Skunk #1 Sensi Seeds: First-time Grow West Australian

Oops, forgot to mention that I FINALLY received my first order of Afghan Kush normal seeds from seedmadness. They were originally sent the 17th of Feb and never got here. I then chased them up and they said I should pay for a T-shirt 'cause then when they send a new batch it'll be less conspicuous. Anyhoo, I received the second batch, but there was never any fucking T-shirt!!!! I 'spose I have to ask for the money for the top back now.... Random!

Will have to start harrassing Seedsman about my no-show White Widow fem seeds now too....

At least I have some seeds for the next grow!!!!

PPS.

lol

I FIMed the two skunk ones today after I took the pic. I read an article on how to do it, so I think I did it right. I used a pair of nail scissors! Bit of toe jam should do the trick....

Even though I suspect not many of you folks are following this, I thought I'd try and bring you back with some of this kind of love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I81I6sQR-yk

And some close up pics to boot.

I'm thinking the 2 Skunks might be starting to show sex. Especially the closest one. Much more squat and bushy than the back one, which has stretched a bit more. What do you guys think?

Nice - got yourself some gnarly looking tops there! I don't see any definitive signs of sex there quite yet, but you can really see them maturing with the alternating branching near the tops - that's a good sign you'll see either balls or hairs very soon! I'm liking how tight the nodes are - a real nice and bushy plant!

If you want to know the sex, wait till your branches get a few inches, then take a cuttin of a brach, soak in water for a day, then cut the end back a little bit, dip it in rooting hormone(I use clonex), and put it in loose soiled small pot. in 1-3 weeks it will either root or die. If it roots place it in a 12/12 light cycle and the clone will show it sex. Thats if you are ancious, if not then wait to c. males arent always bad. you can take the pollen, and put it on other females to get desired genetics.

@Dayzt, Thanks man. I don't know what I'm doing but I'm having a red hot crack at it!

@Jamaicanskunk, thanks for the suggestion. I'm happy to wait and see, to be honest. I'd be happy with even just one of the four being female. If it's one of the Skunk #1s then I'll be happy as Larry.

Fuck yeah man thats all i can say!!!!!!!!!!!!! hit me up i wanna talk

tricka said:

Fuck yeah man thats all i can say!!!!!!!!!!!!! hit me up i wanna talk

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I'm at the pub dude!! $10 dollar jugs at my local... I'm PM when I get home!

ahhh dont worry too much man, go and get hammered at that price

It was just about our plants?

you probly wont get to many appearing that interested man till the bud porn starts happening
my journals are allways kinda dead till the action starts happening lol
just stick with the journal even if ya think not many are interested cause if anything it will give you stuff the refer back on to later on if need be
keep up the good work man

odlaw said:

you probly wont get to many appearing that interested man till the bud porn starts happening
my journals are allways kinda dead till the action starts happening lol
just stick with the journal even if ya think not many are interested cause if anything it will give you stuff the refer back on to later on if need be
keep up the good work man

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Thanks man, I was like "damn, it takes for ever to upload pics!" and I was wondering what the point of it all was if no-one was watching. But you're right, it'll be great to look back on it later.

Here are some more pics from today, just showing the difference in size and shape between the Skunk #1 and the bag-seed plants. The skunk were germinated about 4 days before the bagseed, which I imagine would explain some of the difference, but it's been a while now, and I find it puzzling that the bagseed won't stretch at all. The back skunk is far more stretchy than the front one, but that could be explained by sex or how I topped 'em. I stuffed up a FIM on the front one I think, so I went back and topped both Skunks again. The back one is leaping out of the pot and the leaves are pointing upwards almost, where as the front one is more relaxed and denser. I haven't touched the bagseed plants yet. No point in topping them if they won't reach up! I was going to scrog this grow, but I'm thinking against it since I have such a big difference in vigour between the two strains. Raising the lamp might induce stretching in the bagseed, but I don't want to promote that anymore in the Skunks!

Hmmm, what to do, what to do...?

I'm happy with the way it's all going, though.

Any sign of sex yet??? No idea...

