10 gallon sized pot is the sweet spot for this plant.
One Skywalker OG Seed / 10 Gallon Pot / 3x3 Tent / Goal = 1 Pound Dry Yield
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I have been trying at lollipopping. The sour vengeance was the first I was very impressed with the bud size and structure. I did not do it with the king kandy the sour vengeance only had 5 plants I had 6 king kandy. The Sour Vengeance out preformed in both weight and size/structure of buds. I have started doing it with all my photos. I will try with Autos next run. I think it is too late now and I am making seeds. Beasty and WW x Beasty. Both were hit with Beast mode pollen. Just a few branches. Only had a small amount of pollen. I wanted to save some. I will def start saving pollen especially beast mode.
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Indica is what I need. It eliminates the pain I feel from spinal stenosis, it helps me sleep like a baby and it completely eliminates wrestless-leg-syndrome which currently drives my wife nuts. I enjoy LA Confidential, Brownie Scout, GMO Cookies, Skywalker OG, Animal Face, LA Affie, OGKB, etc.. I use AllBud and Leafly to figure out if a strain is for me and it seems that a 70% indica dominant hybrid is what I prefer.
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I have no experience with growing autos, but I've read that some training techniques are ill-advised with autos thanks to the ruderalis component of each plant. I'm not sure that's even true, but I only grow photos because I'm suspicious of a plant where 1/2 it's genes come from a species of cannabis that produces extremely low amounts of THC. Am I wrong about that? Can autos be just as potent as photos?
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Jan - it freaked me out the first time I cut away all that lower branching. But it makes sense that each plant has a finite amount of energy reserves. There have been times when I've cut away what I thought was the entire node, only to find two weeks later that it was busy repairing the partial damage I created and growing new pistils. I think our plants maintain an inventory or awareness of their active growth sites...they certainly seem to. They can marshal resources at will, so it makes sense to me to strip everything below the very bottom of the canopy to focus what's left of its remaining energy on the sites that are bathed in light.
Dave's not here man.............
Looks like veg to me... growing nicely.
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The Lucifers hammer that I grew was so potent. I cant even hit it in day time. I let it go a bit too long. It is couch lock for sure but the buzz lasted for hours and hours. if you can get past the taste. Turpentine and gasoline. It smelled of citrus and pine. I thought hmmm similar to WW…not even close. Great potent stuff. I am sending it to my Niece. She vapes and knows how to make vape juice or whatever it is called.
I slacked on the lollipoping last grow. I did minimal removal. Not a lazy thing but I've been a bit handicapped lately. Got a little more larf than I would normally but I'm okay with it. We consume it all. I too believe it does help throw some energy upwards and helps with air flow under the canopy.
Pruning we differ again. I remove leaf any time I see fit. All throughout the whole life cycle. Some folks damn near strip the plant bare. I kringe when I see that but it's just another way of doing things. In a grow I remove a lot but by the end of the grow you can barely tell.
Autos can take just as much training as any photo out there. I read the same somewhere but ignored it and glad I did. You get a lot more from a trained auto usually. They can be very potent. They've really come along way.
Yep thats me and it is a habit I am trying to break. I am really trying to defoliate only when necessary. I tried a bit of LST on one of each a Black Alaska Purple and The Black. They are next to each other & it really spread them plants out. I will have to move them as soon as I cut a few down so they get more room. They are in a one gal pot challenge. We are only allowed one entry. I am allowed to choose after sexing. Right now who knows if they are both boys I am screwed. It is allowed to enter a male but why. Last year it came down to bud size and structure. I lost. I did win the summer grow challenge though. Won it with my 62 inch Sugar haze. Got 3 packs of seeds free.
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That's good to know. Autos complete in what, like 10 weeks or so? Maybe it's time to run one.
Really good to know - thank you. Me thinks it's time to run an auto - next grow for sure.
I hear you - I used to defoliate...alot. I changed my thinking when I learned that each leaf is a storage container for nutes. The only time I'll take a leaf now is if its blocking light that a cola needs I enjoy watching the leaves turn yellow as they get sucked dry by the plant before harvest.
Larf ain't bad - but I've learned that top colas are better. Now I make sure light can dance around and through the canopy to ensure all colas are getting their daily dose of a good high par read like 1,000-1,200 ppfd.
8-10 weeks
There is also an auto version id Sour D
Winning a summer grow competition is no small feat - that's impressive.
Depends on the strain or breeders suggestion, but I'd agree.
We all talk about yield alot, but potency and the quality of the dry/cure aren't mentioned much...maybe I'm missing it. I sent a large portion of my last harvest to my son, so I ran out of my own stuff unfortunately. What did I buy yesterday? A Rove vape pen of Skywalker OG tested at 98% TAC and 93.84%THC. Rove calls it Melted Diamonds - THCa crystals they melt into pure THC, providing full spectrum goodness. I am pleased to tell you that my Skywalker was just as good and perhaps even better. All credit goes, IMO, to organic growing.
As far as drying and curing goes, I try to dry in no less than 7 days down to 62% RH and transfer it to a Grove bag. I do not heat seal the bag, I simply use the zip seal they provide. No burping needed. I keep rhe bag in a Cooluli at 55° F for 90 days et voila.
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Yep but I was lucky there was a bunch of newbies growing. So I felt like I cheated even though I didn’t
