Big Buddha Cheese Clones! Pheno Hunt 2022 Grow 2 Student Level: Indoor, Soil, LED

[Greenvein]

Hey guys it's been a while but time to wrap this journal up! Think I was enjoying my smoke a bit too much
A quick overview Frome the top:
To begin this journal I had taken eight clones from five plants all the same strain and planted them in what I thought was soil. Unfortunately one didn't make due to my impatience so I continued with seven.

First time ever cloning a plant so wasn't great but they was alive. It didn't take long for the ladies to take off looking healthy and happy.

The soil had plenty of food for the plants so I was just watering phed water and rhizotonic root booster. In no time at all thet outgrew their pots so as the water uptake was alot faster I think it was time for a up pot.

After the up pot although looking healthy I noticed slowed growth and beginning of deficiencies so I checked my run off to find high ec and pH creeping out of range

After finding out I was growing in a coir based compost and not soil I built a drain system for each plant and installed drippers to make watering easier then flushed them all. With a Coco style drain to waste my pH and ec quickly returned in range. By this time my garden had grown very bushy!

Now everything was in check I flipped to flower with confidence.

I think It was during mid flower I decided to swap my drippers for halo style as it would give me more even watering around the pot but due to them being too slow I encountered salt build up a shift of pH again easily fixed with another flush.

After I had modified my new halo dripper to water faster everything ran perfect up to harvest. My flowers was looking great! As I was using three led lights one plant in the middle started foxtailing which isn't a issue.

Come harvest one plant faded early on her own but they all was flushed and showed off their autumn colours.
I will follow this post with my results shortly for journal completion.

Thanks

 

[Greenvein]

The finale:

I think I hung my plants for 10 days then stuck them in jars but the reason curing took so long is because of this..

I knew these things was not reading my rh properly so I took all my bud out of the 1L mason jars and put it in a large biscuit jar with my larger hydrometer.

Now my bud sat settled like this probably a week.. if it crept up I would open it for a hour fluff it up a bit then re seal.
Here's a few pictures I took during trimming and weighing..

So trimming I would spend a couple of hours a day trimming and jaring. During the trim the bud smelt like straight gas/fuel and it was mad strong! Literally the smell would have you thinking it would ignite if you sparked up.
After curing the gas smell died dow ln and left me with a earthy cheese smell that I wanted. I took some too a mates and left the bag in his shed as it was just humming lol.
The smoke was as the new smell described a little earth with the solid cheese taste only way I can describe it. Very smooth smoke and hard hitting not quite couch lock but if I smoked a whole one to myself I definitely would not be moving.
So all in all definitely chuffed with my work couldn't have asked for a better result.

Once it was all trimmed and cured I weighed all the solid nugs only which weighed in at 313G or just over 11.5oz & just over 1G/W which is amazing my goal was 9oz but not bad for a 3x3. Next run will be 440w and I'll try for the 1LB.
As for the softer bud it's not terrible and I'll probably still smoke it but I'm still yet to trim it. By eye it looks like 3oz or more but as it's light I'd say I have a couple oz of decent buds I was just very picky due to my haul and had enough of trimming

So that's it, I will be running this strain again after my holiday with a few changes but just wanna say thanks to everyone for their support on my own and your grows I've learnt alot plus it's been great have you guys with me.

Until next time stay safe, stay positive & stay lifted

 

[Tokin Roll]

Nice job,

I was thinking about growing some English cheese this year.

How was the smell in late flower?

Stay safe, and grow well my friend,
Tok..

 

[Greenvein]

Thanks mate, opening the tent the smell was quite strong definitely need a decent filter lol.

I was on the fence comparing it to the original cheese I loved that seems to have been lost but on its own it's still cheesy and a heavy high so I enjoy it alot.

Thanks for having a read & hope your well