The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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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:
8/19- Week 2 of flower is here for the FastBuds Papaya Sherbet photoperiod and she is looking fantastic!
Our weather has finally cooled down and the daylight has dropped to just over 13 hours now.
8/21- My daily watering campaign continues with me giving the Papaya Sherbet 5-8 gallons of well water from the garden hose.
8/23- Luckily, with it's wide node spacing, there's not a lot to do with the Papaya Sherbet at this point except to keep her watered! She has not required any thinning out and has had only a few lower leaves turn yellow, which I promptly remove. Overall, this lady is a dream to grow, requiring little to no effort or maintenance!
8/25- There's the second week of flower on the books for the FastBuds Papaya Sherbet photoperiod and I have great expectations for how this fine looking lady is going to turn out, as she has exceeded all my expectations so far!
Thank you for checking out my diary, your positive comments and support make it all worthwhile! 💚Growers Love!💚😎🙏
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@Lazuli
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One of the best smelling plants ive had wow what a terpenes, its like bubblegum
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@GREENPHOENIX6262
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Week 7 - 08/11 - Topped most of the plant so far - LST tied down all main colas - Had an issue with the PH - has since been neutralized - clean water feeds for the next 2 weeks - prepping for transplant into 7 gallon pot.
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@DjHairy
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This was my second grow ever. I started with a blueberry headband seed from a bud I got from the dispensary. This strain was very easy to grow and very forgiving. Final product had some seeds but wasn’t too bad.
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@cookingwithninja
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day 42 images are in last week, I can not count XD. bridal is stacking a lot of weight and is constantly shifting/leaning every morning, good things. I would chop any day but I will wait it out. water, tiny bit of humic and folvic to reduce chloromine, chlorine- air stones
day 45 took a few nugs off on day 42, dried for 3 days. Tried bridal and blackberry. As a heavy recreational, thc is up there! bridal felt like having a blindfold over your eyes somewhat sativa uplift but heavy weight feelings. Very good. Lasted as good as 30%'s. Dr. Thunder was also very nice, nug was smaller so mixed with blackberry to have a small j. Also feels very good indica. Both trials were chopped on week 6 day 1. Very pleased with the results. I was worried bridal was more sativa; which charasteristica I am not looking for. So I believe this is a very good heavy hitter run with 4 plants. I can chop any day, but I am waiting for pink paradise to finish seeds.
day45 took top nugs from bridal party, blackberry oreo bigstuff and dr. thunder. No touching pink paradise!!
day 46 can chop anytime just waiting on pink paradise seeds to finish, bridal party leaning more
day 47 bridal leaning hard from weight.
day 48 stacking, day 48 video
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@ROY4L_GU4RD
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Happy 4th everyone 🎆. I just returned from a 4 day family trip to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. I love that place and we had a lot of fun.
The girls are doing great. I filled the reservoir before I left and it's was 1/4 remaining when I returned. That's one big advantage using the auto pots. If i was manual watering, i would be able to miss watering them more than a day.
The posted pictures are 7 days from the last week photos. I also took a couple videos.
With this being the beginning of week 5, I increased my bloom to 12ml per gallon. It's usually 9ml. I also increased my koolbloom from 3ml to 5ml per gallon. I'll go back to 9 and 3 on week 6. Thanks for looking and till next week 🙌 😀
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@Kitties_and_Colas
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Week 8 and the smell is unbelievable..the name suits this strain well..its extremely sweet ,kinda like grape soda syrup and gases the entire room every time the tent is opened..all plants are caked in frost..
We checked trichomes last week nearly all were still clear but the density is amazing.. these are still showing slight signs of nutrient burn with little change from a week of water so we'll give it another and then one last heavy feeding to finish the grow out with water..
I can't wait to smoke my first bowl of this stuff..the pictures don't do it justice, I know its going to be out of this world...thanks as always for dropping by and happy harvests everyone!! ❤️🌱
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@Funkyfreshgreens
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More defoiliation. lower half of both plants almost striped.
