Afg x SS, Diablo x WW, Skywalker x WW in mixed styles

Oldschooldude

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Good day/evening all welcome to my set up. Good a time as any to spark up as I bring you all up to speed.

First off this was an exploratory effort in recent hybrids from a dear friend who was caretaking his buddy growing the herb Diablo and Skywalker and the occasional White Widow for relief. Upon his death, flower had begun and all the plants were allowed to seed with a White Widow male in his honor. These hybrids are the 1st generation in his memory.

The tent: cheap and 5x5x7 but metal framed and black gasket sealer did the job for light leaks.

the light: cheap but soundly made. iplant 1000w LED and as of today one of my Mars Hydro 300w from a few years ago I pulled out for temp reinforcement.

one ground fan: Honeywell HT900. Awesomeness.

one 4" inline w a 4" carbon scrub both Vivosun.

Two Three gallons, multiple 1g's and a 7 gallon complete lark.

Living Organic Soil, w mycos, red worm compost, powdered seaweed and upon repotting a mix of 50/50 perlite to soil.

the Vision: find the winner while exploring responses to different stressors, then initiate breeding program.

the Unexpected: be given strong cuts from a 30 yr private grow of Afghan #1 crossed w Super Skunk, said to not ever been bred w anything else. So far of that I have 3 phenotypes.

the surprise: I am waay ahead of seed stage, as of this posting it is week 6.2 of flower.
In this first picture, my tightly stacked af afg x ss pheno 1. the stalked smells of burnt rubber and Moracan hash at that time. the next photo is as of yesterday.20190602_121728.jpg 20190714_125245.jpg

Not the biggest buds w 2 weeks to go but fairly consistent in growth, slow cold 2 + month veg, long winter and soil compacted, fixed that for 2.0 generation.
What is there is dense citrus burnt rubber funk. Def trimming it harder in the fan leaf dept and farther up each cola, yet still covered in trics w 2 weeks max.
Obligatory bud shot:

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Afg x SS pheno 2, the fluffier bud boogaloo: stricter manifold less lst:20190714_125114.jpg
This smells of pink grapefruit lemony swamp skunk.

Skywalker x W Widow, yes there is a commercial variety marketed as White Walker btw. This is pure sweet orange w sandalwood hash behind it, love that. Leaf fade has just begun though i reckon two perhaps three weeks max, but truly hard like a brick colas, decent production of trichs but not what's in my vision.
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... about that, uh awkward AF design there was a bend to the main cola and that is when I found out Skywalker's tend to break. TDIL: fragile, top only no bendy bendy. The long branch to the left shot out as the stem recovered. (the top went on to clone and lead a productive life in the bungalow veg room like a boss.) like yoga flowing w it. Regardless what showed up next to it in another 1 gal is hitting all the right marks genetically the rest is to be dialed in and breeding will commence.
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What I like: tight dense reasonably sized colas pure white and iced liked it rolled in crushed diamonds. Sativa characteristics in the leaf suggest maybe a stronger Sativa dom hoping for a solid Afghan body slam somewhere in the end. For sure the White Widow had a say in the genome distribution, trichs are large stout stems, clear as day too atm. It's a keeper in my book, male skywlker x ww pollen already grown and saved, harvested one week ago. I've several clones of this for breeding .

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More in the next post. Thank you for your presence .
 

Oldschooldude

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So about that Skywalker x WW pheno #2, it went 12/12 at 14 inches tall a 12 days after I topped it and it still stretched 16.5 inches. well for the last 48 days the cut from that plant has been vegging. Here it is last week.
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Thinned it out today no pic atm.

I mentioned 3 Afgh x SS phenos, here is the third 1 week after thinning out and cleaning the center. Three month veg transplant to 7 gal a month ago, 12 main colas about 12 to 14 inches several minor 6 to 8 inch colas. Just went into flower tent today. 20190715_121510.jpg
well that's it for now everyone, off to bed. Cheers.
 

Oldschooldude

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the Diablo. 20190714_125454.jpg 20190714_125513.jpg
So I think w all the plants next time i will use a 50/50 mix of coco loco and ffom, trim more aggressively before flower clearly the fans need to go in the picture - just trimmed them off... and more in the 3rd week of flower and lower the LED for a little more density on top buds. im trying to get 12 more days out of the AfxSS, to pack on some weight but i must say an early test bud did A - OK
 

Oldschooldude

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so i transplanted skywalker w widow to a 3 gallon yesterday and this morning i said the heck it is going in the flower tent. Company is coming gotta thin out the veg tent, stuff all the rest into a closet setup and get the guest bedroom ready. the things we do.
a nice morning blurple group shot.
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Also i notice one skywalker ww was really getting close so its small enough of a plant that it can chill in a discreet spot in the garden till death comes for it :bigjoint:
muhhahahahaaaa ha. :hump:
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Am thinking one week or less as trichs are all white and I want one of these harvested more on the upside of the buzz:blsmoke:, been on the couch more or less for 1.5 years fighting my mind. went out put an exorbitant amount of cash downpayment on a 12' Bote Flood paddleboard in classic wood grain thank you to motivate myself into a better state of mind, health, to stop being such a howard hughes level of a shut in. For me cannabis isn't the answer movement is. herb is basically my duff beer, my smoothie enchancer ( fresh greens rule) and as someone who gardens extensively a source of visual and olfactory joy. any how... cheers.
 

