@TripsRabbit no, I got it from a dispensary. It really is skunk ape. Peep the name written on the tag with the date. My handwriting is nowhere that legible
. I imagine the date is when the clone was cut/taken
. Ironically, I almost picked up a clone of “sapsquatch” the same day I grabbed the skunk ape. The sapsquatch is another offshoot of Sasquatch, which I’m sure you already know. I was just wanting something with that “purple/grapey” flavor for my next harvest and skunk ape sounded like it would fit the bill.
I honestly thought the lineage of this strain was skunk #1 crossed with grape ape, and I’m sure some of you did too
. That was the reason why I grabbed it, aside from the fact that the purple stems showed amazing potential for some gorgeous flowers
.
On to the grow:
Plant was placed on a 5 gal bucket w/ lid to raise it off of the cold floor, only 2 70watt lm301b leds are on @ about 34 inches from the top of the clone. Temperature is between 72-81 Fahrenheit with humidity hovering around 35%. I’d like humidity up more to around 45% so I might set up my little pond fogger if I can find the dang thing. Humidity is not a big deal to me in veg like it is to some others, so if I don’t set it up it’s a “
whatever” thing to me.
Friday Oct. 23rd, after a couple days sitting in the clone container getting used to the led lights I transferred the clone to a 1 gal
smart pot filled with coco coir and a few handfuls of perlite. I also lightly sprinkled some mykoz on the clones roots after I pulled it from its container and a little in the 1gal pot where it was to be repotted. Slight transplant shock but not more than a day or two. I also forgot the
CalMag the first feeding in the 1 gal fabric pot, as well as the two days she was still in her clone container, so she started fading on color slightly.
Sunday Oct. 25th,
I mixed up a batch of some nutes with the following ratio:
4 cups of my DI filtered water @0.00 EC/ppm
6 drops of blue planets silica (Great Stuff & Cheap!)
About 1 tsp of Lotus Nutes Grow to get the tds to 550-575 ppm
1/2 tsp of Lotus Nutes
CalMag to raise the ppm from about 550ish to almost 700ppm.
Ph adjusted to 6.0.
Very important, I always dilute my ph up or down in a SEPARATE container of 0.00 EC/ppm water BEFORE adding it to my freshly mixed feed solution to adjust the mixtures ph. If you add the concentrated ph up or down directly to the feed solution You mixed up you will see a cloud form immediately. That’s no bueno.
Plant was fed late at 10pm.
My current light schedule is 20/4 with lights on @ 5am and lights off @ 1am.
Monday Oct. 26th,
Everything looks to be in order. (Minus the mess from the previous harvest I still haven’t cleaned up, yet
.) Slight twisting of the top tips (ph must be a little off) but should be corrected soon. I need to get some more buffer solution for my ph pen and recalibrate. Other than that, so far so good.