Early Skunk - Indoor to Outdoor

March 23rd, I put this Early Skunk seed into a shot glass of de-chlorinated water. I will be growing this for approximately 7-8 weeks indoors in coco/castings/gaia 4-4-4 until I transplant it outside.

Smooth sailing so far with Early Skunk. She is doing better than Blueberry, Phantom OG and Jack Herer, but has some competition from Green Crack CBD!

Great little plant so far! Grows well, isn’t fussy, I’m happy. Going into a 3-gallon fabric pot soon.

Lovvvve this plant. Awesome structure. Healthy, robust growth. Nice spacing. No issues. Can’t wait to see her take off outdoors. Transplanted to 5 gallon pot, which I hope covers me until the end of June without stunting her. Kelp / Alfalfa meal tea feed this past week. Compost tea in 48hrs.

I’m still loving this plant. Just continues to be absolutely trouble free, too. I’m high on Bubba’s Gift and it makes me want to say Early Skunk so far has the most “charisma” in Tent #2. You can’t not notice it. Environment really dialled in, lots of praying leaves and solid growth each day. Responded well to compost tea and soil/4-4-4 top dress.

A week of battles for this tent. Lotta pest activity. Bulb mites and Nematodes (never going to have regular perennial flowers and dahlia bulbs in the tent again), lessons learned. Active pest strategies tried: - listerine / water soak - Neem oil / water soak - Dr. Bronner soap / water soak - worm castings to boost balanced microbial life - insect Frass to provide chitin - diatomaceous earth top dress - mosquito Dunks prior to organic amendments to deal with any eggs/larvae in soil

Transplanted in 30 gallon fabric pot this week. Mycorrhizae, Insect Frass, liquid Fish hydrosylate, Humic & Fulvic Acid, Malted Barley, Aloe Vera powder fed to soil this week.

Well she’s doubled in size here in just a week’s time outside. No issues after transplant. Just rapid veg growth. So much so I’m not sure what to do with the bottom branching. Keep it or cut it. Goal this summer is NO POPCORN. I don’t want to trim it!

Growth still very aggressive so far. Good spacing of new growth on plant. Cut some lower branches that clearly were not going to be much. May top next week since she grew about 18 inches in the past week

She keeps growing strongly without any issues. Lower branches keep justifying their existence, which is great. I’m defoliating everything but the tips

I top dressed the soil with 4-4-4, Kelp meal, Alfalfa meal, malted barley, Humic & Fulvic acid, aloe powder. I defoliated a little, but she is structured beautifully (still!), and not a lot of work is required. I am removing inner and most lower growth, however. Since she’s so sativa leaning pheno wise I don’t want to top her. I grew a 12ft - 300+ gram Kali Mist in the same pot last year without much training and it was ridiculously awesome. Hoping for a lot of the same (without as much popcorn).

Just water this week. No feeding other than that, and no defoliation.

Defoliated and topped this weekend. Didn’t need to take off a lot of leaves. She’s a beauty and has great spacing and site development. Reminds me a lot of my pure sativa Kali last year. We’ll see how she shapes up over the next month leading into flower. Top dressed soil with Gaia Green 4-4-4 and first dose of 2-8-4, Alfalfa meal, Kelp meal, Insect Frass, Aloe Powder, molasses, fish hydrosolate. Attempting this grow without worm casting tea. Lake water as usual (it’s about 6.8ph normally, with double the Cal / Mag as most lakes 👌🏼)