Strawberry Lemonade (Barney's Farm)

420AD

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• Aug 4, 2025

• #1

Bombs have been planted.

 

420AD

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• Aug 4, 2025

• #2

The first submarines have arrived...
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

 

420AD

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• Aug 5, 2025

• #3

lovely, they're coming along.

 

420AD

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• Aug 7, 2025

• #4

getting a bit lanky as usual, but dem gals are doin fine.

 

420AD

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• Aug 11, 2025

• #5

Gonna be ~95-100°F for a minute or two around here, but dem gals are not complainin too much.

 

420AD

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• Aug 13, 2025

• #6

They were struggling a bit u can see it in the first and second set of leaves.
I'm not too worried tho, they're getting stronger and more beautiful day by day.

 

420AD

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• Aug 14, 2025

• #7

Two of them showing super slow growth and one of those has an odd shape. But there's not enough room anyways for all of them.
On the up-side: The others mostly seem to thrive and are decorating themselves with this maple'ish looking foliage - beautiful - I love it!

 

420AD

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• Aug 16, 2025

• #8

Almost 90°F in here without AC - I'm frying more than the plants, I guess.
Gonna kick out whatever hasn't pickt up any pace until next weekend.

 

420AD

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• Aug 18, 2025

• #9

Luniz - I got 5 on it.mp3

 

420AD

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• Aug 21, 2025

• #10

Running the lights 48/6 @55% (120w) first time running that schedule, but it's working quiet well
Pace is decent and asides from the one lady trying to sell her tacos to me, they look fine and didn't care too much about the heatwaves we had.

 

420AD

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• Aug 22, 2025

• #11

Update:

• Dusted off the fan and the fixtures.
• Cleaned everything out with soapwater.
• Sorted the RJ cables and power cables, looks pretty neat now!
• Brushed the inside of the fabric pots, they still had a ton of roots stuck at the bottom.
• Mixed some Pro mix with extra perlite and got rid of all the chunks and chips of wood I found in there.
• Soaked all the ladies and repotted 'em into the fabric pots.

I'm pretty dead - took me over 6 hours...

Gonna post some more pictures on Sunday, I just took a quick one after I was finished.

 

420AD

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• Aug 23, 2025

• #12

Pretty clean, I'd say... at least not as messy as it used to be.

 

420AD

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• Aug 23, 2025

• #13

I left some of the babes alone, topped one of them and gonna do LST and the others are just bent over at the main stem.
I'm pretty excited to see the difference in the end results.

 

420AD

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• Aug 24, 2025

• #14

Some of the ladies decided to break out of their cage, or rather rip it out of the ground last night.
Had to get a lil creative. Took a needle poked a hole through the fabric and passed the garden wires through, so they wouldn't move.
Amazing thing to me is the fact that some of the other plants that stayed bent already started adapting over night.
The topped one on the other hand will need multiple days. I see now why people prefer the LST method.

 

420AD

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• Aug 27, 2025

• #15

Yep, the ladies are enjoying the sun.

 

420AD

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• Aug 30, 2025

• #16

They are shaping up beautifully, I like what I see.

 

420AD

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• Sep 2, 2025

• #17

We're at 17/7 now. Chopping off an hour of light every other day, then it's flower time for the ladies.

 

420AD

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• Monday at 10:48 AM

• #18

Well there's bad news there's good news...

The bad news:
RH shot up to 76% at the bottom of the tent after the first full watering.
Thought about buying a dehumidifier, but I just turned up the extraction fan instead.
Still wasn't happy, so l killed 3 plants to give the 12 that are left more room to breathe.

The good news: Less plants = better distribution of air. RH went down 20%.

I'm pushing air towards the floor now to the opposite side with one fan and back to the other side with the other fan, instead of having both just blowing from one side.

Fan #2 is positioned higher and is facing slightly upwards, so it doesn't work against fan #1.

I guess if the next watering doesn't put me into shock again, I saved a decent amount of money for the dehumidifier, by sacrificing some plants. May they rest in pieces.