LSD Indica and Skunk #1 Continued

topic posted Sun, June 28, 2009 - 8:39 AM by  offlineD
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Day 24 flowering

For anyone concerned about security from a smell point of view, both of these - keeping in mind that the LSD is a skunk #1/Mazar blend - are without question the least smelly weed I've ever grown. I think you could grow this without odor control - might stink up later, though?

Also, the skunk #1 is like white widow in that it is really easy to grow - although, white widow is quite stinky. If one has trouble with WW or skunk #1, perhaps best to just buy it! White Widow is particularly indistructable but I don't anticipate ever growing it again. I grew it cloned along with Power African and that meant that I grew it for about six months and just burned out on it. Also, the PA was so much better than the WW it wasn't even funny. I would put the Power African right up with Jack Flash as the best weed I've ever grown or smoked.

I didn't do hardly any cropping on these because I'm only grow four plants, cut out the bottom branches to get air flow in there and take out those really unproductive buds but little else. Then I noticed that one of the LSD's crown colas was really thin? It is the "branchiest" of the three LSD plants and it has two branches with larger, denser buds than the crown cola. So I took out all the branches to see if I could drive growth into the crown cola and it appears to be working. I wouldn't recommend this at all, especially this late in flowering but I did it as an experiment and will likely get slightly less bud as a consequence but we'll see. I've learned more through "experimenting" than books, honestly. Nothing like hands on.

Still have leaf curl but it is not getting worse. I may have to add an additonal in line fan to my light exhaust, I'll keep a watch on it. Certain now that the leaf curl is heat and almost certain too much light played into it, including the Dutch Master Liquid Light which I have stopped.
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    Re: LSD Indica and Skunk #1 Continued

    Fri, July 3, 2009 - 3:31 PM
    Day 30
    leaf curl under control - might have also been some nutrient burn on LSD may be extra sensitive to nutrient but it's not keeping them from frosting up. Skunk #1 hairs turning now.

    Will start the Shooting Star formula next week. Get's so exciting when harvest closes in! O boy O boy fresh skunk all up in the House
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      Re: LSD Indica and Skunk #1 Continued

      Sun, July 5, 2009 - 6:22 PM
      I was reading that CO2 enhancement does not really benefit plants with fluorescent lighting because the light is not strong enough to allow the plant to use the extra CO2. Since changing over to the sodium light, the buds are biggest I've ever grown and I suspect that this interplay between light and CO2 is exactly the prime driver here. I had been wondering through numerous grows (with CFL fluorescent) why the CO2 did not have a demonstrable effect? Also, I've been spraying them twice in the morning when they use the most CO2 with distilled water to keep the humidity up and this is proported to increase CO2 usage also. I'm probably the only guy in the world spraying buds with water to INcrease humidity.

      Starting to see all the buds turning color so hit them with the Shooting Star Bud Expander. Usually around this point I start a - usually - about three week flush with distilled water in order to basically accomplish what these additives are doing and thereby I can juice them until three days before harvest and hit them with Final Flush. I've always used black strap molasses for this before but if this shooting star works as well as the BudXL, I should be impressed. The BudXL is used just after flowering starts and is proported to bring sugars from bracts into the bud and I think it has done its job. Molasses I give about the same time I start the final flush normally, flushing it out the last week or so.

      I've always been a pretty mellow grower but with the commerical aspect looming I know I'll have to be extra careful about products. For personal growth I've always said, "what the hell, good enough" because you could make yourself crazy and spend a fortune trying to absolutely max everything out. So I got 90 grams off of that plant and not 110 grams? especially if that extra 20 grams cost you a fortune. But adds up a lot more when you are growing a hundred plants as opposed to seven!
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        Re: LSD Indica and Skunk #1 Continued

        Mon, July 6, 2009 - 9:38 AM
        It's premature because the fat lady hasn't sung yet but this Skunk #1 I would highly recommend to a new grower who wants an indica. (I have a lot of faith that she will sing just fine) It's not fancy but it is the least smelly weed I've ever grown and believe me if you've never grown smell becomes an issue at the end unless you are somewhere really isolated and do not expect any delivery or repair people to come during the flowering period of roughly two months. But this Skunk #1 is also bulletproof reminds of White Widow - you'd have to beat them will sticks to kill them. Very domesticated good for guys who just can't resist over feeding! This counts for a lot especially for new growers. It's like marrying an easy going spouse instead of high maintenance!

