I really enjoy growing and this strain is one I've spent a lot of time on. This is my largest harvest of Gelato Cake and it was only 1 plant, I have harvested 5 at once and just equaled what this one plant did. I feel really good about it thanks to the GD community for the support and diaries to learn from

Things are really looking up this week! This girls are growing FAST! And my problems are seemingly balancing out. What I did to remedy last weeks issue was let them dry out 3 days, then watered with 6.0 ph dechlorinated water. 2 days after I amended with 4-4-4, 2-8-4, and a bit of mycorhize and have been using 6.0 ph water to bring my soil ph down from almost 7. Today on day 28 I saw first flowering on 2 of the 3 girls 😇 So I have turned my lights up to 100% and pulled them back a few inches so the girls can adjust to the light. I'm stoked with Fastbuds and eager to get to harvest! Thanks for dropping by and God bless.

Loving the tight bud structure on this plus size gurl.. she greasy, drinkin like a fish and F U N K Y fuely ppfd ranging 800-1100

Instead of giving nutrients I gave only water because I noticed some yellow tips on the new growth. The plant had been getting 700ppm feed(including 220ppm tap water). Nutrient buildup in soil? I made the switch to 12/12 today. Since 2 days the new growth has been looking funky - the same corkscrewy thing I had in my first grow. Overall, a lot of trimming, bending, training. It has become a cool plant in my opinion :) Info useful for my question: *6.2-6.4ph water every time *giving water when the soil is dry and lower leaves start to hang a little. but i suspect it is hard to overwater with these airpots *built up nutrients to about 720ppm until last watering

😼Wk15: Surprise! This is the right time. 👉This week’s journal is only the days that lead up to the harvest which happened mid to late in the week. Since the harvest process takes more than a couple days, and it happened late in the week, I will be making one more week with the harvest process after the buds are dried to 20-25% (hopefully) and in jars. I should have all the final specs for the grow. 👉The 1 gallon plan was not even absorbing much fluid. The saturation volume of the media was getting smaller each day it seemed. It would take over 5 minutes to be able to pour 1.5 liters of solution into the pot. The run-off would also end very quickly as compared to all other plants I grew. I surmise this is due to the roots packing the pot and compressing the media very tightly, not allowing it to absorb much solution. The light sweet caramel aroma is now replaced by what I would call the strong generic funky stank of weed. While there is nothing extraordinary about the aroma, it’s so strong that you can smell it outdoors (its vented outside from second story window). Even with, medium to strong winds you can catch whiffs of it. Smells like heaven to me! Super frosty buds. Only a couple buds had any fresh calyx’s with white pistols. During my trichome hunting expeditions I see very few amber. But those are not what Im hunting. Im looking for the majority of the trichomes to be cloudy. I believe by mid-week all the buds had mostly cloudy trichomes with a few clears left. Harvest came on day the 3rd day of the week. 👉The 3 gallon plant was consuming less fluid. It was easy to fertigate it with 3l of water. The EC was spiking very quickly and would not come down very much. The run off would fall back in range but be above target the next fertigation event. I figured it may just be the densely packed roots in the pot. With the pH runoff going in the opposite direction as the 1 gallon plants run-off and I was wondering what was causing the difference. Even though the lowest leaves look a little like the plant was over watered, I continued the high volume of fertigations. I did reduce the EC somewhat. I was giving it week 10 mix on the GHE mix chart for drain to waist mix. The leaves looked crappy, but the buds were looking awesome. The plant had the same light creamy caramel aroma when sniffed up close, but the strong aroma of stanky funk was the permeating odor that filled room. I had only done some light scouting for the trichomes on the plant and each time saw more cloudy tips. I wasn’t sure but by Tuesday the trichomes looked at least 50/50, which is a little further along than I thought it would be. After harvesting the 1 gallon plant I had room to pull the plant out and rotate it and give it an exhaustive scan for a more complete idea of how much time it had. When I rotated it, I didn’t notice it at first. Then I focused on it as the top of a cola was brown and the leaves around it were all dried. “Oh fuck!” I shouted. It was like someone had walked up behind me and jabbed me in the ribs and yelled "BOO"! I was startled and even jumped out of my chair. I then did a double and triple take to make sure my eyes weren’t being grizzled or bent. I then grabbed the branch cutters and took that branch. I searched the cola and it was isolated to the top 3 inches of this fat pine cone. I snipped it below that group of bud and removed it from the house, took it out back in the field and stabbed it, shot it and set it on fire (only in my imagination). I then washed and sanitized my hands, returned to the tent and inspected some of the larger colas, pulling them apart and looking to the center for nasty pestilence. Fortunately I didn’t see any. I didn’t have time to harvest it right then and there, but I did on Friday night. I knew I wasn’t out of danger yet though. These buds are pine cones and very dense. I was afraid Id see the same thing I saw in my Critical purple and lose all the best buds. I wouldn’t know until the harvest was complete, with the buds curing in the jars. 🙀

Girls making really nice buds.. I thought they will die. But they are really strong.. I think I choosed right strain for the first time. Next week I will start adding 4ml/l bloom and 4ml/l top max.💪👌

Into week two all cuttings have taken 8 have been topped, spacers have been deployed to train branches 3cm spacers I will increase the size of spacers once the branches develop a little more. about every 3 days Is required depending on how the strain performs. this is a more creative method of growing with the final picture of your media in mind {peecock effect}. once the media has starched I will snap on the spacers to create the scrog for a level canopy, holding the outer plants left and right further out to the left and right for more light exposure to develop my flowers to there full potential. middle of week 2 I put the spacers together to make the scrog mainly two train the left and right rows of plants outwards for more space in the middle of my canopy.

