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 LA Confidential x Skunk UPDATE (Harvest Pictures) 5-22-10 
#336199 - 12/25/09 12:22 PM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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So I took advantage of the attitude's free seed offer. I grabbed all five strains available and chose this one to start with. I remember when DNA released LA Conf and heard nothing but good things about it. Never grew a skunk strain before either. So now I have the chance to grow both at once, sort of 
The plants are five days old having pushed through to the surface on monday. Unfortunately I didn't get them close to the light quick enough so they stretched a bit  I'll deal with it somehow, shouldn't affect me too much and they are now about 3-4 inches from the T-5's. I decided to keep them in a hempy cup and grow them this way. If keeping a mom in a hempy bucket isn't too much of a pain I may go with it as I really like this method.
So that's about it. Only received three seeds so that's all I have from this strain. Hopefully one of them turns out to be a girl, although having a couple of pheno's to choose from would be nice too. I'll probably get to flower her for my march run, so got a ways to go with these babies. This also marks my first purchase with a true seed bank, everything else I've grown has been handed to me. Hopefully they do me right!
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: moogles]
#339344 - 01/03/10 09:47 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Day 13
Just a quick update. These girls aren't looking so hot, I'm not used to hydro in the veg stage and think I waited too long to give them food. Fed them @ 1 tsp FN Grow/Gal water. They perked up really fast after the feeding, I'm sure the light green color will darken up after a few more feedings. Aside from this small problem they're doing well, I'll be transplanting them to their final home in about 2 weeks I'm guessing.
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#341106 - 01/05/10 07:10 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Three days from the last picture and all plants are recovering and doing very well. The nutes greened them up and have caused a nice little explosion in growth. I fed them this morning at the same strength. Will probably feed them again tomorrow night and then step up a strength level next week.
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#349574 - 01/18/10 06:54 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Day 29 of veg.
Topped and put the tops into the cloning chamber on saturday. This is so I can sex them early and get a quicker start on flowering. The plants suffered some form of nutrient problems, not sure if the Ph was too high, or if there was too much food. Had some odd discolorations on the fans, but the new growth was coming in nice and green with no problems. They're just getting plain water at around 6.0 Ph right now to alleviate any more problems and get them a little flushed out. I'll probably resume feeding them sometime this week. They also need a transplant badly but I'm too poor to afford a big bag of perlite (and all the big box stores only carry miracle gro infused perlite)
Once they're transplanted I'll begin training them. I'm doing my best to keep them as small as possible. I let my Sour D mom get too big and now she's taking up a ton of room (and will most likely be subject to a severe pruning in another week).
That's it for now. Soon as those clones root in the flowering cab they go to get sexed.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#355750 - 01/30/10 09:19 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Day 41 of veg
Well, the last clone finally showed roots today so in the solo cup she went. Tried to go from the cloning chamber to the HPS buuuuut... That didn't work out too well So I stuck the third clone back in the veg cab to develop some more roots and become a bit more established. The other three "moms" have just been transplanted today since the last clone showed roots. So they hit their final home, hopefully it doesn't take too long for the clones to show sex.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#361903 - 02/10/10 07:05 PM (15 years, 24 days ago) |
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There's the three kushberry's that popped through the surface on monday. Judging from 206's grow log, and my two experiences, the germination rate on these beans is top notch. I think 206 said out of his entire lot he only had a few duds. So far I'm 6/6 so no complaints in that department. I managed to get them out of the humidity dome as soon as they popped through so the stretch was a lot less compared to the LA confidential's. They just got transplanted to the solo cups tonight with a very light watering to rehydrate the peat pellet, and moisten down the perlite. I'll hit them up with a dose of thrive alive plus maybe a 1/4 tsp of some Flora nova grow. I think I'll most likely skip the FN, but the thrive alive has been pretty awesome when it comes to cuttings and sprouts.
Finally I have two confirmed females from the LA's, and one male. Luckily for me the two clones that had made into flowering early were the two girls, so score on that one. They were transplanted into the one gallon containers a few days ago, watered with 1/2 tsp FN Grow and 1/2 tsp FN Bloom. I had been keeping the feedings kind of light with them since the mom's seemed to be suffering from a nutrient problem. So because of this they paled a bunch, at the worst they were a very light green. Not yellow, but when I compared it to the last cutting I had the difference was unmistakable. Since the feeding they've started greening up a bunch and should be back to a nice healthy dark green after one or two more feedings I'm guessing. I think I'd much rather have an underfeeding problem then anything else. With this grow the max I plan on giving them is 8 mls of FN Bloom, or 5 mls of FN Bloom + a light to medium dose of kool bloom. I tend to be pretty heavy when it comes to nutrients, so for once I'd like to take a different path and see how well I can do at feeding them with much lighter doses then in the past.
