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Just starting week 1 after germ and still in humidity dome. Only have a 24” T5 light on them until I get them moved into the tent. Will be transferring in next week or so to a 2x4 with a ES 300 v2 LED light and using advanced nutes !
These look nice and healthy and are coming along nicely. Too bad I had them under a 24 watt T5 for so long. Just got them into the tent under an ES 300 led and they are loving it !
Ending of week 4 and starting flower on 2 of the 3 ! Will be changing nutes to flower and using light wattage ! Looks like I have two different distinct phenos of the strawberry cheesecake auto! We will see how the stretch goes !
Starting very early flower stage and stretching like crazy ! Obviously have a couple different phenos going here. Pleased with how they are coming along and can’t wait till we get closer to the end.
The one pheno that is much shorter and has much broader leaves than the other two has just been defoliated and a few leaves tucked to get light to some bud sights. I’m not doing any lst or any training really on this first grow. I will develop my skills as I get a little more experience!
These are really growing like crazy ! Long internodal spacing but filling in with bud sites, these have been extremely easy to grow and have taken all the nutes I’ve dared give them ! Still several weeks to go so we will see what happens!
Beginning of week 8 for these babies ! They have started to get quite a strong fruity odor and started packing on the trichomes! The buds are not swelling as much as I thought they would but still have what looks to be at least a couple more weeks to go. Just starting to get a couple of the pistils turning color to orange or brown. I really am excited about the amount of trichomes and the smell just looks like yield may not be what I would have expected. I’ve got two different phenos of this strain of which I planted three seeds. Two plants are very tall and very few branches. The third is extremely short and bushy. Both phenos have the same smell but plant and bud structure are completely different. I didn’t include any photos of the short bushy one in this update but will try and get that done sometime this week.
Day 66 and chopped the two tall lanky ones, the other pheno which was much shorter and very bushy has a while to go. Will update later on totals and will keep updating the one pheno that’s going to require a little more time ! Also just to update on loosing smell and some brown spotting that started when I tried to flush plant, this turned out to be what I think was just a shock to the plant, the strong smell has returned and it’s a very strong sweet + skunky smell. As well as being extremely sticky. The two phenos I chopped won’t provide a bumper yield but the other pheno ( short and stocky ) will provide a much better yield than the others put together! Obviously at this point that’s a supposition but if you could see it in person you’d have no doubt !
The trichomes are starting to cloud up but I’ve also noticed a little brown spotting on a few leaves and the smell is not nearly as strong as it was. I’m a little worried I’ve done something wrong. It’s getting close to chop time and the only thing I changed was I stopped feeding and started watering with just plain RO water. It concerns me that the smell has dissipated so much. They have sugared up nicely and you can definitely tell that I’ve got two tall lanky plants and one short stocky one. All three seeds from the same batch and the smell is the same.
I’m concerned because the plants have lost a lot of the smell that was coming from them even though everything still looks pretty decent, but since switching to straight ro water I’ve noticed some brown spotting, cal/mag deficiency?,and the smell decreased significantly, help !
Heyr friend, I saw your diary and it seems you have Nitrogen Toxicity, that’s caused by over feeding and it stops the smell of buds. Just keep watering and everything will be okay. If you see some brown spots, just add some calmag but don’t overdo it, she needs to recover. Hope I helped, good luck! Nice plant 🌸😊
Last one of the strawberry cheesecake auto! The other two were of a different pheno and finished a couple weeks earlier, the trichomes are clouding up and as soon as I start seeing a small percentage of amber I will harvest this last one which is incredibly stacked with thick dense buds and trichomes! Will update on totals from all three at a later date when I have all the info. By the way it smells incredible!
Added a few better photos from day 83.
Just a few days left for this last strawberry cheesecake auto! (BTW had to change the height for this one, it’s much shorter and bushier than the other two ),This weekend she will get chopped and as soon as she’s dried I will add results of all three plants ! But this particular pheno has been amazing, the colors are incredible and she is stacked with trichomes. The main bud is thicker than a soda can and extremely dense. The smell is incredible as well. I was concerned as a couple or three weeks ago the smell had almost completely disappeared however I got a little help from a fellow grower here on the site and since then she has made a great recovery! Thanks much to everyone for all the support and compliments. Will update when I have all the info
Day 85 and the last strawberry cheesecake auto was chopped and hung to dry ! This pheno is completely different from the other two that I chopped previously, bud structure is much denser and more Christmas tree shaped, the other two remind me much more of a cheese strain and this one must be more closely related to the strawberry banana. Anyway have been hung to dry along with my other strain I was growing and will update on totals when dried and trimmed.
Thanks for checking out my diary!
Two completely different phenos, two plants definitely cheese and one more like strawberry banana! The two cheese plants were not large producers but nice small very dense buds and the last or 3 rd plant was large fluffy airy buds. Still all were stacked with trichomes and will be nice smoke after completing cure.
Dude, simple observation is useful (along with your intuition).
People say flush plants, but it's not natural. They flush plants, often, because they use like imbalanced and commercial nutrients, soil mixes (always kinda lacking). So they very often use excessive nutrients (usually biased to this or that element)...and then you start seeing that their plants have CLEAR nutrient issues, burn, etc. I mean, it's about the most common thing I see in EVERY diary.
Those plants aren't actually healthy and have biased nutrient buildups, so people religiously, like a cult believe what some guy who uses far too much nutrients and NEEDS to flush says...and like a "virus" (fun fact, what they call viruses can't do what's claimed and aren't contagious, except mentally), it spreads.
If the plant is healthy, progressing nicely, don't change much about what you're doing. Idgaf what people say. But instead of say, flushing, just gradually lower nutrient levels up to harvest, instead. I'd say the same sort of thing about ANY stage of the plant's life, regarding heat, lighting, nutrients, etc. Because big changes, larger differential, means more "volatility", stress.
But yeah, I agree with Elgar in that you likely have/had nitrogen excess, which in turn affects other factors... so in the future, in flower, you might want to lower your nitro inputs.
@sir_isO, yea the bro science is strong in the flush!
but i've read on the internet that in blind taste test the flushed plant is never the tastiest.
I havent done one yet (although my last week of GH Ripen does a controlled flush i feel)
I checked you noticed that comment, and I'm super inebriated, so I'll try to explain it in Disney terms.
There's your princess, right? So, she looks nice hey, smells nice too. You've been treating her well. Now, you decide to not give her food and attention anymore? Are you retarded?
How about just slowly letting her down?
Like when you're about to smoke her, and you can't afford her anymore....
I know it sounds cruel, but it's still better than what other guys do.
@sir_isO, yeah! treat her like the dirty whore she is!!!!
Let HER work for you!
My favorite part is the end when I give them just Ripen and she blooms color!!!!
haha, jk i treat them with mighty respect. but really u can be savage to em!
@sir_isO, yep makes sense, just my first attempt at indoor growing or any growing for that matter since the 80’s ! lol, so appreciate the comment and advice.
Looking good and progressing very nicely !! Good luck with the grow !
Please feel free to check out/show love on some of my recent grows (Tropicana cookiez/Venom OG/Banana Mango )
Also… I have a lots of growing tips on my profile page (comments section)
@Vio_La_Grow, thanks for stopping by and commenting on the grow, everything is hanging in the drying room right now and just a couple days to go so looking forward to finding out my totals and results! Ck out your diaries and great job ! I’m looking forward to having a few under my belt and getting better as I grow !
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