        especially the LSD have a fruity smell when I work in them but it is not pervasive even at this stage - my wife always complains so I would know. She says, "Oh god it stinks in here" and I think, yeah, smells like heaven better smell, dammit
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    Re: LSD Indica and Skunk #1 Continued

    Sun, July 19, 2009 - 1:07 PM
    GROW CONCLUSIONS

    tribes » Health & Wellness » Medical Marijuana » topics »
    LSD & Skunk #1 Conclusionstopic posted Today, 12:57 PM by D Sky delete entire topic


    I choose these two because I have never grown indica before and considering MM biz and that most patients seem to prefer the indicas for their higher cannabinoid contents, so I wanted to get up to speed as much as I could before committing to a hundred plants. Knowing how important experience is in such matters, I felt that the best way to get up to speed quick was to let the Skunk #1 (orginal) and then a few series of skunk #1 hybrids teach me what I need to know. You have to listen and pay attentin because the plants speak really really softly and then you have to weed through a lot of the shit they say because it is just nuts, frankly. Still, the plants tell me more about what to do than books. But skunk genetics is everywhere so I decided to hook my star to its by trying to understand it as much as I could in three grows from the ground up.

    first off unless one is just curious, I would select Super Skunk instead of skunk #1. It could be grown okay in a sea of green with a short turnaround maybe two week grow. (I vegged these 36 days this grow) Budding finished in just over seven weeks so it is fast. It is very domesticated and hearty and seems to be fairly tolerant of nutrients - not like White Widow that could probably grow in a bucket of piss. It yielded really heavily on the crown cola but also had some enormous branches with buds as big around as my wrists and 12 inches long. I would say don't top it and be selective about which branches you leave, leaving ones that in your set up will get the most light. the main cola is not as fat as some of its sister LSD's growing in the same hydro set up but it is a solid mass thicker than a soup can. The super skunk should yield even better and yield better on the branches and have more crystals. This would be a disapointing grow for the first grow as it did not crystal up til the very end and then not at all on the fan leaf. Do not be fooled into think this means that it is not strong. It is kind of a plain jane now in the cannabis world but while it is definately not the sexiest weed around, it is reliable, hearty and rewards with enormous buds.
    THE HIGH - this is the most important thing and it is easy as a grower to be seduced by big buds and especially big buds with lots of glistening white crystals. It is exactly like women. If you as a man choose a woman based solely upon her good looks and big breasts, then you are fool - you have to smoke her first man to see what she is made of! (the last only applies in terms of long term committments and is not meant to disparage one night stands with beautiful, big breasted women in any way) It has a very heavy body load and would make a great sleeping pill if you cannot find your hammer. I will be growing some Super Skunk my first grow just for this reason. If patients need help sleeping especially or if they just like that can't-move-drooling-on-your-chest narcotic high. It has a nice fruity and spicey flavor and is kind of like this car I drove once in that there is not a damn thing wrong with it and it had everything in it I wanted but it just didn't have that ... something special. She's just a good old girl. Sure wish I had another medical grower to legally trade for some kind of sativa. i wouldn't mind having a little around but not as much as I have.

    LSD - Barney's Farm Feminized LSD

    I like the way indicas grow. they are like thick women with meat on their bones, wide hips and great big thighs while sativas are willowly, tall and thin. I really got into them just yesterday cutting away the bigger fan leaves until I could get a good look at what I have. I have kind of coped a feel here and there but I don't like to get into them too much before harvest, kind of superstition? Holy Moly, due to too much heat from the sodium light the very tops of the buds on the LSD's are small maybe as big around as two fingers but below some of the buds are as big around as a professional football! O I like this girl, yes indeed. It has a medium body load and a powerful, trippy head high just like advertised. Having had a lot of experience with sativas, I find the high very interesting. It's like getting a trippy high of a sativa but it is not how can i say? so clean, the body high sort of grounding you. It's good. It's like having an orgasm while the love of your life holds you tight whispering, I love you. Both thumbs up. O may not be so great for sleeping. She would be great if you want to hit it at night and lay in bed giggling and tripping out most the night

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