Killer Kush. For those who want it all

A wonderful medium-sized, autoflowering hybrid with a very high yield and an excellent smell. It flowers in a few weeks, is very easy to cultivate and generates abundant harvests of resinous buds. It has an exceptional and very sweet taste with citrus and acid touches. The effect after consumption is instantly noticeable and devastating. 

Sweet Seeds is one of the most powerful seed banks out there. After trying several of its autos, we were surprised with Killer Kush, an autoflowering version of one of the most famous cannabis plants in the world, the OG Kush.

This 4th generation autoflowering plant is the fruit of crossing a mostly Indica, 3rd generation autoflowering plant with an elite clone of OG Kush. The result is a spectacular specimen in every sense.

The plants are medium sized and very compact, about a meter high, with dense buds and loaded with resin. They are very easy to grow and even the most inexperienced grower could easily get a good harvest.

It is a really fast strain; its buds ripen and can be harvested in as little as 8 weeks. Under indoor lamps, it can reach a yield of 550 g/m2. Outdoors, yield is to the tune of 200g/plant.

Killer Kush has a THC concentration between 18 and 22% and generates a fast and strong high at all levels, which leaves you KO. Its aroma and taste are other fantastic qualities of this plant. It tastes better than it smells and leaves a very pleasant aftertaste in your mouth. In short, one of the best and most complete autos on the market.

Germination and growth

We germinated 4 Killer Kush seeds between wet cloths and, in a little more than a day, they were already open. We placed seedlings directly in the pot where they would spend the rest of their (short) lifecycle. Indeed, transplanting causes stress and we wanted to avoid it. The pots we chose had a capacity 18 litres. Here we placed seedlings with their radicles downwards.

Subsequently, we brought plants to our grow room using a 20-hour light cycle (20 hours of light by 4 of darkness). In less than a day, under the dry heat of sodium lamps, the first leaves appeared through the earth. We used a soil rich in nutrients, in order to add just root booster in the early days of growth and favour the development of a good root ball.

We watered them only a couple of times with a specific growth fertiliser between the end of the vegetative phase and the beginning of flowering. N.B.: Growers have to be very careful not to overwater plants the first few days, as overwatering will slow down their development.

The growth of this strain is constant and vigorous, with a stem and branches that are not very dense, but quite robust. Their internodal distance is short and shoots are abundant. In little more than three weeks, our plants had reached a considerable size and the first pistils were also visible.

Flowering

After a short period of vegetative development, the plants stopped growing and started to flower. Their branches had their last growth spurt, and the last shoots also appeared. At this stage, we kept the 20-hour light cycle unchanged for all plants to make the most of the energy from lamps. This plant is very easy to grow and virtually unproblematic during its short period of development.

At the beginning of fruiting, we added a fertiliser and a stimulator – which were specific for this phase – to irrigation water. The plants responded quite positively at each irrigation cycle and we also added a bloom stimulator. Using a soil rich in nutrients allowed us not to use a large quantity of fertiliser. Indeed, given the short flowering period of autos, there is no much time to fertilise them since, two weeks before harvest, growers have to stop fertilisation and only pour water in order to drain any excess fertiliser away from plants.

Killer Kush has oval buds, which form throughout the plant. All of them are enormous, with abundant pistils of striking reddish and very dense colours, both on the branch tips and in the lower parts.

They are covered by a dense, sticky layer of resin that gives off an inebriating fragrance right from the start.

Almost two weeks before harvesting, we removed all nutrients and additives and only poured water, while waiting for the trichomes to fully mature.

Harvest

It was a pleasure to look at plants and a pity to cut them, but the time had come for the harvest. The buds were bursting and the trichomes were ripe. We harvested the specimens produced from the four seeds after a few extra days than the eight weeks recommended by Sweet Seeds.

The ratio of leaves per bud is quite low, so the trimming of each plant took almost no time.

The quantity and quality of Killer Kush buds was incredible.

Tasting

After about two weeks of drying, we finally tasted Killer Kush, a herb with an exquisite aroma and a particularly sweet taste with hints of lemon and pine that fills at each puff.

It is not heavy to smoke and the pleasant aftertaste it leaves encourages you to try it again after a short time.

Its high is strong both mentally and physically; narcotic, rises quickly and leaves you lying on the sofa in a short time.