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Cookies USA by Pyramid Seeds first grow
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Tent
80x80x180 GrowGrow
Indoor
Room Type
Topping
weeks 3
LST
weeks 5-6
Defoliation
weeks 5, 7-8
ScrOG
weeks 7-12
12 l
Pot Size
Strain
Cookies USA
Growing it
Easy
Resistance
Strong
Definitely highly recommended strain, a bit sensible to light. I don't know why that happened, but both plants grew up different than strain advertises. Instead of stacked fat buds with leaves sticking out, it grew pure Durban Poison sativa genetics.
Since it was my first grow, I tried all different grow technics, nutrients, lights, topping, scroging, supercroping and put a lot of stress on the plants, flipped to flower after repotting with damaged roots and strain still gave decent results in 12L fabric pots in coco.
Plants had zero deficiencies at all, even being fed with 5.0ph (my meter was junk) at the start of flower, they still made their way and did not disappoint. Smell it out of this world, smooth chocolate bakery smell in room made my every morning.
Buds are extremely sticky and full of resin, they definitely need more dry time than regular sativa small buds strain. Second plant ms. Stretchy, which I did not stress a lot will be regenerated (I hope it will).
The Outcome
Week 16
Harvest
What's on the scales?
296
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
Harvested
2
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.56
mΒ²
ftΒ²
Grow Room size
1.97
g / watt
528.57
g / mΒ²
148
g / plant
3.57
plant / mΒ²
267.86
watt / mΒ²
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Buds drying 3rd day
Day 106
Day 106
Tastes like
Chocolate
Earthy
Woody
Feels like
80% Sativa 20% Indica
Positive effects
Creative
Euphoric
Talkative
Negative effects
Dry mouth
Reviews. Nutrient
For the first grow GHE nutrients was pretty easy, though I think I killed pair of seedlings with nutrient burn. I suggest using smaller doses than manufacturer recommends, medium was constantly spiking in PPM, I think that was because damaged root system, plants couldn't utilize all nutrients fast, but anyway. I haven't seen much reviews on FloraCoco Dual part, it's very easy and high quality, never had any deficiency for the whole 105 day grow. Organic boosters and Trikologic did nice job in the flowering phase, I loved how they boosted terpenes. Next grow I am thinking about doing organic with GHE nutrients in soil mix.
Day 115 Update: Ms. Stretchy is continuing growing and ripening, trichomes are 20% clear, 5% amber. I think I will harvest it this week or next, don't want to ruin quality of these healthy buds
Day 118 Update: I am just giving warm high ph water. Girl is finishing nicely
Day 120 Update: Beautiful Purple is starting to show in the buds, they are close to finishing
Reviews. Lamp
Simply the best light in this budget! I wish I have switched to it in veg, since most of the grow problems with stretching was because not proper light spectrum of chineese LEDs. I got mine with dimmer and longer cable, so I put driver outside the tent near the exhaust AC Infinity fan, so it was cooled nicely, and did not generate heat inside the tent. I got 2 gramm per watt in 80x80 cheap tent, next I will get Mars Hydro tent and that will definitely do further increase in yieldπ
Reviews. Tent
My first grow is almost finished, I chopped 1 plant and drying it before putting in jars with BOVEDA 62% packs, waiting for second plant to finish, but since it has better overall health and stronger root system, I will let it ripen longer. This Durban poison genetics blew me away, it's so smooth and pleasant smoke. No couch lock, just being high AF and getting highly creative, active and communicative :) Strain went through a lot of stress and USA Cookies came strongest I can ever imagine with that level of interference in plant's life, highly recommend it for new growers to learn things and to old growers to get a lot of resin :) I will update this week soon after fully drying first plant and chopping another.
Second girl harvested with 186G dry bud yield, so total yield for 2 plants is ~300g, that's a lot for 150W light.
