Strawberry Banana Auto 🌱💚

Budette_Botanics This strain as been an absolute joy to work with.. she germinated lovely, popped up with no helmet issues. Growing lovely. If you haven’t tried this strain, it’s a must!!.. Thank me later ☺️🌱💚

Budette_Botanics End of week two, and she is growing lovely, hopefully that will continue now we have moved on to nutrients 💚🌱

Budette_Botanics She has grown lovely over the last week, much taller than the Northern lights growing beside her. She has a much thicker stem, and is growing new nodes every day. Excited to see what next week will bring, hopefully she continues to thrive 🌱💚 thank you for taking an interest, really appreciated 🤘🏼🙌🏻❤️

Budette_Botanics Starting to see a few tiny hairs coming through, I imagine next week we will be hitting early stages of flower. Noticed a few of the bigger fan leaves were starting to shade the new nodes, so a defoliation was in order. I put the ScrOG net in yesterday, that has really helped the light get to the new growth. She is 3 feds into having nutrients, and so far no issues.. touch wood it stays that way!

Budette_Botanics We have had a week of fighting off a potassium deficiency, which doesn’t look pretty.. despite that she has grown lots, and seems to be battling throw. No further deficiency on new growth, so hopefully I have fixed the issue. We are in very early flower, taking a lot more fluids, in fact it’s doubled in the space of days. She was going a good 4-5 days between watering, now 2 days after she is bone dry. I hope we have no more issues going forward, time will tell. Over the last week she has grown a lot, and her leaves are covering lots of new growth. I have gradually started to defoliate the leaves that are covering new growth, and there was a fair bit. Hopefully the trim will help the new nodes grow, and reach the canopy, and not stress her too much. We are kind of half way, and as my first auto plants it’s been quite a learning curve. I’ve enjoyed it a lot. Remembering there’s no time to fix issues before flower is the downside for me, especially hitting the deficiency and then finding she had gone into flower at the same time (explains the potassium deficiency 🙈) I will be growing autos again after this, I’ve already bagged my seeds from 420 fast buds. Let’s see if the next 5 weeks changes my mind 😅 Happy growing everyone 💚🌱

Budette_Botanics Lots of growth this week, and still nursing the potassium deficiency which looks grim, but she actually seems to be doing okay. Lots of white hairs literally everywhere. A lot more than the Northern Lights growing next to her.. only 3 days apart too. It’s been interesting to see how differently they have progressed. Sb is way taller, her main stem has been tucked 4 squares and she’s still standing tall. We should be coming to the end of her growth spurt soon, but we shall see where she ends up. I’ve kept on the same feeding schedule, upping bloom slightly. Hopefully she continues to do well, it’s been a learning curve every week of growing these autos.. the most important lesson is that they continue no matter what, no time to fix anything unlike photoperiods.. and I kinda like the challenge of that. Both plants have been fed the same, one has shown a deficiency one hasn’t at all. (yet🙈) entering week 7 with hopes of no more deficiencies, and the production on bud.. the smell has started to show, and it’s clearly coming from s/b. Very sweet, if you’ve ever been strawberry picking it smells like when you get to the strawberry fields, mixed with gank cannabis. Quite lush I won’t lie ☺️🍓 Let’s see what next week bring.. hopefully great things for us all. Happy growing everyone. 💚🌱

Budette_Botanics End of week 6 and she’s quite the bush. I do regret not defoliating more before flowering started, but once she’s stacked a bit more I will definitely be taking some of the deficiency leaves, and just making her much tidier. It’s taking a lot of willpower not to give her a good trim now.. but I know it would just set her back more, and I do think the ventilation in her grow space is sufficient. Hopefully she will be okay, again time will tell. She is being watered pretty much every two days, and randomly will let her dry out a little before I water on some feeds. I gave her just ph’d water in the last watering, I left the heating on at home and fell to sleep.. she spent a good 3hrs at near 28 degrees, I could have cried ha ha. After asking a few grow friends, they advised just water as both was bone dry. Tomorrow we are back in with nutrients. She did take the water well, and bounced back from looking rather droopy to like it never happened within 2hrs. Here’s hoping there’s no lasting damage, it’s all a learning curve and being my first auto grow I am okay with what ever comes, or doesn’t ha ha. Happy growing everyone, & happy Easter 🐣 💚

