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Strain
Cream Cookies Auto
Fast Buds
Growing it
Normal
Resistance
Neutral
Had a very slow start with this one that probably set back my entire grow. I think I had the humidity too high for the first few weeks. She recovered well though in the end. I found that the buds weren't as dense as I would have liked and this is could be due to my phenotype being more of a Sativa than Indica. Also I probably wasn't aggressive enough with my defoliating either. I also never smelled any cream or cookies. Currently mid-way through the cure there is a strong pine smell with woody undertones. I have smoked piney bud before and it has been very good so I don't think this is bad, however its not really what I expected from this strain. My initial smoke report before curing is that it has a pleasant taste and isn't harsh. Shortly after smoking I felt very happy and was grinning away. Then I enjoyed watching some videos and felt generally quite relaxed. This is probably the most chill smoke I have ever had, however I don't have a huge experience with different strains. Would be really good for de-stressing in the evening.
The Outcome
Week 14
Harvest
What's on the scales?
47
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
What's on the scales?
109
gram
ounce
Bud wet weight
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.25
ft²
Grow Room size
0.31
g / watt
188
g / m²
47
g / plant
4
plant / m²
600
watt / m²
Tastes like
Pine
Woody
Feels like
60% Sativa 40% Indica

Positive effects

Happy
Relaxed

Negative effects

Dry eyes
Reviews. Lamp
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stealthassassin stealthassassin
5 years ago
The day after harvest I went away on holidays for 10 days, so I was a bit worried about the drying process. I put the bud in a cardboard box as you can see in the photos, with an inkbird humidity monitor attached to a fan. When the fan was off there was no ventilation through the box. When the humidity got over 70% it would put a gentle breeze through the box until it got down to 65% and then shut off until it went back up above 70 again... When I returned home the humidity in the box was 59% so it didn't get too dry! The buds have lots of trichomes on them but they are a bit more airy and leafy than I would have liked, I think perhaps there were too many small bud sites the plant was putting its energy into. Needed to prune more aggressively to just have a few main bud sites.
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Grow Questions
stealthassassin
stealthassassinstarted grow question 5 years ago
D6- seems a bit droopy in the first true leaves today? Nothing major but got me worried. Any feedback would be appreciated! 😕
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Leaves. Wilting
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Wicked_Stix
Wicked_Stixanswered grow question 5 years ago
It is droopy from too much moisture in the rockwool. Rockwool is bad about sufficating seedlings and retaining too much moisture. You can place the cube on a paper towel or something similar to pull some of the moisture out if it to get some oxygen to the root. You have to be really careful until you get roots appearing from the bottom. Once a root comes out then the chances of suffocating are reduced a lot. Hope this helps
stealthassassin
stealthassassinstarted grow question 5 years ago
Can anyone tell me how many weeks left I might have until harvest? I am planning a holiday and need a rough date to work with! I am happy to harvest a little on the early side when trichomes are all cloudy. If a few people could put their best guess I can average them, thanks! 🙏
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Techniques. Defoliation
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CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowanswered grow question 5 years ago
wouldnt be surprised if these hit the 14-16 week mark on your diary 🚀
stealthassassin
stealthassassinstarted grow question 5 years ago
How long until I can start to flush? I want to time it for the early to mid harvest window. I am in CoCo so will probably flush for 7-14 days? I think a lot of the trichomes are now cloudy, a good 75% I think. Very rare ambers, less than 1%, most buds with none.
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Techniques. Defoliation
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JUNGLE_B4RNS
JUNGLE_B4RNSanswered grow question 5 years ago
Give them one more week with plain water only to let them breakdown some last nutrients. Then give them a good flush to rinse everything out of the pot and let them fade till harvest.
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stealthassassin
stealthassassincommentedweek 15 years ago
The little girl is still not growing on D7 or D8. The rockwool has mostly dried out now, perhaps 30% of the water left, hardly weighs anything and still not changing. Weird curly leaf at the start of the next set of leaves, and no stalk growth at all between the first and second sets. Both leaves wilting still. The stem is purple, I think normal for this strain. Really don't know what I am doing wrong and very upset that it just isn't growing. Really I just put it in rockwool with pH 5.8 water, watered once and then left until now and this is what happened. Was feeling moist the whole time. Humidity kept around 70%, temps between 16C and 26C. 😩 😭 I guess I am just not a good grower I really can't explain this!
