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Strawberry Cough - Newbie DWC

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Strawberry Cough
Dutch Passion
Growing it
Easy
Resistance
Neutral
Pheno was healthy and vigorous if quite lanky, took to some excessive training and pruning just fine. Grew very sativa, tall, long internodes, larfy mids and foxtaily buds. This pheno NEEDED scrog. I was not ready for how tall it grew, and didn't have a good way to trellis, so made things worse. She was a little picky with nutes, started to swing pH pretty quick after a week in my solutions until it was very dilute in the end, which likely stunted her a bit. Lots of leaves in the buds, I slightly overdried and a lot of lower buds just turned into popcorn, pain in the ass to trim but fairly frosty. Smell was fairly subtle throughout the grow and dry, really comes across when you break the trichomes. I like it but I was expecting more. A slight taste of berry sweetness comes through in the smoke. With an 11 day dry it smokes well, should cure nicely. Definitely feels like an all day kind of smoke, guessing THC is ~16% which is about what I wanted. I've smoked a few better, but also a lot that were worse.
The Outcome
Week 16
Harvest
What's on the scales?
136.2
gram
ounce
Bud wet weight
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.37
ft²
Grow Room size
2.7
plant / m²
405.41
watt / m²
Nutrients
321 is simple and works, you know what's going into the solution and can tweak quite a few things to your plants needs. I found it to be buffered and balanced quite well, I could run for weeks without changing reservoirs. Plant thrived on it and produced as good of results as I allowed them to. I spent MAYBE 1 dollar on main nutrients for this entire plants life, this stuff is a no-brainer... Your plant doesn't care if it's phosphorus is coming from 'Super XL sweetbudlicious mega sticky sauce' with fancy bottle art and a 3000% mark-up price, it's the same dissolved salts, look at the labels/GAs.
Thinking this stuff may have saved my plants early on, I accidentally had real good conditions for root rot for at least a week and never noticed any signs of it. Healthy roots and healthy plants once again so I'm going to keep using it.
Two plants on the exact same dosage, one was lanky and weak, the other one grew branches like baseball bats. Might use the rest of the bottle as I doubt it caused harm, but I don't think this can make up for lanky genetics.
No harm done, plants were healthy and vigorous, not sure how much of a beneficial effect this had.
If you look REAL hard for the real GA you'll notice it has ~7% Monoammonium Phosphate (MAP). If you're trying to run a tight nutrient solution that will have an impact on your N and P concentrations. They don't tell you that on the bottle, nor do they say its ~22% phosphoric acid, and they charge a premium. That said, it's safe, effective and available anywhere.
Lights
For the price? Flawless. Dimmer is a must-have for me and this one still turns buttery smooth. Tested with a kill-a-watt and current draw and dimmer percentages are just about spot on. Spectrum must be fine because one plant grew super tall and lanky with long internodes, the other grew the exact opposite and stacked nodes on nodes. I never went above 95% for this run ( ~140 wall watts) and would have had over 1g per watt had I not trimmed off so much flower, and that's on my second grow ever.
Tents
Pretty good stuff, some of the silver wore off the bottom water catcher insert thing, and there was a couple pin-holes in stitching I needed to plug. Zipper is still in good condition, overall it's holding up fine.
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Absurd Absurd
2 years ago
Success! Pretty happy with the genetics, I was just not set up to grow them however. That and a few other mistakes along the way that cost me yield for sure, but still pulled more than enough perfectly smokable tasty bud, even with really heavy trimming. Mids and lowers were pretty larfy with a lot of leaves so a lot of flower was thrown in with the trim. I might grow this again in the future if I get a SCROG setup, never again in bubbler buckets though. Such a PITA to change res with such a tall lanky plant. Light averaged maybe 135 wall watts over the whole grow, 136.2g dried flower, 109.4g of barely sifted trim with a lot of flower for cannabutter, couple grams of scissor/trim hash. That's a win in my books. Probably pack the tent up for a little while. As much as I want to start another grow right now it isn't in the cards for a bit. I'll still be checking this site out so if you have any questions feel free to comment or message me.
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Ferenc
Ferencweek 1
Good Luck @Absurd
Ferenc
Ferenc
@Absurd, Yes, for sure you can that's totally alright
Absurd
Absurd
@Ferenc, Cheers, thanks bud. Week 4 is almost done and she's looking pretty good, week 2& 3 will be up soon. Question for you, is it cool here to make a diary for my first grow that's already in the jars?
Inganjawetrust
Inganjawetrustweek 16
Congrats on the harvest man🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦
Absurd
Absurd
@Inganjawetrust, thank you!
DreamIT
DreamITweek 4
Enjoy growth mate 🙌🦄🍀 great work man 🤘🤘👍🦄
Cannabeast40
Cannabeast40week 3
Wish you best of luck and happy growing 😀👌🙏
Wackytabacky_420
Wackytabacky_420week 16
Nice harvest! Enjoy the rewards of your hard work! Best of luck and Happy Growing!😎🌱💚💪💪
Absurd
Absurd
@Wackytabacky_420, thank you! I'll be enjoying it for quite some time 😎
Hazemaster420
Hazemaster420week 9
Beautiful Sativa leaves... nice cultivar stay toasty and frosty... lol😎
Absurd
Absurd
@Hazemaster420, she's got dainty fingers but drinks like a fish 😝 Thanks for dropping by, when she recovers I'll get some pictures of her sticking those fans up, praying to the light in the evening 😎
Unkraut
Unkrautweek 7
looks good! healthy roots!
Absurd
Absurd
@Unkraut, Thank you! Quite proud of this girl, right up until I defoliated way too much this week 😕
Hydro_Hiebs
Hydro_Hiebsweek 7
Beautiful vibrant roots! Great work! ☺️
Absurd
Absurd
@Hydro_Hiebs, thank you!😀 Super glad, so far, I got off the nutes that stained them. Was freaking out about root rot for half of my first run.
Godesskat
Godesskatweek 16
Wish you all the best & happy growing 😍 Love this place!✊
Streinze_Monadire
Streinze_Monadireweek 16
Wish you all the best☘️💚
CHILLING_RACOONS
CHILLING_RACOONSweek 16
Flower are looking very good 🤩 Good luck with your harvest 🍀🙏🏻 Enjoy 🔥 Sweet hugs from us ❤️ If you want to support us take a look to our diary and please leave a comment! Tap the weed button if you like our job 👍 It will be appreciated! ❤️ Chilling_Racoons 👩‍🌾🏻🧑🏼‍🌾
SegaYGriega
SegaYGriegaweek 12
Looks great plant 👏I invite you to view my diary 🤝and leave a comment😉