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#1 🇩🇪 Balcony Auto Forbidden Cherry

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6 months ago
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Outdoor
Room Type
Defoliation
weeks 10
LST
weeks 6, 8
Soil
Grow medium
Perlite
Grow medium
Vermiculite
Grow medium
Other
Grow medium
12 L
Pot Size
1 L
Watering
0
Germination
8 months ago
Would not use coco pellet again. Another seed lost its root to fungi infection from coco. The pH also seems off. Glass off water and immediately into potting soil seems best.
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Paper Towel
Germination Method
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Week 1. Vegetation
8 months ago
2 cm
No Smell
Repottet into light compost mix. No extra nutrients.
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Week 2. Vegetation
8 months ago
4 cm
No Smell
Still no nutrients. Transplanted into 12L pot and put outside. Temperatures 10 - 16 °C. Moderately dry.
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Week 4. Vegetation
8 months ago
14 cm
No Smell
Bit slower then expected, but she's doing well. Temperatures do not drop below 14°C by now.
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Week 5. Vegetation
8 months ago
25 cm
No Smell
Doing great!
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Week 6. Vegetation
8 months ago
50 cm
Weak
I tied down the two lowest side branches so they can get light underneath the large fan leaves. Added some very mild nitrogen fertilizer 2x per week (5/2/2). Flowering might start soon. Light smell is developing.
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LST
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Week 7. Flowering
8 months ago
65 cm
Weak
Flowering started beggining of week 7! Temperatures between 16C - 20C. Half rainy, half sunny days. Smell still okay. Fertilizer (5/2/2 and 3/6/6, 1:2) 3x per week.
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Week 8. Flowering
7 months ago
80 cm
-3 °C
Weak
-10 °C
12 L
2 L
Nutrients 2
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 5 mll
CANNA BOOST Accelerator - Canna
CANNA BOOST Accelerator 2 mll
Looking good! Still waiting for the purple. Fertilizer every other day, manufacturer dosing protocol. Removed a couple yellow leaves, some axil sproutings on lowest branches, bound two lower branches to the side.
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Week 9. Flowering
7 months ago
84 cm
25 °C
Weak
15 °C
12 L
2 L
Nutrients 2
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 5 mll
CANNA BOOST Accelerator - Canna
CANNA BOOST Accelerator 2 mll
Still no purple and week 9 now. Dutch Passion says it should be ready in 8-10 weeks. Did I get a wrong seed or just weird pheno? How much longer do you think she need? Any advice appreciated!
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Week 10. Flowering
7 months ago
86 cm
28 °C
Weak
18 °C
12 L
2 L
Nutrients 2
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 5 mll
CANNA BOOST Accelerator - Canna
CANNA BOOST Accelerator 2 mll
First wilt leaves. Still no purple. Sugar leaves starting to fill with trichomes. Pistils starting to go brown. Smell is very skunky but mild. I removed some of the fan leaves and lower branches. The branches that I bound down by LST early on grow out and up and have nice buds now. The other 2 lower ons not so much. Should have removed them earlier.
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Grow Questions
saucyp
saucypstarted grow question 7 months ago
About 50% milky, 40% clear trichome heads. But in some minor spots, they are all dark brown/amber. Its supposed to be a Forbidden Cherry Automatic (Dutch Passion), but did not turn purple. I want it to be a bit more relaxing, indica-like. Week 11, outdoor balcony grow.
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Buds. Other
Other. Harvest - Drying
Other. Harvest - Curing
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modmyplantsanswered grow question 7 months ago
Hey mate, ich checked your diary. Your atleast 3 weeks away from harvest. Your pistils will push another wave and buds will get way bigger, give her the time and you will get rewarded. Your plant started to flower pretty late, so you can do nothing but wait. She needs atleast 8-9 weeks of flowering and seems like yours flowered around week 4-5. Hope that helps you, you can also PN me if you want. Happy Growing and dont stress it👌
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Week 11. Flowering
7 months ago
89 cm
28 °C
Weak
20 °C
12 L
1 L
Nutrients 2
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 5 mll
CANNA BOOST Accelerator - Canna
CANNA BOOST Accelerator 2 mll
Thanks for the help everyone!! The smell is getting weaker and she is not growing as much anymore. Also need less water. Waiting maybe 2 more weeks then.
