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@TheCannaProphet
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~ FastBuds PAPAYA SHERBET Photoperiod~
Well here we go on another journey together through 'Canna-land' and this one's kinda special... forget that, it's VERY special because this is FastBuds newest surprise for the community, a FEMINIZED PHOTOPERIOD STRAIN!🤯
I was fortunate enough to score these seeds, of which only 1000 were available and can't wait to see what this strain can do! This Papaya Sherbet, according to FastBuds, is a hybrid with a 9-10 weeks flowering period. For a more detailed and accurate description of this strain the following from FastBuds says it best:
"Combining the massive stature of Papaya (Oni Selection) with the strength and resilience of one of our best keeper cuts (Sunset Sherbet), this strain develops into a big, expansive bush adorned with numerous bud sites that later transform into a generous harvest of medium-sized buds. Papaya Sherbet flowers deliver a signature flavor of premium cannabis with subtle citrus undertones that emerge upon inhaling. During growth, her aroma makes for a sweet yet pleasantly bitter fragrance, giving you an idea of what the smoke will taste like. Notably stress-resistant, Papaya Sherbet is a great choice for growers working in challenging environments. She is very forgiving and rebounds quickly from any adversity, allowing growers the freedom to experiment with confidence that she will take everything like a champion she is. This strain embodies resilience, flavor, and abundant yields in every grow cycle."
Sounds like an epic strain and I personally cannot wait for this lady to strut her stuff!😍
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The Setup:
This is going to be an outdoor grow, but I have started the Papaya Sherbet photoperiod indoors as our weather is still a bit too chilly to put a newly sprouted seedling outside (nighttime temp's dipping regularly into the 40's℉).
The plan is simple... let her grow inside under a 19/5 light schedule until the nighttime temperatures are in the mid 50's℉, which shouldn't be long. After which, she'll be moved outside and transplanted into the soil which I have already setup and inoculated with beneficial microbes from BioTabs and slow release dry amendments from Gaia Green. Once she's established herself outside she'll be given periodic top dressings of Gaia Green 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 along with worm castings and Compost Tea's. Her grow area is approx. 5'x5' and I have posts and a trellis net set up already for when she gets bigger to aid in training her. Let the fun begin!🤪💚
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Weekly Updates:
5/31- Week 4 from seed and the FastBuds Papaya Sherbet photoperiod is doing a lot better now that she's going through a growth spurt!
The leaf chewing has mostly subsided now since I have been spraying Neem Oil on her every 2-3 days. She's also beginning to increase in height about an inch per day now and has great color and vigor.
6/2- Yesterday I top dressed the Papaya Sherbet with 2 cups of Gaia Green 4-4-4, 1 cup of Down to Earth Bio Fish along with 1/2 gallon of worm castings. After top dressing and working the amendments into the soil by hand, I watered it in via garden hose with straight well water.
6/4- It rained hard yesterday, so I skipped watering the FastBuds Papaya Sherbet photo today as the ground was still pretty wet.
6/6- The last two days have been sunny and warm so I watered the Papaya Sherbet photo with straight well water from the garden hose today.
Another week gone by for the FastBuds Papaya Sherbet photoperiod and I'm looking forward to next week, as well as the weeks that will follow to see how this lady progresses!
Thank you for checking out my diary, your positive comments and support make it all worthwhile! 💚Growers Love!💚😎🙏
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@QixxGrows
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Day29: New sets of leaves. I'll repot and switch to proper Veg Lights on the weekend.
Day30: I'll repot tomorrow.
Day31: Repotting done. She had a crazy amount of roots in the seedling pot. MUCH more than I expected. I switched to Veg lights at 90% power.
Day32: Settling in new pot
Day33 & 34: I had to perform some maintenance on the tent. Lost some hours due to that.
