Sorry for lack of updates in this thread. Been a bit busy and funny thing is part of the busyness has been taking about 4,000 pictures of the plants in October alone. With Photography it's practice, practice, practice. I won't bore you with 4,000 pictures lol I was going to finish the thread with 10 pictures but the Critical Kush finally finished so I will finish up with 20 pictures. In an effort to get some nice pictures of the Critical Kush I pretty much totaled my DSLR (dropped it on concrete lol) so I had to finish shooting with a 'point-n-shoot'.
CRITICAL KUSH from Sara's Secret Stash
Maybe the first Critical Kush grow on the site? I don't recall seeing any others. Plant was easy to grow but I say that about everything so believe what you will. I only grew one as it was feminized - the rest I gave away. For most, it took too long to finish. For the one's who worked with me, they got a nice harvest. For soil, I used soil that I had already used for my 2022 grow of G13 X Afghan Skunk, Early Queen, Medicine Man, CBD Shark Shock, Gelato #33, Grand Daddy Purple, and Jack Herer. By Spring 2024 the old soil, stalks, and roots were still in original grow containers. Sometimes the simplest things are hard to do with one useful arm. A friend came by and emptied the containers and we picked out the stalks and roots(a PITA).
The soil was freshened up with some sterilized potting soil, bone meal, blood meal, earthworm castings, bat guano, sphagnum moss(not long grain), wood chips, and perlite. It was wet down, stirred, and let sit outdoors for a week before use. I read the 'Living Soil' thread hoping to pick up some good tips on making a living soil but it was 8 pages of hot air, fluffery, and self-importance. The thread was over a year old so surely someone grew something? Not a single participant showed a finished plant using living soil so I went with what is actually proven to work and easy to boot. Most importantly, the plants like it. Containers were filled 75%. When flowering commenced, containers were topped off.
Plants were watered with 9.0 PH RO water with calcium and magnesium filter added. To the water, potassium silicate was added and all plants were watered with this from birth to death. At flowering, molasses was added to the water once a week. At 6 weeks of flowering, molasses was added to the water twice a week. All plants were fed a 'tea' of humic and fulvic acid, molasses, kelp, etc. once a week. At 6 weeks of flowering plants were fed the 'tea' mix twice a week. Feeding was stopped a few days before harvest.
Critical Kush - beautiful plant, but what plant isn't? Just another pretty polyhybrid. No burnt tips or powdery mildew like my passive-aggressive, attention seeking, Commie-loving, LBGT, 'friend' gets every single grow! lol
Critical Kush - picture was taken on October 1st and it was clear that this plant was going to be a problem. Tiny little button buds with weeks and weeks to go. Here in this northern temperate zone( I am north of Pointe Pelee, Canada here) plants are generally finished by October 1st or will be within a week.
Critical Kush - sorry for the low quality picture, the rest of Critical Kush pictures were taken with a 'point-n-shoot' camera. Haven't nailed indoor light yet. Plant was finally ready (I think) after 13 weeks of flowering. Easy to see why I doubled up on feeding and molasses after 6 weeks.
Critical Kush - sorry for the shitty picture, that's just how point-n-shoots' are.
Critical Kush - November 17th. Ready or not, I'm chopping her. 13 weeks is enough, it's not a sativa dammit!
Critical Kush - this plant had a very strong
Linalool smell and almost everyone who came by liked the smell of this plant the best. The plant had slowly smelled stronger and stronger of Linalool for a few weeks. Now it had held steady for a couple weeks. On this day, November 17th, the smell had changed ever so slightly and I knew it would never get better again. This was peak. Like
@Swifty says, you can smell when a plant is perfectly ready. The plant was now 'aware' that the November days were too short, it would never be fertilized, and winter was coming on. The plant was going into it's final stage of senescence so I harvested it.
Afghan Haze - After I lost the tag for this plant I was calling it the "MNS Unknown plant. Now that it is flowering I'm willing to bet it is Afghan Haze.
Early Queen #1 - love EQ and try to grow some every year. Just never know what you are going to get. It's different each grow. Maybe because the Moms and Dads are never mentioned? Just a bunch nonsense in the description. "Early Californian blends with a touch of Mexican, Early Pearl x Early Girl x Super Skunk". Anyone have any idea WTF this means? I did make some F2's and will continue to grow it. Just askin'. In spite of names like Early Pearl, Early Girl, And Early Queen, this took 12 weeks to flower and finish! I have had Early Queen finish late September, like I said, ya never know with this strain.
Afghan Haze #2 - will be growing more of this!
'Uknown' Afghan Haze - this 50% hybrid Haze was mostly grown outdoors here in the great north. After October it is set in the garage if it is raining or if temperature is going to 39F/4C or lower. The garage gets up to 66F/19C in the day and drops to 49F/9C at night. The lights are constantly adjusted to match natural daylight rather than a steady 12/12 or 10/14. Of course, this is simply because plants are constantly shuffled between outdoors and garage. Indoors? Outdoors? Call it what you may. It's pretty clear Afghan Haze is very easy to grow. Thanks to
@Skuncle Lenny for suggesting I turn the 2 HLG 350R's to full power.
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