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@@KUSHMANZAM, thanks man. I found out the possible problem with her, I was using pH down that wasnt for plants it was for the pool. I think it had sodium in it so I was giving her too much salt!
KUSHMANZAM
KUSHMANZAMcommented5 years ago
@stealthassassin, in my experience with Autos ph from 6 to 7 is more effective regular photoperiods are what require 5 to 6 ph however I found this to be detrimental to autos they work best from 6.5 to 6.7 on point and I have seen some explosive and extremely potent nugs however some folks don't PH at all so maybe I'm wrong.. check out mrcanucks grow on youtube his grows prove quite excellent and I've followed his advice with great success happy growing mate https://youtu.be/ATFgwsh9Pb8
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Growietje, yes it is tough for you this time of year! We are almost in spring in Victoria, Australia, so perfect time to plant outdoors in a few weeks time :)
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Growietje
Growietjecommentedweek 75 years ago
Good to see a healthy plant my friend. If you have 8 weeks from now, there is no problem. Just don't overfeed tooo mutch and I think you will have some good nuggets. Enjoy!
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Growietje, thanks matey, yes I think I have made it fingers crossed! she is growing like a rocket and making up for her slow start.
Cannibalgardens
Cannibalgardenscommentedweek 15 years ago
Best of luck
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Cannibalgardens, Thanks, she took her sweet time but you were right, has taken off finally!
Cannibalgardens
Cannibalgardenscommented5 years ago
@stealthassassin,yes I'll be following along .
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Cannibalgardens, ok I am not giving up on her, will keep my fingers crossed and let you know how it goes
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Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarcommentedweek 145 years ago
oh wow, i did not know that you can link the heater with the inkbird too,,, but as longer as iam thinking about the more logical it is,,,,,,,, dehumifidiers heat the air up too and if temps rise, th falls. how didi you limit the temps
Mrs_Larimar
Mrs_Larimarcommented5 years ago
@stealthassassin,sounds logic.....
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Mrs_Larimar, because my climate here is dry, the dew point is fairly low. For example, if the dew point is 10 degrees C, then I would set the humidity to 47% and then the heater would always run until it was 23 degrees C then shut off. This is because as it heats up to 24 degrees, the humidity would drop under 47% and then the inkbird would turn off the heater. If it was a very hot and dry day then the heater would just be always off, because I don't have a humidifier yet. Hope that makes sense!
Wachsemilian
Wachsemiliancommentedweek 15 years ago
good luck to you😎
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Wachsemilian, haha it seems the luck might not be enough, she really has hardly grown at all in the last 3 days, seems to have stalled 😧
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Wachsemilian, thanks I will need all the luck I can get!
Philindicus
Philindicuscommentedweek 135 years ago
She looks really nice. I would keep feeding for the next week then see where you stand. You shouldn't need more than a week to flush coco. Looks like you still have plenty of time left especially if the buds are still showing strong new calyx/pistil growth. She's definately getting close.
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Philindicus, thanks again Phil! Great to have growers like you around to help others out. You are telling me what looks and feels right. Glad she is getting close. I will feed her for the coming week and see how much she changes. 😎
Philindicus
Philindicuscommentedweek 125 years ago
I would agree with LaBossanova, you look like you have mostly white pistils still at least 3-4 weeks to go. Then you still would need time for drying. I would look for a trusted friend to give her a bit of water while your away. If your only going away for 2-3-4 days before you go I would start defoliating her a bit to cut down on her transpiration rate and just plan on doing a large watering(2+ gallons) on her the morning/evening literally just before you leave and back off your lights and cut down on the hours of light to 12 hrs. Then cover the top of your pot with plastic wrap to slow down evaporation from the soil. She will probably be fine but the pots may/will be dry when you get back. A bit of drought stress in the end is alright. At this current time the only thing I would recommend is running your light longer. At 18-20-24 hours could force them to start to ripen a bit faster. It could shave a few days off your grow. Keep an eye on your plants to make sure they don't get light burn when running them for longer hours. Typically when about 50% of the white pistils have dried and turned orange I start checking the trichomes. At that point you typically have a few weeks to go it's basically just waiting for the trichomes to show some amber. It's usually safe to harvest once you see mostly cloudy/milky with 5% ambers. The high may be a bit of a racy head high harvesting at this point. I have a similar situation coming up this spring/early summer where I'll be out of town. I will take the chance of doing one more grow in February.
