22 Fast Skunk

Northern_Ent May 25: transplanted as they were stretching under the fluorescents and it’s nice outside. Into 5 gallon bag and a 5 L square pot for later planting in ground.

Northern_Ent May 29: planted one Skunk 2.0 Fast Version directly in ground. Dug large hole first and partially filled with premium soil and then covered with field soil to surface. Planted beside an 11Roses x Super Skunk Auto cross which is from feminized seed that I created last year. The cross is 18 days older than this Fast Skunk plant.

Northern_Ent June 2: Skunk 1 is still struggling but hopefully improving. Skunk 2 is more robust and loving being in the ground. June 8: skunk 1 seems to have lost its apical growth tip or something as it’s just not thriving. Considering culling this one.

Northern_Ent June 11: Skunk 1 does not have a growth tip and is not really growing. Will cull leaving me with a single Skunk plant in the field. June 14: mainlined. June 15: culled Skunk 1, and Skunk 2 is doing fine.

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Northern_Ent June 25: my only remaining Fast Skunk is doing fine in the field. Topped and supercropped to finish manifold.

Northern_Ent July 1: looks good but lower leaves were showing P deficiency. July 4: did second round of topping to finish the manifold. July 6: not a lot of growth this week as it has been cool and rainy. Hotter weather over next two weeks though so we should be good.

Northern_Ent July 9: hardly done any watering so far this year because it has rained so much. July 13: looks good.

Northern_Ent Lots of rain and minimal watering.

Northern_Ent Looking good if a bit neglected. I need to do a bit of weeding. July 27: weeded and watered. Seems to be growing at about an inch per day and almost starting to flower which is awesome.

Northern_Ent July 31: started using soluble wood ash as K source. See today’s Gorilla Gelato diary entry for details.

Northern_Ent Looking good considering how badly I’ve neglected these domestic four in the field. Mostly just leaving them to the rain and sun.

Northern_Ent Aug 14: looks good. Aug 19: I’ve found a trick for outdoor growers that is mentioned in a single paragraph in Ed Rosenthal's Growbook. Far red 730 nm light at dusk for a few seconds puts plant into ‘dark mode’ without having to wait two hours for the light sensitive hormone to degrade. So 9 hours of darkness like we get here now is worth 11 h which is enough to get most plants flowering. It’s like getting a 26 h day which is handy and should get plants flowering about a month earlier. I use the end time of Civil Twilight as listed on timeanddate.com for Edmonton as my start time each night. This is currently changing 3-4 min earlier each night. Mainly using this on the big Bubble OG manifold that got too big for me to cover like I did for the other photoperiods. Also trying it on this plant which is awesome and likely doesn’t need the help. Forevergreenindoors.com has a 4 foot 730 nm light for 100 US, and it is lightweight and durable enough. Would be better if battery powered but okay for me as a corded light.

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Northern_Ent Aug 28: this plant looks really good, and i did some defoliation to improve air circulation down low.

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Northern_Ent Sep 29: looks good but quickly running out of season here. Depending on the weather this might make it before a hard frost hits sometime in October.

Northern_Ent Sep 31: looks good but hard frost is coming soon… Oct 2: added Scrog net mostly to support lowest limbs. Oct 6: full round of nutes with the watering.

Northern_Ent Oct 8: looking good and great fall weather continues.

Northern_Ent Oct 15: still going with great fall weather but ending soon. Oct 22: took it all 1815 g wet. Mostly nice and firm buds with zero bud rot or other pest problems. Nice tough strain.

Northern_Ent Very nice robust plant that did great. Seems like an exceptionally good outdoor plant as you’d expect for a fast skunk. We had great weather here since July but we did have hail on September 7 that did minor damage to this plant. Flowers ripened quickly at the end. I’m very proud and a bit surprised that it ended up producing nearly a pound of dried buds. Between this one and my other big field plant (11Roses x Super Skunk) my arms and hands were getting tired during the final chop. It was manifolded into eight colas and branched heavily so there were lots of bud covered branches. Normally I would have left the lower buds to ripen for another few weeks but we’re down to just 10 h daylight already and there is minimal UV to produce trichomes. Could go a bit longer but wrapping things up for the season.