Cannabis - Breakfast of Champions
Genetics: Cereal Milk x Strawberry Gary
Flavor/Aroma Profile: Strawberry candy flavor, creamy cereal milk smells
Days to Harvest: 131 days for Breakfast of Champions 1 (from seed) and 154 days for Breakfast of Champions 2 (from seed)
Grow Notes: Soil grow
Yield: 135g (Breakfast of Champions 1) and 180g (Breakfast of Champions 2)
Breakfast of Champions is a cross between Cereal Milk and Strawberry Gary, which had a enjoyable high that is also very potent. I grew out two plants at the same time in one tent. One of the plants smelled like cereal milk while the other smelled more like strawberry candy. The leaves on Breakfast of Champions can get very dark, which makes it especially pretty to see during the flower stage.
Grow Setup & Nutrients:
Happy Frog soil with perlite added
Roots Organic Dry Amendments
Liquid Organics (flower only)
Surge (microbes)
HP2 (phosphorus)
Trinity (rhizosphere support)
Water with 6.5 pH
7 and 10 gallon pots
Vegetative Stage:
I grew two Breakfast of Champion plants at the same time. Both were started from seed. The seeds were germinated in a wet paper towel until they sprouted, then I transplanted into a cup with soil. I transplanted a bit later than I like to and the plants began showing deficiencies in their leaves. Their solid root structures helped them recover quickly once I transplanted them into 7 and 10 gallon pots.
I watered them for four weeks and then began amending with nutrients in week four. A week after transplanting to the 7 and 10 gallon pots, the plant canopies were getting wider, so I moved them to a larger tent with a more powerful light. Every 1-1.5 weeks, I would use a foliar spray with Extreme Serene from Roots Organix, which is a kelp based foliar spray. The growth on these plants was pretty slow, likely because they were put into such large pots early on. The larger pots also made it easy to over water.
At week 9, I defoliated the plants by removing most leaves below the top canopy. I used green ties to encourage the plants to grow laterally instead of vertically. I continued using the foliar spray weekly and watering every other day until the plants were flipped to flower. The Breakfast of Champions in the 7 gallon pot (BOC1) was growing a lot faster than the 10 gallon pot plant (BOC2), so I flipped them to flower at different times (and to space out the harvests). BOC1 was flipped to flower on day 75 of veg and BOC2 was flipped on day 98 of veg.
Flower Stage:
BOC 1:
Once I flipped to flower, I adjusted the light cycle to be 18 hours with light, 6 hours lights off. In week 2 of flower, I added trellis netting and moved some branches around to let more light get to the top sites. I fed a mixture of nutrients and dry amendments weekly during this stage. For nutrients, I used Roots Organics Microbes Surge, Bloom, HP2, and Trinity (600 ppm) and for dry amendments, I used bat guano, uprising, bloom, and diatomaceous earth. The diatomaceous earth helped kill off fungus gnats that were on this plant.
I continued to adjust the branches across the netting so lower growth had access to adequate light. On day 17 of flower, I defoliated the flower sites that wouldn’t make it past the middle of the canopy, which reduces the amount of larf, or immature buds that are annoying to trim and don’t amount to very enjoyable cannabis, in my grow.
By week 4 of flower, the plant started to get a lot of trichomes on the flowers and some leaves started turning purple. I temporarily lowered the light to just under 1000 ppfd (photosynthetic photon flux density) which measures light intensity, so the top canopy didn’t burn. In week 5, I did another defoliation. At week 6, I noticed signs of a phosphorus deficiency, so I added seabird guano to my dry amendments to address that deficiency. By week 7, the phosphorus deficiency resolved and the plant was doing really well in its environment. This is when I started to noticed the cereal milk smell. At week 8, the plant turned a slightly amber color and there were a lot of trichomes that still needed to develop. The last feed was around day 40 and I used dry nutrients for it since they take longer to break down. The plant didn’t need much past this paint. I did a final watering on day 55 of flower. I chopped the plant on day 59 and hung it to dry in a 4x4 tent.
BOC 2:
I followed the same nutrient and watering schedule for BOC2 through the entire flower stage. At week 1 of flower, I did a heavy trim of the lower branches (also known as lollipopping). I defoliated at the end of week 2 and continued to weave branches through the scrog net to stretch the plant out. At week 4, I removed a few more leaves as the buds continued to fatten up on the plant. At week 5, I added an extra feed of the seabird guano to get ahead of a possible phosphorus deficiency after the BOC1 grow had that issue. I also applied hydrogen peroxide to eradicate some fungus gnats, caused my root pH to go higher than it should. I started watering the plant with a lower pH than normal to bring the root pH down.
At the end of week 5, I did a light trim of some fan leaves that were covering up smaller buds. This plant had a much stronger smell than BOC1 and was much larger. At week 6 I noticed a few pollinated parts in the lower section of the plant, but nothing on the top buds. The smell of BOC2 was incredible and had great resin production. For weeks 6 to 9, I was pretty much on autopilot. I was watering about every other day and I stopped watering 4 days before I harvested. This plant wound up going to seed because of a light leak issue that I didn’t catch in time. I cut the plant down and hung it to dry on day 59 of flower.
Harvest:
I harvested both plants when I started to see about 20% of trichome heads having an amber color to them. BOC1 yielded 135g (trims/small yield not measured) and BOC2 yielded 180g (trims/small yield not measured). BOC2 ended up being more flavorful and gave a better high, but since it went to seed, it wasn’t an ideal grow.
Lessons Learned:
Plant went to seed
BOC2 had a light leak that I didn’t catch early enough, so I had some of the plant in the lower portion go to seed. The remaining bud that didn’t go to seed ended up being super flavorful, so it was a bummer to not get a full harvest from this plant. Light leaks are something I frequently check for in my plants now. The positive with this plant going to seed is that we really enjoyed this strain and now I have seeds from my own plant to grow out in the future.