Strawberry Pie Auto (Coco HFF)

THC - 26% 85% Indica/ 15% Sativa My first grow with 2 different strains in a tent. 2 Strawberry Pie Auto and 2 Auto CBD 20:1 by Fastbuds. Also my first grow in coco with high frequency fertigation and self draining system. By far my favourite method for growing cannabis.🙂 The plants were struggling the first 3 weeks due to over watering. I started high frequency fertigation too early without allowing the roots to establish first. Silly mistake I know. But after transplanting to their final pot, they caught up fast just in time for the beginning of flowering. And after that, it was just a matter of setting up a container large enough to last few days for automated watering. This grow has been the most uninvolved I've been in growing cannabis. Just had to pop in every few days for training and defoliation. No daily nutrient mixing, no draining after after every watering, no backache from trying to reach the plants at the back of the tent. Automated watering rules! I was a little concerned if both strains will start flowering around the same time OR they would even flower at all. But Fastbuds autoflowering component of their genetics is pretty good and both strains started flowering around the same time. They grew like typical indica. Responded well to LST and defoliation. No high stress training done. Plant 2 had issues since the beginning. The growth was slow and its lower nodes for some reason stopped growing. Since it started flowering at week 4, I had to resume its grow with a single cola. Such a shame because the buds that grew from the single cola was covered in trichomes and super dense. But still it yielded 49g from a single cola. Not too bad I'd say. Plant 1 yielded 150g and the total for both plants came to 199g. Quite impressed with Plant 1's yield considering how fast this grow has been. The smell was quite prominent after week 3 of flowering with earthy with spices aroma but still manageable with inline carbon filter. Harvested when the majority of trichomes were cloudy. Minimal amber for plant 1, but plant 2 was showing more amber trichomes. Did wet trimming this time. Dried whole plant for 5 days before taking them down and bagging them in Grove bags. The stems were still bendy. I would rather do frequent burping/airing than have the buds crisp dry like my previous grow. I don't think the standard advice to dry until the stems snap is a reliable method. So far I have found if I dry for that long, the buds get too dry and doesn't cure well. The terpene profile diminishes significantly. So my main indicator is squeezing the buds itself rather than bending the stem. But mainly I go by RH. After bagging them, if the RH goes more than 65, I take them out of the bag and spread them on a tray to dry. Once the RH stabilizes at 60-62, I stop burping and let Grove bags to continue curing. After curing for another 10 days, the buds appear more dense and thick. Used a dry herb vape for first smoke test. Earthy and spices aroma. No fruity or strawberry terpene noticed. Good head rush initially but turned sedative after half hour or so. This is a seriously heavy smoke due to the high THC. I might have had a little too much, as the effect was still present the next morning. Awesome sleep though. Just gotta titrate the dose accordingly to my preference. But really good stuff. No paranoia or anxiety. Overall this has been an awesome grow. Will be growing more autoflowers after this. With high frequency fertigation of course.🙂