Grow Mediums Sensi Seeds Super Skunk SCROG (Autopots, AutoCobs, & Mega Crop Oh, MY!)

[HemiSync]

Ok, just a quick picture update. These are from Christmas and just ten days since the last ones. The center is filling in nicely and the nodes are still pretty tight even though all the COBs are push all the way up to the ceiling. She’s been dumping a lot of her dead leaves from around the bottom of the screen where the original bud sites are that generated this bloom. I had to get the shopvac out to cleanup the bottom of the tent.

 

[Screwauger]

Wow, she's gonna be buds on steroids!!! Sweet pictures.

 

[HemiSync]

Wow, she's gonna be buds on steroids!!! Sweet pictures.

It’s got twice the bud sites from the first bloom. I almost wish I had setup an upper screen, cause I’m hoping these could get so heavy they might fall over. I have a fan in the tent, but every night for about 4 hours I give her a windstorm by opening up the tent and turning my turbo fan on the whole tent. Hoping this will toughen up colas so they can withstand the weight. I believe stretch is over and now it should just be about 30 days till chop.

 

[MassMom]

Oh, My is right!!

 

[HemiSync]

She’s the Skunk so nice she flowered twice, maybe thrice. I was doing the math and with this strain, once scrogged there is no reason why you could not pull 4 harvests in a year, if you turned it around a little faster than I did. I’ve never done that before and wonder at what point you would start seeing diminished returns? So far she is just getting better and her root stock is now officially over a year old.

Ok just some update pictures after another 10 days. She is chunking up and definitely getting heavier. A lot of her branches are trying to fall over. I knew I should have put up a support net, I think it’s might be too late now.

Happy growing everyone.

 

[Flipper]

Stellar! Great job HemiSync!

 

[Nosias]

She’s the Skunk so nice she flowered twice, maybe thrice. I was doing the math and with this strain, once scrogged there is no reason why you could not pull 4 harvests in a year, if you turned it around a little faster than I did. I’ve never done that before and wonder at what point you would start seeing diminished returns? So far she is just getting better and her root stock is now officially over a year old.

Ok just some update pictures after another 10 days. She is chunking up and definitely getting heavier. A lot of her branches are trying to fall over. I knew I should have put up a support net, I think it’s might be too late now.
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Happy growing everyone.

She is the ageless wonder, that is for sure.

 

[HemiSync]

How does someone get aphids in the middle of winter? I haven’t changed anything in or near my grow, which has been ongoing since July, and yesterday the girl’s buds were all lying down. Upon closer inspection, I found aphids marching up and down each and every branch. I could not watch long it was creeping me out.

I did the only thing I could think of, which was to reduce all heat in my basement to slow them SOBs down. Ordered 1500 ladybugs and some green flies which should be here Wednesday or Thursday. The tent is now averaging 60°, I only have the one 2700k AutoCob on in the tent to keep from warming it up, and my lady has started to lift her branches up again. So it must be having an affect on them being cooled off. Once I get the good bugs I will warm up the basement again and release the hounds. I will try to get some video of the ladybugs attacking the aphids.

Wish me luck. :smoking:

 

[lunarman]

wouldn't there be larvae in the pots that you want to terminate?

 

[HemiSync]

wouldn't there be larvae in the pots that you want to terminate?

There is only the one autopot in this tent and yes there would be larvae in the soil. Which is why I mixed up some DE, flour, and catnip and put a layer on top. This will, kill, constipate, and or repel critters trying to go in or out of the soil. Nope, I’m not playing nice. I just hope my ladybugs survive the mailing in this weather, because then I will release about 100 a day for two weeks and they will clean it up.

Took another peek last night and they are all barely moving but still moving. Was tempted to open my outside cellar doors and drop it below freezing for a couple hours until I read this about freeze-avoidant insects;

freeze-avoidant insects do not die when it gets below freezing, but when the temperature gets below the freezing point for their boidly fluids – i.e., when ice begins to form in their bodies. For most freeze-avoidant insects, this is going to be between 0 and 20 degrees below zero. Some, like the ash borers, can take up to 30 degrees below zero.

So the house would probably lose before I froze them to death. At this point I’m just trying to give the buds the last 2-3 weeks they need to finish.