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 coda
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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: phantom]
#336444 - 12/26/09 01:03 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thanks, I'm really excited about this one too. Hopefully I'll be able to squeeze in a small run before summer hits.
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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: Inverted]
#339359 - 01/03/10 10:37 AM (15 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yah, they stretched because I let them sit in the humidity dome a day too long which was about 2 ft from the T-5. Moved them right up to the lamp for the past week, now they're about 6 inches from the bulbs. The T-5's I have seem to love frying leaves, I think it's scorched a few spots on the babies already. So, I just dropped them down which also brings them more level to my fan. Hopefully that will help strengthen some of the weaker stems.
And yes, when I transplant I'll bury an inch or two of stem on the stretchy ones.
About the AF thing, yes it's possible to achieve the same size and structure as an AF strain. But it's not really the same thing. AF plants will have reached maturity by the time they're ready to flower, seedlings won't. AF stems will have also hardened up a lot more then a seedling would have and would be able to handle an HID light a bit easier then a seedling would.
Regardless the AF strains are novelty items, I don't see myself ever buying a pack of seeds, but I had to grow them at least once just to see what it was like. I actually clipped a "tester" bud last night for the hell of it. For being 3 weeks away from the first potential day to harvest the buzz was not bad at all. Total head high, but for what really equated to probably one solid bong hit I caught a nice little buzz for an hour or so. Can't wait to see the full potential of the buds.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: dsotm]
#340051 - 01/04/10 03:42 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yup, one plant has recovered quite nicely. I had dosed that one earlier then the others as a test to see if my strength was ok or not. It bounced back and is looking a lot better. The slight necrosis on the newer growth is bothering me, I'm pretty sure it's due to a Ph imbalance though and shouldn't be an issue now that the plants are receiving food. They'll receive another dose of 1 tsp/gal tonight of FN Grow. Should help clean up any remaining problems and get them back on their merry way.
BTW the picture shows them as a darker green then they really are. All the leaves were very pale green/light yellow (obvious sign of N def). I'm not sure if the plant is uptaking Mg well right now either due to the "tacoed" leaves I'm seeing. Again this might have to do with my Ph being a little out of wack.
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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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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: dsotm]
#341245 - 01/05/10 09:20 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes sir, still trying to get used to this hydro thing. I'm so used to vegging in soil where plants don't even start needing nutes until maybe they're this size or bigger. Next time I start some seeds I'll hit them with the nutes much sooner.
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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: the man]
#352344 - 01/23/10 01:51 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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No smell at the moment. Just picked up some snowstorm ultra. Will be adding it into the nutrient regiment at the next feeding. Unfortunately I'm already battling high temps. Cab temps hit 87 last night. Can't open the window because I'm drying buds and the smell is too strong. I'm already looking into a window AC unit, but I wouldn't be able to put that in for another few months. Just gotta figure out a way to effectively move the warm out of the outer room so the cab temps can drop.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: the man]
#352459 - 01/23/10 07:47 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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well, yah, there's that I suppose. I just meant no noticeable odor coming off of the plants. They're still relatively young in the flowering cycle.
I pull in air from the outside room which is the same room I exhaust in to. So my cold air source gets warmed from my exhaust. Can't modify the house so I'm a bit stuck. AC is the only way to fix it without tearing a 6 inch hole in my ceiling.
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: NightGrower]
#352513 - 01/23/10 11:18 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yah, thing is I can't really have ducting running from my cab to the ceiling like that That's how I had my old cabinet set up, just not an option right now. I'll figure something out.
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: dutc2006]
#352597 - 01/24/10 09:53 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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no attic in my house.
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coda
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#355116 - 01/29/10 09:36 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Put two of the clones in flowering tonight, the other one is just refusing to root. Going to give it a couple more days then just ditch it if it doesn't. I desperately need the room in my veg cabinet that the cloning chamber is taking up.
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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: NightGrower]
#356505 - 02/01/10 04:41 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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oh, sorry, thought I had mentioned that. Those three plants were due for a watering. Instead of just watering them I transplanted and watered. They hadn't perked up when I took the photo's but look just fine now.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: coda]
#358550 - 02/06/10 03:49 PM (15 years, 28 days ago) |
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One confirmed female today and it looks like the other two are males. My loupe got left in the flowering cab so I won't know for sure later tonight. At least I have one girl to play with. Funny thing is it was the plant I was hoping would be a girl so that made happy. So that's 47 days from seed to pre-flowers.
Since I think the other two are male I went ahead and put the three Kushberry x Skunk seeds into some peat pellets to germinate. Those should be popped out of the surface by tues/wed and I'll track them in this grow log too.
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No breeding because I don't have room for it. I wish I had the ability to do something like that, but for now I'll just be happy to grow them.
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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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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: Triptonic]
#361927 - 02/10/10 07:28 PM (15 years, 24 days ago) |
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Yah, I do all my propagation work in peat pellets. They're just too easy and cheap not to. Just hyrdate them, hollow out a little hole (the pre-built one usually collapses), pop the seed in, and lightly cover it. Most of my seeds pop within 3 days.
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Re: LA Confidential x Skunk [Re: Triptonic]
#361939 - 02/10/10 07:37 PM (15 years, 24 days ago) |
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Second watering in like 2-3 days. I'm not waiting this time, last time around the two week mark they were suffering from lack of food. So I'm just going to start them off with some really light doses.
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