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Sweet seeds test grow
Done by Teamquality420
Thanks going to sweet seeds for providing us with some GORGEOUS genetics .
This is the plan , to start perfect and end as close to as possible !
We will have a few variations in pot size and in training to see how things shake out!
We will be using fabric pots out of 3 seeds in each strain placing 1 in a 3 gallon and the other 2 out of the 3 in 5 gallons.
Starting with water cups then to a paper Towel on a bag , then into a solo red cup , before being moved to there final spot .
I AM SO SORRY THAT MY GERMINATION PICTURES DIDNT MAKE IT . But they all popped very nicely within 72 hours . All but one.....
after 5 days the final seed I kinda gave up on er because sometimes it just happens !
So this bag is on the floor 10 days later , I find the bag and the go toss it out .
...
..
. I open the bag to see it had germinated !!!
On
The floor... if that doesn't signal tough RESILIENT genetics I don't know what will!!!!
Week 1
In this week we put the sprouted seeds into red solo cups . Most times I take the seed pop it into a jiffy seven then directly into the final pot. Recently I have found for my grow style that putting it in a red solo first gave the root a little more time to develop before going into a large pot !
So this week we took a little bit of a pounding, but this was a new area for us . So any grower would know that there will be mistakes. It is what you do to fix them ; that is what DEFINES you a grower. These photos are arranged by chronological order end to start :)
So another learning week for the team , this is a new area and we started to get yellowing and stressed leaves from all the plants , this can happen with autos so what we did was upped the nutrients and gave them a full water
Now we are talking!
This was when these girls really started to like what we are doing. We decided to tip these then we did variations to the plants yo see which training they liked best .
We will keep ypu posted on what training produced the most medical!!!!
Week 5
So now it is starting to look like the red poison will be the quickest of the 3 strains to finish, as you can see there are ALOT of leaves on these girls. Boy I am happy we put up supports !
Everything is starting to feel a bit better each day !
This week our main focus was defoliation and lst . Also to get the branches to attach on the tomato cage thus opening up the crowded parts of the canopy.
Week 7
We have the red poisons ( and yes this is the 7th week for sure !) Just out infront of the rest of the pack.
The next to start budding was the crystal candy.
The gorilla girl xl has not yet started flower, we will continue to try our best to open the canopy by lst and by taking un needed side branches/ Fan leaves
The red poison are just getting closer and closer to the end of their life cycle.
The gorilla girl xl is still leaves and is just starting to show bud sites , there is a whole bunch of leaves so again our week was defoliation.
The crystal candy is really starting to show up ! The majority of stretch has stopped for all strains.
Week 9
So this week at the very end we took down one of the three red poison . These girls didn't look like they had much more to grow. Now as an experienced grower I found it was quite tricky to determine the cloud/clear ratio with all these gorgeous colors 😍
Crystal candy- they really just coming on beautifully nothing to complain about these nicely tightened nodular spacing .
Gorilla girl xl - we are STILL taking leaves off this one, we got to the point after long enough I felt I was doing damage so we just left them to grow nicely .
This week we will continue to repeat our nutrient solution as we feel that the plants are drinking and growing about as much as they can . We are now in week 3 of the deep freeze . So 3 weeks of nothing but below-20 to -50 so no matter what or where we had issues . But if we can pull what we did in a troubled grow , we are gonna smash it when everything goes right !!!
Week 12
In this week we had a few chopped down and we will add those to each week to let you know the yeilds , I am just trying to wait so the proper nutrient company can get its yeild recording.
This also will be updated with out calendar and notes:)
In week 13 a very important note for the gorilla girl xl , we harvested one a bit too early in my opinion,
The note being there is a substantial amount of growth for the gorilla girls in week 13 so maybe watch for that!
Crystal candy is a majority done !
Red poison is on curing At 20°c
Red poison
What an interesting smoke
Red poison
It was by far the coolest looking colors I have seen so far! The three all had different tastes to them !
One had a very distinct lemon smell and taste to it . The other two were a frost taste to the backwoods taste like you were looking a the leaves turn colors in the fall. Was an extremely relaxing smoke. I could sense a overall tropical terp profile throughout!
This was a very interesting grow. I felt I could have done better with what I had ( but I 99% of the time feel I could have done better).
We were able to turn a good majority of the trichomes a pink / purple tint . The look of these buds is something you will not see unless you are face to nug. It will finish almost black !
What would I have done differently?
Well these girls got ALOT of stress early on and never fully recovered. So if I was to run it again I would make sure these plants had a PERFECT WORLD.
Thank you too sweet Seeds for getting the genetics on the site to get the job done.
Team Q420 is looking forward to showing off these top of the line auto genetics in the future!!
