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Welcome to this diary, it's my first try ever growing cannabis, and i hope everything will eventually run smooth and fine!
STRAIN: Orange Sherbet Auto by Fastbuds
LOCATION: Mid-European Climate, Guerrilla site totally in the middle of the nature (here is illegal, and not my property) On a cliff cathcing sun almost all day but some hours partially covered by some little but tall trees(a little shield against mother nature bullets). 30 minutes of walk in the trees to reach the spot, so i hope to visit them at least 4/5 times a week
The spot is absoutely one of the windiest area, nearby, thanks to the natural cliff, but the soil is almost inexistent, it's 90% big rocks as it was a very ancient excavation site, zero structures but a lot and i say a lot of boars, deers, bunnies and other pretty animals enjoying the spot.
EXPERIENCE: This is officially and thecnically my first grow, In 2019 i did an attempt (always outdoor), never got past week 2, impossibility to grow indoor pushed me to find a hopefully even better solution. In the past year i did a lot of research on cannabis growing because i failed the last year's garden due to poor knowledge and too high expectations from a bad enviroment. This time i did the math, and a part some newbie errors here and there, i hope i'll be able to gather some decent knowledge from this run and hopefully some pretty buds too!
So! i tryed putting the seed in a cotton ball and poured some water inside a glass with it, after some hours i noticed a crack on the seed followed by the first mini root. The birth of a seedling is something amazing! (that i forgot to catch r.i.p.)
I think that she loves this sun!!
She sprouted at an allarming speed, i assisted at the wind blowing her at an angle of 90°+, so i tought she would benefit from it and did not place a pole to sustain her
Sorry if you see too much snail killer bait, but here saying it's full would not give you the idea, it's a snailpocalypse. So i decided to make a good perimeter zone.
Wow, just Wow.
No one of my previous attempts ever reached this size, and guys.. it's only a week that she was a littleee seed!
She is amazing, i think i already fell in love with her
BUT it's not all honey and sweet, some other garden plants started to show severe signs of some unknown disease :( Update: i searched a lot and i think the wrong ph and the overwatering are doing damage.. but :( i only used sink water and the rain did the rest!
TWO other plants stopped their growth and seem heavily damaged at root level.. i think i'm taking the little orange to wihtness the funeral of her sisters :(
INFO: As a beginner, i don't feel comfortable at training her in any way, so sorry if this will become a normal and natural growth!
She is amazing! The other plants seem to have lost the fight against the weather, but guys, here we have a fighter! she resisted to storms and thermal jumps of almost over 10°!
As i tought, her sister are slowly decaying towards a one way only route..
No nutrients yet, as i have to solve this advanced soil misbalancing trouble.. oh god, she is 1/1 i hope the weather will spare her.
Woow what a week, a lot happened and amazingly it's already flowering!!!
Had troubles visiting them those days, lot of rain and high umidity storms, it hailed for hours the last day of the 4th week, but she is big, strong and especially beautiful.
She started to show signs of some sort of nutrient deficiency.. It's not the case as I started feeding a little. I think the heavy rains unbalanced the soil ph and overwatered her. In the last days the signs did not spread and the leaves looks pretty healthy, I love her.
Ps.: You can scout those little stigmas coming out like it's the only thing that matters.
Oh my God, it looks like yesterday that she was a little seedling with a biiig open world to fight against.
She is officially in flowering stage now! I never reached this achievement before so I accept advices
Only first day of the week and again hailstorm then suddenly 30°C under a fiery sun, the environment is playing it's cards, very windy area, I saw her flexing a lot under the huge blows of wind, it's incredible those storms didn't snapped a leaf at all, she is a warrior outdoor and a ninja in guerrilla.
I updated only the first days of this week, I will rearrange it at the end.
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoy this lady as much as I do, because I absolutely love her!
PS: started feeding her slowly some flowering stuff that seem doing it! Will give a feedback in some days.
PsPs: OMG the leaves are already sugaring out! Mhh and the smell is everything but no weed, if the weed smell is green, she smells orange/pink like some sweeeet orange/peach, absolutely the best smell i ever sniffed in nature hahaha
I started delaying the rate of the visits to my darling because she started to grow up and i feel she's ready to stay some time alone in the nature.
