Venus
Sativa 50 / Indica 50
Origins: Pure Power Plant x Top 44
Flowering: 56-70 days
Harvest: late October
The long statured Venus is 100% female, a new production skunk developed with the commercial grower in mind. This variety is sure to keep everyone happy with her active buzz, sweet skunky smell and long, easy-to-clean buds.
Venus is a combination of a consistent, stable Pure Power Plant and a strong Top 44 female that was forced to produce male flowers using gibberellic acid. The Pure Power Plant (PPP) is one of the most well known and widely available commercial strain in Europe. Developed in the late 1990s from South African and Dutch strain, PPP proved to have terrific flowering potential in the indoor garden scene and has become a staple of Dutch growers. Coffeehouse patrons appreciate PPP’s upbeat buzz and light pine-tree scent.
Top 44 is another wildly successful commercial plant that display minimal branching, a pungent skunkiness, and a satisfyingly rapid grow cycle. Her easy-to-control has made Top 44 desirable for indoor or balcony growers, and a natural choice for sea of green setups.
The result of this union is an ideal indoor 50/50 indica/sativa hybrid that yields dew-dusted buds after 8-10 weeks of flowering. Venus grows well outdoors in Spain and Great Britain, where she finishes in October. In indoor grows, modest heights of 3 feet can be expected when flowering is induced at 1 foot.
While Venus naturally takes on the traditional candelabra structure, Nirvana recommends pruning away her spindly bottom branches and retaining her top five limbs, staking them in a sea of green style, with 16 plants per square meter. Indoors, hydroponics systems will deliver the best volume and a more dense carpet of glands. Venus can handle a very high EC and therefore should be pushed to achieve her full potential. The cured Venus buds have a curious aroma that is decidedly skunkish, and an agreeable level of potency that reaches both body and mind in a soothing yet wakeful way – a kind and balanced stone.