Seedsman Strawberry Cheesecake Auto

Well here we go into Week One of flower! 👏😎With four weeks of initial growth behind her now, the Seedsman Strawberry Cheesecake Auto is doing fantastic and is showing signs of pre-flower. Thank you for following along this journey with me! Growing this beautiful cultivar is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! 😎🙏 ~Grown 100% organic in a 10g fabric pot with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 2-8-4 and 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Bat Guano. ~24hr light cycle during germination / 19/5 light cycle for Veg & Flower ~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed, top dressed every 3-4 weeks and weekly Compost Tea's. 3/30- This girl is on FIRE! She's tall as hell and has growth popping out everywhere! I decided to do some LST on her to open her up and get the light down into the canopy. While doing the LST I inadvertently broke the branch about 1/3 of the way through. It happened when I was trying to LST one of the two branches growing up from where she was topped and, because it was young it hadn't toughened up yet, it literally snapped when I started to bend it.... Oh well, shit happens! I propped it up against another branch and will see how it goes. Next 'oops' came when I decided to just go ahead and 'super crop' a couple of her branches and when I went to do the 'Ol' Pinch n Twist' that branch snapped almost 3/4 of the way through...F*CK!!!😱 So...I quickly fashioned a splint from a pack of rolling papers, placed it around the break and secured it with tape which I've done for years with great success. Eight hours later both branches look healthy, without signs of wilt or drooping...SUCCESS!!! 😎👌 Daily watering continues with 0.75g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC given to her in the morning. Foliar feeding before lights out continues every other night with Fox Farms Flower Kiss @ 3ml/g. The HLG 650R is now pulling 450w at the wall and my girl LOVES the extra wattage! 4/1- I'm letting the Strawberry Cheesecake Auto tell me what she needs now. I'm closely monitoring her (but NOT micro-managing), watering when she show signs of needing it (leaves JUST starting to droop) and nutrients (when her color JUST starts to be not as vibrant). Right now she is doing phenomenally and is STILL putting out new growth at a crazy pace and her vertical growth...WOW! She's recovered fully from the two branch breaks I caused, then repaired...thank goodness! I also did a little LST on four of her main branches using Engineering Essentials Training Clips which has helped enormously with light penetration through her canopy! When I'm watering her it is with 0.75g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC and I'm watering her pot through the top, allowing time for the medium to slowly absorb it, avoiding any runoff. I also placed the pot riser back under her to avoid the possibility of an anaerobic condition to develop from the bottom of the pot staying wet, which could cause all kinds of issues including Root Rot. This weekend I will top dress each with 2 cups of Wiggle Worm Castings and then water it in with 0.75g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC. I'll run an air pump with air stones in it to oxygenate the water which REALLY helps keep the environment in the medium aerobic, which both the roots and microbes LOVE! When I water in the castings I'll add 2 tbsp. per gallon of Grandma's Unsulfured Molasses to the water which will supercharge the microbes! 4/3- I top dressed her with 2 cups of Wiggle Worm castings and watered it in with 0.50g straight de-chlorinated water to which I added 1/4 tsp/g of Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 400ppm 0.8 EC to really give the medium/microbes a huge boost which will result in one happy Strawberry Cheesecake Auto! 4/5- This morning my girl looked absolutely VIBRANT with beautiful color and leaves all praying! She must have really enjoyed the PK boost from yesterday huh?! When I checked her medium was still fairly moist so I held off with the AM watering and will take a look at her this afternoon and see whether she wants a drink or not...she'll tell me! Thank you so much for following along so far! I hope you'll continue to follow my journey as things will be getting more exciting as the next weeks go by with the Strawberry Cheesecake Auto into flower... Grow Strong! 😎🙏