Wedding Cake Autoflower Seeds

What Wedding Cake Auto is

Wedding Cake is one of the best known names in the cake and cookies family. The catch for a Canadian home grower is that the original is a photoperiod plant. It waits for the days to shorten before it flowers, and outdoors that pushes harvest late into fall.

Atlas Seed's answer is an autoflower backcross. A backcross, written Bx, means the breeder crossed the new autoflowering line back to the original parent. The point is to keep the autoflowering trait while pulling the plant back toward the Wedding Cake it started from. Atlas describes it in one line: their auto Bx of the classic Wedding Cake. They list it as an indica.

Effects

Growers describe the effect in the same terms as the cake and cookies family: a sweet-tasting, easy start followed by a heavy, settled body feel. The label calls it an indica, and the effect leans that way, with a calm head and a slow pace. This is mostly an evening plant. Take it slowly the first time: the label gives 19 to 23% THC, and strength can vary between plants.

Flowering, harvest and cure

Atlas Seed gives about 75 days from seed to harvest, which is quick: it moves into flower by age and then ripens over several weeks. In late flower you should see dense, frosty buds with thick resin and orange pistils. Check trichomes under a loupe rather than counting days, and cut when most heads are cloudy with some amber. Dense indica buds dry slowly, so give them ten days or so with gentle airflow before curing in jars.

Growing Wedding Cake Auto in Canada

Plant Wedding Cake Auto straight outdoors from the end of May into early July, after nights warm past about 10 C. Because this plant flowers by age, there is no need to wait for shorter days, and in the warmest regions two runs are possible. Sow it in its final pot, since autos dislike being moved. Dense cake-type buds are the main risk: in coastal BC and in Ontario and Quebec, a wet September can bring bud rot, so favour the earlier sowing dates and keep the canopy open. On the Prairies, sow by mid June so the last weeks do not meet early frost.

Wedding Cake outdoor calendar for Canadian cities

Wedding Cake flowers on age, so the calendar starts from when nights stay warm (about two weeks after the typical last frost) and counts about 75 days from seed to harvest.

Dates use typical frost dates for each city and shift a week or two with the year, so check your local forecast before planting out and in late September.

Who Wedding Cake Auto suits

Wedding Cake Auto suits growers who like the cake flavour profile but cannot wait for a photoperiod to finish in fall. It is a sensible fit for small tents, balconies and short Canadian seasons. The breeder, Atlas Seed, made it as an autoflower backcross, so it is also a fair pick for anyone who wants the original's traits on a short clock.

Similar strains at The Seed Pharm

These plants share a parent, a type or an aroma with Wedding Cake Auto.

• Girl Scout Cookies Autoflower Seeds, a cookies-family autoflower.
• Gelato Regular Seeds, a dessert-style plant from the same wider family.
• Purple Punch Autoflower Seeds, another dense, indica-leaning autoflower.