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🍰 Lava Cake – Final Harvest & Smoke Report
GrowDiaries | Week 8 (Harvest & Cure)
After months of dedication, lessons, and love, our Lava Cake journey comes to a close — and what an ending it is. Both phenotypes reached maturity beautifully, wrapped in dense, resin-coated buds that carry the unmistakable aroma of sweetness and spice.
🌱 From Seed to Harvest — A Journey in Full Bloom
Our Lava Cake journey began from seed with two unique phenotypes, both full of potential and personality. Week after week, through careful nutrition, TrolMaster monitoring, and endless observation, we watched them evolve. From the early stages of vegetative vigor, through the lush canopy of mid-flower, and even through the challenges of heat and bud rot, these girls showed true resilience.
Each setback taught something — about balance, airflow, humility, and the living rhythm of nature. Both plants were ultimately harvested with respect and gratitude.
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✂️ Harvest & Trimming
After about two weeks of slow drying at 60°F / 60% RH, the branches began to snap — a sure sign the moisture was just right. Each plant was trimmed by hand, carefully and patiently, letting every calyx, pistil, and trichome tell its own story.
The buds were dense, sticky, and heavily frosted — a trimmer’s delight. Finger hash collected along the way was pure gold, rich in aroma and bursting with terpenes. Each snip of the scissors felt like sculpting something sacred.
Both plants were dried whole, allowing for slower moisture migration and a smoother final cure.
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🌿 On Trichomes and Harvest Timing
We chose to harvest when most trichomes were cloudy, with only a few still clear and very few amber. This moment — just before full amber maturity — is where potency meets flavor at its peak.
Why cloudy trichomes?
Because that’s when cannabinoids like THC and terpenes are at their maximum activity. Too early, and you lose potency; too late, and THC starts converting into CBN, giving a heavier, sleepier effect. Cloudy trichomes deliver a balanced high — euphoric yet grounding — capturing the essence of the strain in its full potential.
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🌸 Aroma, Taste & Effects
The Lava Cake lives up to her name and lineage. Her rich terpene profile brings waves of sweet baked goods, layered with berry and grape undertones inherited from her Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies x Grape Pie heritage.
When smoked, she’s smooth, creamy, and sweet, leaving a lingering flavor on the palate that feels like dessert for the senses. The effects are deeply relaxing, melting away tension and replacing it with calm contentment.
This isn’t a beginner’s strain — her high is potent, steady, and full-bodied. A few tokes are enough to drift into a deeply peaceful, happy state. Perfect for evenings, rest days, or moments when the world needs to slow down.
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🌬️ Curing — Grove Bags & UV Glass Jars
After trimming, buds were stored in Grove Bags, which naturally maintain humidity between 55–62%, eliminating the need for daily “burping.” These innovative curing bags use a one-way humidity membrane, preserving terpenes and color while preventing mold.
Alongside them, we used black UV-resistant glass jars — perfect for long-term storage, protecting cannabinoids from light degradation and keeping aromas fresh.
Together, these methods allowed the buds to cure into perfection — firm, aromatic, and bursting with flavor.
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🔥 Resin, Hash & Full Spectrum Bar
All trim from the grow — not just from Lava Cake — was collected to make a full-spectrum bar using simple, natural heat extraction with hot water in a glass bottle. The result was a potent, sticky, terpene-rich concentrate that perfectly captures the soul of the garden.
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⚖️ Final Yields
• Pheno #1: 144g dry
• Pheno #2: 99g dry
Both phenotypes displayed amazing bud density and structure. In fact, their sheer weight caused a few branches to snap under their own mass — another reason that influenced our harvest timing. These were heavy girls, through and through. 🌿💪
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🙏 Gratitude & Reflections
To everyone who followed along — thank you. To Zamnesia, for the genetics and inspiration, thank you. To the GrowDiaries community, the supporters, the doubters, and everyone in between — thank you for being part of this experience.
And above all, thanks to God, because without Him, none of this beauty — not even the smallest seed — would exist.
Growing Lava Cake wasn’t just about cultivation; it was about connection, learning, and the sacred patience of nature.
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🌀 Closing Thoughts
From seed to smoke, these Lava Cakes have been a story of flavor, resilience, and soul. Despite challenges like heat and bud rot, the final result was spectacular: frosty, aromatic, powerful flowers that embody everything beautiful about this craft.
As we light the first cured joint, we celebrate not just the harvest, but the journey itself.
Until the next grow — stay curious, stay kind, and keep growing. 🌱💚
Thank you to everyone who followed this run — your support, questions, and shared passion have been part of what made this project so rewarding. The full smoke review will follow this harvest report and will be presented in 4K on YouTube, where we’ll document the aroma, flavor, burn, and overall experience with both phenotypes and the pressed hash.