Wow thats one was built to impress. These buds were , well m sure if you took the sister photo period strain and put it right beside it , I don't think you tell the difference. It was great smoke very calm that same time the potency to knock you on your A$$ . The taste was Similar to bubble gum. Easily over a 15% and I would say closer to a 20% thc AUTO!
Harvest comments well this plant was a joy to grow I can't say enough about it it was easy not too easy with a little bit of wonder at the end of the grow. I wondered how does something that is less than 20" tall yield over QP??? If you were to go back and look at the whole entire grow we had a lot of problems during the beginning due to a new area and the 1st Winter we had in that area . Although We had already prepared for Winter with a insulated base Pan heater it just wasn't enough. We had already prepared for Winter with a insulated base Pan heater it just wasn't enough,So we tried to put a nice propane natural gas heater to the space. Still the fight against the element rages on. So we hit back countering with a couple of probe controlled 100 watt pad heaters. At that point We were just barely able to keep the soil above 15ﾟC. I could only imagine the difference in yield if we had no stress during weeks 3 through 5.
Song on all if I was to share anything with the community it would be crystal candy axelle very distinctive xl grow if you've done any of the X l's in the past you know what your in for! it is alonger grow But it is worth it!
One sentence to sum up growing crystal candy xl? A bountiful harvest of high thc bubble gum flavor nugs the size of your hand !
Gorilla girl xl It was a great smoke. One to my team members Prefers this smoke in the morning. He says that gives him a smile on his face
some a good appetite for the early morning to get a full day of work done. It had that typical xl background taste to it. Always refer to it as like a cheese. Nice tight rock hard buds.
We did flush this properly to have white burning cannabis. All around a treat!!
Thick smoke !
Good tokes!
It fits the needs !
Wicked job sweet seeds !!
The plants stayed
Relatively short , with every branch a cola , Wherever you looked there was Bud sites. The colaz were about 12 inches . I could only imagine what would happen without the stress!!
Would I grow this again HELL YEAH :)
Convention we had to female types one was a little bit darker than the other 3 we also conducted survey to figure out what worked best for us .
@Sweet_Seeds, we are just finishing it and we pulled 125 off a 20 inch plant , I think our average is about 100 per plant of amazing spudz . So keep an eye out for this one!
Congratulations! 👏
Thank you very much for trusting our strains, and sharing your experience.
And thank you very much again for the score of 10 out of 10!! YOU ARE THE BEST!! 👏😍❤️
We hope you enjoy the harvest 👌
Sweet smokes!
-Apolo
How have yoy found growing Gorilla girl Xl auto??
And do you a
Black Cream or cream Mandarin xl auto I'd love to know what there like I've some going now 20 days today from seed and there very aggressive in terms of height and structure but never grew any of these strains frist hand ...
@Igrowneil, respect man !!! We used all led on this :)
The crystal candy was
95
105
115
Of the three so I AM. VERY happy about it!
Keep up the great work 💪
@TeamQuality420, now I'm running HIDs I've found my times are about a week or two off even with Crystal candy xl auto so I was hoping for about 11 weeks and I'm getting about 88/grams avg a plant that was only with the one HID now I've changed to X2 660W digital ballast from the one 600w , so I'm hoping with the extra 10% when flowering beings increase in light should benifit yeilds and these girls 20 days from seed are between 7 and 11 inch in height which is pretty darn good big leaves to go along with it and onto 4 th nodes .. I've some black cream auto which is indica dominant and last time I done her she wasn't as fast as these girls and I had her done in about 9 weeks from seed with the one lamp so they can pass me over until the XL strains are done ... so
@Igrowneil, love the question !
well I have grown a few "XL" strains , with the xl strains you should expect a longer flower time for sure . 100 days plus (usually ) .
We will for sure do it again !
So in short anything xl is gonna be a nice healthy bush of a plant you should expect that it will be going over 100 days with explosive growth in the very end stages . As you can see in my diary that gorilla girl xl is about 3 weeks behind everything. We are in week 15 with it and they are just coming down. But it's worth the extra time if you can spare it because we are looking at and average of 100 grams per plant on the gorgirlxlauto. If there is ANYTHING ELSE you want to know please ask! 🙏
@NugLife420, thank you for that! We had outside temperatures of -50 even with the heat barriers and heaters and propane wall hearers we had soil temp drop to 15 °c . And wow it was a tough thing to figure out !
@Ju_Bps, thanks alot the team really came out to play on this one !!!! Thanks for the positive vibes, I'm gonna pack some up and send some your way growmie !!!
@HAPPY91,thank you so much. It's been crazy most of the girls are under 20" one was 18 inches and was over 100gr dried . In a foot and a half ... just great gens
@DreamIT, thank you ! They sure didn't get very tall but wow there is alot of quality buds on these ones . I think on the 9 we are gonna be just short of 2 pounds dried .
TeamQuality420
