Favorite Skywalker OG grow diary by Ratle

Ratle Skywalker isthe favorite out of the previous 3 strains. Indica seems to work best for his medical issues. I'm going to start introducing fertilizer around the 3rd weekish as per Fox Farms suggestions. Just to mention, for those who grow in a small tent like I do, I've had success at using an AC Infinity heat mat (20 x 20) and a one gallon humidifier to keep the environment under control. My setup is not very fancy or expensive yet keeps us in supply.

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Used method

Paper Towel

Germination Method

7.62 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

pH

No Smell

Smell

73 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

60.96 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle It's the end of week two above soil and I started feeding today at 1/4 recommended amount as I usually do in my grows. I'm not a novice, been growing for 10 years but every grow has it's challenges and I'm still working on finding the best success with the least amount of issues. My last two grows I used Roots Organic original to test a different soil. In my view I had a better grow experience except the second bag was infested with gnats. Prior soil I used Ocean Forest, not sure if issues were with soil, I attribute most to lack of knowledge. This grow I'm using Happy Frog and so far everything looks like all my other grows, well, my very first few left something to be desired and didn't produce anything smokable.

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1/2

12.7 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.5

pH

No Smell

Smell

300 PPM

TDS

65 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

55.88 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle This is actually the start of week 2 of veg. The diary should have a seedling stage. Started LST at the end of last week. I also turned on the side lights 3 days ago. I haven't turned them on this early before and want to see if it helps the lower branches get up to speed with the tops. I topped the Skywalker today. I put gnat traps in as a precaution, noticed one flying around. Don't think it was a fungus gnat since it was hanging around the light and it's the only one on either trap.

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LST

Technique

Topping

Technique

20.32 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

6.4

pH

Normal

Smell

350 PPM

TDS

65 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

55.88 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle Did a very slight defoliation. She responded in two days to topping. Started training lower branches as well.

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LST

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Topping

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Defoliation

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1/2

27.94 cm

Height

18 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

6.4

pH

Normal

Smell

350 PPM

TDS

55 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

45.72 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle I did a good defoliation at the beginning of the week. Were off to the races now since the auto growing with her started to go into flower. Switched light schedule yesterday to coincide.

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1/3

35.56 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

6.2

pH

Normal

Smell

400 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

43.18 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle This is actually 9 days into flower. She's starting to catch up to her neighbor in height. Topping did well to get her to grow horizontal not requiring as much LST to keep all the tops close in height. No signs of pistils but she can't wait for day 21 of flower to get a good prune and defoliation. I'm still learning the proper amount on the defoliation before flower but she has airflow, just having to tuck some leaves daily.

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LST

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Topping

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Defoliation

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1/4

40.64 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

6.0

pH

Normal

Smell

600 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

27.94 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle Keeping on top of her stretch and opening up those colas. The one picture is of both plants, my tent is only 32" wide so I'll have to stop LST, their overlapping each other now at 24" wide each. Soil is testing on the high side so I lowered her PH feeding and will do that again next water and retest soil. Neither plant is showing any signs of trouble but they still have a long way to go. I don't like how full she is, seeing as how I won't be defoliating and pruning her for another week. I'm tucking, tucking, tucking and taking a couple fan leaves here and there until the time comes. I've also lowered the light several inches over the past week and seen them praying a little bit as a result. Good thing, their loving that light.

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LST

Technique

Topping

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Defoliation

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1/3

45.72 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

26 °C

Day Air Temp

6.3

pH

Normal

Smell

700 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

22 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

2.84 L

Watering Volume

27.94 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle Did a good pruning and defoliation along with the sledgehammer for a watering this week.. Stretch is done as the whole plant is rigid now. I'm looking forward to see the growth directed at the bud sites and keeping her healthy. She ended up being a little over twice her height at start of flowering, that's counting for the bends in her branches from LST. She's still too dense, her small leaves really shot out after defoliation. Air circulation is good and I've found the side lights to be beneficial in penetrating the lower part of the plant.

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LST

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Topping

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Defoliation

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1/4

60.96 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.3

pH

Normal

Smell

900 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

21 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

2.84 L

Watering Volume

30.48 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle With the end of the 8th week she has started to out pace her neighbor in bud development. Not yet halfway through flower, her stacking is better from the first time I grew this strain. I grew it alone that time but didn't do as much training with her. It will be interesting to compare the harvest weight since she's sharing the tent this time Did her final major defoliation and she's sticky as hell, trichomes everywhere. I remember her first grow, even the big fan leaves were covered and made some potent cannabutter. The trim picture is from both plants but mainly from her, the auto next to her didn't need much.