Banana blaze almost finished alot of amber appearing :) 3ish weeks maybe. Without 2 pot changes and some issues this might have be ready now. smell has become more potent can't wait to smoke.
More defoiliation on the orange bud this week hopefully see improvements nxt wk. Main colas looking thick
Both plants got 500ml of feed this week with orange bud getting watered once 300ml with 1ml alg a mic.
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@Hempface86
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Another week in veg.. she's patiently waiting her turn to get into the other tent where she can start producing fruits ... i'm hoping for a good one with this and I have a feeling it will be.. Thanks again to @Grow4releaf... God bless and happy growing ✌️
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@LoganatorDude
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Training methods include the several weeks I missed. As of this week no training.
Morning Glory- 35.5” Tall
Mexican Haze (in-ground)-40” Tall
Mexican Haze- 33” Tall
Love Drunk- 25” Tall
Ackbar OG- 26.5” Tall
Crazy Glue- 38” Tall
The nutrients used are from a once a week ordeal. Normally it’s just tap water.
I still need to update the info on the other two Love Drunks as well as the Fruity Pebbles.
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@BigBadLion
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Hey all!
Sorry for the delay!
And this is it, the last week! Pistachio was cut a little earlier than Matcha because I wanted to give her a little more extra time to allow her to mature a little more, but sadly I couldn't give her too much time since most of her trichomes were already starting to oxidise (which might sound appealing to some, but not so much for me). Still, I think the time given was enough!
Thanks to semi-flush I gave to my girls I also managed to see what was happening to Matcha! The poor girl was suffering for so long!
Anyway, my next update will contain the harvest information regarding my ladies!
Thanks!
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@Ganjagrandaddy
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Day 42 Flowering: Hi all. Here we are past the halfway point and close to seeing some finished Fast Buds nugs. They have been starting to brown off the 1st pistols on most of the colas but the Six Shooter both look like they will be finished 1st. With the different growing styles used on them leading to different structures, it will be interesting to see which yields the most. The #2 has lots of nice forming shaggy looking tops and the #1 has more natural long colas.
The Mexican airline are similar to each other but # 1 is less advanced into flower I think. They have browning pistils but the # 2 is way chunkier and.developed .
What can I sat about rhe Strawberry pie that the video doesn't show ?. Wow this strain is a nice grower. The buds are nice and large with a fresh appeal to them even as they ripen. They are a 9 week (63 days) flowering strain so with so long to keep fattening and developing , I can only imagine their bounty of colas to come very soon. Well done fast buds
The fc3000 is doing a brilliant job and hasn't skipped a beat so far. The canopy has been so uneven and hard to please the needs usually but this has not held anything back now. The penetration is excellent and has helped develop some amazing buds not in direct light too. Roll on harvesting these amazing plants. Be safe and well growmies
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@Ferenc
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Day 72, 21st of November 2020:
Hi! Wao this is what I can say and luckily stoppe streching....
All LST has been removed as the plants remain the same so no need to keep them in "chains".
Those Original Sensible girls 3 of them (Gelato, Runtz Gum, Do-Si-Dos OG)went crazy, except Black Ghost OG she did not strech much typical little indica lady. And the THC crystals alrady on the leaves on the Runtz Gum and Do-Si-Dos OG just simply beautiful.
Buds are coming getting thick they are gorgeous only I can see some some sort of deficiency on Do-Si-Dos OG a bit on some leaves.
The fertilization schedula isnthe same every 2nd day and happens with the mix and ratio above.
Wedding Gelato is beautiful also I hope the nice purple colour will come out as well in late flowering stage. :)
The lamp is on 11.30 min and off 12.30 min.
Last week was 15 min longer light cycle....
So every week 15 min shorter light cycle until the 5th week. So far -30 min. It switches on at 6 am and off at 17.30 pm.