Day35: Growth really looking healthy. Although she's not really stretching high, she does look rather happy. I do like them thicc ;)
General: I need to put the camera somewhere else so that the growth can be better seen. Right at the end I'll edit out the white flashes. They're caused by the humidifier running and will be really easy to cut out without losing the gist of the grow :)
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@MicroHidroGrow
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Esta por empezar el engorde final. Ya las flores estan casi formadas. La altura está al límite total. Uno o dos centímetros más y estaría en problemas de verdad. El engorde de muchas flores ya es notorio, pero creo que el uso de un bioestimulante que no es de primera línea, ha reducido el potencial de las plantas. De todos modos hasta no tener el resultado final no puedo afirmar nada.
La solución de esta semana fue cargada con más pk booster para ver cómo funciona la linea de greenhouse en esta etapa. Suelo usar pk 13/15 de canna. Pero esta vez puse el que tenía. Seguiré actualizando.
Día 31. Se nota mucho el engorde. Las hojas muestran pequeños signos de sobre fertilización, pero nada grave que no haya visto antes. Me suele pasar en esta semana en todos los cultivos en hidroponia. Pero las veces que ko me pasó, no tuve el engorde deseado. Por eso manejo mediciones de PPM superiores 1000. Se empieza a ver cuáles van a ser los cogollos más grandes, pero sigo con incertidumbre sobre cuanto más van a engordar. Estoy bastante conforme al momento. Hoy tuve contacto con plantas macho, pero me cambié toda la ropa antes de acercarme al indoor y le lavé. Además no sé si sumará, pero me rocío en alcohol cada vez que entro a casa, así que espero no tener problemas. Ya voy a ir preparando los esquejes para la próxima siembra. Quizá no logre sacar 10 de las madres que tengo. Pero quizá ponga menos y los haga crecer más tiempo y con bastante LST. Pero será en otro protecto. Por ahora espero que siga el engorde.
Día 33. Ya el engorde es un hecho. Por el momento estoy bastante satisfecho. La solución se concentró demasiado así que tuve que agregar agua. Pero más allá de algunos signos de sobre fertilización mínimos y pasajeros en las hojas, la plantas se muestran saludables y firmes. Todavía sigo buscando la posibilidad de agregar overdrive la semana que viene. Todo está por verse. Ya puedo asegurar que va a haber una séptima semana de floración, sino debería empezar el lavado en 2 días, cosa que a la vista, sería muy apresurado. Así que seguiré esperando a ver las flores con los pistilos más secos. Entre tanto los tricomas ya están formados, pero recién van a empezar la maduración en unos días. No saco foto porque el celular no hace buen foco con la lupa, pero ya intentaré mas adelante.
Día 35. Cierra la semana con una buena idea de lo que van a ser los cogollos. Según el calendario de la planta, debería empezar el lavado esta semana, ya que sería la última. Pero por la madurez de los tricomas, todavía le faltan entre 10 días y 2 semanas más. Así que se viene otra semana de sobrecarga de PK y voy a aumentar la dosis para aprovechar a medir el nivel de tolerancia de la planta a altos niveles producto. Al ser hidroponia y trabajar con el ambiente bastante controlado, confío en que voy a poder aplicar correctivos a tiempo, si empiezo a notar defasajes bruscos.
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@SteffenX
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18.10.2024
very humid and little sun on the west side
21.10.2024 day 187
Beautiful sunny day, then powdery mildew discovered and started the 3rd harvest.
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@TheBrazilianGuy
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8th week!
The plant has a slight guava scent, very interesting!
Nice growth rate and no problems so far.
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@CANNASIM
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------GENERAL COMMENT------
Flush time, within the end of this week is now flush time.
To summary this week i just kept on my feeding habits, Water with base > Water with boosters, alternating Recharge.
My led seams to be crashing a bit, the colors are not stable as is possible to see in the timelapse.
Trichomes are mostly cloudy, with a slight amber. 9 weeks flowering time will be exact, just need time to flush, they are maturing fast fast, hairs are getting orange in a blink.
------GG.AK47 COMMENT------
Compared to the Blueberry the nugs are thinner, still nice size, a bit less dense, thru the stems there are many popcorn buds, that is also due to the less removal on this girl to test. Loaded with colas and the scent is very sugary too, a bit stronger than the BB, and the hairs are turning orange faster, starting to look very mature. Defoliated a bit to avoid rot, will defoliate more for this reason.