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LST

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Topping

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Defoliation

Technique

1/2

60.96 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.3

pH

Normal

Smell

850 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

21 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

2.84 L

Watering Volume

35.56 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle Well she is showing her tolerance to the light like the last time I grew this strain. I've had a couple leaves at the top with signs oh stress with a few spots. I'm still learning the art of diagnosing but this is definitely a light height of even fan issue. Her neighbor is under all the same regiment and is loving the conditions with no signs of stress what so ever. Were not even halfway through flower so I'm taking the side of caution and raised the light and fans. She took 12 weeks in flower last time I grew this strain and her buds are starting to take off already.

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LST

Technique

Topping

Technique

Defoliation

Technique

1/2

60.96 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.3

pH

Normal

Smell

950 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

21 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

2.84 L

Watering Volume

38.1 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle buds have fattened up some and putting on some weight, she should still have several weeks to go and I'm hoping so and at least double in size. Main buds are 1 1/2" wide

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LST

Technique

Topping

Technique

Defoliation

Technique

1/4

60.96 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.3

pH

Strong

Smell

950 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

21 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

38.1 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle Ran some Sledgehammer through yesterday and removed several leaves, especially the light damaged ones. She looks ready but she's not, probably another 3 weeks. I'm going to feed her at least one more time tomorrow and see if I'm ready to stop feeding and start my harvest countdown. I added a picture of a bud from the last Skywalker I grew. This bud was harvested a year ago, still have about an 1/8 left and two hits get me stoned,

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LST

Technique

Topping

Technique

Defoliation

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1/3

60.96 cm

Height

12 hrs

Light Schedule

24 °C

Day Air Temp

6.0

pH

Strong

Smell

950 PPM

TDS

50 %

Air Humidity

24 °C

Solution Temp

21 °C

Night Air Temp

18.93 L

Pot Size

1.89 L

Watering Volume

38.1 cm

Lamp Distance

Ratle Man is she a bright orange. Haven't seen any noticeable growth this week but watching the trichomes closely. She suffered a small calcium deficiency and light stress the last part of flower but nothing took over and got out of hand. Just need to make sure I use my notes on the next grow of this strain. So just a few days past 8 weeks of flower and the time has come. I will be harvesting her tomorrow morning!! She has 10% amber trichomes going on and even 20% in some areas so my partner should be happy with her. He likes to be uplifted for awhile and then melt into the couch a bit later. This strain was in flower for 12 weeks the last time I grew it but I also let her veg for 6 weeks instead of 4 so maybe that's why it took longer to mature.

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Happy Harvest Day!

Skywalker OG Organic Farms

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This strain is fairly easy to grow but like before it is susceptible to damage from light stress and seems to like a slightly lower PH soil then 6.8ph. Make sure to keep up with the cal/mag every water or feeding. Well I thought there used to be a "Dry bud weight" section of harvest. She ended up losing 75% in drying leaving me with 87 grams. Pretty typical for my set up. I have 10 grams of trim and larf I will add some bud to after a couple weeks of curing in jars to make some cannabutter. I only use about 8-10 grams per cup of butter but with using the trim I will up that to 15 or so grams. As you can see, I don't trim my buds very much, leave the sugar leaves intact pretty much. Took a small bud that was closer to Larf size, about half way up the plant, to get an idea of the range of maturity and put it in a pipe. I've become a light weight only taking a couple hits once or twice a week but three hits gave me a good buzz, hit me pretty fast. Very sweet tasting and mellow, not harsh at al. There was a slight green taste that should disappear after curing. My partner who smokes daily got buzzed too. So another successful grow.

Spent 86 days

Ger Veg Flo Har

395 g

Bud wet weight per plant

1

Plants

7.62 m²

Grow Room size

Normal

Difficulty

Height

Day air temperature

Air humidity

PPM

PH

Light schedule

Solution temperature

Night air temperature

Pot size

Lamp distance

1/5

Ratle she was already somewhat dried out when harvesting, had been without water for almost 4 days so I'm hoping to only lose an additional 70% of weight. I removed all fan leaves whos stems were to long for trichomes to have grown on the leaf structure.

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