Dinafem cheese is BOMB!!!

I think I'm going g to transplant a few clones to night into 1 gallon pots. Put them on a cinder block and raise it to the canopy. Maybe three of em? Two at least. Cuz your right that space should be filled.

Dunno how many, but ya

Candybeast said:

Get some diatomaceous earth. spread it everywhere soil ground like bugs where a vampire. I see all the leaves and death grass. And other plants there. I did that with a really leafy space candy plant put it on my patio. When i went to harvest I had bud worms from caterpillars. Dobt let bugs get your dank.

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Don't put de on flowering plants. Breathing de can cause serious lung problems. On the ground is fine but not the bud.

I work with diatomaceous earth daily. It's not going to get in your buds if you mix it in the medium. Once it gets moist it gets pasty.and isn't going to fly around.

I had to harvest some of my colas cuz they were drying out
This are some of the ones I dried out and curing now

As i was saying half of my plant is drying out the other half is going strong still colas are getting super phat...I think my dogs got to the branch that is drying out
Not sure tho maybe some one knows....
I'm hitting them with molasses right now
I'm about 2 3 weeks away from harvesthe I am seeing a lot of cloudy trichomes

They Are Turning Purple Too Right now......
Keep in mind I moved houses from l.a. to victorville..about 1 month ago and I think they did good with the move

Mine is turning purple too!
But I've burned her with too much sea bird guano flowering ferts I reckon, the leaves are crisping up and it aint pretty.
Phosphorous or potassium burn, typical crisping of flower ferts.
Purple in between that though.

I also have a Big Bud x White Widow, same size pot, and given the same ferts - no burn on her.
So, it looks like it has a bigger appetite and can handle more ferts. I think it's going to win out over Cheese as my keeper strain, we'll see.

Are you sure it's not a phosphorus deficiency? I thought I was burning my plants but it turns out the Cheese strain is just super super big feeder especially with phosphorus. Or maybe a pH lockout. But a phosphorus burn? Cannabis lives phosphorus and will use it all most of the time. I would take a look at your pH and then at the individual levels of nutrients. Do you have any pics of burned leaves. Donthe leaves twist up? Or just dry up and get yellow and soft? This pic is of a nitrogen and phosphorus deficiency on a purple dream plant of mine a few months ago. Flushed too early

I hope you're right! Sounds plausible, it just seems like I get a bout of this after I try a strong flower fert.

You can see a patch of sexy purple in the middle of the right big frond

I can't say 100% but that doesn't look like burn. You see the tip of your leaflet that's green? See how it's a little brown. That's "burn". It looks to me like you are seeing a pH imbalance and have locked something out. I know people say oh alot. But I've had nutrient issues always n flower . And I never checked the pH. But when i did start checking it was at like 4.0 and that's SF tap water and FF and botanicare nutrients. My girls looked great in veg then in flower I moved and they just started going haywire. I finally adjusted the pH and now it recovering. My leaves looked like yours. If I were you. I would get the drop and vial test and test your runoff water, or a soil sample in distilled water. Trust me. It will be worth it

If it was nutrient burn tue leaf would be more uniformly disfigured

Interesting, I'd considered it a more severe form of the tips burning.
I pH down my tapwater from 8 to 6.5, but I haven't checked my runoff or done a soil pH test.
I've got pH pens, clarify - do I need to either get a 'drop and vial test' or distilled water, to test my soil?
I can't do it with tap water I've brought to 7 or something?