I was wondering about the canoeing of the fan leaves, and I just realised what it is: magnesium deficiency. There's that sticky in RIU about deficiencies and how they manifest in MJ and bam, it was so obvious! Also, everyone says that there are Mg and Ca issues with Coco. I was sort of hoping there'd be enough Ca in the water supply (since it's so fucking hard!) but obviously there isn't. I'm gonna go and buy some Epsom Salts today (or I might even get Cal/Mag from the hydro shop if I can be arsed driving so far) and do up a fresh batch of nutes with it. I could always apply it with a foliar spray I suppose. I'll think about it...

The other concern is the stunted nature of the bagseed plants. Don't know why they're lying low. I've raise the light today a couple of inches to see if they'll stretch.

Also, I think my ballast is stuffed. I went to turn on the light today when I got back from work (just to see what I was doing when in the tent) and it was just making the bulb flicker.... Hmmmm...

I knew something was gonna fuck up soon, and there you go - all in one hit.

Gonna flush with distilled water too.

Ballast is fine. I just tried to start it when the globe was still hot. An hour later it started fine.

Gave the plants a good long drink today. Distilled water, Seasol, Amino Acids and epsom salts. See what happens with the normal fertigation tonight and tomorrow.

dont use epsom salts or any salts on coco man i cant sress this enough coco has alot of salts in it naturally get something like dr repair thats made for coco
the cupping to me looks more like to much nitrogen i had same problem with my ww i just flushed the crap out of em and washed out the res and refilled with fresh soup

Pickup up some kind of Cal/Mag and water lightly with it. What your seeing is the calcium/Magnesium Deficiency that comes with coco. You just need to add that in on the regular to keep the deficiency from showing up. Otherwise looking great man. Hope your having fun with it

i neeed my fix.....help

Hi there, im watching lol . Ah have a look for uncle bens thread on plant moisture stress I think it is, I'll have to doublecheck for you. I had this issue early on, all the edges of the leaf tips curled up. The problem was excess salts in the soil, whats happening is because there is to much salt in the soil the plant is desperatley trying to deposit moisture from within itself to the roots in attempt to dilute the salt, and save itself, and leaf edge curling is the result, Perhaps this is your problem, either way sounds like a big flush/leech is in order. Especially if coco naturally has high salt,

Hey OzGirl! Thanks for the input. The coco I'm using is a cheap one from Bunnings which might explain the salt issue. I know Canna coco is soaked in fresh water for quite some time to flush out the salt. Apparently in some parts of the world where they make coco coir they use sea water to wash it or something. Canna is meant to be all about the pure H20 method though. Either way, I haven't noticed any new occurances of the canoe-leaves. All the new growth is pretty normal.

I've taken Odlaw's advice and not used Epsom Salts in the res mix. I'm just disolving a tiny amount in water with a very small touch of SeaSol and Canna Nutes (like the tiniest amount!) and applying it as a foliar spray. Sprayed it last night and checked this moring and so far there's been no adverse effects. I'll monitor.

In other news, the plants are really starting to bush up and the end of some of the shoots are starting to zig-zag like they're coming into maturity. I'm looking for flower primordia, but am not really seeing anything identifiably gender specific (even with a magnifying glass). I guess I'll know when I flip them to flower in a couple of weeks. Really anxious about both Skunks being male. That would suck a whole bunch of nurry... I really want to start cloning the Skunk #1, 'cause I don't want to grow from seed every time, and I'd like to have a faster turnover by using older/larger clones. I'll be storing clones at a friend's house so I'm not pushing crazy numbers at home. I don't want to grow more than 4 plants at a time. I'd prefer to avoid gaol time should I get busted, obviously...

The bag seed plants are finally starting to grow vertically, albeit painfully slowly. Their leaves are a gorgeous dark green, and the internodes are really tightly spaced. Who knows what they'll be.

Anyway, thanks for those that are following and commenting and to those that are following and lurking anonymously sans comment. Your presense is appreciated.

Peace, pot and poon (or penis, if you're a sassy lassy).