Effect from Ms. Stretchy is stronger, it feels like better root system and longer flowering really intensified pine smell and removed sweetness, but I wanted to check what's the difference in reality between ~80% milky 15% clear and 5% amber vs ~ 90% milky 10% amber.
My first grow turned out 2g per watt, I am happy π
Peace!π
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Grow Questions
AS205started grow question 4 years ago
Guys, girls got too bushy or not? Is it possible to defoliate in stretching phase? It's 10th day of 12/12, plants get 3-4cm every day, but bushes really hinder lower bud sites development... I am waiting for first flowers to appear to do defoliation and some lolipopping..
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Techniques. Defoliation
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Ch33cHanswered grow question 4 years ago
If you cant tuck them away then it wouldnt harm to much to defoilate just now. But do it all in one go, Dont want to constanly strip her during flower.
Good luck
AS205started grow question 4 years ago
Girls started showing sativa signs in stretch phase. They entered week 3 of 12/12 and flower stage fully began, still they continue to stretch and is it normal to show not symmetrical stem stretching? Plants have 30% sativa in genetics
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Plant. Spaces between nodes
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Athosanswered grow question 4 years ago
It looks like the standard indica stretch, your plants were 22 cm tall before thee stretch and now are 40 cm. If it were a sativa it would have tripled its size. It also has to do with the size of the pot you are using, a smaller pot will keep the final size in check. Ans it is very normal for some stems to grow more than others
AS205started grow question 4 years ago
Dear community
Since stretching phase began and plants doubled in size, I started watering every day, F-W-1/2F-W-F. Plants look happy, showing no deficiencies or toxicity, runoff ppm increased to 2500!! Runoff PH is 6.0, input PH is 5.9-6.0 1000ppm. Does it need flushing?
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Feeding. Other
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Happy_Farmeranswered grow question 4 years ago
Give only ph water for the next days, that happen when the plant donβt use every nutrient that you put on the last feeding, imagine you give 1500ppm but the plant only use 1000ppm that lives with 500ppm in the soil and that can cause salt buld up.
Wish it helps!
Cheers
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AS205started grow question 4 years ago
I noticed today, that my timer was set to 12.5 L - 11.5 D, so plants were not receiving 12 hours of darkness. They started flowering a bit later than I suspected after switching to 12/12, may it be the reason? I fixed timer to proper 12/12, will it affect anything?
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Setup. Lighting
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DoDrugs420answered grow question 4 years ago
It may be the reason, who knows... never seen a cannabis whisperer.
I guess all it did was simulate the natural reduction but i don't see any downsides, what could had happen was them not flowering but since that is not even in questioning... its all fine, just keep them under 12/12 and its fine.
AS205started grow question 4 years ago
Full flower feeding with reduced Grow part (Nitrogen) got solution only to ~700ppm. Full dose of liquid koolbloom, flora bloom, honey, organic bloom boster and calmag couldn't get ppm past 700. Can it cause the problem? maintaining high dosage of bloom nutrients with low ppm?
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Feeding. Chemical composition
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GMSgrowsanswered grow question 4 years ago
Your ph should be a little higher for flower, 6.2 / 6.3, I always start flower at a much lower ec than what I was running in veg.
I start flower nutes at 1.2ec when button size buds have formed I run that a week, if early yellowing starts the next dose is 1.4 and run that for early flowering. Mid flowering I run 1.6 to 1.8 ec and late flowering I knock the nutes back to 1.2 or 1.4 depending on whether there was early yellowing. You shouldn't be feeding and grow nutes, your bloom nutes have enough N for the plants availability. Adding N through flower slows your bud growth and will help lockout to start due to salt buildup. Cheers friend
AS205started grow question 4 years ago
Girls stretched too much in preflower phase due to bad light spectrum (too much red and blue). Will these form decent colas? Lights changed to TS1000 and I added some UV bulbs, they are getting extremely frosty and buds develop fast, but I am afraid they will remain thin :(
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Buds. Other
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Justa_Retardanswered grow question 4 years ago
What do you mean by too much red and blue? Is your lamp more powerful than the sun?
