the nutrients, so everything's available as the plants enter the final swell phase in week six through eight. The results, heavier buds, richer aromas and smoother burn. All grown the way nature intended with living soil and balanced organics. I mean, this is how I'm keeping the plants healthy and happy right through harvest. Simple, clean and completely organic.
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[10:21]Every time I unzip this tent, it's like walking into a wall of turpines. Currently, it's the middle of week six and the buds are swelling, pistils starting to turn and the tricombes are thick and milky. The canopy's perfectly filled out. Leaves are praying and the whole tent just smells unreal. Sweet, gassy, earthy tones all blended together. This is the point where all that work, the training, the feeding, the environment starts paying off big time. Today, I'm doing a little canopy maintenance. At this stage, the goal isn't heavy pruning. The task is to only remove large fan leaves that block light or restrict air flow through the canopy. This helps lower buds get that last bit of light and reduce humidity build up around those dense colas. So, I'm just opening things up so the plant can focus energy on finishing strong and stacking that final frost. These colas are tall, thick and stacked from top to bottom. A uniform sea of frost. The whole tent looks like one solid wall of buds, ready to pack on that final weight.
[12:03]Now even despite cleaning the lower skirts, there's still some larf growth, which I'm going to remove. These plants are not wasting energy output.
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[13:05]For week six, the canopy couldn't look better. Everything's even Steven's across the top. Every cola sitting right in that perfect light zone under the now full blast S33 LED. The flowers are looking strong and swollen, covered in frost, and the smell in here is just unreal. This is the point where the structure is locked in. The stretch is done and all that's left is letting them stack, ripe and finish. From here on out, it is simple. No more heavy work. I need to keep the environment steady and water only when the pots feel light to the touch and let the plants do what they do best. Pack on that final weight and shine. Before I check back in with the 3x3, it seems I have some trees to perhaps cut down. In the 4x2, I had two different strains. One of which looks ready to harvest. This was the other pheno of Frozen Bag and it also did not disappoint. I pulled it from the 4x2, placed it in my dry room to be cut down the following day and hung to dry. One remains in the 4x2, the other pheno of Gorilla Glue number four, crossed with bag, which I believe is a berry and gas lineage. This pheno is ripened and just about fully flushed. One more watering and in a few days, the light will be turned off and this plant will be cut down.
[18:21]After all three rooms have been harvested, it becomes all about keeping the cycle alive, perpetual gardening. As one room finishes, another one begins. Seedlings popping while flowers swell.
[18:40]It's a smooth rotation that keeps the garden productive year round. I'm always harvesting, always resetting, always improving. And with every stage running in harmony, the grow becomes a steady rhythm of freshness, momentum and nonstop buds.
[19:08]I'll be covering the drying and curing stages in depth on my next grow series. I documented everything I did in detail. In the meantime, I did take the final cured shots of the three strains inside the 3x3 AC Infinity tent.
[19:29]I'm running the ion board S33 LED, a 260 watt light using Samsung diodes. With everything being dialed, this tent typically is around a gram per watt, dry weight yields. Obviously, with every run, there's big factors that swing the yields, genetics being one. I am one that leans towards the higher quality, more resinous flowers, often phenos with smaller, rock dense flower formation. But layered heavily with resinous tricombes, despite this being a niche grow, running three different strains, 229 grams, just over a half pound of cured dry weight flower, was more than acceptable for myself. And just like that, we've come full circle from seed going into living soil, all the way to harvest day. No shortcuts, no bottled hype, just biology doing what it does best. Every plant in this run carried that bag lineage and I could see it from early flower right through to finish. Strong structures, dense stacking and flowers that stay loud right to the very end. By harvest, the rooms were filled with heavy turbine profiles, thick resin and that unmistakable frost that tells me the process was dialed in, not rushed. I guess I guess this is what happens when patience meets consistency, clean inputs, healthy roots and time. If you enjoyed this run, make sure you subscribe, like and leave a comment. It does help the channel grow, kind of like these plants did. And trust me, the next grow, let's just say things are about to get unreasonably frosty. I'll see you in the next one. Thanks, thanks so much for watching.
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