Oldschooldude

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thought id open this entry up w a shot of Afg SS before its 2 days of enforced cold dark seclusion. All five plants have been harvested as of this morning.
think i was kidding about dark cold environment?20190728_183305.jpg
yeah, my buddy drops his temps from 80° to 60° in his grow op and gets ridiculously frosty potent results. I've no such pricey set up, no separate ac etc but i do have a new large fridge and excellent takeout and delivery restaurants and no grocery bill this week lol. I admit the buds went dank just upped the skunk factor in two days. Mind game? maybe but so far i do not think so.
The Skywalker x W Widow is my favorite to be fair, the best sized tops of all four strains, def the frostiest and a breeze to grow.
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What I truly enjoy is learning, esp about plants so this run has shown me what style of grow each strain works well with what yield that can be expected (modest as heck at 1 gal lol) and of course the type of buzz. I pulled one sky x ww bud a week early, 50/50 clesr to white. rolled a joint last night and was very pleasantly surprised at the smooth citrus flavor that shut out the grassy just picked taste and it delivered an excellent high, a bit racy given its ripeness level but promising results. looking forward to a good cure process. what is neat too is that the clone i took off it before flower is 5 times the size of this plant, should be cut 3rd week of Sept.
oh and the little plant in the fridge has a clone too, about 7 x's the volume of that plant, so freaking excited about that.

OK So is what I've grown SS ? What is it's essential nature O.S.D? i must tell my many many readers * slow eye roll* that its some really pungent odor, but not RKS - for certain - but def skunky funk, the citrus odor had a transition like a Stephen King character, went sweet and clean to mutated into a dank almost fuel like skunk odor w/o any sign that change was coming. I did keep waiting for the upper calyx to swell but the trichs were half bronze and f it that's my preference so out came the hand pruners. yield and smoke report will take time, i cut the whole plant dry ten to twelve days then trim, dry a bit more and the jar for cure so all you readers will have to wait a bit. Cheers.
 

Oldschooldude

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thought id update this ripper of journal w generation #2 skywalker x ww. huge difference. 1st off I vegetated this plant twice as long as the other in a larger container and I are found that this makes a huge difference in the flowering time for this plan. I kid you not the entire flowering process is 6.6 weeks with 50% bronze trichome Halfway down each stalk and all the way down the stock what is not bronze is white - not clear. still working for better light penetration hence lot of popcorn but hey its a big chunk of Sativa genetics forming this plant so yeah no problem.20190908_132649.jpg
sparse globular growth but surprisingly dense. Interesting Li despite the maturity of the trichomes there is none of the overall swelling you see in the calyxes typical of most cannabis plants. Not certain if this is due to LED use or not.20190908_133412.jpg
oh my gosh lol I brought this outside for a photograph in the Sun and I realize that once this planet warms up which only took 5 minutes you can smell it from the front yard. Wow. inside at 77°f it is much much of a tame subtle fragrance outside its dead skunk soaked in Lemons and Lebanese hash.20190908_132943.jpg
 

Oldschooldude

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about three days from the harvest, photo taken yesterday, its been under two 1k Leds (Iplant, Amzn 89 dollahs each lol) for almost 1.2 months, 1.3k leds before that.20190918_192100.jpg
this got snapped during the absolute ghetto style hanging of the tops so it got chopped. About 30% clear, 30% bronze 40 % white it was located halfway down the plant. Very dense Afghan x Super Skunk nug.20190919_113646.jpg

The largest most mature tops will come down, the mid to lower section will get more time if needed, depending in the trichomes. Thinking a dry weight guesstimate should hover around 2.5 to 3.3 ounces. Group shot of the main tops plus a finger tip. Sadly this is the best pic I have of this group20190918_192116.jpg
The Skywalker x W Widow yielded 1.3 ounces of some sweet smoking herb. This is the 2nd time it was ready at about 6.6 weeks under the leds, there were no other waves of trics coming its was bronzed strongly, leaves were fading... it is what it is. when put into flower both plants were at the two week stage by about 6 days, just exploded into it. Hung dry for 6.5 days while i was out of town, jarred n burped tucked away for the cure.
 

Oldschooldude

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took some Afgh x Superskunk at 50/50 white bronze trichs.
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decent solid buds, this about 1/10th of it letting the rest go towards 65% bronze.
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so stoked, ive nearly 4.5 months supply at not including above pics and the rest of the plant which appears to be near 3 ounces, too cool.
 
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