Enjoy these pics of the mature adult flowers just before harvest, and recap of my 2019 Super Skunk crop!
Wow, an impressive result for completely organic plants (nothing but soil, water, light, and air), and a near-zero budget, especially considering they had to move to a new location just after they began flowering!
Life began
8 Super Skunk seeds, which I obtained from a friend in the Netherlands, and which were produced by master breeder Nevil Schoenmakers, were germinated about 7 months ago. I wrote about it in an important post called Germinating Seeds, the first post of my "[ Soil to Oil ] Guide to Growing Indoor Cannabis" series.
100% germination! From this post:
Next, the sprouts were transplanted into cups of soil here:
At the one week mark here:
And two weeks, here:
At just 19 days old, here is what the 7 surviving plants looked like:
At 22 days old seedlings B, D, E, F, G, and H advanced into larger pots here:
25 days in, here:
Here is plant H at the 4 week mark:
At one month old the plants were topped, and the next day showed 2 new growing tops:
At 6 weeks old they were topped again here:
A reminder of the ingredients:
- worm dirt
- tap water
- room air
- lamp light
No fertilizers of any kind, no pest control, no fungicides, nothing. Flawless and ridiculously-healthy ultraorganic plants yield top shelf medicine. With good genetics and the right techniques, it can be done with zero budget using materials found at home! My posts are proof of that.
Here is plant E after 7 weeks of life:
At day 54 here, I was able to sex 2 of the plants - 1 was female and 1 was male! The photo shows plant B, a female:
After being delayed by a shady worm-castings dealer off Craigslist, I found a better supply, and transplanted the plants into their 'adult' pots in a post called "How to cure cancer with poo". This is E, looking a bit undernourished:
You can see the plants had recovered and resumed growth by day 73 here:
And a couple days later here, close to flowering:
At 13 weeks, flowering was well underway. Here is plant G, a male:
A few days later, a look at the female plant B, here:
And back to G again for this post at day 96:
At 14 weeks I posted here to show the opened pollen sacs of plant G:
Pistils and trichomes were appearing on the females here:
Moving
At 109 days, I announced here that I was moving out of Vancouver, and donating my 4 maturing plants to the Cannabis Substitution Project. Check them out:
A trusted local contact (activist/grower/extractor) agreed to grow out the 4 plants (3 female and 1 male). In this post, I showed plants E, B, D, and H just before being taken to a new location to finish flowering:
My contact let the plants flower outdoors, in the same pots and soil, allowing nature to do her thing. He sent me pictures yesterday, after bringing them inside to chop and cure the buds! Here's plant E, B, and D's last photo:
He's going to extract the cannabinoids into shatter,grow then use that to make high-dose edibles for the Cannabis Substitution Project!
The CSP hands out cannabis, mainly in the form of edibles (capsules, baked goods, hard candies, etc), to anyone who waits in line to receive it. It is completely free and nothing is expected in return. The cannabis comes from trusted local gardeners, extractors, and bakers. They have $0 budget and operate totally on donations and volunteers. They serve over 200 people twice a week, and the line keeps growing. There have never been any major problems, and hundreds of people have been able to cut back or even quit hard drugs. The CSP has been credited with directly saving lives.
And if there are seeds (H was male), the adventure doesn't end here, and this genetic line will grow on.
Next
Now that I'm settled into my new place in BC's Okanagan, my son has been born, and life is beginning to take on some degree of consistency again, my green thumb is absolutely throbbing. Must... Grow.... Plants.....
I've been notified by a blockchain buddy of mine that he's sending me some special seeds to grow for my first crop at the new place!
Thanks for following my Super Skunk crop! See you soon, for Level 2 of DRutter's indoor medicine patch on the blockchain :)
DRutter
