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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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@420Consinc
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----- WEEK 9 -----
----- Day 57 -----
Easy day of watching.
Just 1 pic today so far. not much reason to go downstairs to take a pic yet. Glookies is turning Purple on sugar and fan leaves now.
Harvest is very soon. I'd wager within 7 days now just going to depend on the High I get off tester nugs.
***Update***
I destroyed the trellis and took em out for some pics and vids.
Trichs = Tropicana is ready Tuesday, Wedding Cake probably Friday or within that weekend.
----- Day 58 -----
Last couple days.
Fed about 30ml of Cal/Mag and 30ml of Molasses.
Wanted to just keep the photosynthesis process and the plant in general alive for reveg. Was getting a bit too yellow for my liking.
Harvest soon.
----- Day 59 -----
Harvested Tropicanna Glookies today
Deleted this week by accident trying to make it a harvest week, so remade it.
Will add harvest week once plants are dry and tester has been smoked to give proper info
Put some more photos in. Basically the tent is 4 feet wide and the ruler is 12 inches long from bottom of duct tape
Really loving the colors of this plant.
------ Day 60 -----
Fed only the Wedding Cake - 5-10ml of Calimagic and 20ml of molasses (NO Liter level marked or PPM or PH, i could cut today its done but im just maturing the trichs)
Tropicanna Glookies is a friggin BEAUTIFUL strain.
Moved the Wedding Cake in the tent so largest nugs are furthest away from light and dropped light from 1000w to 600w to save electricity
Chop on Wedding Cake happens at mostly amber trichs. Prob 5-6 days max for that i'll know when I check trichs tonight and update with photo.
----- Day 61 -----
Wedding Cake is about 5% amber... so prob 6 days or so. Slow day today.
----- Day 62 -----
Feeding is today, going to just use some CaliMagic and Molasses again.
Trichs aren't golden yet, so not chop time ... 8-9 weeks is what it is supposed to take, but it's got at least another 5-8+ days until 30-40% amber trichs for Indica couch-lock effect to shine in the Wedding Cake.
Tropicanna could still be going right now, but I did not want more than 5-10% amber gold trichs to prevent a couch-lock effect. This has worked very well. On day 64 I will post a smoke report and full harvest/trim details as Saturday/Sunday is trimming. Will have dry weight results of Tropicanna (per plant, and as a whole).
Tropicanna being sent to lab for full analysis will post results when they arrive (Usually 2-3 weeks after sending sample via mail)
------ Day 63 ------
Nothing to talk about today, slow day. almost done.
*Update*
1 pic, i think it explains everything.
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@GrowGuy97
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Day 7 - 1 plant is a little behind but all In all everything seems to be going great! Thanks for following & happy growing friends!✌️🏼🌱
Day 8 - All is well! Happy growing friends✌️🏼🌱
Day 9 - Ladies got fed today! Still doing good!
Day 10 - Getting bigger🌱🌱
Day 11 - Got water today at 6.5, One is still growing a little slow but overall going great!👍🏼✌️🏼🌱
Day 12- Really hoping the slow one catches up the others are growing quick!
Day 13- Got water today at 6.5 PH, will get fed again Monday!
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@adam_pawloski87
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Let’s go Day 36 !!! This week went real great, girls built up a lot of structure, and stayed super healthy ! Today they got fed just water phd at 6.5 ! They been really loving that balance! I also removed a lot of under trim since we are going into preflower , so had to shave up those legs lol ! It’s really great for them , the love that airflow , but don’t take off too much or you could shock your plants so be careful ! Can’t wait to see what these girls do this week ! Hope you all enjoy an are ready for another amazing productive week ! Peace , Love , an positive vibes to y’all Cheers LetsGrowwww!!! 😶🌫️💨💨💨💨
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@TeamQuality420
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Will be adding a whole lot of notes to the last couple weeks just trying to get all my harvest pictures up :)
This one was a pure treat to grow . I am confident using exotic seeds that they can produce some if the world's best cannabis , hands down .
