Early Wonder Skunk run for seeds and learning.

[Presto_D]

Obligatory seedling photo



This marks day 1, sprout #1 has made a dash for the light, and #2 is not far behind, but hidden by perlite.

My plans for these little guys is to get some more seeds, and some smoke for Memorial Day weekend. I may not be able to harvest in time to get a good cure, but I can have some edibles and try my hand at the water cure.

Currently there are three seeds germed in paper towels, they sprouted, so into cups they went. There are also four other beans in soil, NOT germed in towels. I hope they show up one of these days.

The soil is from the land I live on, about 1/3 perlite mixed in. I dug it up near a patch of nettles, and may baby weeds have weeds in their cups. I was hesitant to pull them until I see my own plants pop up.
Water is bottled because I don't know what our well water is doing. Today it was all sparkly, so I know its PPM must be very high. We need filtration badly.

I have an assortment of pots to transplant into. 5gal, 2-3gal, and 1gal.
There was some question of just how long Early Wonder Skunk takes to mature, and did container size factor into it. So I will have a tentative answer in the next couple months, and then reconfirm over the summer after this seed run.

See ya with more pics soon!

 

[ronbo51]

Good luck. EWS is a semiauto right? You should have fun. I would start seeds in sterile mix though. Bacteria and other bad stuff.

 

[blackone]

Good luck! Getting ready for the outdoor season?

 

[Presto_D]

Yes, going outdoors with these little ones. My plan is to keep them under 24/0 for 3-4 weeks and then take the out to a greenhouse to harden off a bit, and then I will probably put a few of em up a tree. We have a real problem with deer here, there's not a single fern with pointy fronds anywhere. The deer bit off all the tasty fiddleheads.
I also heard they aren't fully automatic. Doesn't matter too much with how I had already planned to grow them. Didn't want to mail anything to my house, but Canada is in driving range, so I went to a seed bank up there.
So, semiauto will certainly be triggered to flower leaving 24/0 light for natural outdoor schedule. Days will be a bit longer than 12 hrs when they go out, but not by much.

 

[Presto_D]

These are now about 9 days old. I have a few concerns about some of them. There's definitely some n00b errors at work here.

First off, I need to put some white on the cabinet walls. And second, I need to repot and get them at more even soil levels.
The tallest sprout is about 3" from the light bulb, and I think that leaves the short ones too far away.

Taken off the stack for watering:

I think the tallest one is overwatered. It's got curly leaves anyway...

And so does this one to a lesser degree, but I can also see the tips of its third set of leaves peeking out:

 

[Presto_D]

But here's a couple happy photos:



This one seems the farthest behind, the second set of leaves are only just showing up:

 

[Bighill]

I'd get off the bottled water asap. Unless it's at least distilled. Alot of bottled stuff evian ect. has sodium (salt) mixed in to make it pallatable for us. For plants it is going to lead to a slow death, from salt build up. I've seen some stuff with 300ppm of floride...

Other than that, i'll be checking in now and then, curious how they'll finish.

Bh.

 

[tonto]

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[Presto_D]

Here is what I know about the water I'm using:
http://www.caldwell.kyschools.us/content/foodservice/water.pdf
100 mg/l TDS, I believe that's the same as saying PPM. And the PH is 6.6.

Since I know absolutely nothing about our well water except that it's "safe to drink", but it comes out sparkly and leaves sand dunes in the toilet tanks and rust stains on all the porcelain, I'm going with the bottled water.

 

[Presto_D]

Oh yeah, forgot to add, I got a timer going on. Now they're on 18/6.
After their first night's sleep, they all gained some millimeters of internodal spacing. Before that, there was no stem between leaf sets.

 

[Bighill]

Yeah sounds like the well water is pretty hard. I don't even get lines on the toilet and i'm on some hard water as well.

It says 0mg of sodium on that label, so that is good. If it ain't broke don't fix it is what i was always told.

Bh.

 

[Guest129216]

Good to see you are getting started presto. The first grow is always very exciting, and the best part is.........It just gets better and better........................... Enjoy!