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@TheBulldozerSicily
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Lunedi 5/12/2022
8 lt demineralizzata 800ml rubinetto ec 335
Aggiungiamo 18 ml APT 9 ml enzimi ¾ cucchiaino silicate 8 g megabud
ottendo Ec 1760 Ph 6.3
Mercoledi 7/12/2022
8 lt demineralizzata 800ml rubinetto ec 325
Aggiungiamo 18 ml APT 9 ml enzimi ¾ cucchiaino silicate 8 g megabud
ottendo Ec 1833 Ph 6.3
Giovedi 8/12/2022
8 lt demineralizzata 800ml rubinetto ec 298
Aggiungiamo 18 ml APT 9 ml enzimi ¾ cucchiaino silicate 8 g megabud
ottendo Ec 1873 Ph 6.3
Sabato 10/12/2022
8 lt demineralizzata 800ml rubinetto ec 301
Aggiungiamo 18 ml APT 9 ml enzimi ¾ cucchiaino silicate 8 g megabud
ottendo Ec 1867 Ph 6.3
Domenica 11/12/2022
8 lt demineralizzata 800ml rubinetto ec 337
Aggiungiamo 18 ml APT 9 ml enzimi ¾ cucchiaino silicate 8 g megabud 4 ml calmagpro
ottendo Ec 2093 Ph 6.2
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@Trismegistus456
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Got a good bit of males out of the lot but the females were def worth the wait.
Def some og traces in smell and has a floral taste in the test batch with a little gsc baked cookie and sweetness. Something worth pulling out on occasion not every day.
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@timbarin
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Week 4/10 - 11/10
The plant dried up very nicely and no more eggs. She was moved back to her grow place and my gf topped her on Monday. Due to the excessive nitrogen she is getting only additives
6/10 she got only additives today.
7/10 steady growth is happy growth..
9, 10 she was fed amazing growth
11/11 closing the week with a video of the progress.
Catch up next week!
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@Tropical_Growerz
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Hi, the plants are growing really well overall.
The West Coast OG is still quite short, and one GorillaZ is lagging behind the others.
So far, so good.
Feel free to share your experiences so I can improve.
Thanks to everyone who's watching my work.
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@HeitorLeao
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Day 23 of flowering.
They are still suffering from trips attack. Did a last EM5 foliar spray today.
They receive almost every day 1ml/l from Flowermind, 2 time a week 5ml/l from a banana fermented fertilizer, and 1 time a week 10% of the dosage of a flowering mineral fertilizer.
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@Kosta_boy16
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Put on a bit of size this week
Water res dropping at least 8 litres every 4-5 days spiking ppm , warm temps 30 -35 degree during day , seems to be coping propped lid up and angled plant to give other bud sites some light , will def do lst scrog next time around
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@Hoodoo
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2020-06-13 Going heavier on nutrients now, I went too high with my initial amount. After pH, it was a whopping EC=2200!! Too much for these ones. I had to dilute this weeks nutrition down, so I have to estimate the nutrition levels as I had to add water and pH it. I started with a whopping 7.6 mL/Liter but probably ended up with about 6.5 mL/gallonI EC=1800/ now keep calimagic constant at 3.79 mL/gallon to help buffer the solution and keep the solution stable. The additional calimagic has stopped the spread of the rust spots and new leaves are a lighter green and have stopped turning dark! Success.
2020-06-14 Thinking about doing the last topping and LST session this week and then transitioning to bloom. Thoughts on that? I have them on a 'transition feed' right now that is very nutrient dense! Started about 950 ppm for the healthier looking plant. The 2nd plant is still getting slightly less nutrients but the magnesium deficiency hasn't appeared in the newest growth.
Roots are growing crazy amounts every day! You can see that the 2nd bucket plant started making tons of roots out of the side of the bucket again. Nice to see the bounce back once given adequate nutrition. I have reduced expectations for that plant but it was definitely a lesson in how to prepare and interpret feeding schedules AND how your plant is reacting to them.
2020-06-15 Did some light defoliating today, removing a lot of the lower fan leaves and sucker branches/growth tips... Going to veg for the rest of the week and then change both over to flower.
