mstam, man you made it, wow 3 try's what patients that took. Was it worth it?
It's always worth it if it's one of your hobbies
I was fed up by the first time being struck by a virus that I insisted on successfully complete a grow.
I kept wondering if you would just move on to other things but man you hung in there and good growing. Can you tell us what is the best advise on CS that you came away with. Seems to be easy to clone and not to fussy about feed levels but did you make your watt per plant weight and smoke report if you please?
RJ
I harvested 3 out of the 8 so far so can't give you an opinion about the others yet but at the end the smoke will be about the same. It's like a regular Indica Skunk. Big yielder and nice average smoke but not as what the AK47 is going to be which smells like spring, like a flower.
The Spanish buy what is cheapest, the majority from outdoor grows, so for commercial growers it doesn't make sense to grow more complicated strains like the AK47. This is the reason I selected the Critical Skunk so I can help people with solid genetics that are very rare in Spain.
And about the yield: I did 1 gram/W before with other genetics. This grow was intended to make a selection, not a big yield. I think the total will come to 450 grams. Used soil, no enzymes, basic fertilizer and with different genetics, even from the same mother, you will never yield very well; you want to grow with clones from the winning plant. If I would do this grow again with the winner in this 90 by 90 tent, I would put 9 in 18 in stead of 11 liter pots. But even then it will be hard to do 1 gram/W in such a small tent where you lose a lot of efficiency.
For commercial grows I would recommend to use 600W per m2 or better, max 600W per 80x80cm. 16 plants/m2 in 11 liter pots, from clone immediately start with 12 hours of light, keep half of the lamps off up until the second week of flower. Center of bulb fixed at 130-150cm from the edge of the pots, depending on how well you can keep the temperature under control.
If you use dimmable digital ballasts half of the lamps @600W up until the first week of flower, then one week all lamps @440W, third week 600W and the remaining weeks 660W.
I am confident that this plant will do over 1 gram/W easily if grown well. With a digital ballast like the new Lumatek with 400V lamps 1.2 gram/W is feasible.