**first Grow - Shiva Skunk (with Pics)**

Is the pro bloom all the nutes your giving? What is the break down on it? I was feeding mg rose food and plant food as well as the flowering nutes from the hydro store. After 2-3 weeks of flower I backed off the mg plant food and used the bloom booster because it doesn't need the nitrogen so much in flower. I stopped the rose food in week 6 and quit all nutes the last watering. Two are a week or so behind one. They are in week 8 now and one will be ready for harvest in 2 weeks. The other 2 are taking longer. I'm still using mollasses and rain water on all the plants and will give the late plants another round of food in a week. Then they will be flushed and given water and mollasses also.

The pro bloom nutes are all I'm giving it, but the guys I bought the clones from told me that they've had luck with going entire grows with NO nutes in FoxFarm soil, which is why I'm a little apprehensive about dumping a bunch of nutes in there right now.

I think I'm going to give them a few more days and see how they're doing and I'll determine what needs to be done from there.

hi, nice plants. i have 3 sensi shiva skunks from seeds, 2 different pheno's. 1 simular to yours heavyer on the crystals, and another leaning more towards the skunk. but i mainly run cuttings, and run some beans to get new strains

cuttings "somtimes" can be abit more tricky to keep green, like if soil stays abit damp or somthing to long then it can somtimes be hard to get that green back in leafs. not saying youve left your soil damp. or slightly weak cuts from the start.

i feed mine with, biobizz gro, bloom, seaweed, and you can use the grow all the way thru flower to help keep it green. and they say you can feed every water with there organic feed. i havnt fed every water. but i tri to fed when the plant has sucked most the nuts up from the soil. ovisly i dont want mine to be to green at the end so i do cut back on the grow and continue with the bloom, but ive hardly fed the shiva skunks at all this time, once to twice a week. and they seem happy anoth still green with probo 2-3weeks left. you have a nicer looking pheno then i have i think aswell. nice plants sir

i chould post ya up a pic, if you'd like to check out anoth shiva skunk plant. just fed basicly, biobizz soil and there organic feeds

Yes! I'd love to see a picture of your plants!

I'm getting close to the 6th week of flower, so I should only have about a week or two left! I'm excited for harvest! The plants don't actually smell that much by themselves, which surprises me. They are getting covered in dense white crystals, and when I touch the bud and smell my fingers there is a complex sweet skunky smell which I can assure you smells delicious!

I've been watering with sucanat every watering, and feeding at 1/2 strength once every week or so.

Do the buds not tend to reek until the last stretch of flowering? Or do I just have a low-odor strain?

i think it is quite low odor. for sure i'll post ya a pic today. mine are only small. flowerd them early to tri find a keeper. cool man

hi dude, the first 3 pics are what id say is the N pheno. second 3 pics are what id say is the S pheno.

Damn dude, those look great! How far into flowering are you and how tall are those plants?

thanks man, yeah this strain doesnt strech much when flipped over to 12/12 compared to a few other strains. there probo about 6-7 weeks into flower. i'll be giving the last few weeks now on just water no nuts. there not much more then 2 foot id say

due a soil test ?? nute burn for shure flushem..

Okay, why the molasses/sucanat? I'm trying to figure that one out!

Your plants look great, this thread is helpful, keep it up!

It sounds like you have a nutrient buildup. If i were you i would flush out the growing medium with a mild nutrient solution at 1/4 strength. Be sure to use three times as much water as soil when flushing. I had some problems with the clones i got also, but with a little care yours should bounce back. I also have 16 plants with my 600 watt lumatek digital hps. I got 1 banana kush, 3 platinum bubba kush, 9 purple bubba kush, and 3 unknown strains.(seeds from chronic i've found in my bag, all good weed that i smoked)

dude maybe its your lighting burning the plants? i dunno im new too this stuff

im going to subscribe cuz im also growing 6 shiva skunks, and im having the same exact issues you were/are having with

the tips, curling, and yellowing.

yesterday i decided to flush all 6 with ph'ed plain water.

and i noticed my thermometer was saying max 96degrees and min 53 degrees.

i now think it may have been a main problem with heat stress, so now im running my blower 24/7 to make sure the

room is always cool, now its a stable 55-76max.

plants seem to be less yellowing, and i have even decided to drop my hood

from 2.5 feet to 1.5 feet above the canopys.

after checking on them 30 minutes ago, i think they are looking better, but time will tell.


also btw, im only in beginning of week 2, and my problems are FAAR less worst than yours. just having a yellowing

factor on newer leaves. I too am using botanicare pure blend bro bloom SOIL, along with budswell, and green stay. soon i will be adding molasses. and thinking of trying purple max and big bud.