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Hi guys :D Welcome to S03 of Buds - Growing experience!
Before the general info on this season, check out what happened that motivated me to grow a 7th plant (in soil!) in my small tent! From all 6 different seeds for this season, Zamnesia's Runtz took the longest to sprout. In fact, it took around 4-5 days which is still normal but every other bean sprouted in around 2, so I thought that something might be wrong with this one and decided to take another one and put it this time in RQS germination mini pot with soil. Well, 24h later the original Runtz sprouted in Rockwool and I didn't want to throw away the other seed so I decided to experiment a bit and put it into a RQS fabric pot and soil. So I bought the best soil I could find online from Canna - Terra Professional Plus and planted the seed. And now you might as yourself, why the hell does this diary say Strawberry Banana - FastBuds? Well, I've watered the pot with a lot of water for the first time and a day later I wanted to uncover a bit of soil to check out the bean aaaaaand it was gone :D I couldn't find it to the point that I went through all 20L of soil without any positive result. So it probably slided down the side of the pot with water and soil and is probably somewhere down below. SUCH A BEGINNER MOVE! That's why I decided to plant StrawNana directly into the soil and leave it the fuck alone this time!
This season I'll cultivate a strain selection for a few contests and some sponsored grows BUT all of them were strains that I was most curious about and having 30 top strains to select from, it was hard to define the best concidering, flavour, taste, effect, THC amount and visual appeal. I'm very pleased to announce that Sweet Seeds and Zamnesia gave me the opportunity to partially sponsor this grow season by supplying me wiht their strains of my choice.
For my hydro setup I'll be using the Green House Feeding Nutrient Starter Kit which I've got for participating in their contest. I still need to read into how much nutrients I'll need for this season since I'll run only automatic strains with the exception of Dark Phoenix which will be in the same reservoir as 2 other automatic strains. I'll also do something a bit different this time, because I'll also grow one strain in a RQS fabric pot and soil, which I never did before.
For the first time I'll also be using the PLANT SUCCESS ORCA LIQUID MYCORRHIZAE after reading a lot of positive things about the fungi and the product.
I've also learned a lot from my last grow season which ended in 2 plants dying off because of bacteria in my reservoirs and both res' were cleaned with hospital grade chemicals to remove 99.9% of all bacteria in both reservoirs before the start of this season.
Let's hope for the best and I hope that I'll have a lot of fun doing it :)
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys!
So, the StrawNana sprouted a few days ago and it's doing well in the soil. I've watered it after this weekend. I also introduced the RQS - Easy Boost Organic Nutrition (pellet) and RQS - Easy Grow Booster Tablets aaaaand right now I just realized that I've dissolved the Bloom tablet instead of the black one for veg. God damnit, gonna reverse that somehow in a moment, jeez! Soo, I have no idea what's gonna happen in a few days with these bloom nutes but we'll see it soon enough.
I cross my fingers that it will work out somehow.
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
another week has past, still not much to comment because the plant develops properly. I'm new to growing in soil so it's fun to do something new. Everything should be about right. The StrawNana had a few leaves that were bent a bit at the time of taking the photographs but after a day or two they went back to normal. Everything seems to be cool again. If everything works fine, I'll top it next week.
Stay tuned guys.
Much love!
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
I'm a few days behind with the update but here it finally is :D
The plant was topped a few days ago but overall a week later than all the other ones because it germinated over a week after the rest. It recovered like a champ after 24h. Actually it didn't look like it was an issue at all.
It looks healthy and strong, what can I say more :D I'm truly happy how good it looks for now.
No fuckups no more from last season. Everything seems to be on point. I'll start training it as soon as its a bit bigger. And please tell me how much you should not train Automatic strains 😂 It's as easy as it gets. You just have to make sure that you stop at the right time but topping, mainlining, defoliation, stem bending and stem pinching are all working as it would in normal feminized genetics.
See you soon guys!
Much love
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
the straw-nana is doing great. The preflowering stage has officially started for this one so I've started giving her bloom nutes from RQS. It seems to like it. I also decided to top it twice again for the lulz, it's an automatic strain but they adapt to my training like a bunch o' good girls.
Since it's my pet project I still don't know what I'm about to do with her but I won't top it probably for a third time, 4 main stems should be more than enough for this one :)
XOXO
Cremo
H guys,
my Straw'Nana test project in soil is growing like a champ. I always wanted to have a plant with super small internodal space but this is starting to look ridiculous (in a good way). It presents a challenge in itself when I want to main line it because you have to be very careful and delicate where you tie her down. Right now it's growing like a champ. It doesn't show any signs of deficiencies nor overfeeding. I like it a lot :) Now that it finally switched to flowering, I'm eager to see how she stretches and her overall development in the soil which I have no experience at all.
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
This week I did something special. Something y'all probably gonna argue, but I did it anyway. I defoliated the shiiiiiiit out of every single plant in the tent 😎, a few weeks into blooming. I had the urge to lollipop the plants and start focusing the plants' energy distribution to the main stems and only the biggest forming branches and buds. Only time will tell if it was a good idea, but I took into consideration the fact that I'm running a pretty nice DWC setup and the plants are practically on point every single week. They are looking really good.
