Sweet Seeds: BloodySkunk and BlackCream

Got this cool little Aero Garden for Christmas. Its a self contained hydroponics garden ment for herbs. I'm trying Cannabis seeds in it and seems to be working so far. It has full growth LED at 45watts.

The transplant went very well and the plants are loving the red solo cups. I'm applying lots of rooting fungus and bacterias. they will go into my small grow tent next week possibly because they already are getting too wide for the Aerogarden lamp.

Day 15: Plants look very healthy. Still under 45watt grow lights from AeroGarden. One bottom leaf looks sick but I dont think it will be a huge issue. These genetics are hard to kill. Plants seem to be shooting off strongly and if they are anything like the Red Poison they will start to grow very very fast in the next week. No room in my grow tent yet so they will have to stay put for a while. Day20 Repotted. Roots looked great. Some leaf issue with Black Cream. It got cold for a few days so I expect that was the cause. In the tent now.

Day 21:Had a fast, huge stretch with the Black Cream from day 16-20. Day 21:Bloody Skunk is fattening up with foliage and staying more squat for now. A few leaves have what looks like Calcium Def.. Same happened with my last grow of Red Poison. There must be an issue with what I am doing and or using. Been feeding/watering much more lightly than last grow. I don't want to have to flush my medium out. No colour changes yet, pre flowering has started. Day 22 Low Stress Training on Black Cream due to the fast stretch. I want to keep both plants at a relative height to be effective with the one lamp.

Went away for a week. Came home to wilted plants and 33C temperature :( Plants survived barely, with some yellowing. Black Cream is budding well and Bloody Skunk is showing preflower.

Black Cream is budding very well yet the Bloody Skunk still hasn't flowered. I am almost tempted to take clones from the BSkunk. Black Cream has not shown any colour change to Reds/Purples as of yet. I dont think it will. I am adding Terpinator and Sensizym now. The BCream smells much more Lemony than Red Poison did. It is also very oily to touch. Moving along well. I am thinking of "upgrading" my lighting to COB LED. Currently reading technical information and will likely build my own. If anyone reading this has input, please share.

Black Cream auto is pretty much done, flushing today and only feeding Bud Candy till done. Bloody Skunk finaly is showing flower. I had to force it at 12/12 because it just kept vegging and I want to move onward to other seeds. It looks very healthy though and should make some nice buds. Still havent noticed much colour change to red in BCream plant. Nothing with Bloody Skunk. I figured the nightime lower temp would help...we'll see. I have 5 Vero29SE Cobs coming so the lighting will be changed up to get full potential from any genetics. Also, I really dislike looking at the plants with the red/blue LEDs, so it will be a nice change to white light. Day4 of Black Cream flush. Still no significant buds on Bloody Skunk which I did a heavy defoliation on..... More can be cropped off yet but the top is fairly even with one site per branch

I would have had a much better harvest. Left this plant for a week unattended at beginning of flower. It was pretty much on deaths door, dried up being baked at 30c.... It survived though and I ended up with 25g of dried pungent buds. The smell is very pleasant, on the gummy/candy scent. Another Sweet Seeds grow finished from the Red Family, which never turned red. I must be getting all the non-red phenos unfortunatly. After 6 weeks of slow curing in jars and boveda packs this pot is very enjoyable. It is a smooth smoke, easy on your lungs. I'll take a guess at around 15% THC. It is not as potent at my Red Poison harvest from Sweet Seeds. The buds have a very nice scent of creamyness and fruity. There is no lemon or gasoline terps.

Bloody Skunk has taken over my tent. I had to light 12/12 force this autoflower. It is growing flowers very slowly. Seems like it will never finish. It has been flushed and fed very weakly for over 10 days. If I didnt live where its still winter I'd put it outside. Was given some Pink Kush seedlings. They aren't very healthy. I transplanted them into large pots with promixHP and perlite. Sprayed the rootzones with Piranha, Tarantula and Voodoo juice. They were rootbound and stripped most unhealthy leaves off. They wont get much light intensity unfortunately. Got my COB lamp from RapidLED but it was missing parts, so waiting on those also. Still waiting on COB parts..... Defoliated Bloody Skunk again. Trying to leave only one main top per branch so I have no popcorn sites stealing cola energy.. I may still crop off that bottom branch but want to wait until new lamp is in..Im sure the new lighting will make enough power to fatten lower buds. Got my Rapidled.com COB kit lights installed! I'm stoked with how bright this set is at 375watts and dimmable. I ordered 5 Bridgelux Vero29D COBs and a Mean Well driver. Three are 3000k 80cri and Two are 3000K 90cri. It is super bright, full spectrum and should be around 1000ppfd at 18inches. I also appreciate looking at the plants with normal white light, unlike the LEDs I had with Mars Hydro. The COBs can be slid on the rails to move them to a spot of your choice. It was fairly easy to assemble. I soldered and shrink tubed my dimmer and upgraded the power cord to 14g long cord, which I also soldered, shrink tubed and taped. I didnt want to use the Wago connecters and feel this is more safe and appropriate. I did use the Wago connectors for the lines to the cobs just so there is quick-disconnect without having to chop wires if I ever have to move it out.