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@BAM_BAM
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WE HAVE MITES. I was looking at trichomes and I saw one walking. It looks like they are not spider mites but they are eating the leaves……. I bought predator mites they last 2-3 weeks I will take them out next week so they can die and they can get washed in the trim process.
The Sensi bloom I powder so I am feeding 6.1 grams in the solution. This solution is about 11 Liters per day. The buds are exploding. You can see them pop daily with this overdrive. It is truly the magic in the end the buds get super hard, and THICK.
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@pifflestikkz
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Day 57
26/08/24 Monday
Feed today using de-chlorinated tap water pH 6. No plagron products as noticed burning again.
(I think I'll do a run using advanced. And Plagron. Just to see what's different. )
There all showing great progress!!
Divine seeds - auto Overdose, the main bud is so compact and dominant it looks great!
The rest are performing well, did a decent fanning of lower two fans that started to turn in colour.
Apart from that left them to it ✌️💚
Day 59
28/08/24 Wednesday
De-chlorinated tap water pH 6 only today, 400ml with little to no run off.
Day. 61
30/08/24 Friday
Another feed today using de-chlorinated tap water pH 6 with Plagron products.
Picture and videos coming tonight 🤯👀✌️💚
Day 63
01/09/24 Sunday
(End of week)
De-chlorinated tap water pH 6 today with calmag.
Notes on plant structures , bud structures, leaf density.
- Auto critical orange punch -
Xmas tree shape, main colar nice and thick. Side arms - doing with LST next time would provide more decent tops.
Strong structure, big fans, but bud to leaf ratio is high! Compact ball shaped buds so far.
- Orange Bud - she Climbs! Tall, Long structure, I would top this strain next time, with LST next time again she would provide alot more tops.
She has an even leaf to bud ratio, but the buds look fire already and there only just forming! Getting hues of blue on calyxes. Taller buds.
- Auto Melonade Runtz -
Another Xmas tree shape, ideal for LST, main colar bud is impressive, she just wants to stack.
Leaf to bud ratio is even again, bud the buds are forming tall, with pistils firing everywhere.
- Auto Overdose
Wow, compact short autoflower, with a powerful punch! She is dense!!
Fanse are even, thick, and balanced.
Leaf to bud, even.
Bud formations - dense boulders already, like mini hedgehogs. I would definitely do a SOG with these 🤩
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@Growdaddy727
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Stacking wonderfully. Starting to fade a bit. Candy Bubatz supposed to take 9-10 weeks but not there yet. Very sticky. Harvest coming soon. My 1st grow is coming to an end. Hopefully I make it
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@GERGrowDesigns
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Welcome to Flower Week 9 and harvest of Fast Buds Papaya Sherbet
For this Project , I’ve chosen the Feminized Photo strain Papaya Sherbet :
Here’s what I’m worked with:
• 🌱 Tent: 120x60x80
• 🧑🌾 Breeder Company: Fast buds
• 💧 Humidity Range: 35
• ⏳ Flowering Time: 58 Days
• Strain Info: 30%THC
• 🌡️ Temperature: 26
• 🍵 Pot Size: 16l
• Nutrient Brand: Narcos
• ⚡ Lights : 600W x 2
A huge thank you to Fast Buds for allowing me to try my Best with this amazing collection from Automatic and Photo Strains they managed to Sponsore . Big thanks for supporting the grower community worldwide! Your genetics and passion speak for themselves!
Let’s grow together – and don’t forget to stop by again to see the latest updates!
Happy growing!
Stay lifted and stay curious!
Peace & Buds!
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@Mo_Powers
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she is doing well for the outdoor conditions in germany. she had her first week of sunshine. but we can't talk about fast here yet ;) the next few days will unfortunately be very rainy again. i switched from biobizz-grow to biobizz-fish for the fertiliser. she will continue to get root fertiliser from canna.