WEEK 8/5F // D50/29F - D56/35F Die Guava hat es richtig eilig. Von allen Ladys die zusammen stehen ist sie am weitesten vorraus. Die Calyxen fangen an langsam anzuschwellen. Auch der Geruch wird immer süßer. Die eine oder andere Hummel und Biene verirrt sich regelmäßig in den Blüten💚. Die Trichomproduktion ist auch im vollen Gange. Die 38°C Spitze in dieser Woche hat die gute auch ohne Probleme überstanden. Es brauchte nur morgens 1L und dann Mittags nochmal 800ml. Ich schätze mal das die Zeit bis zur Ernte bei ca 2-3 maximal 4 Wochen liegt. Mitte nächster Woche werden also die nächsten Ladys gestartet, so das wenn geerntet wird die neuen Ladys aus dem Mini-Gewächshaus raus kommen und hoffentlich mit beginnender Blüte den Platz der geernteten Ladys einnehmen können und so auch noch fertig werden bevor die unangenehmen Temperaturen losgehen. Gegossen wurde an Tag 50/29F, Tag51/30F, Tag52/31F, Tag53/32F, Tag54/33F, Tag55/34F und an Tag56/35F. An den Tagen gab es jeweils ca 1L-1.2L. Bei jedem zweiten Gießen wurde gedüngt. BioEnhancer gab es an Tag55/34F. Der Topf wird vor dem gießen leicht angehoben um zu abzuschätzen wie viel die Dame benötigt. Temperatur Tag: 22-38°C Nacht: 13-19°C Höhe 84cm

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So we have had a heck of a week. Fought the gnats and maybe won part of the war. I replanted the troubled girl into a fabric pot with roots 707 only. I figured it can't get worse, right? The other gal that topped herself is doing amazing! She's going to be a big ole girl!

Semana 2: La planta sigue el pulso del sol, firme y receptiva. 🌞🌿 Los tallos se engrosan y los nudos se consolidan, señal de que la energía se distribuye con sabiduría. El color sigue siendo un verde profundo, y las hojas se orientan como antenas, buscando lo esencial. Es tiempo de observar los detalles: posibles brotes laterales, simetrías, respuestas al riego. Una ligera poda puede ayudar a que la energía suba. Y como siempre, asegurar buena ventilación es clave. 💨✂️ Todo se alinea con la temporada. La transición se siente en cada amanecer. ¡Seguimos creciendo fuerte! 💪

Growing well, starting to see some trichomes development. This girl really stretched out, loving her size. Lots of bud sites, I think this PT will be my biggest producer out of the three I’ve grown. Smells very flowery and fruity, loving how vigorous this plant is growing.

Day fifty, they're all looking pretty good.I'm doing a ph check every couple days

📆 Semana 5 La Grease Monkey está sacando todo su carácter esta semana 🐒 🔹 Desarrollo floral: Los cogollos han empezado a ganar tamaño y están cubriéndose de una fina capa de resina que promete mucho, los pistilos siguen alargándose y ya empiezan a mostrar tonos más intensos 🔹 Tamaño y estructura: Planta de porte medio pero muy compacta, las ramas están cargadas de flores y soportan bien el peso gracias a una estructura sólida 🔹 Condiciones ambientales: La temperatura se ha mantenido estable entre 24-26°C y la humedad ronda el 50%, ideal para favorecer el engorde de los cogollos sin riesgos de hongos 🔹 Nutrición: Siguiendo con el plan de XpertNutrients, aunque he notado que una de las plantas muestra una ligera carencia, por lo que he añadido un pequeño refuerzo de cal/mag para corregir a tiempo y asegurar que el desarrollo siga sin problemas 🔹 Equipos utilizados: Bajo los Adlite de Mars Hydro los cogollos están compactándose de manera espectacular, la luz intensa y bien repartida está marcando la diferencia en el desarrollo de las flores 🔹 Observaciones generales: La Grease Monkey tiene un aroma cada vez más intenso y pegajoso, todo apunta a que la resina será uno de sus puntos fuertes, seguimos sin incidencias graves y el cultivo avanza con mucha fuerza ¡Seguimos creciendo fuerte! 💪

sound week on the soil. this grow is really lovely. starting to see some promising bud sites. I think i might trim too much but i want the buds to get the light. topped them and they recovered very fast. still yet to see some purple. dont want to mess with pH just yet

Hello everyone, weed brothers! these beautiful buds get bigger and bigger and their nutrition line is quite stable! their growth is going really well!

It was a 8 day dry and cured for bout a month I was left with 1 oz dry wait. the aroma of the buds were a strong musty jet-fule and fermented fruit 🍉. Braking it down by hand left my fingers sticky and covered in triphones❄️ so I switched to the grinder . When smoking the inhale you get a sweet jet-fule taste with a hit of pineapple on the exhale 😮‍💨 it taste like a dank watermelon pineapple smoothie. I role my self a gram maybe a lil more but the first couple hits really hit the chest and left me with a energetic head high but half way through the joint It was a relaxing full body high that left me feeling like I was floating through time. Is this girl and really want to grow her again.

Hot and humid in the basement but they are hanging in there. Showing some bananas. 🍌. Please no bud rot