- Looks like they've only been flowering for 3 weeks, and got 6 - 7 weeks to go, according to the breeder. don't worry about it.
AS205started grow question 4 years ago
Dear community,
Is making longest cola shorter a common practice during mid flowering? I have 1 cola, shooting too tall and almost burning under the light, others remain on normal distance. Can topping few CM of it cause dmg to all buds on the stem?
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Buds. Other
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Weedosaurusanswered grow question 4 years ago
Why dont you bend them or ballast it down with a little rope linked to the pot ?
Cutting will damage the total harvest
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Ferenccommentedweek 154 years ago
Ferenccommented4 years ago
@@AS205, Enjoy!
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AS205commented4 years ago
@Ferenc, Thanks :) This came up pure sativa, due to 70% sativa genetics in strain. I love the effect π»
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FreshCoastOrganicscommentedweek 164 years ago
Damn, look at all of those buds! Youβre about to get a bountiful yield from this crop!! π
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AS205commented4 years ago
@FreshCoastOrganics, Plant I chopped had worse health and root system than the plant I left for ripening, they have 7 days difference in germination time. So I will give it another week minimum, pistils are still all white. And she will give much more yield than first plant.
Can't wait for both of them to dry and weight in :D
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CheckThoseTrichscommentedweek 134 years ago
Looking awesome! Keep up the solid farming
Cheers,
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AS205commented4 years ago
@CheckThoseTrichs, Thank you! They have been through a lot of stress, since it is my first grow ever, I learned a lot from my mistakes, but the plants are so resilient to stress, even high stress like PH fluctuations from 5.0 to 8.0 during feeding because of chinese PH meter, or too much nutrients, improper light spectrum, flipping to flower before veg cycle completed properly. They did not show even 1 sign of deficiency or toxicity. I am amazed by Cookies genetics
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Wachsemiliancommentedweek 114 years ago
your girls are lookin wonderful good jobππ
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AS205commented4 years ago
@Wachsemilian, thank you π Can't wait for these huge colas to fill up
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Athoscommentedweek 74 years ago
It looks like the standard indica stretch, your plants were 22 cm tall before thee stretch and now are 40 cm. If it were a sativa it would have tripled its size. It also has to do with the size of the pot you are using, a smaller pot will keep the final size in check. Ans it is very normal for some stems to grow more than others
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AS205commented4 years ago
@@Athos, Yes it's stretching pretty well. I just don't have experience yet, I thought that symmetrical node spacing between leaves (Left - Right) would be kept till the end. Now its forming buds so I thought, that node forming will keep that "indica" style symmetry. Lights are pretty close, around 35cm now on full power (350W 2x 170W bloomspect, one is on bloom + veg mode, second is only in Bloom mode), plants are in Praying to Gods state, happy and healthy. Have some foliage left under since the last defoliation, waiting for all buds sites to become formed, maybe next week I will do final lolipopping/defoliation.
I still give around 8-45-42 NPK total combined ratio per L, think will keep it through the flowering watching deficiency / overdose carefully
Thank you for help,
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Ferenccommentedweek 74 years ago
Healthy lovely plants π
@@AS205
Keep Up!
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AS205commented4 years ago
@Ferenc, Thanks! ππ Doing my best in a first grow to get as much experience as possible. So plants maybe getting more stress than needed, since I am doing all kinds of testing and research on them.
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Paultempcommentedweek 64 years ago
Nice job! π I will follow you ππ
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AS205commented4 years ago
@Paultemp, thank you ππ
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Growingkittencommentedweek 34 years ago
Looking good!πΊ
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AS205commented4 years ago
@Growingkitten, Thanks! <3 I am learning a lot from my first grow :) It's an amazing hobby!
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DoDrugs420commentedweek 163 years ago
Nice Cookies USA!
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