Sherbet Queen Auto | Royal Queen Seeds grow diary by DutchBarnacle

DutchBarnacle Took my chance to germinate a single seed out of a pack of 3. Seed germinated by the second day - before I had the time to set-up soil. Set-up soil two days after germination, taproot, was 15mm. Taproot positioned downward, seed level with top of soil, covered with additional soil and watered in. Light is set up about 30cm from soil, at 30%-40% intensity - resulting in ~300 PPFD.

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Used method

Glass Of Water

Germination Method

1/8

4 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

50 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

0.5 L

Watering Volume

30 cm

Lamp Distance

DutchBarnacle Adding to this journal in week 8 - so enjoy the quick notes! First week was a breeze, she went harder than any other seeds I've tried this season. Watering with about 0.5L per two to three days. The weather is extremely hot and my tent-fan can't keep up - thermometer reads 34°C during the day.

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1/19

6 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

50 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

0.5 L

Watering Volume

30 cm

Lamp Distance

DutchBarnacle While I was initially aiming for day 16-19 for the topping, this Sherbet Queen Automatic was growing so vigorously - and I became impatient - that I decided to top her at day 13. The only downside is that I cannot train her yet as her newest nodes are still too short, so that'll have to wait. Overall she seems fine, new growth is lush green and her stem is already more sturdy than some of the other seeds of this season, at this stage. Still watering with about 0.5L, increased frequency to each day - no additional nutes yet.

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Used techniques

HST

Technique

Topping

Technique

Main-Lining

Technique

1/13

10 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

50 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

1 L

Watering Volume

30 cm

Lamp Distance

DutchBarnacle This girl seems to be unstoppable! She bounced right up after the topping of last week, and I'm trying my best to keep her tied down. However, due to my novice experience and het vigor, this is easier said than done. I made a critical mistake at day 19/20 which will bite me later on in the process. I had to start defoliating already and I'll need to keep an eye on her leaf development. Still only watering, no nutes, upped the amount to about 1L every other day.

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LST

Technique

Defoliation

Technique

1/11

15 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

No Smell

Smell

50 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

1 L

Watering Volume

20 cm

Lamp Distance

DutchBarnacle Week 4. This week she's moving towards her flowering stage, you can see early flower development on day 28. Aside from adding normal bloom nutes to her water, you can notice one of her lower fan leaves starting to develop a brown spot (lower right) which was a sign that she was missing something she needed. It could have been either calcium/magnesium or a simple PH balance issue, I decided to order a bottle of Plagron CalMag Pro and some PH tests - did not arrive this (4) week though. She's also crowding herself, as a result of me not properly trying down her nodes around day 19. I noticed her main two branches (upper node after topping) are outpacing her initial nodes (lower nodes after topping) and I'm unsure what I can do to keep the upper two down. My training stakes are too short to keep down the main two stems - I'll figure this out next week.

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LST

Technique

Defoliation

Technique

1/20

25 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

Weak

Smell

50 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

1 L

Watering Volume

30 cm

Lamp Distance

Nutrients 3

Patio and balcony plant nutrition (7-4-7)

5 mll

CalMag Pro

1 mll

Ph Min

1 mll

DutchBarnacle Week 5. She's definitely past her first week of flowering now. I've decided to mark this week as the first flowering week as she was also still in veg at the start of last week. At day 30, the CalMag arrived and I started her first feed with CalMag and PH-, I'm eyeballing the PH because I'll have to use strips that range between 6 and 10. During the week, the issue did not seem to progress any further. However, slight (nute?) burned tips started to appear - which, for me, is just a sign she's got enough nutes available, I'm reverting back to alternating water and nutes. Her stretch is huge, her internodal spacing is increasing after slightly raising my grow light - although I doubt there's a causal relationship. Her watering is currently 2L per two days, sometimes flushing a bit with an extra liter on days without nutes - but always with calmag and ph-.

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Defoliation

Technique

LST

Technique

1/28

25 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

Weak

Smell

50 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

1 L

Watering Volume

30 cm

Lamp Distance

Nutrients 3

Patio and balcony plant nutrition (7-4-7)

5 mll

CalMag Pro

1 mll

Ph Min

1 mll

DutchBarnacle Week 6. She absolutely exploded with trichomes! Her nutritional problems seem to be solved and she seems to be focusing all her energy on her now already frosty budsites. I'm actually surprised this already happened so soon, and to this magnitude. She still doesn't smell that strongly, but whenever I rub one of the trichome covered sugar leafs, it smells citrusy and what I can only describe as chlorophyl c.q. green plant smell. I've made a bet that she'll yield at least 40gr dry. We'll see whether that's a realistic number.

