400 Watt HPS Soil Grow,4-XXX Skunks and 1-Green Goo

Another mini-update! Things are going well in my 24/0 mother/cloning chamber, the green goo is looking good despite some yellowing and spotting on lower leaves. This is probably due to the stress of reverting back to veg after 2 weeks or so under 12/12. I have the green goo pulled over sideways now due to lack of space and trying to make it bush as much as possible for clones. I was hoping to try and take a clone or two from the goo in the next 15 days or so although i'm not sure i'll have a cutting big enough and/or enough time for it to root by the time I start my XXL Big Bud seeds for my next grow. I'm tempted to try and just flower it and take some clones once it gets bigger, in the same way I took the XXX Skunk clones.

Also two out of the 3 XXX Skunk clones have definitely rooted even though they were taken from a plant that was over 4 weeks into flowering! Although I think the 3rd clone may die it was very small and had slim chances of survival from the start. Based on how my seeds do and if I do in fact get some clones from the goo or flower it, I should have about 7-12 plants to flower for my next grow.

Just wanted to throw in there too that I'm very happy I decided to cut the lights back from 12/12 to 8/16. I know there is a lot of mixed controversy about if it's ok or if it works or not but for me I would say it made a huge difference throughout the last week. A lot of grows I've followed seem to end up taking 10-12 weeks to finish their plants on 12/12, even if its suppose to finish in 7-8. I've noticed a complete overdrive in calyx swelling and resin production, rather than pistil/stigmas growth. I think using 8/16 the last week or two just makes your buds harden up and swell so much quicker and my plants haven't stressed a bit from lack of light, most all of my leaves are still 90-100% perfect green. Like a lot of the pros out there were commenting about, some plants are never ending sativas and will just keep making hairs/pistils, some say to flush and harvest, I say go 8/16 and let the buds harden/swell. I think I will probably continue to put my future flowering plants on 8/16 the 7th and 8th week, especially because this will help me stay on my schedule of a harvest every 2 months. Thanks for following guys!

I took down all of the small buds from drying after just shy of 3 days and left the main cola hanging probably for another couple days at least. They were very small and got crispy fast so I started them curing a little early but theres not much in a good size jar and i'm watching it closely. The small buds weighed 13 grams wet and since being taken off the dry line they weigh 5 grams altogether and I expect them to lose at least another gram or two.

Today is the end of week seven and the beginning of week 8. Plants #2&3 are bulking up and swelling fast, i'm planning on leaving them for another week and plant #4 for another two weeks. At the rate they're filling in these "due dates" may be cut in half, which is fine with me because I wouldn't mind being ahead of schedule with my next grow. Clones are doing well but i'm still waiting to get my big bud seeds in the mail and I hope they come before the end of this week. I want to give them a couple weeks of growing in my veg. box before they and the clones all go into the flower room on 12/12.

Here are a few pics of the small buds from plant #1 starting their cure:






Now the most exciting time, sure is getting quiet on here all of a sudden.....

I have been trying to chart out my results overall to keep track of my progress throughout this grow and future grows, which with enough data I hope to someday do a comparison and see what grow environment works the best/best for me. Especially since all my grows are designed to be bare minimum costs with a lot of "shortcuts" and "ghetto rigging" because money has been so tight for me. I also make sure I don't take away money from the important things like fertilizer, good seeds, and a strong light/lights, rather save the money from other places you wouldn't think of. Like my water/yeast/sugar jugs that I lined in a row on top of my grow setup to flood my grow area with CO2, these jugs gave me a steady and safe flow of CO2 for about 13 weeks. They would've gone longer had I not removed them for air sterilization/mold/fungus reasons during the 6th week of flowering, not that yeast will cause this but randomly the jugs will leak out sugar water when mixing them up and I was taking no chances once the buds got fat. These jugs cost me less than $10 for the whole 13 weeks because it only takes 1-2 bags of sugar at 1-cup per week to keep the yeast alive and burping.

Anyways sorry for being stoned and going on and on, here is a picture of one of the charts I did. It shows the trimmed wet weight of each individual bud, the combined dry weight of all the small buds, eventually the dry weight of the main cola once its ready, and a little other information on my grow.