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Philindicus, thanks Phil, it sounds like good advice and I will follow it. Certainly reducing the hours of light would reduce water usage and transpiration. I just hope we don't end up having a heat wave. I wonder what would happen if she died from lack of water.
Northnut
Northnutcommentedweek 125 years ago
Aslong as the humidity levels in your grow box or wherever aren't too crazy high I wouldnt bother with the fan during the drying process. The fan may dry it out too fast and ull come back to dust. Everybody has there own way of doing it though, personally I find the longer they hang/longer in a jar that they're burped the better tasting result you will achieve. Looks good though I would ride this to the bitter end, chopping down even a week early this far into flower will hurt you yield probably pretty substantially.
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Northnut, thanks man, yeah I could just dry in the grow box but the problem is the smell. If you think the smell shouldn't leak out of the tent too much with the extraction off, then your suggestion would be much better. I just worried that if I attach the extraction fan to the humidity sensor then when it stops extracting the air because the humidity drops, the smell will start to seep out. Thats why I planned on having the fan attached to the humidity sensor. That way if the humidity drops the fan stops - leaving extraction fan on constantly.
Growietje
Growietjecommentedweek 105 years ago
Your plant looks great, you could pull off the big leafs on top of the plant. The buds love all the light they can get. Grow on my friend.
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@Growietje, thanks mate! 🙌 I am happy with how she is going. With the pruning, I have pulled off a lot of leaves already, including all the leaves that are directly blocking light to the bud sites. However, I am worried about going overboard like some people on here do! I did some research, and I think she needs more leaves than for other grows because I don't have a very strong light source, with only 130 watts. So I need the plant to get all the energy she can from the light, which means she needs as many leaves as possible. The leaves are like solar panels, and with less light its better to have a few more leaves. Where I can, I have been just tucking the big leaves out of the way.
Nefarious_Pickle
Nefarious_Picklecommentedweek 145 years ago
She sure is taking her sweet time! Looks really healthy though!
Fast_Buds
Fast_Budscommentedweek 35 years ago
Hey there! Thanks so much for growing our genetics 🙌🏼 Let us know if you need any assistance Happy Growing! 💚🌱
Cnk671
Cnk671commentedweek 15 years ago
She looks really good, I have a bunch of fab seeds also in storage. Gonna be moving to dwc after my WCOG. So I’ll be definitely following along!
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowcommentedweek 95 years ago
it's all about the environment so that means that you need to make sure your leaf surface temperature is on point for your humidity / temperature combination. This explains it better : https://getpulse.co/blog/vpd Hope this helps ! 🚀
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowcommented5 years ago
@stealthassassin, yeah man understanding VPD is the difference between having a good grow because you're lucky and having a good grow because you understand what you're doing 👊 Looks like I was right about the genetics finishing a bit late, but it could be even later ! i would start planning for a helper growmie ! Anyway what you don't get in speed hopefully you'll find it in yield. Good luck growmie ! 🚀
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@CRiSPrGrow, thanks mate, can't believe I never got told about this before. Looking back at my grow diary, when I was having all my problems, I often had a VPD of 0.1 which can't be good... Should be able to improve on that next grow!
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowcommented5 years ago
@stealthassassin, dude try it from the start of your next run you'll see a massive difference , hugely important to understand VPD
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HueyBrown
HueyBrowncommentedweek 145 years ago
Nice flower and frosty buds! Good job.
stealthassassin
stealthassassincommented5 years ago
@HueyBrown, thanks buddy!