They all were bushes , not too much stretch in flower at all .
Usually in the first run with a strain I'm just figuring it all out.
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@SelfCultivationGrower
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Stretch is happening smoothly and first bud sights are here and there.
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@CalGonJim
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4/29🐼👍 I gave her about 2 L of water yesterday with a little bit of bud factor X I think about 2 mL into that and I don’t think it needed it but I’m trying it with some other plants and I had good results but that also could have been a result of the way I mixed up my regular general hydroponics nutrients which are my favorite.
5/5 🐼👍🔥💫
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@eldruida_lamota
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Que pasa familia, vamos con la cosecha de estas Gorilla cookies Auto de FastBuds.
Por dónde empezar, es una autofloreciente que es muy fácil de cultivar, tiene un periodo corto de crecimiento y de floración igual no es largo.
En cuanto a la alimentación , pues la aplique una vez por semana y a sido suficiente, se a comportado muy bien en interior, la flor pues no es muy prieta porque no deja de ser una autofloreciente, pero es una flor que está bien explotada y que va repleta de tricomas.
El periodo de luz pues de principio a fin a 18 horas, fue sucficiente para completar el ciclo de vida como esperaba.
Mars hydro:
Code discount: EL420
https://www.mars-hydro.com/
Agrobeta:
https://www.agrobeta.com/agrobetatiendaonline/36-abonos-canamo
Hasta aquí todo, Buenos humos 💨💨💨
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@Kitties_and_Colas
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04/16/22
😻 Week 9 and almost ready for the chop!!! 🐱 ✂️🌱..most of the plants are finally starting to flush out, this will be week 3 of PH water only..1 of the 4 plants is still pretty dark so she's getting an extra gallon every watering. I'd say we still have a few weeks left but we'll inspect trichs again soon be sure. The MarsHydro is killing it! This is only our 2nd grow using this light, if you're hung up on 4x2 lighting, just buy one, they guarantee massive, resin coated buds with minimal effort.. I honestly wish I had discovered it before all our other LED purchases but live and learn ❤️🌱 ... Something interesting to note, the plant with the split main stem has made twice the amount of frost, this is at least the 4th time we've seen split stems lead to this type response..It got us thinking that maybe there's some merit to the nail trick from the 90's but idkl (please comment if you have any information on this) ...it could all be coincidence but it's compelling imo..
..Not too much else to report, its been a great week! Thanks for dropping by and happy harvests everyone!!!
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⚡Mars Hydro/SP-3000⚡ Specifications ⚙️:
Diodes: Samsung LM301B / Osram 660nm (960 total!)
Driver: Meanwell 300watt 🔌 (300W±5% @AC120V-277V)
PPF: 824umol/S ☢️
PPE: 2.8 µmol/j 〰️〰️
Lifespan: 50k+ hrs ⌛
Weight: 10.1 lbs (4.6kg)
Veg Coverage: 3 x 5 ft 🌱
Flowering Coverage: 2 x 4 ft 🌼
-The SP-3000 uses an aluminum heatsink (no fan) and the driver can be placed outside the tent 🌡️⬇️
-IP65 waterproof ratings, tolerant to high humidity grow environments 💦 ..
-Up to 15 can be daisy-chained together and all controlled from a single light! 💡~💡~💡~💡~💡
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@Wescoas
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I thought the ladies would have another 2-3 weeks left in veg, but started to notice pistils forming within the last couple of days. So flower will most likely start to begin within the next week, I’m guessing I may see a couple oz per plant come harvest day. Not bad for first time grow & using autos, from what I’ve heard a lot of people do not recommend learning with autos due to how quickly their state can change depending on what you do with them. There are some things I wish now I would have done a bit different within the last couple of weeks, I can’t help but wonder how much bigger they’d be if I did not do any defoliation at all. But I have been combating flies bad and made the call to defoliate mainly for that reason. Started to cut back on veg foods and introduce flower foods and sugars to their diet. Humidity levels still at a steady decrease, aiming to have humidity down in the 30s come flower time. Will be going on vacation for a week soon, so fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong. Will be having a good friend of mine come by every couple of days to FaceTime me and make sure everything is handled as well as possible when the time comes.