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Explore the Gear that Powers My Grow
If you’re curious about the tech I’m using, check out these links:
• Genetics, gear, nutrients, and more – Zamnesia: https://www.zamnesia.com/
• Environmental control & automation – TrolMaster: https://www.trolmaster.eu/
• Advanced LED lighting – Future of Grow: https://www.futureofgrow.com/
• Root and growth nutrition – Aptus Holland: https://aptus-holland.com/
• Nutrient systems & boosters – Plagron: https://plagron.com/en/
• Soil & substrate excellence – PRO-MIX BX: https://www.pthorticulture.com/en-us/products/pro-mix-bx-mycorrhizae
• Curing and storage – Grove Bags: https://grovebags.com/
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We’ve got much more coming as we move through new grow cycles. Trust me, you won’t want to miss the next steps, let’s push the boundaries of indoor horticulture together!
As always, this is shared for educational purposes, aiming to spread understanding and appreciation for this plant. Let’s celebrate it responsibly and continue to learn and grow together.
With true love comes happiness. Always believe in yourself, and always do things expecting nothing and with an open heart. Be a giver, and the universe will give back in ways you could never imagine.
💚 Growers love to all
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@kdifiori_
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Week seven and this beauty continues to grow. This week it drank 2 L and I slowly started adding Overdrive to the magic mixture. Let's see what happens next week!
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@Marmotaaaas
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Esqueje de gorilas glue y de blue berrys
Me las dieron en flora crecieron arto ya van super bonitas las flores bien olorosas y pegajosas se les iso el scrog y an abierto los brazos a todos lados
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@Mr_nugs_lover_David
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Brutal nuggets, you can see those diamonds shining, very compact, sticky, full of trichomes and a beautiful fragrance, I've enjoyed this strain so much guys, very special, I can recommend this strain if you want top quality fast!
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@Adam420
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Start of week 3: august 9th
Battling caterfuckers and using foliar sprays to keep at bay.
Trimmed her a lot to keep the light WPM she has but no worries there.
Smells just like diesel with a hint of sweet candy land
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@valiotoro
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Photoperiod buds 🤩
The smell is absolutely divine very fruity,sweet & tropical🍋🍊🍉🍌
Solid like a diamond 💎
Bay harbor butcher’s trim to show the density
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@Chedderbob112
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Waiting on a full plant hang dry so will wait at least two weeks maybe three hope ma vegging station holds up n can dae tge damage the now as av said guys this is definitely not the perfect set up am not on good terms with land lord so basically squatting here lol and growing and a got caught with one in this house the land lord doesn’t even know lol 😂
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@LittleBigTrees
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Defoliated some leaves to let light in, chopped one down early as I run out of bud 🙄 it's good for less than 4 weeks flowering.
Have them rice water starch again this week in with there food.
A layer of frost is slowly forming 😎 hopefully they will fatten up nice and frost up really good to 🤞
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@GrowGuy97
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Day 56 ladies are really starting to get some massive buds, tent smells amazing! I can’t wait to see what this harvest looks like😍😍
Thanks for following & make sure to check back for daily updates friends! Happy growing✌️🏼🌱
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@MicroHidroGrow
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Día 15. Las plantas ya alcanzaron un altura muy buena. Ya empiezan a aparecer los primeros pelos blancos. Por el momento me ha sorprendido la reacción de las plantas al bud blood. Si puedo voy a comprar bud candy para ayudar un poco a la mezcla. Por el momento decidí mantener el bud blood a media dosis durante una semana más con el big bud. Veremos que tal resulta.
Día 17. El estirón siguió y las plantas alcanzaron 51 cm. Las pequeñas directamente quedaron tapadas. En este experimento se puede ver la diferencia entre tierra e hidroponia. La verdad que estoy sorprendido. Creo que los productos usados son los que han marcado la diferencia. Las plantas quintuplicaron la altura total que tenían al momento de pasarlas a floración. Y sospecho que van a seguir estirándose una semana más. Espero no tener problemas de altura porque no lo planeaba. Creo que voy a cortar algunas ramas bajas más, dado que se están generando muchas sombras nuevas. Seguiré actualizando.
Día 19. El estiramiento continua, pero levemente. Ya alcanzaron 55cm. Estuve cortando algunas ramas y hasta supongo que podría cortar más. Pero a esta altura ya todo lo que hay recibe buena luz. La diferencia entre la madre que está en tierra y los esquejes en hidroponia, es cada vez más notoria. Si bien ya la he visto, tener una planta al lado de la otra bajo la misma luz, hace la parte alevosa de todo esto.
De todos modos, he comprobado que el sabor obtenido en tierra, es más fiel al de la hidroponia. En hidroponia en principio, las plantas son mas fuertes en todo, pero el sabor de alguna forma, es demasiado afectado por los nutrientes. Incluso habiendo lavado dos o tres semanas, la planta sostiene un sabor constante en todas las variedades, que parece estar atado a la nutrición. Siendo que en tierra, cada variedad tiene su sabor distintivo, siendo una distinta de otra.
La próxima actualización será en la nueva semana, ya que al quedar poca solución, la voy a cambiar antes y voy a poner 12 litros en lugar de los 10 que vengo usando. Las plantas vienen comiendo mucho.
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@SAC87
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Hi Growers.