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Week 12. Flowering
7 months ago
90 cm
28 °C
Weak
15 °C
12 L
1 L
Nutrients 1
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 2 mll
She is looking okay but shows some signs of... something. Leaves are wilting, some are turning blue to purple, others have brown spots. Any idea what is up? Not sure if I overdid it with the fertilizer but she gets only water for now. My other plant, 2 weeks younger, also starts to have these purple leaf tips. Not sure about the "amber trichome" thingy... with enough magnification, I only see clear or amber, 50:50. No milky. Maybe I harvest next week? Or as suggested in 2-3 weeks. But seems a bit late. The buds also didnt grow much in the past 2 weeks.
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saucyp
saucypstarted grow question 7 months ago
Fan leaves are wilting and some younger leaves turn purple. Did I overdo it with fertilizer? Intend to harvest in 1-2 weeks. What do you think? What worries me is that a 2 week younger plant with same fertilizer scheme also starts to purple on the leaves - likely not senescence?
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Organomananswered grow question 7 months ago
Since you are growing outdoors, the purple leaves are a natural process that happens due to cooler night temperatures. You have nothing to worry about due to the purple leaves. Senescence does not cause purple leaves, rather it will show as yellowing leaves. The purple is absolutely due to cool night temps, nothing else. I would say that you still have about 3 weeks to go, maybe even a bit longer. Once the plant has 98-99% brown pistils/hairs, you will be entering the harvest zone.
saucyp
saucypstarted grow question 6 months ago
Week 13 now. Last, ppl agreed she needs 2 more. Yesterday, I checked trichomes again and found lots of amber. Also the smell is changing and weakening. From floral and citrus to roasted spices & pine. Need to put nose right next to the bud to smell it. Estimate still 2.5 week?
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Gnrlymsntrp81answered grow question 6 months ago
Cut her down, if you wait two weeks all that's s aber now is too ripe and dried out. Also the more amber, the less potency and you already got lots of amber. Much success 🤞and Happy Growing
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Week 13. Flowering
6 months ago
90 cm
28 °C
Weak
15 °C
12 L
1 L
Nutrients 1
CANNA Terra Flores - Canna
CANNA Terra Flores 0.1 mll
Alright, it is time! Thanks for the help everyone, very much appreciated. Some said she could go 1 - 2 more weeks from here and you were right that the flowers did get another push (about +10% new, white pistils). But I have a perfect harvest opportunity coming up. Afer a very sunny day today, I cut all fan leaves and the largest sugar leaves. Will move her into a shaded spot for 2 days now. No more watering. Then cut down. That would be week 14.5 or 101d from seed to harvest. Very unfortunate the pomised purple did not turn up. At least I got some nice purple and orange leaf colors.
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Week 14. Harvest
6 months ago
Happy Harvest Day!
Auto Forbidden Cherry - Dutch Passion
Spent 83 days
Ger Veg Flo Har
7/10
Rated
75 g
Bud wet weight per plant
75 g
Bud dry weight per plant
1
Plants
9999
Grow Room size
Easy
Difficulty
Sleepy
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Indica
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The harvest was a bit improvised. I pre-dried them outside under a sun screen (not choped yet) for 3 days at 30°C and 45% humidity. Then chopped only the buds and dried indoors for another 4d at 25°C and 62% humidity. Not ideal, they probably lost some terpenes. But no other way to do it at the time. Now they are curing at a stable 62% humidity. The grassy smell slowly disappears. Still, the aroma is not great. When I press the buds a mix of lime and pine is released but the ouside smells just like old, overdried herbs. It's my first time curing. So I dont know what to expect or if it will get better? Let's see. Dry bud weight was 75g. We are only legally allowed 50g dry so I had to destroy a bit. Buds are medium sticky and slightly airy but good overall. The strain was low maintenance and grew quite large. Only had to cut a couple spots (1x mildew, 1x bud rot). However, it was not purple as advertised. Checking back with Dutch Pasion, they are not aware of a non-purple pheno. I compared with pictures from its parents and it looks a lot like the Forbidden Fruit. I assume it got most of their genetics.
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