Well you could maybe mix some soil from your medium with some distilled water and then stick your meter in there. Should get a reading. I use the the color changing liquid and vial stuff it's not exactly but it works. So you think your giving too much nutrients I would go down to 6.0 6.5 does seem a little high. IM PERSONAL AT THIS MOMENT experiencing nutrient issues with the Dinafem Cheese. And it's not nutrient burn. I don't use nearly enough of anything to do that. I would think you would be either. Also it could just be a strain that likes a different ratio of nutrients than what it comes in flower nuts. Like it uses alot of nitrogen for sure and alot of phosphorus. But bloom from botanicare has no nitrogen. So I've had to mix tiger bloom and botanicare bloom to get the ratio right. And it's still not perfect. I've nearly stopped it from progressing but when I flushed to fix pH. I obviously flushed away minerals and had to start with a blank slate. I'm still saying I don't think your giving too much nutrients but more of just in the wrong ratio or at the wrong pH.

Yes that sounds all good to me.
I've been getting adverse reactions seemingly correlated to feeding attempts, even though extremely gentle, low doses as far as I can tell.
So I've been trying to move away from the bottled ferts, towards richer soil. Hence the guano attempt.
Almost ready to give brewing some teas a go
I've got kelp meal, molasses, an air pump, stockings and am waiting on bat guano and alfalfa meal to arrive.

But ya, pH seems a good possibility.
Metal soil pH probes, are those fine? Accurate enough for our purposes?

I use tea, along with bottled nuts. You can't replace nutrients with tea. Tea is for enzymes and bacteria production to help break down food (nutrients). I don't see it being to easy to being with organic fertilizer. But I've never used it. Unless you grow a strain multiple times and know exactly what it likes. Your always going to run into some issues with whatever fertilizer you choose. I'm going to stick it out with botanicare. Dial a few strains down to a T.

Dinafem cheese. My second run of this strain. First one had some bumps in the road due to moving. But this time around it's like a different strain. Day 63 of flowering . Going to harvest in a few days.

Candybeast said:

So I am am going to be training two dinafem cheese plant. Both from seed. I'm getting some amazing growth. I have topped a few times ,but as well as the regular topping results ,two bring new nodes of nowhere. No leaves just out of the middle of branch. The other side grew an entire new stem out of the branch as well. I've never seen anything like this. It's topping itself and responding to my pruning . Plus the new abnormal growth. Very excited to train thus strain. Will be taking cuts for sure.check out the pics you can really see the two new shoots well. Anyone ever encountered this?

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Yes. It's crazy. Be sure and really lollypop the shit of it or you'll end up with a bunch of popcorn on the bottom. Two phenos, one tall with sativa like bud structure, lots of gaps between leaf sets for good light penetration.One short with more of an og kush structure. Haven't tried the more indica one. It still sprouted shit on the bottom after a 3 week in major prune job. The tall one was killer. Got 26 oz. off 5 plants in 5 gallon hydro pots under a DE HPS. Best I've had so far, no BS. I can't wait for the shorter one, she's frosted as hell, and going to finish in about 7 weeks. Extremely fast flowering, the taller one took about 8 1/2 to finish, but was under regular 1K HPS instead of DE. The DE makes a HUGE difference. If you can swing it, get one. Cheap on Amazon for about 158, 60 for the bulb, 185 for the ballast.

Just browsing for others results for comparison and figured I'd share..


Attitude Freebie Dinafem Cheese photo-period pictured mid week 5 of flower. Vegged for 30 days, Emerald Triangle Blend Recipe 420 soil (75%/25% added perlite) & just pH'd water for veg- Home mix of nutes for flower. Growing under 600watt LED.

Currently smells like rotting fruit/peaches and sharp cheese. One of my first freebies to grow into something I'm happy with

SLC_BUDS said:

Just browsing for others results for comparison and figured I'd share..


Attitude Freebie Dinafem Cheese photo-period pictured mid week 5 of flower. Vegged for 30 days, Emerald Triangle Blend Recipe 420 soil (75%/25% added perlite) & just pH'd water for veg- Home mix of nutes for flower. Growing under 600watt LED.

Currently smells like rotting fruit/peaches and sharp cheese. One of my first freebies to grow into something I'm happy with

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Those look very nice, I have some in my vault but looks like they just moved up in the rotation. Thanks for the pictures.