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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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@XII_XII_EarlyRaver
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Just started week 3. She was given to me from a good friend, I started without a tent and without a decent lamp. Just more for fun but fell in love again, so it got serious fast haha🤑😮💨 When I convinced my girlfriend I started buying sweet stuff!!🤗🤔🤪 Started to buy a tent, lamp, extractor and small fan! This was still in the growth phase (end). When I got the tent and other stuff I put her on 12/12. But unfortunately she has been under a lot of stress so she has fallen behind a bit. But she's going okay now that she's in a stable environment. Can't wait to start a new grow but then the whole process from a seed to a beautiful plant. All credits to XII_XII_MrGreen big tnx mate!!
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@Cannibalgardens
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Well I just can't stop popping beans here we have the seedstockers Purple punch auto flower. I'm excited about this one she is being grown out in a 1 litre container throughout and put into a 50%soil 25%/25% vermiculite perlite mix . The feeding will be done by Gruv Cinagro a 100% organic Canadian company . This is my first auto by this company and I'm ready to see how she does in my set up .. Cheers and thanks for checking out my grow ..
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@HighOhioAn
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Apple strudel has been an amazing auto cannot wait to see how she starts flowing pistol hairs are showing day 35🔥💯
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@Mr_Weeds_Autos
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Boy how these ladies have grown. All 6 ladies at this point are showing trichomes and the flower sites are really starting to bulk up. Girl Scout Cookies # 2 is soooooo frosty it's crazy !!!! Other than keeping the tent clean and making sure they get a watering and feeding each week, these ladies have been effortless to grow. One that has changed is that they seem to a bit more thirstier than usual but thats normal in flower I've heard. Well till next time fellow growers Happy Growing and Enhance Your Life!
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@Salokin
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Gu Guys,
she is continuing to develop as she should, however doesn't seem to be stretching all to much even with lower light intensities. I have therefore decided to push the ppfd to roughly 600 and let her finish her pre flower, no matter if she will fill the entire scrog or not. the roots are bit stained, however, this seems to be nutrient related, no slime or smelly roots thus far and it seems like she is constantly shooting out new ones from the net pot. She is going to be a nice little bonsai bush :)
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@NMGDOC
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Semana del 12 al 18 de abril
Cada día más bonitas. Estoy feliz porque como hay menos humedad ambiental, hay menos humedad en el indoor. Incluso llegando a 43% de humedad, así que me confirmo. La temperatura suele andar por 24-26 grados Celsius así que bien.
Tenía unas 10 hojas dañadas por la mosca negra, así que el 12 de abril apliqué el insecticida tec fort (foto del producto en la semana anterior). Lo apliqué a las 17:00 hrs y a las 22:30 del mismo día no vi ningún bicho. Dentro de 5-6 días volveré a aplicarlo igualmente (1ml por cada litro).
Al menos dos de las cuatro plantas están tomando otro color, así que me conformo.
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@Ganjagrandaddy
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Day 35 flowering: Hi all. We are well onto the flowering periods now amd all the girls are beginning to smell and throw out lots of trichromes . The appearance and colours are also really coming out now for the different phenos is clearly have running. I think i have 3 differing ones on close inspection. #1and 3 are the same but #2and 4 are noticably different so far. #2 has very tightly formed raggy looking style buds and 4 has really open spikey looking ones.They have slightly different node distances too which effects hownthey cluster up.
The colour contrast is slightly different between them too.
The aromas is a fruity sweet one mainly and is starting to come out .
With approx 3 full weeks to go , things will hopefully get swelling up now and adding the weight too. Still only needing the minimum waterings it seems and the wet /dry cycle makes this a very simple grow. The strain has been simple to work with so far and well worth the effort.
Sweet cheese is about a week behind the other girls and is forming up in her natural shape well thensides look measly compared to the trained ladies I am used to working with but her main has some serious potential now. I can see how her main will become the donkey dick that I see on normal grows done natural but sjebhas a lot of leaf to bud at this time , so let's see how it ends up.
be safe and well folks. peace and love
GGD.
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@Weedy_Shepherd
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Buds have all developed and fattened up nicely will start to flush these bad boys later on in the coming weeks prior to the great chop!! I've been smoking the f2's leafs for a while and can honestly say I'm really happy with the flavour profile and resin production.. Am thinking of reveging 1 to keep the genetics alive 😀😀😀 T-14 days 🎉🎉🎉
Just chopped everything down due to space and had a little spyder mite issue at the end.. In all 54 days in flower was a decent amount of time!! Will wait for the final dry w8 and report back!!
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@MOTB666
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Been pretty busy lately but these girls just keep at it. I did go several days with out topping them off this last week, probably only had a gallon left of water in thier buckets when I switched to transition. Only problems is a little bit of light burn and maybe a little bit of pest damage on one of them.
