Cherry Bomb

Started one seed of Cherry Bomb popped in 48 hours. The seedling took off from there. I just used tap water and paper towel to germinate. We are at 7 days today, and she is looking good. Picked up a 32x32x63 tent for this grow. Currently I have her in my aero garden which has done wonders for me, and my hydro set up. As she grows I will move her into a 5 gal bucket for hydro. We will use a 450w viparspectra LED for this grow. I am using a small amount of nutes in the reservoir, as always I am using general hrdroponics flora trio cal mag, and silica.

Sorry for the late update. Bad storms in my state knocked power out for a few days. We are on 18 days since seed popped. I was worried about the outcome with 4 days no light do to the power loss. The plant held strong in very cold 25-30 degree nights. She has started to fill out since my last update. This plant looks like it may stay small. She is indica dominant, so I may scrog her. I will deffenitly be topping her soon. I have increased my nutrients to 2.5ml per gallon. I am only using the flora trio by GH and cal mag and armor si by GE. These nutrients have never failed me, and flush very well in my opinion.

She Is now on week three . The cherry Bomb is 6 inches, and has strong looking indica genetics. I moved the light up anther two inches, I am hoping she will stretch a little. I put her in the 5 gal dwc bucket with a small aquatics 20 gallon pump. The roots have shown some good growth, and color. I've had an issue with PH this week. I will be trying to keep it around 6. This week the PH has been at a constant 6.4. I've read a few cherry Bomb grows on here, so I am stoked to be able to grow her myself after reading the 5* ratings she was given by them.

So I topped her tonight at day 28. She has gotten fat. Only grew two inches this week so she is at 8 inches, well 7 inches now that I topped her. I figured out the PH issue were getting back to steady 6 slowly. I did my reservoir water change yesterday 11/15 and the plant has taken already a waiter of it. I expect growth to be slow for the few days due to the topping. I will set up the scrog soon, and we will see how she handles stress. I may LST first a little. Please let me know in the comments what you think about the LST any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

The cherry bomb has done well in expanding her growth after topping. I am having a ph problem again, and had to move the tent due to really cold weather. She is starting to show signs of nute burn. I have cleaned out the DWC bucket, and I am flusing her for a few days. I have put this plant through a lot of stress, and she continues to bounce back. I am very pleased with this plants Resilience.

I flushed her for 6 days. As you know she has had some serious nute burn this is do to my error. I left for the holiday, and thought she would be fine with a increase in nutes bad calculation on my part. So she has started mew growth and I have topped her 6 more times so 7 in total. I have gotten rid of some of the larger fan leafs to allow light in the plant. The trellis net went in tonight let the training begin. We are back on a regular nute dose. I use general hydroponics flora trio cal magic and silica. One she flowers we will add some other goodies. I am pleasantly surprised after I topped her she had barely any down time as she jumped up 3 inch’s in two days; not sure if it was because I flushed her clean, or what. This plant is deaf indica small thick bush fat leafs. Hope to have first round of training done in the next 6-7 days then maybe we can start talking flipping. It is very much winter where I am from, once in awhile I forget about a window; the temp drops down to freezing. The tent has gotten down to about 40degress do to the light offering some warmth. She has done well in the cold better then most plants I have had up during these fun filled ice cold months.

So here we are she bounced back for a few days then took a turn for the worst. I’m upset at myself for leaving for a few days around thanksgiving, and allowing her to go untreated. I have slowly started to introduce nutes back into her. I had to remove a lot of dead leafs. What you see is what I am hoping blossoms forward. I do not know the full effect of what happened while I was gone, but lesson learned. While I continue to nurse her back, I can’t help but notice she is not giving up. I am a novice grower, and I learn from each mistake. A lot of you have helped along the way with tips, and I am thankful for all the help. I hope to be posting some good news over the next few day. At this exact moment it is 75 degrees in the tent, ph is 5.9, humidity is 62. Any ideas, or suggestions are always welcome.

I still have a few leafs I have to remove. But this girl has bounced back. This strain seems to do better on a lower dose of nutrients. I raised up the light a few inch’s. I will be flipping her in a week or two, I would love loke to allow a little more growth. This strain is definitely a beginner statin. This plant has been through so much do to my errors. Still not much smell. I am hoping she will flower nicely after everything. All we can do is watch.

