Well here we go into Week Nine and the Sixth Week of flower! ππWith Ten weeks of initial growth behind her now, the Seedsman Strawberry Cheesecake Auto is doing fantastic stacking her flowers and, being a 12 week strain, still has a week or two left in her! 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! ππ
~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.
5/3- Here we go Week Nine...This girl's is packed, stacked and ready to attack!...almost. She has some huge cola's that are so sticky with a thick coating of trichomes! She smells very earthy with a cheesy funk that I'm stoked about! I'm checking her trichomes daily and she does not have far to go!
Today she was watered and fed with 1g of de-chlorinated water with Fox Farms Cha Ching @ 0.5 tsp/g, Fox Farms Big Bloom @ 3 tsp/g, Fox Farms Tiger Bloom @ 2 tsp/g and Fox Farms Bembe @ 3 tsp/g. I then ph'd to 6.5 @ 1.4 EC
5/5- Yesterday was a dry out day after her heavy water/feed the previous day. Today I watered/fed her with 1g of de-chlorinated water with Fox Farms Cha Ching @ 0.5 tsp/g, Fox Farms Big Bloom @ 3 tsp/g, Fox Farms Tiger Bloom @ 2 tsp/g and Fox Farms Bembe @ 3 tsp/g. I then ph'd to 6.5 @ 1.4 EC. I'll be transitioning her to straight water with Fox Farms Sledgehammer added to flush her in the next few days.
I'm turning her pot 1/4 turn daily and she's getting 4 hours a day of supplemental UVA via the HLG 650R's additional UV Bar I added to it which is currently at 32" above canopy.
'Daytime tent temp's in the Gorilla 4x8 are running 77β and down to 58β while the light is off. RH is steady @ 50-55% and the co2 levels at canopy height are running 700-1000ppm's.
5/7- Yesterday I let her dry out. Today I watered her with 1g de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72β with Fox Farms Sledgehammer added @ 2 tsp/g to ensure that there are no pockets of nutrient salts built up in the medium. I also checked her trichomes and gave her pot a 1/4 turn.
5/9- Well this Strawberry Cheesecake Autoflower from Seedsman is, for the most part, done! She's listed by Seedsman as a 12-13 week strain, that's a suggested harvest time, but each cultivar differs. The heads of her trichomes are 90% milky now, with the other 10% either translucent or amber, her fade is looking good and all the pistils on her flowers have withered and are now a dark orange or red so tonight she'll be taken out of the 4x8 to enjoy 2-3 days in the dark to get that last burst of trichome production in gear, then she' be hung to dry! I can't wait to see what this girl yields...Can you?! ππ
5/10- I checked her trichomes today and decided it was time for her to go dark for a couple of days! It was really obvious that she was ready when I opened the tent this morning and she had a pronounced white appearance to her form all of the milky trichomes covering her!
5/14- I had her in the dark for four whole days as I got busy with multiple harvest going on all at once. Today she came out of the dark, gat a few pic's shot of her, than was chopped at her base and hung whole in my 4x4 to dry for 12-14 days.
My next entry will be for the harvest, she'll be getting hung to dry and then we'll see how much of her stickiness I end up with so stay tuned!
~Thank you so much for following along! I hope you'll continue to follow my journey through harvest, final results and my review of this Seedsman's Strawberry Cheesecake Auto run... Grow Strong! ππ~
@MrHightimes, I just happen to be partnered with Seedsman on my IG account and we're doing a Giveaway from March 7-20th for a 3pk each of their Auto Fem Strawberry Cheesecake and Blue Dream strains, three winners will be picked. ππ