Strawberry Cheesecake Auto from Seedsman

JERgarden Testing two types of soil: 1: coco coir (buffered) 60%, Soil 30%, Bocashi 9%, Bat guano 1% 2: coco coir (buffered) 35%, Soil 40%, Bocashi 14%, Perlite: 10%, Bat guano 1%.

JERgarden Testing two types of soil: 1: coco coir (buffered) 60%, Soil 30%, Bocashi 9%, Bat guano 1% 2: coco coir (buffered) 35%, Soil 40%, Bocashi 14%, Perlite: 10%, Bat guano 1%.

JERgarden Testing two types of soil: 1: coco coir (buffered) 60%, Soil 30%, Bocashi 9%, Bat guano 1% 2: coco coir (buffered) 35%, Soil 40%, Bocashi 14%, Perlite: 10%, Bat guano 1%.

JERgarden Testing two types of soil: 1: coco coir (buffered) 60%, Soil 30%, Bocashi 9%, Bat guano 1% 2: coco coir (buffered) 35%, Soil 40%, Bocashi 14%, Perlite: 10%, Bat guano 1%.

JERgarden Testing two types of soil: 1: coco coir (buffered) 60%, Soil 30%, Bocashi 9%, Bat guano 1% 2: coco coir (buffered) 35%, Soil 40%, Bocashi 14%, Perlite: 10%, Bat guano 1%.

JERgarden Testing two types of soil: 1: coco coir (buffered) 60%, Soil 30%, Bocashi 9%, Bat guano 1% 2: coco coir (buffered) 35%, Soil 40%, Bocashi 14%, Perlite: 10%, Bat guano 1%.

JERgarden Testing two types of soil: 1: coco coir (buffered) 60%, Soil 30%, Bocashi 9%, Bat guano 1% 2: coco coir (buffered) 35%, Soil 40%, Bocashi 14%, Perlite: 10%, Bat guano 1%. Started to feed with organic fertilizers recommended for flowering. Bat guano with high phosphorus concentration plus banana peel tea with high potassium concentration.

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JERgarden Some troubles with over-feeding and ph within the media. Hope the flush works well to recover them.

JERgarden Beginning of the week 10. Plant within the media with coco at 60% seems to reach maturity more faster than that of the coco at 35%. Moreover, the youngest plant (she is also with coco at 35% ) that was not transplanted is bigger, more bushy and healthy than the other two plants that were transplanted. I read on the internet (to be exactly in cocoforcannabis.com) that, even for autoflowering strains, transplanting the plant is advised. However, it was not the case, at least in this pseudo-experiment , and from my limited experience I could say that transplanting autoflowering strains seems to input a lot of stress to the plants. Also, this stress (transplanting) seems to be stronger than topping the plant (I accidentally broke the main cola while doing LST).

JERgarden Despite the flush that I did the last week, the two plants within the mixture that has less coco, more earth and more bokashi are still showing nitrogen toxicity. However, they seems that will produce a good yield compared to the plant that has more coco. The plant with more coco suffer a ph problem few weeks ago that probably will affect the yield. Runoff EC: 1.2 to 1.5 Runoff ph: 6.5-7.(needs to be decreased)

JERgarden Trichomes still not turning amber, but 80-90% are full cloudy.

JERgarden First flush was made 3 days ago since some buds trichomes were amber. Runoff EC of the 3 plants oscillates between 0.8 and 1.4. Maybe 3 o 4 more flushes and chop the babies.

JERgarden Beginning of week 14. The smallest plant was chopped since approximately 10-15% of trichomes were amber. Last runoff EC of this plant was 0.6, so I hope this value would not affect bud flavors. This plant gave me 181 grams wet, so I hope at least 30 grams dry. This girl harvest really surprised me considering all the problems she have with ph stability and salts-build up. The smell of the buds is really strong, like a citric cheese. The other contemporary plant is still showing full milky trichomes and just one or two amber trichomes by sample, so I will give her a few more days. The youngest plant is still depicting 60-80% milky trichomes, so I think she will be harvested next week. Next week I will be updating dried bud weight of the chopped girl and wet weights of the other two plants!

JERgarden For being my first grow that I finally could finish (few months ago I had pest problems with one run), i´m very satisfied with the decent harvest, considering the problems with ph instability and salts build-up. I The girls that I chopped 6 days ago gave me 181 grams (40 grams of dried buds) and is now in the curing phase. For this second part of the harvest, the trimming took me 4 hours because I tried to remove stems and most of the small leaves in order to have a more accurate bud´s weight. In this sense, the second girl, the one with the LST gave me 212 grams, while the third girl (didn´t do any growth technique) gave me 178 grams. In total, I harvested 571 grams, so I hope at least 120 grams of dried buds. Overall, I learned a lot with this grow. I could test two different combinations of soil blends and also see if its better to transplant autoflowers or not. Despite the differences between the harvest are not so pronounced, I could say one could transplant an autoflower strain and do LST, but without topping. If one want to top the lady, then I think is better to not transplanting and just top and LST. For the next run, I will try to stay with the soil mixture low in coco (at 35-40%), no transplanting and do a mix of topping and LST. Next week will be updating dried weight of the last two chopped girls, and hope to make the smoke report after at least two or three weeks of curing. Thanks to all!