KeepinItGreens - PNW Outdoor - Sweet Island Skunk - Blue Cheese - Grow 2015

[Keepinitgreen]

Hey 420mag, I've been meaning to make an account and post my grow journal of my current grow for a while now but have just gotten around to it. Well, here you go! I hope my plants aren't too shabby for you guys. Haha.

This is my personal two plant grow, aside from my 16 plant hoop house for patients with a different variety of strains. And is my first time actually doing outdoor in Oregon.

I'm growing out two clones a friend bought for our green house that didn't look like they would turn out well enough to put them in there but I figured I might be able to do something with them and at least have a nice smoke this fall, which so far seems more then true haha. .

They're 1 Sweet island skunk, and 1 blue cheese. If that's what they really are, who knows but the smell seems on point so far.

I'm using 20 gallon smart pots, with a soil mixture of 50% ocean forest 40% happy frog and 10% of my compost mixed together.
I use organic nutrient sources such as alfalfa meal, kelp meal, fish meal, high phosphorus bat guano, ground egg shells, dolomite lime, and some others.
I either brew the nutrient sources in a tea and pour around the soil and root ball, or just top dress and water in. Or foliar feed if needed, I try to not spray anything after late veg.
I adjust the NPK values of my feed depending on the level of veg/flower I'm in.

I also add soil microbes through bokashi, composting, and add live earth humates during peak veg and flower cycles to increase nutrient uptake and build a stronger stem and root structure.

Water when needed.

I've had a couple bug problems from leaf hoppers and ants, but have solved most of this with lady bugs, spiders, diatomaceous earth and self rising flower.

I'll post some pictures, a little later when I'm back home and not on my phone,
Peace & love. Keep it green.

 

[Keepinitgreen]

Here's some pictures, in semi chronological order.

About two weeks into their life, i've had them for two days: 6-27-15. sweet island skunk on the right, and blue cheese on the left.

After i got them into the smart pots. 6-28-15

Skip to 7-21-15, before i gave them their first feed at 4-2-3. S-I-S on top, Blue cheese below.

They definitely liked the two feeds i gave them, and about doubled in size by 8-2-15 in this picture. S-I-S on top, blue cheese on bottom.

A sweet island skunk leaf about the size of my hand. I also decided to top the blue cheese this day. 8-2-15.
NPK values at mid veg levels of 10-5-7

Did some light stress training on the blue cheese, just to give the branches some more light, and room.

top view, S-I-S on top, blue cheese on bottom

Blue cheese tops sprouting up, S-I-S continues to grow. Had to put her on a table because the pot was on top of my water meter box, and the guy was coming out to read them hahah. 8-12-15

Still growing, pre flower. NPK values adjusted for flower cycle 5-10-7. S-I-S on top, blue cheese on bottom 8-21-15

A worm hole captured on camera around my skunk plant

First flowers!

Today! Flowers are coming in very nicely, the smell of the blue cheese is very strong in the air. It's nice. The sweet island skunk has a very sweet but much more subtle order. S-I-S on top, blue cheese on bottom.
The skunk stands about 5.5 feet high, and about that around, and the cheese is around 4 feet and about that around.

Left/right sides of the S-I-S it's getting hard to take pictures because of how big it is for the area i have.

S-I-S leaf

Blue cheese

The blue cheese definitely will take a little longer to flower

Here's some pictures that i'm not sure of the dates on, but i thought i'd throw them in here too.

Thanks for taking the time to read this journal, i'll be posting more pictures and updates throughout the rest of flower and harvest.
I'll probably write up one on my Sour Alien blue cheese, Fire Alien urkle, and Newyork pineapple diesel i've been growing green house the last two years also, if anybody is interested i may be able to put up my hoop house designs, it's served me very well over the last few years.

Much love, <3.
Keep it green.

 

[David Bowman]

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