I also added 30 Liters of water with nutrients, they seem to dig it. The pH and PPM are also on point. They look super happy so the recovery time should be minimal, like less than 24h because of the knowledge from all the other defoliations (not that heavy tho) before this season.
So that's it for this week. Please comment on the uber heavy defoliation this week. What's your opinion? I wanna know!
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
here's another update of the Strawberry Banana! The small defoliation did a great job on the plant. It didn't even have to bounce back and the energy went straight to the buds, and by that I mean a lot of new forming buds. I still have no idea if this plant is supposed to be this small but it's okay, it looks like it's going to be extremely compact and thick looking at how near each other are all the buds. I really can't say much else that I've been loving this run very much so far. The conditions are on point, the plants are super happy, so am I.
Stay healthy!
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
let's get to another update, this time it's the Strawberry Banana on the menu :D I try to mainline this plant as good as I can but it's so small, it's really hard to do! I believe that I water the plants way too less (every 2-3 days) because the StrawNana is small as hell and in full flowering mode. The quality of the plant is on point with the small fact that it's tiny, even tho it's in a 20L fabric pot which should make it grow tall as hell. I don't know what I'm doing wrong here but the super nice thing about it, is that it smells like strawberries already :D I do hope that it still gets a bit bigger than this super tiny plant.
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys. What can be the cause of the very small size of my Straw'Nana in the 9th week? Leaves are looking healthy, the whole plant looks very healthy but super small. It grows in a 5 gallon fabric pot which should be more than enough to make it grow big as fu.... please help :)
hey there Cremo , what i can see starting from vegetation weeks is that there was an excess of N , so this kind of held back the growth of the plant overall, in fact until now it's still there. You can see it from the "too dark" and "shiny" aspect of the leafs . Cut back on the N next time, just in case. Sometimes some genetics or phenotypes are just a bit more sensitive than others to nutrients. i guess you got unlucky this time. Hope this helps ! 🚀
Hi guys,
Welcome to another update of the veeeeery strawberry smelling Straw'Nana!
Due to some excessive lst/hst this plant won't get big, but it doesn't mean that it won't smell like load of fresh strawberries that you just picked yourself. The smell is hands down the best I've smelled from a cannabis plant. I never thought that another plant can smell exactly like strawberries (no banana tones yet but I'm cool with that). It's buds are getting denser every week, they are tiny but they look sooo cute, and I don't get it how such a small plant produces such intense strawberry smell. AMAZING! Go try it! I think it'll be ready in 2-3 weeks :D
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
welcome to the tiny update of the tiny Straw'Nana. The smell is getting extremely good. There's the true smell of strawberries! I'm still in shock how intense it's getting. Can't wait for another few weeks to see what it's capable of!
It's getting thicker every week. This plant is extremely compact. It'll probably yield around 10-15g only but it only makes me wanna grow more of it!
Can't wait for the chop-chop! :D
XOXO
Cremo
Hi guys,
welcome to the Straw'Nana show :D It's by far the best smelling plant that I ever had the pleasure to smell in this tent. Even though it's tiny, It only makes me want to try to run it in my hydro setup next time :D And the frost on this one... #yummy!
Next week it's probably going to be it's final week before harvest because it looks like it's ready to go :D
XOXO
Cremo
Welcome to the tiny update of the tiny Straw'Nana!
I don't want to repeat myself but damn, Straw'Nana smells like strawberries!!! It's about time for this one! Just like the others that are still left in the tent.
I'm very happy that the trichomes are telling me a story of harvest because I really want to chop it down already!
There is not much to say. It looks like I'll be able to harvest around 20g from this one. I'll make sure of curing it right before I ever try it :D
XOXO
Cremo
Straw'Nana is the single biggest terp surprise this year. I've never smelled a plant other than strawberries that smell like strawberries. It's insane! I can't smell any banana tho but it's fine by me. It's been curing for a few weeks now and the terp profile changes a bit but after grinding it up you're surprised with a sweet smell of strawberries. The smoke is nice, the exhale is strawberrish. The high is also nice, around 50/50 sativa/indica in my humble opinion. I need to try it in my Hydro setup for bigger yiealds.
It was a super fast harvest because the plant was by far the smallest I've ever grown. On the other hand it was by far the most fragrant flower with beautiful strawberry smell! I'm truly amazed by this plants terp profile!
@CRiSPrGrow, Thanks for the answer! You all are probably right about the size of Straw'Nana. But I didn't know about the color of the leaves and Nitrogen. Good to know, Sir ;)
@GmansGarden, You're a hundred per cent right! The buds are so thick and compact, it makes you wanna smash your face against it smell the greatest smell of cannabis flower you can get! :D
@DEVS_GENETICS, Thanks a lot! If you want some great Trichome shots, please enjoy the Zkittlez gallery from this season and also the "First Mimosa Evo on GD" journal. There are a lot of great shots! :)
@HirdoWeirdo, Thank you very much :D I chopped it down today and got 80g wet out of the tiny trimmed buds :P It should get me around 20g of Strawberries that I can actually smoke :P
Cremo
