Description
Growing Tips for Critical Kush
Critical Kush is somewhat difficult to grow and should only be taken on by experienced cultivators. Critical Kush marijuana plants will thrive indoors and outdoors, but have an easier time growing indoors because of the ability to completely control the climate. If you choose to grow indoors, you will have to replicate a steady environment similar to the climate of the Mediterranean. Critical Kush cannabis seeds grow plants with frosty buds and purple leaves. Trichomes litter the surface area of the bud sites, making them appear dusty with crystal resin. If you choose to grow outdoors, you will need to hope for consistent temperature and humidity to grow these plants to completion. Doing so will ensure that you grow healthy buds from the top of the plants to the buds closest to the soil. Having access to a greenhouse is the best way to give these plants the perfect outdoor climate without having to put up with unexpected outdoor variables. These plants grow to a medium height and can reach around 2-4.5 feet tall. Because the plants reach a maximum indoor and outdoor height of under 5 feet, they don’t need as much vertical space to reach their peak.
The ideal temperature for these plants is around 68-86 degrees Fahrenheit and slightly cooler at night. Humidity levels should be kept around 30-70% during the vegetative growth stage and the flowering stage, but lowering the humidity every week will help this plant grow. Growing indoors will ensure that the moderate humidity levels and moderate temperatures are constant and maintained every day that the plants are in the growing stages. High-stress training, Screen of Green (ScrOG), and low-stress training (LST) methods will help these plants grow the desired yields. These methods are crucial for controlling the plant’s height and the canopy. The Critical Kush strain requires an 18-20 hour light cycle to reach the vegetative stage of growth. Changing the light cycle to a 12/12 cycle will help to induce the flowering stage of growth.
Yields, Flowering Time, and Harvest
- Flowering Time: Growing indoors, you can expect the Critical Kush strain to harvest after a short flowering period of 50-60 days.
- Yields: While Indoor yields are around 550 grams per square meter, outdoor grows typically produce up to 550 grams per plant. This strain produces hefty yields of amazing bud after a shorter flowering period.
- Harvest: Outdoor growers can plan on harvesting their yields around the beginning of October, depending on when the seeds were planted.
Critical Kush: Dank Kush Buds
The Critical Kush cannabis strain terpene profile is directly responsible for how the plant smells and tastes, and the strong effects it has on its users. The most dominant terpene in this strain is caryophyllene, while limonene and myrcene are the secondary terpenes.
- Caryophyllene: Most Dominant – This spicy and peppery terpene can be found in cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, and some cannabis cultivars.
- Limonene: Secondary Terpene – Commonly found in the rinds of citrus fruits, limonene gives cannabis its scent and flavor.
- Myrcene: Mother of All Terpenes – Myrcene is one of the most common terpenes in the cannabis kingdom and is known for its earthy flavor and aroma.
This plant kept my extraction fan employed full-time by mid-flower, genuinely more of a smell operation than a grow at that point.
First smoke had a fairly quick onset, stimulating and bright before easing into deep relaxation, genuinely one of the more intense effects I’ve experienced this season.
Solid plant, conflicting reviews, no real complaints once I accepted this strain simply does things its own way.
This plant’s relationship with the word ‘medium’ is honestly a little loose, more of a guideline than a rule.
That combined training method turned out to be exactly right, kept the canopy in line despite how eager this plant was to stretch upward.
That crumbly, dense bud texture at harvest was genuinely satisfying to work with, substantial without ever feeling like a chore to break down.
Smell’s earthy with fuel and spice, which I keep describing as ‘a garage that also sells incense,’ and I stand by that.
First smoke settled into a warm, heavy relaxation that built gradually after a brief stimulating opening, a genuinely well-paced arc for an evening at home.
The purple and crystal combination on these buds made for such an eye-catching harvest, sticky enough that trimming felt satisfying despite the mess.
Trained it with topping and LST together, left it alone otherwise, and somehow that felt like the smartest call of the whole cycle.