Budette_Botanics Finishing week 7 quite well, not issues that I have noticed this week. She has grown a bit more, and seems to be starting to connect the buds she’s grown. I’ve given her a little defoliation this week, it was really difficult to leave it. I could have taken more, but I used restraint ha ha. Fed twice this week, due maybe day after tomorrow now. The smell has been quite a bit more elevated this week, smells like skunk mixed with sweet grass and strawberries.. smell lovely I won’t lie. This grow has flown, quite stunned we are approaching 2 months. I’m hardly having to fill my humidifier now, which is crazy. To think that 2 weeks ago I was filling it every 20hrs (4l) shows how much my girls have grown. Thank you for taking an interest, I hope you have an amazing weekend, happy growing 💚🌱

Budette_Botanics A nice steady week. Her growing seems to have stopped now, and she seems to be concentrating on stacking the buds. Over the last week she as started to look like she as icing sugar poured on her, so nice to see. The smell coming from the tent is definitely all Strawnana, it really is lovely. It smells of sweet fresh strawberries, mixed with skunky weed. I do think she has a good few weeks to go, which is still insanely fast compared with the photos I usually having in my tent. I’m looking forward to seeing what next week brings, all whilst hoping everything goes well. Slight defoliation twice this week, and they are both still super bushy. I don’t want to stress my ladies out too much, with that in mind I can see the bush following us into harvest.. I hope you all have a great grow week 🌱💚

Budette_Botanics Still a few weeks to go I think. I think after this grow I will invest in a higher watt light. I can see how much of a difference it makes when looking at others amazing grow dairies on here, and it’s inspired me to start looking. The smell it quite intense now, although it is all strawberry banana, to smell her neighbour you have to get real close. She is still stacking and maturing the buds. I am hoping for a more indica vibe from this strain, so with that in mind I will be pushing for mostly amber trichomes. A side from the buds bulking up, there hasn’t been much to report this week. Ive been hit with a lovely viral infection & felt shocking.. still do 😭🤒 I’ve still watered twice, but will be letting her dry out a bit before her next feed. Think it will do them good. Hopefully anyway 😅 I hope you all have a marvellous weekend & grow week 🌱💚

Budette_Botanics Strawnana is bulking out, I have noticed she hasn’t quite finished maturing when looking at her trichomes. I’m wanting a more sedative feel from this hybrid, so pushing for more ambers than milky. I’m checking every 2/3 days and they do seem to be changing quite nicely. I will prob switch to just water once I start seeing a few more ambers appearing. Until then, just feeding and letting her do her thing. I’ll follow her lead, and let her trichomes decide when I harvest. I hope you are all having a great grow week 🌱☀️

Budette_Botanics The end is near! She now has mostly cloudy trichomes, checking every other day for the amber count to go up. I do think it will be maybe a week until harvest, but again I’ll let her trichomes decide when she’s ready. Her leaves are definitely in the fade stages. I decided to let her dry out for 3 nearly 4 days, as you can see in the pics. She’s has gone very droopy, but I’m confident her watering will perk her up, she is on just ph’d water now, and will be until she is ready to harvest. Checking the buds, no issues she smells amazing, it’s almost candy like it’s so pungent. Lovely sweet strawberries and ripe banana scent. I’m hoping she finishes well, after having such a good grow. Hope you all have a marvellous grow week 💚🌱🤘🏼

Budette_Botanics We are quite near to the end.. The flush has started, although being on organic nutrients I’m not flushing so much as I’m just giving her the normal amount of fluids, but no nutrients only ph’d water. I want her to use the stored nutrients, and this way she should do that. The fade is really taking hold, quite a few leaves have fallen this week. She is taking slightly longer between feeds, which is another indicator that she is coming to the end of her flowering. I will be giving her 24 hrs of darkness once I think she is ready. For now though her trichomes are all cloudy, but I do want a more indica effect from this hybrid. With that in mind, I will be keeping her in the tent until I’m happy with the amount of ambers I’m seeing. I hope you all have a marvellous grow week 🌱💚

Budette_Botanics I will use this set up again. Loved using the ggs, and spider farmer have been amazing. With what I have taken out to sample 😋 it is about 4oz, dry weight. Extremely happy with that. 100w light in a 70x70cm tent sharing with a northern lights.. I wasn’t expecting it to be such a good yield. My first autos. Quite proud of my girls for that outcome 🙌🏻💪🏻🌱