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Starting a second seed of this Wedding Cake strain from Lifted, a rec grower. The first seed has some interesting mutations going on that I did not see in any of the four plants last year. Hopefully this one comes out strong and uniform. If it does, I’ll likely clone it and hit the clone with some colloidal silver to reload. I have 9 seeds left, but it would be nice to have some extras. I really scored with these seeds.
I put a few photos of a plant from the same seed stock. As you can see, the plant is very robust. I also found it very durable, pest and weather resistant. It also provides high yields.
The research I’ve done says that Lifted’s Wedding Cake strain comes from a clone of the Seed Junky strain, which I believe to be the original strain. Whether the seeds I found in my rec store purchase are from cross pollination, genetics or stress, I’m not sure. However, given that I popped 4 seeds last year and had four females, I feel pretty confident that the seeds are from stress or genetics. So they would be feminized. No topping, just some serious LST.
This year, I plan to top the stronger of the two and FIM the other.
Switched to tap water from roof rain runoff this week. Could not find any good info on E. Coli re: watering with runoff. I hope the caustic soda my municipality uses in the water doesn’t kill my living soil. I have earthworms in my raised beds, so I suspect it will be alright.
Coming along. Been very windy. Had to prop it up. They’re just getting regular water with no pH adjustment. Bubbling tap water for 24 hours. Going with the living soil thing. We will see. Looks good so far.
Prime time growing right now. I think the combo of the weather and the roots reaching the super soil has inspired some vigorous growth.
Definitely noticed some thrip an/or leaf hopper damage to a leaf or two on 4 plants. I’ve spotted 4 thrips and 2 leaf hoppers across all of the plants this week, although the overall damage throughout the greenhouse would suggest that there are more (even still, the damage is not that bad. The Wedding Cake all show the least amount of damage with none on this one and next to nothing on the other WC plants.
Fed them a bunch of beneficial nematodes and did 2 nights of spinosad followed by three nights of neem, and then one more night of spinosad. Hopefully that gets things back in check.
I’ll be feeding a compost tea tomorrow morning.
Removed some of the straw top covering since the weather has cooled back down.
Daylight hours are disappearing quick! Not sure of the sex, but last year this seed stock produced 4 females from 4 seeds, so i feel pretty good that it’s feminized. Unknown though since the seeds came from a rec store purchase.
Had some severe drooping on one side of the plant. It was kind of weird, but most likely nothing.
I was under watering quite a bit in an attempt to make sure I didn’t flush out the benes and nutrients of the super soil. Ironically, I might have killed all the benes. Lol.
Either way, they’re getting about 2.5 gal every other day now. Growing strong.
Just did another spinosad treatment. Haven’t seen any more thrips since the first treatment 10 or so days ago. Saw a leaf hopper in there though 😡
All plants are responding well to the increase in water. I’m up to 2.5 gallons with this one every 2-3 days, depending on weather. It’s definitely starting to cool off and the days are getting shorter... About half an hour less light each week. Probably about 3 weeks before solid 12/12 This strain is slow to start flower, needs solid 12/12, but once it does, it goes quick. It’s starting to form bud sites, but still hasn’t shown any pistils yet, at all.
Early in the week I did an AACT tea. I didn’t know what I was doing (still don’t, but I’m learning). I most likely made it too complex and put every amendment I had on hand in the bag. Not sure of whether it had any microbial benefits or effect.
I followed that up with another nematode watering and I can definitely say it has had a major effect. Between the nematodes and the yellow sticky traps, there’s hardly a fungus gnat to be seen.
I topdressed yesterday with a mix of super soil, powdered oats, high P seabird guano, EWC, azomite, humic acid, alfalfa meal, and kelp meal.
This one is looking the best. Probably because it was the last one I planted and I’ve been making my mistakes elsewhere... I suspect it will need some extra feed soon as the super soil gets depleted. The AACT is really just a bacterial introduction. I won’t make it so complex next time. Just EWC and molasses from here on out. The topdress will probably take a little bit to break down, so I‘ll do a simple nutrient tea with alfalfa or fish hydrolysate in the next couple days. Hopefully that helps out. Other than that, it looks pretty great.
I love the way this strain of wedding cake just continues to grow more bud sites within budsites. It make a LOT of dense buds!
A little bit of a stretch to call this flowering, but there are a couple pistils here and there.
This strain of wedding cake is a little slow to start flower, but it finishes strong and quick. Last year, it did something similar: stretch was in late August, but pistils did not show until the first week of September. I did tarp it starting the first week of September, but I harvested on October 17, so about 7 weeks to finish. Not going to tarp this year because I want the autos in here to get as much light as possible. So we will see what it does without the tarp!
This one is growing straight up, not LST, no nothing.
One thing of note is that I’m growing two seeds of this same strain and I started this plant a couple weeks after the first. The fact that this plant is a couple weeks behind the other in terms of flowering makes me think that there is some age/maturity/auto genetic in this strain as it has the exact same light source, but flowering has come later on the younger plant.
Did a feed with Neptune’s Harvest Fish and Kelp Hydrolysate 2-3-1 at beginning of the week, straight water mid week and ended with a Neptune’s Harvest Fish Hydrolysate 2-4-1. This is on top of the P heavy phosphorus top dressing I added a couple weeks ago that is definitely starting to break down.
Alternating fresh water and 1 Tbs of King Neptune’s Fish Hydrolysate per gallon. Did molasses last watering. Pushing along. Starting to develop the buds.
Posting these a bit late. I developed a bit of a fungus gnat issue that I think got a bit out of control and the larva were definitely stunting all the plants, some more than others. This wedding cake strain was most resistant, by faaaaar. Like almost no noticeable impact.
I did a nematode release and OG Biowar Foliar Pack the next week. I’ll post results in the next week.
Moving along. This is my slowest plant in the greenhouse... Battling a couple teeny tiny PM outbreaks in the greeenhouse right now. Changed the set up to put the dehumidifier and heater closer to the intakes. Defoliate quite a bit, added an oscillating fan and spread things out. The last day things have been going pretty well.
Got some PM in the greenhouse. Not much on this one, or any of my photo period plants. You can definitely tell why they call it wedding cake...frosty goodness. Probably about 21 more days here... come on baby
F42 - Probably 10-14 more days... Unfortunately, the fungus gnat/root aphid issue was at peak stretch for this one and I don’t anticipate it delivering much more than it shows... Although, there’s a part of me that hopes every morning to come out to the greenhouse and see some miraculous burst of bud growth. Lol.
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