Apricot Fastbud

Hello and welcome to this journal! I use 3.2-liter pots because I feel they help with soil flushing. I'm constantly washing the soil. This strain seems a bit slow to me, as I’ve noticed in other journals, but let’s see how it goes. Compared to the Strawberry Gorilla, it’s much slower during the first week. Let’s see how it performs in this little pot!

Hello! Second week. They’ve made some progress, and I introduced LST to start the "gymnastics." It rains quite a lot sometimes, and the humidity reaches 80%, but I can't control that. Overall, things are going well. Peace! Happy growing!

Third week in progress. This week had unstable VPD due to the rain, but I managed to improve it by switching the air intake to passive mode, and it seems to have helped a bit. They’re growing, and it feels like the turbo kicked in. I’m aiming for 80g from each by the end. Let’s see. Peace!

Fourth week. Still a lot of humidity, and they're feeling it, but overall they're doing well. Pre-flowering stage has begun. Let’s see how things go now and whether they’ll stretch much or not. Peace! 🌱

Fifth week running. I’ve noticed this strain doesn’t like too much water at the roots in larger amounts. It gets unhappy when that happens. It prefers smaller amounts at a time. It rained a lot last week, and now we’re dealing with intense heat. Haha, part of the game! I’m testing a DLI of 35. Let’s see how it goes. Take care!

Sixth week running. The humidity hasn’t let up. They stopped growing—now it’s all about fattening up. I’m curious to see how they’ll turn out... hahaha. Peace!

Seventh week wrapped up successfully! The apricots are doing well in the 3-liter pot. VPD is all over the place—impossible to dial in. But I think we’ll survive. Overall, I need about 300 grams of dry herb per year! If I can pull around 100 grams this time, next run I’m going with Papaya Cookies and hoping to hit my yearly target. Peace!

Eighth week running. Nitrogen went over the limit. I didn’t have time for runoff, which led to buildup in the substrate. I’ll keep an eye on that from now on. The smell is stronger than I expected—really strong. Carried by the wind, a deep, sweet aroma. Overall, overfertilization is already set in, showing in the buds, cracking the melons.

Entering the ninth week. Just waiting for the trichomes to mature. They’re already cloudy, but I’ll wait a few more days before cutting. The smell is very strong, and I don’t have a filter. It won’t be the biggest harvest, but we’ll see how the smoke report turns out. There are two very different phenotypes with a pronounced diesel scent. Peace!!

They call it the Harvest Day—the end of a great cycle. Automatic strains yield their fruit at the precise moment, with no waste, no delay. Time is no accident but an exact calculation between beginning and end. No season is interrupted, no fruit ripens before its time; everything unfolds in perfect measure. The start is not a blind impulse, and the end leaves no excess or residue—it is merely transition. What emerges and what fades belong to the same flow—no gaps, no excesses, no need for return. The heat won’t help with dehydration. This process will move too quickly. After that, it will go into grove bags for final curing. So far, a 7 out of 10. I didn’t like this strain’s demands. Let’s see how the report turns out. Peace!