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If you have spider mites, you might want to try Kandy Kush X Skunk (smoke report)



Well, I got 2 free seeds. I had good success with my first one, so I grew the other as a mom. Both plants had the same phenotype.
My first 3 clones are done, and amazing.
This plant is a long flowering plant - mostly sativa - all 3 were harvested at 13 weeks, although I could have probably harvested at 12 weeks. Do not let this daunt you - I don't know how it could not be worth it.

Here is my personal set up:

I planted my clones using a modified recipe #1 from Burn One's organics for beginners. :thank you: (I'm sorry that I don't know how to add the link.) I only supplemented with molasses - water only, no EWC added for the entire grow (I might add some next time.)

I vegged for one month and then transplanted the clones from a 3 quart bucket into a 5 gallon bucket and immediately put them into bloom.

No pruning.

7 or 8 plants total (depending on how they fit) shared space under a hortilux 1000 W HPS bulb.

No CO2

Average room temp during the day = 72F

Average humidity = 55%

Spider mites

How the plants grow:

These plants are short (about 2 ft) with a ton of branching. Although I did not do any pruning or training. 2 out of the 3 clones look like I FIMed them, but I didn't - I'm just not that good.




Heavy, huge buds. I had to tie up almost every branch.



The aroma is sweet, but subtle. It smells like candy. This would be a good one to grow if stealth smell is important.

She loves water - uses at least twice as much than my other strains.

She is naturally resistant to spider mites! I have had spider mites since April. I don't spray with chemicals. I keep my room cold and moist. I manually defoliate leaves as they get infected. I use water in a flomax pump sprayer to quickly "wash" my plants every day. And, I am lucky enough to have a second quarantined bloom room for the most seriously infected (all my cheese plants, booo). Every one of my 30 blooming plants are infected except...drum roll please: The kandy kush X skunk!!!! Not one leaf showed any evidence of spider mites in the entire 13 weeks in the room.

Yield: In the pictures below, the plants yielded 3.8, 3.8 and 3.4 ounces respectively. Amazing! With the smoke so great; I will be growing this strain for a long long time.

Plant A:



Plant B:



Plant C:



Harvest fun!:



Now about the bud:


Very pretty salmon color haired, very frosty dense buds. In fact it's density is 1.37 times as much as my other strains:



Here are some money shots:



With trichs like that, it has to be good.

The high:

First off, my tolerance is HUGE.

I rolled a 0.5g joint and after 1/3rd, I was noticably high. Half way through, I forgot I was smoking and the joint was out. These were the first impressions: Strong, blissful, clear/functional, body relaxing, mellow and social. But after 45 mins, I forgot I was doing a smoke report. I started again, and forgot again, so maybe wandering mind is more appropriate than clear/functional.

It is long lasting (one hour, 15 mins went by before I had a touch up hit...just one and I am flying again, now at 2 hours).

The taste is sweet and smooth, however I don't think my palate is very good at this -it is subtle.

This is not my go to bag though. I love the taste and high of cheese, it is my favorite. I love the taste of super lemon haze, and find the high similar to the Kandy Kush X Skunk - it is sublime, so I go to the lemon first. I like LSD a lot too. It doesn't seem to have a ceiling to me, and can get pretty trippy. But overall, I give this plant an A, maybe an A plus.

Hope this helps someone. Peace out.

 
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Dicomaco

Member
Excellent report, thank you! I especially like they part of them being resistent to spider mites, if only there was a plant resistent to thrips as well.. who knows maybe KK is as well? :)
 
had 1 KK x skunk outdoors this season... yielded 100 gram. Just as you say sweet smoke and kind of dreamy high. Makes BOMB edibles too. People said they experienced visual trips off the edibles. I just got blissed out. :dance013: You know when you are higher than everyone else and nobody can relate.
 

Hash Zeppelin

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if you are looking for another resistant strain, lvpk is resistant. she doesnt seem to mind getting eaten alive as long as you dont let webs start to form. Also I grew a sensi star that spider mites didnt even want to touch. for some reason they didnt eat it even though it was in the same hut as the lvpk.
 

cravedog

Member
Yah some plants they like and others they wont touch. It seems to me that they find the weakest plant in the garden and try to devour it. That's my 2 cents.
 

DrPoison

POISON GENETICS.
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Nice report Cannalicious! Your cooking w/ Cannabis pics got me wanting to make some buddah! Btw, I noticed you've got the Borg pretty bad and seem to be an "organic only" type grower; You should check out some Safers brand "Insect Killing Soap". It's OMRI approved and works very well. Successfully battled the buggers in the past w/ this stuff. You may want to keep your garden plants away from the ganja too. ;)
 
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