I'll get some pics up of the LA's soon, too lazy for it tonight
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: Inverted]
#363381 - 02/12/10 07:30 PM (15 years, 22 days ago) |
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Day 13 Flowering
There's a few pics of the clone that's been flowering these past couple of weeks. She's starting to green up nice, gave her 1 tsp FN bloom plus 1/4 tsp of Snow Storm tonight. She should be back to a nice healthy green by next week. Don't think she'll get much taller then this so the transplant may have been overkill lol. I think I'll have to plan for around a 2 week veg time to get them the height I want if I take smaller cuttings.
Anyways, things are rolling along pretty smoothly with this one. I'll have to take some more cuttings tomorrow to make up for the two that are male.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#365002 - 02/15/10 10:09 PM (15 years, 19 days ago) |
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Ok so I lied Here's some pics of the LA mom. You can see some of the damage the deficiency did. But she healed up super quick and is looking great minus those few fans.
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: Triptonic]
#367810 - 02/18/10 09:36 PM (15 years, 16 days ago) |
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Day 20
Fed 1 tsp FN Bloom + 2 tsp liquid Kool Bloom / Gallon of water. PPM 1030 Ph at 5.8. Leaves are greening up very nicely now, hopefully the buds will begin getting bigger soon. Other then that not much to report, chugging along really nicely now. Can't to see the results of the kool bloom, been wanting to try it for a long while now.
Here's the kushberry seedlings at day 10. The mutant of the bunch is now sporting multi colored blades now. Don't think it will make it, but I'm keeping it around for the hell of it. They were fed with a 1/4 tsp of FN Grow + 1 tsp thrive alive two nights ago. PPM was 330 and Ph was 5.8.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#374323 - 02/26/10 07:55 PM (15 years, 8 days ago) |
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Day 27 of flowering
Fed the girl tonight with: 2 tsp of FN Bloom + 2 tsp of Kool Bloom liquid + 1 tsp of Snow Storm / gal water. PPM 1510 PH 6.1
After the last feeding she was responding super well, so I decided to give her an extra heavy dose tonight before I give her a plain water + clearex treatment in 2 days. Once she got over the underfeeding issue she hit a really nice growth spurt and is growing well now. Still no discernible skunk odor, there's a slight smell when you get right next to the main tip, but it's lost it's that hint of skunk it had. Hopefully this will change in the upcoming weeks as I really do enjoy the skunks the most.
3 of the 4 clones I took nearly 12 days ago finally poked some roots through the side and got thrown into solo cups tonight. The other clone that was already rooted has been under the lamps for three days now and is growing well. I have one more clone that should be rooted by tomorrow I'm guessing, then 6 that I took last week for a friend. I think the clones are rooting slowly because they're not getting enough oxygen, I need a stronger fan and I'll place the cloning chamber right next to the fan to get some better airflow through the dome.
Last we have the LA mom, looking gorgeous but definitely over fed. Plain water for her next couple of feedings + a clearex treatment as well. She's growing some super huge fans and again is just really vigorous. I trimmed her back pretty well when I took those 6 clones and she already grew back up into the lights. I'll need to get some light yo-yo's and a small shelf so I can keep the smaller plants closer to the light and be able to move the light more easily to keep my mom(s) happy.
Day 17 of veg
Here's the latest from the Kushberry camp. Again, an underfeeding problem with these girls was solved very easily with a nice strong dose of FN grow + Thrive alive, greened and perked up really well after that. You can see the two plants on the left look very uniform, while the mutie on the right is a bit stunted with some weird leaf deformations. I'll most likely just chuck that one into the flowering cab when the other clones go. Don't even think I'm interested in cloning it even if it turned out to be the only girl. My veg cab is definitely getting full for the moment, Once these girls go into the one gallon buckets I'll be picking another strain to pop and I think that will be it for a little while, or if the KB's turn out all male
So far so good in both cabinets, time seems to be moving slower with this grow then with the autoflowers. Is it the end of March yet?
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: dutc2006]
#378965 - 03/06/10 01:00 AM (15 years, 21 hours ago) |
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Day 35
Fed tonight 1/2 tsp FN Bloom + 1/2 tsp FN Grow + 1/4 tsp Kool Bloom Dry + 1 tsp Snow Storm @ 970 PPM and 6.1 Ph.
Fed the grow because the girls looked a little hungry for some N. I'll be dropping the Ph down to 5.8 next watering or so so they can absorb it a bit easier. Other wise she's looking good and chugging along nicely. Still waiting for that skunk smell, the normal plant funk is there but nothing overpowering. She's frosting up well and each day the buds are bigger and bigger. Can't wait to see what she'll look like in two weeks. I'm guessing a 65-70 day flower period, but hopefully she'll surprise me and finish up quickly.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#381048 - 03/09/10 10:55 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Good choice on switching over to just the Bloom at this time. I just did the same thing! 
I also Fed with 3/4 tsp FNB and 1/4 tsp Cha Ching. After 24 hours they already look like they are putting more energy into bud production, buuuut it is about time anyways. Mag has said it's a heavy bloomer near the end.
It's funny though because the Super Skunk pheno is so pronounced. The cola looks tall as fuck and lacking structure, but you wait, I bet it's going to take a little longer, but fill in huge. At least that's what I hope happens. 