 

[Presto_D]

So I don't have to take my plants outside after all. Yay! I get to build a stealth cab this weekend.

In the mail is a 4"x12" carbon filter can, should arrive Thurs. I also have 3 300w/65w CFL bulbs. They're huge! I've had one in use with the original 3 23w CFLs for a couple weeks. The plants really took off when I turned that sucker on.
I have an old cabinet with ledges on the sides for mounting shelves. Several potato chip bags for mylar. Aluminum tape for light blocking seams, and plenty of ducting in steel, PVC, and ABS for light proofing venting and electrical access.

Fans. Partner insists PC fans will be all I need for a space this size. And I have an old PC to sacrifice to the cause. He's the one concerned with odor, so I hope he's right.


Well, here's an update on my girls, and the two lanky boys hanging out in the shadows. LOL
Next week I'll get pics of the build.

 

[Stdane]

Looking Good Presto_D......subscribed here too,love the auto's looked at the desciption on these,seems to be some nice genetics:

Early Wonder Skunk
Autoflowering




Outdoor.

Mostly Indica.
Autoflowering! The development of this strain began back in the 70's. The goal was to mature the bud in the heat of the summer, with the potential for two crops a year.The breeding stock was Afghani/Thai for the strong THC, a Hawaiian/Guatemalan for the earliness of the harvest and a Ruderalis for the dense buds and the consistency of the ripening time. Its medium to dark green with a main dominant cola. She has a hashy, skunk smell and sweet skunk flavour. This strain will treat you with the earliest bud ever.

Height 3 to 4 feet
Flowering time 5 to 6 weeks
Harvest outdoor July 21 to Aug 30
Yield 4 to 6 oz.

 

[Presto_D]

I wonder if it will really finish flowering in 6 weeks. I wanted a harvest for Memorial Day weekend, but I thought I started too late. They've been flowering for a week and a half to two weeks so far... I could only hope to water cure a couple nugs, or have some really harsh smoke.

 

[Stdane]

Ya should've them finished by then,if I'm correct it's Memorial Day the 31st of May...
How things going by now Presto???...really interested because I got a few of these and never seen them finished.....!!!!

 

[Presto_D]

They look like crap because I have still not transplanted from the original 20oz cups.
I deserve mocking and ridicule.

They are in their new cab with proper air filtration. Temps are cooler with a breeze flowing, so now most of them are purpling up.

At this point, I may not transplant at all, it should encourage an earlier finish to leave them rootbound.
They are getting very crystaly! I just have to leave most of them alone until the seeds are done.

However, I think I may sacrifice one for Memorial day weekend. Maybe just parts of one.

I will take some new pics, hopefully tomorrow, lights are out already.
I think there is a gram on each of them, and expect maybe two g from each eventually. I don't need much, personally, and you must understand that these little ones are seriously rootbound and not anywhere near their potential. Next batch from these seeds will be taken better care of. Transplanted.

 

[Presto_D]

I got the initial results I wanted. 8) Got to smoke for Memorial Day weekend. Got my first batch of seeds.

I don't believe they yielded very much, there was quite a bit of seed proportionally.

Two distinct phenos, taller and shorter. I believe I read Mossy describe the difference once as tall and diamond shaped, and short and square shaped.
The shortest one was the most beautiful.
The fastest to pop from seed was also the most obviously first done too.
A couple of traits to chase.

I got about 18 seeds apiece, so nearly 100 from 7 seeds sprouted.

It is excellently stony! I think the stress of never being transplanted/repotted really encouraged trich formation. When I started feeding molasses, they immediately sugared up even more.
I haven't smoked much of it yet, but it easily keeps up with the scraps I picked up from a co-op.

No pictures yet. I didn't take any of them recently, they got all sad looking when their leaves fell off.
I can take a pic of my yield in a day or so when it's a bit less smelly. I picked through it for seeds, so I don't have any prize buds, it all looks like popcorn buds in a little jar.

But it's homegrown, all mine, and uh, all mine!!!