2020-06 19 Day before nutrient change, they are growing too fast now!! ahhhh!!
2020-06-20 Day of nutrient change! Took them out of the grow tent while I swapped out the buckets.
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@Colo420
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Las vacaciones complican tealizar el seguimiento de manera prolija, pero ahí seguimos.
Aclaro nuevamente que 2 de las plantas (fancy) estan en periodo 12/12 hace 15 días.
El resto está esperando que baje un poco la temperatura para transplantar a exterior y comenzar floración.
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@BudMunchies
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03/23/25:
I’m very pleased with the progression of this grow so far. All five plants are showing consistent and vigorous growth, and each one has maintained the same level of vigor and size relative to the others since sprouting. This consistency is a good early sign of genetic stability and uniform structure, which will help with canopy management as we move further into veg.
At this point, each plant is developing its 4th and 5th nodes, which is a key marker in early vegetative growth. Once the 5th node is fully established, I’ll consider topping or training, depending on the growth structure and the phenotype expression of each plant.
After removing the humidity domes last week, I noticed that the first set of true leaves—which had been sitting in high humidity—developed browning on the edges. This is a common reaction when leaves are exposed to open air after having retained too much surface moisture.
Fortunately, this issue was limited to the oldest leaf set. All new growth has adjusted perfectly to the environment inside the tent, showing healthy development and no further signs of stress.
The plants’ deep green color indicates that they are receiving sufficient nitrogen, which is essential during this stage of growth.
Additionally, some of the larger fan leaves are beginning to curl slightly inward, which may look concerning at first, but is actually a natural response to airflow. The plants are adjusting to the oscillating fan in the tent—modifying their leaf shape to be more aerodynamic. This airflow helps:
• Strengthen stem tissue through gentle mechanical stress
• Promote root zone development as the plant adjusts its internal resource allocation
• Increase resilience to environmental fluctuations
So far, no roots are visible at the bottom of the starter pots, but I expect them to show in the next couple of days. As soon as they do, I’ll transplant each plant into 1-gallon AirPots.
AirPots encourage rapid root pruning and horizontal expansion, which leads to more efficient nutrient uptake and a healthier root system.
Once the transplant into AirPots is complete, I’ll provide a full update along with new photos showing their root development, new environment, and how they respond post-transplant.
Everything is looking on track, and I’m excited to see how each of these phenotypes continues to express themselves over the next phase.
03/25/25:
Today I relocated all five plants from the 2x2 seedling tent into their permanent home: the 4x4 AC Infinity grow tent. This is an important environmental shift, so I’m allowing the plants some time to adjust before making any further changes like transplanting.
They’re now sitting under the AC Infinity S44 grow light, which is currently set to 20% power. The light is positioned 24 inches (approximately 61 cm) above the canopy. According to my budget PAR meter, the plants are receiving around 350 PPFD, which is a safe and effective intensity for young vegging plants still acclimating to their new space.
Although the original plan was to transplant them into 1-gallon AirPots around this time, I’ve decided to delay that by a couple of days. Environmental shifts—like new lighting, airflow patterns, and spatial layout—can stress young plants, so I want to give them time to adjust before introducing transplant stress.
This move also gave me a chance to set up the AC Infinity AI+ Controller, which I won in a contest last year (huge thanks to AC Infinity).
So far, my first impressions are positive:
• Setup was just as smooth as their other controllers.
• It’s already doing a great job managing the environment passively.
• I haven’t explored all of its automation features yet, but I’m excited to see how much precision it can offer, especially for managing VPD and dialing in climate conditions throughout veg and flower.
Once the plants have had time to settle into the new environment, I’ll transplant them into their 1-gallon AirPots and provide a full update with photos.
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@Jardineiro_Br
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UUma grata surpresa a evolução dessa planta, cada dia mais cheia de botões por todo.o caule, criando uma espécie de botão gigante . O aroma tbem é muito bom cítrico e doce.
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@Pistachios
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Despite so hot outside flowers are doing okey , I over watered for 2/3 days so I took out the flowers out the tent for 6/8 hours to allow better ventilation .
