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Desert Skunk Grow

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Desert Skunk is a cross between a Skunk #1 and a Moroccan Beldia. It was grown outdoors in a hot, humid environment at about 36 degrees latitude. Seed was sprouted on March 20. Was grown in full sun.

It is a tall plant that tends to grow in a column shape until about 2/3 of the way through its life. It sports very long, skinny leaves on branches that grow long but close to the main stem. It is a very fast grower. By July 15, it was 8 feet tall. It remained healthy looking its entire grow cycle, and showed no heat stress despite several weeks of temperatures in the high 90s to low 100s. It is a very tough plant- a storm tore several stems off of it, and they were hanging on by just a few strings of the fibrous outer layer. I taped this up the best I could. Those branches lost their fan leaves, but soon were growing just fine.

Desert Skunk started budding by mid-June and the buds just grew and grew. It grows huge colas. Some are larger than footballs. The colas are made up of many bundles of finger-width buds. Within the colas, the buds grow tightly to the stems. The colas are so large, a small amount of mold developed in some of them, but this was easily removed. I think I could have loosened the colas up a bit if I had topped her a few times.

The smoke and high reminded me of Mexican weed we used to get in the 1980s/90s. An up sativa that’s great for a party.

Harvested it on September 5th, but I probably should have harvested it about a week earlier.
The colas are so large I give them away in gallon freezer bags. Talk about bag appeal!
Desert Skunk was a real pleasure to grow outdoors. It was tall, healthy, early maturing, huge yielding, and would make a good decorative plant. People in the 1980s would have gone nuts for it.
 

Lugo

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Very interesting. ATM i'm growing 2 different specimens imported from Mexico through a friend who germed and vegged them but had to travel. I placed them outdoors to flower and ended up with 1 male and 1 female. The male has been the most impressive and ended up pollinating a couple of Colombian Mangobiches and the other Mexican female as well. The male is something else, extremely loud smelling old school skunk scent that you could smell all over my pretty exteriorized farmhouse. Very hardy and pest resistant. Quite woody in the stem with some nice purpling and can go for weeks without water. Very classic 3 and 5 leaflet Sativa leaves.The female is quite similar with a slightly stout, broader leaf and plant structure and with a rotting fruit funk scent. Very slow growing and water sensitive as well. I have basically no information on these outside of my own observations which lead me to believe these to be desert bred and grown, possibly Sonora but who knows. Last pic is the MB.
 

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