Well she’s is strong and today is day one of flower. I have turned the lights off for the next 24 hours. Cleaned the Reservoir. Increased the nutrients for the flip. I am running 1 mL of each flora grow flora bloom flora micro silica and Cal mag. My 12 hour light schedule be from 8 AM to 8 PM lights on 8 PM to 8 AM lights off. I will need to dehumidify a little bit to get it down to about 50 and then 45 I believe would be good once the pistols start coming in and colas start to grow. Ive been thru a lot with this plant due to user error but the genetics are strong and this plant can take serious abuse. I would absolutely recommend the strain for a beginner as you can see my many mess ups and still this plant survived and is ready to be budded now. She scroged well with topping multiple times. She’s not a fan of heavy nutrients she also does not like a high pH. You can clearly see the bomb genetics in it as these plants tend to explode in growth very easily. I am extremely happy with this growth so far even with the hiccups. I cannot wait to see these callers grow hopefully fat and happy and heavy.

The stretch has started. We are on day 7 since I flipped to 12 12 light schedule. 12/28/2017 was the day we started the lights on 12 hours. I did let her sit in 24 hours of darkness which she seemed to do fine in. I have had to top off the resovouir twice she is a thirsty girl. No stress signs from the increase in nutrients. I will be lowering the amount given after a few day flush in the next week. I only increase for the transition this was something I was shown a few years back by another grower and has not let me down. I will stick to the flora trio by GH. I do not add anything else like bud fatteners as some people call them. I am a firm believer they are not needed. This is just my opinion on the matter.

Some explosive growth This week. She has calmed down on the drinking a little. The ph has stayed pretty level between 5.6 to 5.8 all week. Pistols are really starting to make an appearance. This will be the last week she gets the transition set of nutrients. I added another 450w viparspectra for flower. Sorry about some of the darker pics I got home right as the lights went out tonight. The smell is still light not heavy at all. She filled the scrog well. I am so surprised at how well this plant is doing now it’s like nothing ever happened. Plant got about 17 hours of dark yesterday do to my power going out cause someone hit a telephone pole in the neighborhood..... back on schedule today and we are at day 13 of flip. According to breeder we have about 8 more weeks to go. I’m no expert but I think she is done stretching (i think)..... I can say as a beginner grower this is an excellent strain so far for my level of experience. Been a little cold at night here but so far no issues

Today is day 22 of flower. Currently I am on the 5th day of a flush with just water at ph of 5.9. Two more days we will go back to regular nutes. She is stacking up nice at this point couldn’t be happier with how well the plant thrived. It’s like there was never any issues. Currently wishing I cleaned up the bottom of the plant more. This plant has been such and easy grow thanks to the genetics I’m sure. Looks like she will yield nicely. It’s been a little cold at night here lately but she is taking it well

This afternoon is day 30 for this cherry bomb. The pictures are from day 27 and 28. I’ll add a few later on today when the lights go on. She is really starting to fatten up. looks like they Will be dense long stacked buds. About 40 more days to her 10 weeks. Bomb seeds says 8-10 weeks for harvest. I would like to see her go to 10 weeks. I prefer a heavy couch lock stone for the evening. I have added a video showing that she is one plant and a lot of die off on the bottom where no light is penetrating. Not everything you see dead is from lack of light, a lot of it is from Trimming, and not cleaning up after myself. I’m back on nutes after a flush. As expected she exploded in growth since back on the nutes.

Today is day 36. I had to tie up some branch’s this morning. The colas have been slowly leaning in every direction, and I wanted to get them back standing straight in the light.i will flush her for a few days seems last batch of nutes burned her a little. I also believe there is to much nitrogen in her roots as some leaves have started to yellow up top. This is just my opinion from what I have been reading. I know Leaves will yellow during flowering, but from my understanding it is usually is the lower leaves. Any feed back would be appreciated.

Been sick sorry for the late update....Hello day 47 of flower. Buds are still fattening up it seems. Lower branch buds are doing well and are good size . I may have been under feeding her. I increased the nutes this week and the yellowing of leafs slowed down, but now is back.... I will try a flush, and hope for the best. trichome production has picked up. I will try to bust out the jewelers loop this week to start tracking trichome color. Harvest day seems so close. The buds are still stacking weight on two thumbs up for that. As I stated previously I am hoping for the first week of March for harvest, but as always the plant will Let you know when she is ready.

Officially 8 weeks today....... she is ready her trichomes are cloudy some milky only saw 1 or 2 amber trichomes I am flushing her until Sunday and will cut her down. I’m using a 5 gal DWC so from my understanding a 7 day flush is way more than needed. See you guys in a few weeks with the final results.

She’s grew quick. I had some issues along the way due to my errors. She bounced back. Once I flipped her I had some issues with locking in the nutes, again user error. The bud growth was quick, and created some dense large colas. The smell is pungent, and sweet like the taste. It has cured now for almost three weeks. It took 5 days for the buds to all dry for jars. Buds are soft dense and sticky. Buds break up well. I did not wet weigh my harvest. Tested buds twice a week. Aired jars twice a day for 10 days, now I am airing them just once every other day. I have Boveda 62% humid packs in the jars.