HYDRO Project Sam

[UndergroundFarmer]

Chop happened for the three Skunks in hydro this morning! I moved the "portable" Skunk to the new 4x4 tent to finish up one more week in the company of four Purple Haze clones just getting well into flowering. Trichs on the hydro girls were about 80% milky, 10% amber and 10% glass. They all sprouted fresh flowers just about the time that the seeds were becoming mature. The girl in coco was started about a week later as a backup and is showing about 70% milky and 30% clear now. The Skunk from the right rear may be one of the heaviest yielders I've grown so far.

Pics will follow. I've only found one seed on the tent floor so far. GTH dropped well over 200 by the time I chopped them. I'm hoping that for the smaller number of seeds in the Skunk grow that they will yield far fewer green seeds because of the extra time. I think the smoke/vape test will show that the extra time was worth it too. I add vape because I bought a Pax 3 for my wife after she got her medical card for her condition. I liked it so much, I bought my own yesterday. The flavors from buds really shine in the Pax as opposed to combustion. I tried Acapulco Gold first and it tasted heavenly!

Back to work. I've got a hydro setup to dismantle!

 

[RagWeedDWC]

Can relate to dismantling hydro.. Following your grow has convinced me to go back to photo's, I like the consistency of having closes. Great grow, and great pictures!

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

Thanks! The hydro setup is indeed torn down now. I'm finding crap in the black tubing and I think I'm going to replace it with flexible tubing in both setups. I've still been paying for moving plants from coco into hydro because that coco is a bear to get out of everything and the bits stick in roots and cause root rot. I noticed rot in the skunk's root balls and I believe it is caused by that. The nutes I use may not help there too because of the organic matter in them. I might switch to clear liquids in hydro and keep the other for coco grows.

 

[RagWeedDWC]

I never did coco, but did grow in "Dirt" years ago, bag seeds the who shabang. Picked growing back up using hydro and never went back. To me, it's easier to control, cleaner and better yields. (Have not proved that yet when compared against some of the grows on this site). Good luck to future grows!

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

The Skunk in coco gets yet another week. Trichs were about 90% milky and 10% glass with a few ambers. I think last week's estimate was off a bit. She's ripening just fine under the new LED and the Purple Hazes getting serious about making flowers are loving it too. It's been a week of high RH so I took a trip to the grow shop for a hanging drying basket. I thought I had one that was about 12 inches in diameter until I pulled it out of its case and it unwound to fill the 3x3 tent! That did help explain the cost of the thing seeming a bit high! Anyways, I cut buds off stems after a week of slow drying with stems still flexible to speed this stuff up. I like the colas I got from my first try at manifolding.

Here's the top of the one left in coco:

I'm hoping to get all that bud into jars after Wednesday. I need to get Project Deuxberry running!

 

[RagWeedDWC]

Very Nice

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

The one survivor from a few days ago - she's even more purple at the top and much more ripe today with amber trichs not hard to find. I may take her down tomorrow or Friday. The bud from the rest are going in jars tomorrow. Also, if you zoom in, you can see a ripe seed poking out!

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

Yesterday I flushed her with tap water and put her in the dark to await her fate. Chop is probably tomorrow. It was either this or just keep the silly thing for a pet!

I've only started collecting seed from the others. The remnants of a few of them make a cameo in this picture. I gotta say that I like having my fingers smell like the resin. I finally got all the bud in jars - it took seven quart jars to contain it all. After trimming, they might all fit in five. No wonder the black market growers loved this strain.

 

[UndergroundFarmer]

The Skunks are producing a higher percentage of usable seeds, so the extra time paid off that way. It also paid off because this stuff smokes very well even without a good long cure. Even seeded, it still can get me off, just like old times. Speaking of those, the buds I've pressed the seeds from look very much like the ones I used to get from our dealer. Hmmm. That's why we didn't find too many good seeds back then. Another memory brought back is the real reason it's called Skunk - it isn't for the smell of the live bud or the drying bud, it is only skunky when you burn the bud!