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1/24

30 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

28 °C

Day Air Temp

Normal

Smell

55 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

1.5 L

Watering Volume

30 cm

Lamp Distance

Nutrients 4

Patio and balcony plant nutrition (7-4-7)

5 mll

CalMag Pro

1 mll

Ph Min

1 mll

DutchBarnacle Week 7 She's still going strong, while Royal Queen Seeds has stated that this strain is ready in 8-9 weeks, I'm wondering whether this pheno will surpass that window. Imagining her not making it to the end of next week is hard, given she's going this strong and her budsites are still in full development. Her smell has increased and her Cookies Auto genes are coming through. Although her sugarleaves still give off that citrusy scent when rubbed, her actual buds and pistils give this faint vanilla-like cookie smell. Whilst I forgot the exact parent strains she has, I was certain it had to be something 'cookie' like - which turned out to be the case. I started occasionally feeding her with PH balanced Potassium + CalMag alone, to aid her flower development and to not overdo the amount of nitrogen that's in her regular feed. Also increased the amount of water, adding an extra liter of tapwater after normal feed - in hindsight perhaps it would have been better to pre-moisture with the extra water before adding nutes. Come to think of it, this might have affected her more than was apparent in week 7.

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1/13

30 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

Normal

Smell

55 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

1.5 L

Watering Volume

30 cm

Lamp Distance

Nutrients 4

Patio and balcony plant nutrition (7-4-7)

5 mll

CalMag Pro

1 mll

Ph Min

1 mll

DutchBarnacle Week 8 No signs of stopping yet! She's frosted all over now, we've surpassed the 8 weeks estimated by Royal Queen Seeds, what an amazing specimen she is. There's zero signs of trouble, aside from the occasional early veg growth fan leaf turning slightly brown or yellowish. I'm now focusing on thinning out her cannopy to provide some extra airflow. I'll ket her go another week but I'm stopping her nutes. While adjusting her training ropes, I accidentally split her stem in 2 - oops! But she has survived the trauma and frankly doesn't seem to care too much.

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1/32

30 cm

Height

24 hrs

Light Schedule

30 °C

Day Air Temp

Normal

Smell

55 %

Air Humidity

15 °C

Solution Temp

20 L

Pot Size

1.5 L

Watering Volume

35 cm

Lamp Distance

Nutrients 4

Patio and balcony plant nutrition (7-4-7)

5 mll

CalMag Pro

1 mll

Ph Min

1 mll

DutchBarnacle Week 9 She's done, great estimation by Royal Queen Seeds regarding her lifespan. Can't believe how fast she went downhill this week, I stopped giving nutes last week so I'm just waiting for her last water to evaporate - she's not as thirsty as she used to be. While updating this diary, I reckon a few things might have been detrimental to her general health: 1. Extra Liter of water after giving nutrients. 2. Perhaps too much PH-, which I tried to balance by removing the PH- from the nutes 3. Splitting her stem last week 4. PPFD of 1100 at the main colas was perhaps a bit too taxing on her metabolism 5. It's been a hot ass summer lately, with temperatures rising to about 34°C inside the tent From the pattern on the leafs I reckon it's a potassium deficit, but more generally I'd say she's just in her last phase.

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Sherbet Queen Auto Royal Queen Seeds

10/10

Rated

My first ever non-"laissez-faire" grow. Enjoyable, short, bushy strain that is quite easy to grow. There's a clear distinction between lower bud sites and colas in terms of colour. Where the upper growth is clearly lush green, the lower budsites tend to have a more dark appearance. Perhaps this is a consequence of the light intensity - she was receiving 1100 PPFD vs. 600 PPFD in bloom. Her smell is subtle as long as you don't disturb her. Her sugarleaves give of this intense citrusy/green plantlike scent, and her budsites clearly give away her Cookies Auto heritage - smelling like cookies with a hint of vanilla that is reminiscent more of dough than actually baked - lacking the 'caramelisation'. While the sugarleaf smell lasts, the cookies smell quickly subsides. In her second week of flower, her budsites frosted all over. And it wasn't limited to the budsites either, even her early flower bud/fan leaves frosted over to the point of me pondering whether I could perhaps treat them as yield. In terms of yield, I'll have to see whether she'll exceed 40gr of dry weight. Leading me to wonder whether she'd be able to yield more than 100gr dry weight. That'll be something worth trying out in the future!

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Spent 65 days

Ger Veg Flo Har

150 g

Bud wet weight per plant

1

Plants

0.5 m²

Grow Room size

Easy

Difficulty

Height

Day air temperature

Air humidity

Light schedule

Solution temperature

Pot size

Lamp distance

1/13

DutchBarnacle Week 10 ... well actually the last day of week 9. Checked her trichomes, on the sugarleafs I noticed about 30% amber trichomes - signalling immediate need to chop her down. I don't mind the extra amber trichomes, she still has plenty of cloudy and even some transparent trichomes. From what I've learned, waiting a bit longer will be detrimental to THC, but benificial to terps. And since I can and will not measure THC contents at home, but instead I am able to taste and smell - I'd rather go for terps. As for the amount of ice. I don't have a specific purpose for clippings, so I'm currently debating whether to keep some of the sugarleafs or to remove them after drying. On one hand I'm afraid they'll taste horrible, on the other hand I realize that during a wet trim, a lot of the sugarleaf mass is kept too. I'll have to decide once she dries, also the time I can finally figure whether I've won my bet for 40gr dry yield. Unfortunately, I don't have a wet bud weight - it wouldn't be useful anyways as that would include the stems. But for those who'd like an estimate, about 150-200gr wet weight perhaps? But again, that's with the stems.

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