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@Dmoney6970
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Harvested after week 8.
Very pleased with this strain easy to grow and oh boy did she turn out massive.
Big huge soda can sized buds all over.
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@LiamF
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So after 106 days + 11 days drying im finally done with my first grow.
Got 97g dry buds + 30g shake
Way more then i anticipated.
Alot of the buds are pretty airy but the top ones qre pretty solid and all of them have amazing coat of trichomes.
Im so greatful i had this experience. I learnt alot and have way more confidence to grow more and my plan was to have my first grow to anwser all the questions i had.
Im cant believe i spent less then 300$ on this setup and harvested equals to like 1,500 - 1,700 $ of buds(prices in my country) thats definitely going to help me with the economy situation right now. And all this was stealth inside my closet, i had family members comming and didn't notice nothing i just had to turn off the blower fan since it's the only thing in my setup which isn't stealth.
I know i didn't gave her the best conditions but she showed me how strong is a Cannabis plant 😍
Im just starting my 2nd grow - Auto Northen Lights. Stay tuned
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@bigsmoke42069
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Week 7 of flower 9/20/24
Changed the nutrients on 9/23/24 to fit the ripening stage.
Using FinalPart with ProBloom EC 1.3, PH 6-6.2.
Checking runoff PH and EC daily (EC 1.25, PH 5.2).
Using H2O2 with every watering (to help the PH stabilize at 5.5-6.5 range if there is a root problem).
Plant seems happy and not showing necrosis/nutrient burn problems.
Hand watering ones a day at the beginning of the light schedule.
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@422Grows
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Stretching more and more out. 🕸️🍀
The first long white hairs started to appear.
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@DrBud420
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17.05.
I don't have anything special to say, of course the weather is terrible... it's 6-7 at night, 15-16 during the day, so they're inside... the temperature inside is 20-21 during the day, at night from 15 to 17 when it's this cold...
the plants were exactly 3 weeks old yesterday, today they entered the fourth week and most likely they will wait inside for the fifth week as well because the weather is terrible and there is no point in transplanting yet.
Stay High!
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@Wilstang
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Shout-out to the award winning Spliff Seeds for the amazing opportunity to test there phenomenal strains. This one of a kind company has so much to offer from great customer service to unique one of a kind strains. They have many top notch new and classic seeds to choose from. It's an honor to grow this seed 🌱💪
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@Mr_nugs_lover_David
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This lady has been Transplanted on day 39 since she was planted and she will be grown with the complete biotabs organic line, I have applied for this 50L pot: 25g of startrex for every 5L of soil so I've used 250g of startrex in total, then I've dropped a spoon of mycotrex in the planting hole and when I finished I finally added 5 slow release tabs for this 50L pot, and then I watered right after the transplant with 1g of bactrex per liter of water and 1ml/L of orgatrex, this is gonna be a fun season, stay tuned everybody!!
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@420_Vamp
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Smoke smell in curing jars.
All have a peculiar smell. Sweet but not strong. When buds taken out no smell on collectively that they have a smell.
Smoke it self is very very smooth the flushing must of done it good that's an assumption but the smoke it's grey/white a tinge of black
The affects are very heavy no paranoia or anything just a good strong indica smoke
RQS have done it again excellent smoke and happy growing I would recommend to anyone.
Only thing is I would recommend to anyone is ALWAYS PH YOUR FEED. Everything must be ph'ed it saves you alot of time and makes sure your girls are catered for.
Perhaps another time I would use rooting enhancement as there wasn't a lot of roots like I was expecting
Happy smoking all
PS.
The light was 240w
So that's 0.44 gram per watt. Probably could of done bette had the small potted one been in a 40L as well.