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@DurbanDad
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My little lady is going strong. Not as many colas as I hoped but still some nice tops and very sticky! I think she has about a week or two left. At the very top of the bigger colas the first trichomes start to turn amber but the rest of the plant still has mainly clear trichomes. Still hope for the buds to fatten up a bit and I’ll stay optimistic. So far so good ✌️🏼🍀
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@ButterfliesLittleFarm
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Hello Diary,
Milky Way F1 has completed its second week of flowering, a total of five weeks since the beginning of the vegetation.
Although it is the beginning of the flowering phase, Milky Way F1 is full of flowers that develop really fast.
The shape of the plant is usual, the main cola rises dominantly above the rest of the surrounding branches, which have all reached a similar height.
If all these wounds are filled with flowers, I will be very very pleased.
Some leaves dry up or turn yellow, so I mostly remove all such occurrences.
This week I added supplements to both waterings.
The first time I put the Easy Bloom Booster tablet in 7 liters of water and the second time I added Bio Flowering Booster.
The conditions on the farm are good, the humidity is lower than 50% while the temperature is around 27, 28 degrees.
Here is a quick overview of the week:
30/05/2023 - Day 31.
Watering. I added one Easy Bloom tablet to 7 liters of water and lowered the pH. on 6.0
I watered all three plants with that amount.
02/06/2023 - Day 34.
Watering. This time I added all three components from the Bio Flowering Booster kit. I also watered all three plants in the Box with 7 liters of water.
03/06/2023 - Day 35.
Photo shoot for the end of the 5th week.
Milky Way F1 - 53 cm
That's it for this week. See you soon.
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@CanarianGrow92
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Week 5 already, thats why they call it fastbuds... In no time its harvest time! We had some bugs (trips) running around, i think i took them from outside as i was working on my garden, my outdoor plant is also affected, that happens for being a dirty old man 🤦🤷 but not much we can do now, i tried to clean the leaves a bit and remove some, but i think its better to harvest and clean the room as i dont eant any pesticides on the buds, but for the rest quite ok, we gave aome extra pk and bloom this week so lets see how the plants do next weeks 😁
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@Dunk_Junk
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She's done. Her trichomes are going milky. I want to harvest her earlier rather than later to get the 'high' trippy effect as opposed to the couchlock when there are amber trichomes present.
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@IsseyBukkake
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So we've hit day 49 with the girls!
Everyone seems to be happy.
The 2 little runts are now the biggest in the crop, they're super stretchy and about a week behind in flowering.
I hope to be able to harvest all the plants at once as I plan to dry in my tent, but if I have to do a staggered harvest then, I guess I gotta do it.
Nutes are listed above, everything has been working excellent so far.
(I may be trying different coco nutes next run, as I'm suspecting the H&G set I'm using has contributed to the stretchiness of the girls.)
UPDATE - DAY 51 - 09/01/21
Everything seems to be just fine at this stage in time.
the runts are flowering slowly, so i hope they pick up sometime soon.
1 of the plants(the healthiest since day 1) seems to be a week or so ahead in flower.
I'm still hoping to chop the whole tent down at the same time (Fingers crossed!).
UPDATE - Day 53 - 11/01/21
The girls seem to be happy today.
Pheno type 1 ( plant 1 + 2) - Much more bud production than the rest of the plants.
pheno type 2 (plant 3 + 4) - runts of the litter are now the stretchiest out of the lot
Pheno type 3 (remainder of plants) are inbetween pheno 1 & 2.
I'm still hoping to harvest the majority of the girls at the same time, still have a while to go though :)
Thanks for stopping by!
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😻 Everything looks great!! It's not often that our seedlings pray like this, they couldn't be happier under this MarsHydro..we should of noted last week that all seeds were placed immediately in their final pot (we do transplant autos sometimes, this was more for convenience) ..being a new light we're a little iffy on distance but 24 inches has them pointing skyward (we're keeping a close eye for any buring)..we typically do 18/6 for all autoflowers but thought we'd try 20/4 for a change..we'll update again midweek..thanks for reading if you made it this far and happy harvests everyone!! ❤️💡🌱😽💨
⚡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 ⌛
Veg Coverage: 3 x 5 ft 🌱
Flowering Coverage: 2 x 4 ft 🌼
Weight: 10.1 lbs (4.6kg)
-Uses an aluminum heatsink (no fan) and the driver can be removed to be placed outside the tent 🌡️⬇️
-IP65 waterproof ratings, tolerant to high humidity grow environments 💦 ..
-Up to 30 of these lights can be daisy-chained together and controlled from a single light! 💡~💡~💡~💡~💡
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