These little plants have been cruising along just fine. The whole week they have just been sprayed with ph RO water with a touch of cal pow. Yesterday I noticed they were a bit lighter in color and using peat based medium with zero nutrients I decided to feed according to the FastBuds suggested 1/8 strength. It still ended up being around 225 ppm. I also raised the light 3” as I noticed the serrated leaf edge starting to point straight up. That SF4000 is a beast against tiny plants even at 30%.
I’ve got the environment at approx 77 & 60% with a oscillating fan and humidifier running.
All in all they’re looking happy and are doing what they should be. 🤞👍🏻🌱
Happy Growing 🌱
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@CBD_Sweden
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@MephistoGenetics,
Hi all the happy people here in GrowDiaries.
This is my second cultivation ever and it will be fun to try a bigger space than my closet grow.
First, I'm just going to say I'm done with the construction of my new growroom.
The room is 2.14 meters by 1.7 meters and has a ceiling height of 2 meters.
It provides a floor area of 3.6 square meters.
I use a 54 Watt Lightwawe T5 for germination and 2 Pcs 400 Watt HPS lamps.
I have a channel fan that replaces the room air about 40 times an hour to get a comfortable environment in the room, the air enters a fresh air intake from the outside.
The air is purified through a carbon filter to then leave the room to the rest of the basement.
Then I use that heat to heat the rest of the basement.
I will use 10 pcs 15 liter Autopots to grow with and a 100 liter water tank that supplies the pots of water and nutrition.
I will grow completely organically in soil and will watercure my buds to get the best possible medicine for me.
But there are no cultivation rooms to be displayed here, so I continue with what is most important.
Today I have put my seeds in paper towel and hope the seeds have germinated within a few days.
I am very excited to see how the new growroom will work and how this Illuminauto 21 - Sour Crinkle will turn out.
Illuminauto 21 - Sour Crinkle (Grape Crinkle x Sour Crack)
Two of our fastest and frostiest varieties collide to make a sweet and sour delight!
Expect super frosty, compact nugs that won't be a toke for novices.
Destined to be a great strain for extraction work too!
Plant size - Small - Medium
Cycle time - 60-65 days from sprout
Indica/Sativa - 80/20
Frost level - Extra Ridiculous
https://www.mephistogenetics.com/product-page/illuminauto-21-sour-crinkle
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2017-08-21. Started to germinate the seed.
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2017-08-23. Seed germinated and put in small pot in the humidity dome.
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2017-08-27. Slow and steady she grows.
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2017-08-28. Transplanted in 15 liter autopot. Check the roots on this girl
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2017-08-29. New movie of the girl.
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2017-08-29.
Hello to you who read my diary, I just want to say that I am pleased that you have chosen to check in with me and in my diary.
I just want to say that I do this for myself and for a steady flow of my medicine.
Everything you read and see in my diary is 100% honest and I will never distort or beautify anything here.
I document my crops so that I can learn from my mistakes and also to look back at those different crops.
I try to update with pictures every day and with text if something special has happened in the garden.
This is my strainhunt for the best medicine and the beginning of my journey with cannabis and the cultivation of it.
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2017-08-30. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution. Im testing the fan to control temp and humidity, it works great.
Added some pics and a movie. Everything is looking great right now.
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2017-08-31. 3 new pics.
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2017-09-01. New pics and a video from the grow room today.
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2017-09-02. New pic.
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2017-09-03. New video from this morning.
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2017-09-04. Week 2 starts now, new pics.
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2017-09-05. KL 08.00. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution.
KL 12.00. The girl got 2 liters of water with nutes in it, added a video.
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2017-09-06. KL 08.00. The girls woke up after their beauty sleep, the leaves are always a bit down after 6 h of darkness, but they will stretch now when the HPS lamp starts.
Everything looks good and I keep trying to tuck the leaves so they get the maximum amount of light where needed. Added pics and video.
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2017-09-07. Day 17 from sprouting. I have never tested PH in my grows, when growing organic in soil iv learned that it adapt PH by it self. But im curious by nature so i had to test.
Kl 10.00 Tested PH in the soil, it was 6.9 and tested my tap water and it was 6.8. Added video of the girl.
Kl 22.30. New pics.
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2017-09-08 KL 08.00. Good morning, added new video.
2017-09-08. Kl 23.50. Gave every girl 3 liters of water and nutes, added new video.
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2017-09-09. Kl 21.00. Defoliated a lot and added pics.
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2017-09-10. Kl 08.00. Last day of week 2. New video.
2017-09-10. Kl 23.00. 3 new videos.
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2/2
We are about half way on the 2 biggest, 3 weeks on the SG, and about 6 weeks on the Blue cheese. Damn...
You can see how much I lose on the bottom half, but like I said before. It will still be more than I can smoke. And I want to make sure it all gets enough light to ripen and allow plenty of airflow. The only issues in really having is the godberry seems to be yellow 8ng too soon, but I still think it's from the light stress early on. She also looks a bit like nute burn. Probably the fish emulsion I gave it 2 weeks ago when I misread the light stress. I always have at least one plant that goes yellow too soon. Living soil.
More to come...
