Day 42:
This week I noticed bud growth slowing and a couple pistils are changing. With the skunk no 1 hairs seemed to darken well before it was ready looking like this girl is the same hopefully she shows some purple in late flowering like the mother as well. I bumped the top cola right on the tip and it didn’t change much for about a week and all the sudden yesterday it started again almost looks like a star on a Xmas tree haha growing fast again.
This plant is starting to bulk out nicely and the stems even the thinner ones are strong and capable of supporting good weight they are very stiff and when moving the plant or touching the pot it shakes for a good min trying to rebalance the weight. The main cola is nearly 12 inches and I’d say pushing a half oz easily and before the bulking out phase of flowering. I am still also noticing the lower buds with slight shade have more size then the upper buds, overall the lower plant has great bud growth and even the main stalk strangely is producing buds that are fair size. Pictures really do not do this plant justice she is very beautiful and large in person 2.5’ round easy takes up the majority of a 3x4 grow area glad I didn’t have anything else flowering on the same schedule.
The smell of this plant blows my mind I touched a bud lightly to feel density and my fingers literally stuck together with smell like I seriously touched a dead skunk freshly run over then it simmers to a very fresh and skunk juicy fruit/lemon/mint. Opening the tent is death in my house it’s skunk like harvest day and nearly foul smelling makes me chuckle every time I go out for a smoke 15-20 mins and come inside to what smells like hardcore skunk ass coffee brewing just lingering even in the farthest reaches 3 floors away in the house and behind 2 closed doors hahaha
Changed feeding schedule to 2L every 24 hours and amounts this week phased into ripening nutrients removing Ghegro from the lineup
Nutrient:
100% nutrient feedings per 24hrs 15-20% runoff at ph 6.15
Per gallon
Ghe florabloom 7ml
Ghe floramicro 4ml
Ghe CaMg+ 4ml
Ghe floragro 0ml
coco is a forgiving medium mate. make an error and it can be instantly flushed away if needs be. I love it as a quick grow throw together too. As long as you keep the ph around 5.8 going in all will be good. It leeches calmag from the plant and nutes so have some handy as your going to hit the most needy bit next. The gnats area pain in the ass but if you cover the surface with decent sand , the larvae get stuck and the adults cant get down to lay eggs. you can also try a 20%milk/80 water in a spray bottle to wet the coco surface and mist the plant with it too. it wont smell or do any damage at all but will kill any soft bodied insects as they breath through a membrane on their backs often and suffocate from the milk deposit. It will go straight through the coco too so no horrible stinky residue
@Ganjagrandaddy, thanks for the advice, yea I’m liking the coco compared to soil I just got the watering down I was still watering like soil up to a few weeks ago. Just waiting on some mesh pots coming today I’m going to try with my clones either way much better with coco.
Yes I been feeding CaMg+ which is organic base for soil but the bottle is almost done I feed usually 4ml per gallon throughout the grow. And will get some CalImagic once this bottle is done.
Adult Gnats I got under control they can’t fly far either to the floor to get squished or on the sticky pads it’s the young ones. I’m going to try the milk idea I recently used 9 parts water to 1 part alcohol and it literally destroyed spider mite population was only a few stragglers left and on another plus side it didn’t kill all my pistils on my flowering plant like insecticidal soap that killed barely any mites just pistils lol. So I totally believe and will try the milk lol thank you.
@Grnhead, thanks bud it’s a fun process found out some cool things along the way. So weird best weed I’ve ever smoked was on vacation in Jamaica called Columbian Gold (some really Skunk bud) and it turns out was one of the parent plants to Skunk No1 small world no wonder I like this particular skunk so much. Can’t wait to see what the lemon adds to it was a smelly one to