Super Lemon Haze Grow Diary and Strain Review

This diary follows two Super Lemon Haze plants from Green House Seeds. I wasn’t planning on doing anything too aggressive with them, just some bending where needed and leaf removal if the canopy started getting too crowded.

The plants went into a 60x80x180cm (23.6x31.5x70.9in) tent. For the first week, the seedlings stayed under an Aerogrow at 30W, then the main light was a Mars II 1600. I also kept a small floor fan pointed low across the plants, mostly to move air around the pots and keep the heat from sitting right on them.

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Super Lemon Haze (Green House Seeds)

• Photoperiod
• 800 g/m² indoors
  1200 g/plant outdoors
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Starting the Run

Week 1-2

I germinated both seeds on a wet paper towel covered with a plate. The roots showed after 2 days, but I gave them one more day before moving them into plastic cups with soil and perlite.

The early stage wasn’t smooth. I overdid it with water and the seedlings looked rough enough that I really had to back off and let them recover. Ventilation and airflow helped steady things again, but it was already clear this wasn’t going to be a perfect, clean run.

Week 3-4

At the start of the third week, I moved both plants into 20l (5.3gal) grow bags. Bad timing, because I had to leave them alone for a full week right after the transplant.

To keep them alive while I was away, I put together a simple automatic watering setup: a large bucket, tubes running to each pot, and a pump connected to a smart socket. It wasn’t fancy, but it gave me at least some control from a phone instead of leaving the pots completely dry.

Veg Progress and Training

Week 5-6

Once the plants were growing again, I started bending them little by little. I didn’t want a heavy training plan, just enough LST to spread the tops and keep the structure useful.

The plants still carried some stress from the rough beginning, so I tried not to push too hard. They were alive and moving forward, but not as fast as they could have been in a cleaner setup.

Week 7-9

During these 3 weeks, I kept bending the branches and gradually built a few proper stems with their own tops. That part worked better than expected, even though the plants had already been through enough mistakes.

There were still problems with the feed and pH/ppm readings. I suspect the meter calibration was part of the mess, because the plants reacted badly more than once. By the end of this stretch, they had stabilized enough for me to switch them to 12/12.

The Flip and Early Flower

Week 10-12

After the flip, I fed them G.O. Thrive Grow, CaMg+, and G.O. Bud at 1.32/0.66/1.25ml/l. The lower parts still had plenty of yellow and damaged leaves, so I removed those together with the weakest small branches.

The cleanup helped. After defoliation, the plants looked more like they had finally recovered instead of just surviving. Pre-flower started around week 11, and I kept the same feeding plan while taking off extra growth that clearly wasn’t going anywhere.

Week 13-15

By week 13, the plants were fully in flower and the stretch slowed down for a while. I ran out of one General Hydroponics line and switched to FloraMicro, FloraBloom, FloraGro, and Cal-Mag Supplement, mixed according to the chart. The water pH stayed close to 7, and feeding happened every third watering, roughly once a week.

After a week of proper flowering, the smell became sharp and hard to miss. It had that lemon-diesel edge I like, and resin started to show more clearly on the buds.

Week 15 was calmer. The yellowing slowed, the buds kept filling in, and the pistils had started changing color. The trichomes were still mostly not ready, so I knew there was time left. The tops also kept stretching a bit more than I expected.

Late Flower and Finish

Week 16-19

Late flower was mostly about holding the plants steady and not making the pH situation worse. I stopped cutting healthy foliage and only removed leaves that had fully dried and were ready to fall off anyway.

The buds kept building, but I could see how much the earlier mistakes had cost me. The plants finished around 70cm (27.6in), and I’m pretty sure they could have reached at least 1m (3.3ft) with a cleaner run and better control over the solution.

Even with all that, Super Lemon Haze handled the mess better than I expected. The plant didn’t behave like something fragile. It took the bad calls, recovered, and still made it to harvest.

Super Lemon Haze Yield and Final Thoughts

After a week of drying, the harvest came out to about 200g (7.1oz) of buds, plus 70g (2.5oz) of buds mixed with sugar leaf. I also kept 40g (1.4oz) of smaller lower buds from the bottoms of the plants.

Super Lemon Haze ended up feeling like a real fighter. I made plenty of mistakes, especially around pH and ppm, and the plants still pulled through. My guess is that either this genotype is very sensitive to the mix, or the badly calibrated pH pen caused more trouble than I realized at the time.

The finished flower was tasty and strong. The main flavor was sour citrus with a little earthy note behind it. The top buds felt heavier in the body, while the sugar-leaf mix and lower popcorn leaned more toward a head high.

I liked the result, but I wouldn’t judge the strain only by this run. In better conditions, I think it could finish faster, grow taller, and produce even better flowers. This grow showed me more about what not to do than anything else, but the final jars still made the effort worth it.

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