Pineapple Upside Down Cake (1st Indoor)

Decided to try using Great Lakes Water Only soil and Recharge this run. Didn’t start on Recharge until after transplanting in week 2

Transplanted to a 5gal and started Recharge this week

Let the plant veg a week and stack some nodes before beginning mainlining

Started mainlining by topping at the 4th node and tying back the new mains as they came in

Continued with mainlining with another round of topping and tying down. Topped at 3rd node on each new main. Fucked up when tying down and snapped off 1 of the 4 mains. Hadn’t started using silica yet so the branches weren’t as hardy as they could’ve been

From 3 to 6 mains

6 to 12 tops

12 to 24 mains

Actually week 1 of flower but the website is messing up and won’t let me set it as week 1 lol. I ended up overfeeding with insect frass when flipping (top dressed with nearly 25x as much as I should have by accident). Although insect frass won’t cause any major nutrient burn issues due to it being rather inert, I believe the chitin that’s found within it was ultimately the trigger that caused this plant to start producing seeds in week 4 of flower (more on that later)

Week 2 of flower, pistils starting to come in nicely

Week 3, Did a defoliation and continued stacking

Continued stacking this week, week 5 saw some issues start to come out

This week I started finding seeds forming on some of the mains. I did a thorough check and lo and behold the plant had hermed. Because it’s such a dense canopy with tight internodal spacing, I missed some male parts and didn’t find them until after they’d burst. I believe this is due to the accidental overdosing with the Black Soldier Fly frass, which is full of chitin. I didn’t have any light leaks or issues with environment/pH, and since the genetics are supposedly pretty solid I don’t know what else could’ve caused this. I began picking off as many seeds as I could and hoped for the best, but was feeling pretty defeated at this point in my first indoor grow

Week 6, continued plucking seeds as I saw them to discourage their growth and encourage bud growth

Week 7 of flower. No new seeds were found and she seemed to start really putting work into the buds. Little bit of frost production but nothing too wild just yet. Week 7 since flipping to 12/12 and the terps are insane. Smell is definitely noticeable but no complaining here lol

Week 8 of flower. Added some straw to help retain moisture and started using some stuff I’ll be using next round (fish sh!t, mammoth p, og Biowar root pack, malted barley). Plant seems to be responding well and the terpene production is out of this world. Only complaint is I should have let her stretch a little more before flipping, only expecting to get 1.5-2oz dry with 150w and a 2x2 space so I know I can do better.

Week 9 since flip and the purples/fade are starting to appear!

I pretty much summed up everything above. I don’t plan on growing this strain again (or any HSC seeds for that matter) due to the high herm rates I and others I’ve talked to have experienced. Someone even said that all 5 seeds they popped up of this strain hermed on them, which is just unacceptable when buying seeds at this price point. I expected better from a respected breeder but will stick to tried and true strains from other breeders from now on. Very happy with GrowDiaries and will continue to log my future grows here