The 375Watt Vero COB lamp is kicking ass in this little tent. I cant open it with full power and not have sunglasses on! The Bloody Skunk has started flowering like crazy and is drinking a gallon of water every 2 days now. I wish I never wasted my money on the initial Mars Hydro LED. Because I have my carbon canister inside the tent I have no room to hang both. I am thinking of installing it on the outside of the tent and adding the Mars lamp in a week or so for extra bloom lights. It will be very interesting to see in another 2 weeks. Day6: Added in the Mars Hydro ProII Epistar120 bloom light. All the girls seem very happy. Bloody Skunk is drinking a gallon every 48hours. All leaves look healthy, everything is growing well so let it be and we will see :)

Bloody Skunk has really started stacking the last week. She is very thirsty, drinking over a gallon every 2 days. The 375W COBs and 250W MARS Epistar LEDs have her budding at a feverish rate now. This is when I get excited about my grows...starting to see what you'll end up with. I kicked up the Bud Candy and started adding RAW bloom microbes to my medium. There is some slight yellowing at the very bottom fan leaves, nothing critical. The main stalk and branches are very strong and stiff, this plant could withstand a hurricane :) There will be around 15 colas on her. Should be an outstanding harvest if this keeps up. Watered yesterday with a bigger blast of nutrients and additives...trying to push the limits on her. Bud sites are filling in nicely but no frost is really there as of yet...uploaded video.

Drinking 1gallon (4L) of fluids every day now. All the budding sites are filling in very nicely, but slowly. There is little to none trichomes right now, has to be the genetics. No frost on bud leaves. I just want this plant to be finished already, she has been a creeper its entire life. Pink Kush in the tent has taken up any extra space and is budding also now. Day2 Had to do another defoliation. There was just way too much leaf growing tightly inside. No airflow in the tent through that mass.

From previous experience, the next week should really fatten these buds. My last two feedings were PH water because I saw some slight tip burn. There is some trics starting to build up now but at this point I know she will not be crippler. When it is time, I plan to really fade her out and off nutrients. There is still new growth at the tops of each cola and I think these will be the biggest ones I have grown so far. She looks healthy and happy so far but is slowwwwwww.

Slow, slow,slow...... The buds are filling in, gave it a blast of Advanced Nutrients Overdrive today. There is almost no frost and I dont think it will ever show up. If I had a sunny window, I'd just take it out of the tent and let her be. Seems like I've been tending to this girl forever. There will be a fairly large yield when it is done

Been feeding PH6.2 water with bud candy (sugars) for a few days and will continue until harvest. The buds packed in pretty well, as you can see one of them is around 14" tall and fat. Pictures dont do this plant justice in bud size because it is very leafy. The smell is mild, frosting is mild and I have another week to go at least..... todays feeding will get Final Finish additive to help wash nutrients out and hopefully get a fade happening. Added a video today :)

No more bulking up now although tops still look fresh white... I flushed this 3L pot out with 30L of water to get the run-off fluids to under 200PPM. (tap water is 170ppm). Shes been fed with only Flawless Finish now and some yellowing is beginning to happen at the very bottoms. Not a lot of crystals and still smells very much like ammonia, not skunkish. Its been a long journey with this girl and not over yet. The next weekly update SHOULD be harvest time, but I really want to fade out the nutrients so the smoke is smooth.

Pistals are browning, trics are mostly cloudy with very little amber yet (60x microscope). Leaves are still green, but fading to lighter colour now. A tiny bit more frosting is happening BLOODY Skunk! She still smells of cat piss urine and hasnt been fed anything but Flawless Finish for over a week. I suppose the amount of greenery leaf she had is keeping her fed all this time. The buds are pretty large but considering I used the entire lineup of Advanced Nutrients PH perfect and added in Terpinator, had her under 375watts of intense Vero29 COB lights and 250W of Mars Hydro epistar LEDs... I just do not understand why more frosting didnt happen. Next week will be the kill update and we will see how much WET weight she has. Video/pics added for my friend @Wheetobeme who seems to be the only person following this mess of mine :D :D :D

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