Amazing, amazing and again amazing, she evolved in 3 days thai i did not went, she stretched like 40cm in one week and the sugar leaves are forming a very dense layer of trichomes.. i tryed to gather some (just a fingertip) and it was very aromatic, oily and sticky!
I'm surprised by the height she is reaching, and the width of the main stem has done a x3 getting covered in buds.
Here the weather is absolutely wrong, it's for this that im that happy for her strong growing skills, 2 days ago a tornado approached 50 km's away, and the rain plus the wind was something unbelievable, a lot of streets closed and hundreds of trees fallen, but she seem to whitstand against everything with no problems (note the lack of supports).
Now that the buds are forming, i'm afraid of mold and high humidity. I'm scouting a lot of white flies or something like them, i spray them away with a friend's solution, they don't return in the same spot, but inside the nearby bushes it's FULL of white stuff on the leaves and branches, i think they migrate because day by day there are no problems, but when i'm away for 2/3 days they start to get under the coolest leaves. Spotted some red ants, i hope they are not catching the molasses of those damn insects.. let's hope it finish well!
The smell is fantastic, i'd like if there was a way to share it with you guys.
Nutrients, got delivered to them first day of the week in a 1/4 time the normal dose, she like them despite other growers advice to not feed her (i had problem with nut deficiency) so i think it's balancing it.
Update: 2 Days has passed from the first pictures of the week, 2 rainy and stormy days, a heavy hailstorm damaged some leaves obliterating them. The next seven days seem to be 100% sunny, let's hope they will eventually get a truce with mother nature's assaults
Photo's done by night, avoiding boars and creepy noises from the bushes, i don't know what animals like weed, but i consider myself lucky that everything is fine just seeing the amount of nearby footprints of boars, roe deers and hares😬
For now they aim to the veins underside of the biggest fan leaves. I tryed an oil based spray but i feel it was to light.
Around the vegetation is full of white fluffy spots.
Plants developed some little like milky like signs also on the leaves, right upside of the infection
Hello my friend, outdoor is quite complicated as probably tons of white flyes are around there, try to remove the affected low leaves (if not more and more will born there) maybe try natural things as you are already in flowering right? Use maybe garlic in 1L. Of water and spray a bit under the leaves but with precaution and never at the end of the day to avoid mildew etc... Also i heard that if you plant basil close to them helps as white flyes dont like basil, but try to avoid quimical solutions as you are already in flowering stage, good luck 👍
Hey guys! Welcome to week number SEVEN! This week started very well with a beautifull sun, this pretty beast loved it a lot but she is not the only one to do so.. This week led us to the beginning of a war against bugs, specially the white fluffy ones that colonize the downside of the leaves and bring ants and other bugs. We are in flowering, so i think that spraying things can lead to more problems than solutions. The plant's spot is pretty far and with this battle ongoing i'm forced to visit her everyday to keep removing the bugs by hand. In the nearby brambles it's embarassingly full of white spot caused by the enormous amount of those little b******s, so every time i remove them they will keep jumping here and there hiding in the vegetation.
Now the good news, she is literally exploding of trichomes. Every single leave near the bud sites is infested by trichomes, you just have to softly rub your finger under a bud and the sticky resin will stick to it and start smelling like orange with a bit of milk, and now i get from where the name come.
She almost stopped her vertical growth, totally focusing on flowers i think, the leaves are in a pretty good shape and the aroma near it gives addiction. I can't verify the trichomes by near beacuse i have any lens at the moment, but i will retrieve one soon. In some pictures you can find some ambered spots on the leaves and i'm seriously confused because she is too young to get harvested (i want her faaat), so i don't know whats happening there, but judging the stigmas (70% white) we still have a loong run here!
In conclusion, this week just started and i hardly remember the small seedling from where she started, now she got beyond any of my expectations. I hope everything would eventually run fine (excluding the weather, that will obviously suck).
I will update the pics and the description riding this week! thank you for reading!
Strawpie21