Don't forget that this plant was about 5x smaller than any of my other 3 plants and because all the leaves were dying from the middle outward I feared fungus/root rot and took her about a week or so premature. None of my other plants had even the slightest symptoms and this one even had the sugar leaves starting to spot right in towards the center of some of the nice buds. I sacrificed what I figure to be about an 8th to a quarter dry weight if the buds had swelled the way the other plants had but then again it was almost as if the plant had stopped drinking water too. Fed the others 3-4 times and she didn't need any water once, anyways she'll have a more up and cerebral high with about 80%milky/15%clear/5%amber trichomes. At least this way I don't lose/waste her sticky skunky buds and/or infect my other plants that have massive colas. I don't expect to get much more than a quarter off her although 3/8ths would be a bonus at this point, I originally had hoped for no less than a half ounce off her because she was so small to begin with. I am more than grateful to her though for her effort, thank you little skunk, you made your daddy proud. *Stoned*

all i know is that bud loos like sme very nice smoke..lets see what the others turn out to be im sure you'll be just fine..Peace

Thanks Stinkbudd. My guesstimates have been almost spot on so far so i'm sure the other ones will be what i'm hoping for or more and either way like you said it's gonna be some amazing smoke. It hasn't even been curing for 24 hours and already has a very strong fruity skunk smell with almost no smell of chlorophyll. No signs of excess moisture either since i've jar'd them but the sticky buds definitely cling to the side of the jar once in a while haha. I can't wait to harvest the big girls, peace.

sounds good my man!!

The main cola has finished drying today and is starting its cure, it went from 14.2g's wet to 4g's dried with all the excess stem pieces trimmed. This means the total plant yield went from 27.1 grams wet to 9 grams dried but I expect to lose at least another gram or two. I've smoked a small bowl just to see how it dried and the flavor still has to come through a bit more but the high is so energizing and spacey and it burned very smooth and clean. I can't wait because these buds will have a nice two and half week cure before Christmas, i'm soooo excited guys, Merry Christmas!

Here are a few pics of all the buds together dried, the small ones have been curing for just over 24hours and the main cola is just starting to cure:

Nice.... now you have a nice sample batch of what's to come..... How long do you plan on curing?

OGPanda said:

Nice.... now you have a nice sample batch of what's to come..... How long do you plan on curing?

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At least 2-3 weeks for the plant I have already harvested because its buds are very small but probably closer to a month for the other three plants that still have to be harvested. Of course it will take me a while to smoke through of all of it so I figure some of it might even be jar'd up for 2-3 months before its smoked. What I have read about curing says you need a minimum of at least two weeks to bring out the flavor and psychoactivity of the bud so other than the little test smoke I had I will wait at least that long before sampling anymore. I have some good blue dream bud and am getting some new stuff tonight so I won't be too tempted and although the bud i'm smoking lately is crazy good my bud just looks so frosty its nuts. Makes me proud when my girl and my buddies are all ooing and awing over how it looks, especially under a nice white led light, lets you see the whole forest of trichomes!

Like cambells soup it's um um good, vey nice...

I got my ( XXL Big Bud ) seeds in the mail today and I got them germinating right away. I want to get them started and into the veg chamber for the next two weeks, so by the time the last XXX Skunk plant is harvested there will be 4 Big Bud sprouts, 1-2 XXX skunk clones, and maybe a green goo plant or two ready to start flowering.

While these 5-9 plants flower and finish during the next two months, I will be constantly cloning off of XXX skunk, XXL Big Bud, and Green goo mother plants. These clones will be veged in the same chamber as their mothers until the next harvest when up to 15 of them will take their turn in the flowering room. This process should be repeated every 2 months/6 times a year and with 2 out of 3 strains being early flowering and the constant veg/flower rooms, shouldn't be too difficult.

The XXX Skunk seems to be a moderate yielder, the XXL Big Bud is one of the highest yielders you can get and the Green Goo being pure sativa should get huge. This being said I have high hopes for breaking the one ounce per plant under 12/12 from seed/clone.

Here's a journal similar to what i'm trying to do that caught my eye, he has dry weights listed for all 15 plants he flowered under 12/12 from seed/clone: https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/151253-12-12-seed-harvest-1-a-54.html -(The dry weight figures for all the plants are half way down the page on the link).

