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Here we go!! I was here at Grow Diaries and saw a cool meme contest. I had an idea and went to enter. I didn't understand how photo was to be attached to a diary. I didn't really want to attach a Fastbuds Meme to a non Fastbuds Diary and I didn't have a Fastbuds diary. So that seemed easy enough to fix, in fact I got a pack of Cherry Cola sitting on my desk that came today. Seems like a good candidate and its a go.
I have dropped seed in water and in 24 hours I will put in a rapid rooter plug in dome for day or two. Next she will see a 2 gallon fabric pot with Fox Farm and we will see where she goes. I will top her, I will LST her and I will defoliate as needed.
Alright all, I will add more info and pictures as I go. I have had good luck with Fastbuds so far having grown Chemdawg twice (a favorite), Tangie (favorite Sativa to date) and Strawberry Pie which had terps for days. I haven't dug into my Fastbuds Trainwreck yet, she is about two months into cure. When I saw the new line come out this year there were two that stuck out that I felt I had to try. This was the main one and the Amnesia Zkittles was the other. Especially after seeing TotoUK Grows (Something like that).
Attached is the meme that got the Cherry Cola popped front of line lol
Week 1 begins with sprout on day 2. All is well and she will be given water only for next 3 weeks. Don't expect much in form of update over next 2-3 weeks but I will update weekly with photos and anything weird or notable occurs.
Day 24: Things have been going fairly straight forward for this girl. I do think I slowed her growth some with a combination of over watering and topping a little too early. I did it at same time as another plant a couple days older and that wasn't ideal. It's my first time using a 2 gallon pot and I didn't realize how much I had pot saturated until I saw how many days passed before it dried out. So I take full responsibility for any stunting on this one. I think my next Cherry Cola will be left to grow naturally. But this one isn't out of the game yet. She is out of the tent she was however. I had another plant go beast mode in tent with this one and overshadow her. I moved her to another stuffed tent but she is getting her share of canopy and is doing fine. Overall before the stretch she is 4 pretty even cola plant showing signs of preflower. I expect the stretch to help her out some size wise and my concentration with her will be quality resin not biomass so I am still very excited to see how this one goes. She will get fed for first time today and just received some more low stress training in form of tomato clips along with some defoliation and lollipopping today.
She is thirsty and on dry cycle due to get fed today.
Day 53 and I want to apologize to anyone following along, I have been slacking. The truth is I was up in the air if I was going to pull her or not and just let the documenting go for a bit. I wish I didn't so others could have learned. I planned to use Cold War Organic nutrients and did a single feeding using it with another plant and didn't like how much residue is involved. It was like using recharge every watering and just didn't like the mixing process. I had a line of Advanced Nutrients I bought thinking about using with auto pots but went another route. So I decided I would use it up on this and other current grows. Well I have been using liquid organics and forgot the 1/2 rule. The first feeding I gave this poor Cherry Cola she didn't take it well at all!! She had 90% of leaves "clawed" and looked poor.
I feel I already did her injustice with young topping and over watering and now this lol Poor plant!!! Well after about a week I decided I was going to pull her. I had done this once before to a plant and she didn't recover well. I went into the tent to kill her off and saw how far along buds were and decided to ride it out. I let her go a week or so and just got around to taking pictures. She will give me good meds and I will not hold her size or stature against her that's for sure. That being said, I won first place on Grow Diaries for the October Meme contest and I am in final 4 on Instagram right now for November. So that's pretty damned sweet!! More to come on this lady!
Today is day 62 and she has done great last week. She has really done great entire time if it wasn't for the nutrient shock early in. At 62 days I can see the buds starting to mature. I will evaluate by the end of the week if the two week cut off of nutrient begins or not. I am guessing from all current signs she will be 75-80 day plant so I will start the flush pretty soon.
Hello all,
Today is day 70 on this one. I hit her with the Winter Frost this past week and she will get nothing but water from here on out. The frost is gathering, the buds are maturing and she will be upside down before long. I have yet to scope bud but that's coming in around Christmas. Once I see about 20% amber she will get the chop.
Hi Everyone,
Today is day 77. I took her out of the tent and did some defoliation and scoped her buds in anticipation of a coming harvest. She isn't ready yet but she will continue to get water only and re-evaluated on New Years Day. The buds are starting to fatten up and I am not against waiting another week or two. More to come, thanks for looking!
Today was trim day:
My dry space is also my lung room for photo tent so I was not able to jack up the humidity like I wanted as I struggle to keep it low in tent during lights off. So this plant dried in about 65f and 45rh. I usually aim for 60/60 but had to prioritize and I believe that me hanging plants whole untrimmed inside brown lawn bag helps maintain the right humidity inside bags. So I took her out today and trimmed her on day 9 of dry. She could have went another day or two but I didn't want to have to do during the work week. She will go into a brown bag to sweat for day or two and Grove bags.
I was going to scrap her after frying young with full strength nutes but glad I did not. She gave me 2.5 oz dry of good looking/smelling bud. Smoke report in about 6 weeks.
Thanks for following along.
NorseGrower