See it in the middle? It's tall and sativa looking, but I have a feeling it will have a big cola.
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#383699 - 03/14/10 07:33 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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So I transplanted the clones today and placed them into flowering. All of the root systems looked beautiful going in. The tiny clone was a bit smaller then I'd like to have her, but I can't wait any longer. They were fed tonight with 4 ml's FN Grow, + 4 ml's FN Bloom + 1/2 tsp Snow Storm PPM @ 1300 Ph @ 5.8
They look a little droopy because I was late with the watering can, but they'll perk up in a few hours. Other then that they're all super healthy and ready to go. The one in the top left corner is the one I'm most interested. She's the oldest and has been topped already, can't wait to see what she can do.
Other then that just a few quick pics of the girl in flower and a final closet shot. 3-4 more weeks to go with the girl in flower, long road ahead for the clones. I'll be throwing some kushberry cuttings in around 2 weeks (once they root) to figure out sex and (possibly) get a preview 
EDIT: Cloned the Kushberries tonight. Fuck it, need to get moving on it.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#388416 - 03/22/10 07:30 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Day 52
Looking good, the buds are continuing to grow a little bit each day. About two more weeks left for this one (3 at the upper reaches of my patience )
Not much else to report but that she's finished her gravity treatment and will resume normal feeding for at least one more week before being prepped for harvest.
Day 8
Not so good with these ladies, not bad, but I think I'm dealing with a P problem again. I'm wondering if I locked it out, or if it's just hungry for more. My guess is a lockout because the last feeding contained a dose of kool bloom liquid as well as 4 ml's of FN bloom. So plenty of food there.
If you take a look at that pic you can see that in the new pics there's a few fans that are yellowing. The HPS exaggerates it just a bit, but it is noticeable. I think I'm going to give them one more day and then decide on what to do. Other then that I noticed the first signs of buds forming on them today so I'm pretty happy about that, hopefully I'll get this small problem sorted quickly.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#391508 - 03/28/10 06:45 PM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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There's some pictures for ya. The last one is the kushberry girls
Day 58 for the big girl, day 14 for the little ones.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#395460 - 04/03/10 07:14 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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There's the harvest pics. Total wet weight was 129 grams. Tried fooling around with the LED light to get a better picture of the resin on the plant. She really is covered, can't wait until she dries
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#398562 - 04/08/10 09:52 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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Day 25
Fed tonight with 1 tsp FN Bloom + 1 tsp Snow Storm + 1/4 tsp Kool Bloom dry. However the PPM came out way too high (1400) so I dumped some and added more plain water. Final PPM 1110 @ 5.9 pH. Plants are looking pretty damn good and starting to uptake the water faster, might have to switch to every other day as a watering schedule. Bud production is going great and the rest of the vegetation looks pretty healthy. Still have 40 days to go, but the weeks keep slipping by
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#403924 - 04/19/10 08:02 PM (14 years, 10 months ago) |
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So here's some pics of the problem plant plus a couple of quick snaps over the over all grow. The buds are pretty much right on track to where they were with the other plant. Hopefully I'll get this fixed, or it doesn't affect my grow, it's definitely make me lose a little sleep at night that's for sure lol.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#422015 - 05/22/10 11:02 AM (14 years, 9 months ago) |
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Well I know it's been a while since I've updated. I wasn't really happy about how this grow turned out. I fucked up by not calibrating my pH pen and so this entire grow my actual pH levels were a full point below what I thought it was. So these girls were fed at around 5.0 pH for most of the grow. Explains a lot of the yellowing, stunted and slow growth, leaf problems etc. I was able to get 3 or so weeks of feeding in at a proper pH and I think that helped tremendously.
Anyways total flowering duration was 68 days, I found one nanner on a plant and there was a ton of foxtailing this run. Maybe I overestimated flowering times? Maybe it was due to the pH problems, but I felt like these girls could have been chopped last week. I would have too but they needed a flush so they got the extra week. Next run with them I'll chop a plant at 55-60 days and see how well it fares compared to those I let sit for 65+.
I'm thinking I'll end up with around 5 oz's this grow, but I dunno honestly. The big buds are all rock hard and some of the smaller ones are a little fluffy but still dense. So I may end up with more then I think I have. In the end if I pull a QP I hit my 1 oz per plant minimum and will have more then enough to last me until my next harvest. These girls are also super resinous. At the end of the chop I culled about .5 gms of scissor hash to enjoy plus enough trim to give me another gram or two of oil at least. Haven't had any hash since I chopped my ax x diesel girls so I'm super excited about that.
Anyways, I'm taking a week off to let these girls dry and to take a small break from maintenance. I have four kushberry clones (two from each mom i have) ready to go in by next Fri/Sat. I'll be popping the OG18 seeds next, and I'm thinking of running that cherry slyder again if I can find the room.
Anyways, that ends this grow although I'll be running this LA for a good while as I really enjoy it.
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