That's all guys, hope all of your holidays are going great, mine are a lot better than some past years. Merry Christmas

Four out of the 5 XXL Big Bud seeds popped after 12 hours or so but I let them go just over 24 hours til they were a little bigger and the 5th seed had just started to open. I planted them earlier today into some peat moss seed starters and have them in with my clones in my mother/clone box. Two of the three XXX Skunk clones I took during the 4th week of flowering are doing amazing, the other one is holding on but may not make it. As for the green goo, I may just flower it since i'm not sure its going to produce big enough shoots in the next couple weeks to clone and then clone it a week or two into flowering. I will post some picture updates of the mother/clone chamber once the XXL Big Bud seeds sprout in the next couple days.

I need to save/take at least one clone/seed of each type in my veg chamber in order to use as mothers for cloning, this should leave me 3-4 Big Bud plants, 1-2 Skunk clones, and 1 Green Goo plant to flower this next time around. The remaining 3 mother plants will be used to take up to 15 clones for the next flowering period. 12/12 for 2months with 15 plantsx1-2oz/plant=15oz-2lbs-6xtimes a year. More than enough medicine for me and my buddies, Peace.

Today is day 54 flowering for the remaining 3 plants and 2 of them should be coming down in the next 2-3 days, while the last and largest plant goes on for another week or so before harvesting and making room for the plants growing in the veg. chamber. Also all 5 of the XXL Big Bud seeds were planted and after just over 24 hours all have sprouted and begun their journey. They will be going into the flowering room along with the various clones in just over a week.

Just thought I'd give a quick smoke report. The buds harvested from the little "runt" plant dried for 4 days and have been curing for almost six, and they definitely need another week or more minimum before they will be worth smoking. The high I got from the small bowl I smoked was an amazingly smooth mixture of body and head, which is good because it means i didn't take it too too early. The aroma in the jar is finally starting to stink like skunk and although the flavor is still a little bit harsh, green rips taste incredibly sweet and citrus like.

Today is Day 55 flowering and I harvested plant #2 this morning. This leaves plant #3 which is only a few days from harvest and plant #4 which is going to take at least another week. I was much more impressed with the quality and density of the buds of #2 compared to #1. Plant #2 gave 21 grams more trimmed, wet bud than plant #1, which is good but is still half as much as I was hoping for. The total yield from plant #2 was 48 grams of wet, trimmed buds, which should dry out to be about a half ounce. Based on the figures from this plant and the last I can tell that plant#3 should yield just shy of an ounce dried and plant #4 should be about an ounce and a quarter.

Anyways here are some pics of my 2nd Lady Drying:









Here is some of the small buds and sugar leaf trimmings. I didn't weigh it but I'm guessing theres about a quarter wet weight:



Here is the chart with the weight figures for the Harvest of Plant #2:


Here are both charts together from harvests #1 & #2,(Helps you compare):


That's all for now, I wish plant #1 wasn't having such health problems towards the end because I think another 8 days or so would've put its weight much closer to #2's harvest weight and quality. Either way all is well and the last two "big" girls come down in the next week to make room for their XXX clone cousins and the new neighbors, XXL Big Bud and Mrs. Goo. Peace guys and Happy Holidays

Damn, looks awesome.... I wonder how the others will taste. Do you have a pic of the dried bud, can you do a macro also?

OGPanda said:

Damn, looks awesome.... I wonder how the others will taste. Do you have a pic of the dried bud, can you do a macro also?

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Pictures of the dried buds from plant #1 are on the previous page.
Here's a comparison picture of the top cola of plant #2 still drying:



Small Bud:


Here are some pictures of plant #3, which is the second biggest plant and will be harvested next:




Plant #3 Top Cola:






Plant #3 Smaller Buds:





Sorry I know some of the pictures are a bit blurry, and again there are pictures on page 9 of the plant#1 buds dried and curing. Also a lot of posts that people may have missed, Peace.

The final dry weight for plant #2 is in, she weighed in at just over 48 grams wet and has reduced down to 14 grams of just amazing looking bud. This buds of plant #2 put the premature harvest of plant #1 buds to shame, and plant #1 is pretty good smoke too, haha. Here are a few pictures of the delicious buds my second lady made me, can't wait they are gonna be just over two weeks curing by New Years Eve!!!

Bud Porn-Plant#2-Dried-Beginning Cure:






More bud porn and harvest/yield figures are on their way!

Nice.... very nice. How is the smell of the dried product?