FastBuds Purple Punch Organic Soil

Everything looks perfect so far.

Everything still looking perfect.

Day 17: Looking great. Humidity dome came off yesterday as the leaves were touching the sides. I watered today with Microbial Mass and a small amount of molasses added, I do this every two weeks to the whole tent for the sake of the living soil. Humidity domes are useful to keep water droplets off seedlings when watering, even if your environment is humid enough, get something to put over the plant when watering and prevent light burn. Day 18: Looking perfect. Day 20: Loving that branching and colour. She looks very happy. Day 21: Pistils have appeared. Plant is taking off.

Day 31: This week went well, took the first couple fan leaves off today, the PP is still looking very strong and perfect. LST'ing the branches to maximize the space is going well, I really like the grommets I added to these grow bags. She's showing pistils and starting flowering, and is a pretty nice size compared to my previous plants which I over stressed.

Day 33: A new week and my PP is flowering. Looking forwards to seeing some purple! I top dressed today with a variety of GaiaGreen products (Rock Phosphate, Kelp Meal, Bone Meal, All Purpose, Bloom, Oyster Shells). I only feed the autos once 30 days in. They start in Gaia Green Living soil to which I add all sorts of amendment's, then I create a small flower pot sized cavity in the middle of my filled grow bag and put in un-amended living soil. I also sprinkle mycoryzae at the boundary layer. The idea is the seedling starts off in relatively nutrient weak soil, and as it grows its root system it hits the higher nutrient soil and connects with the fungal mat just as it needs more food in its life cycle.

Day 36: Raised the light a couple inches for the PP, it's taller then the last 4 i grew. Day 39: Really pleased with strength of plant and number of bud sites. No discoloration, everything is bright vibrant green.

Day 45: Plant looks great, starting to smell strongly, crystals forming on the sugar leaves, quite a thirsty girl but the level of soil in her bag is actually probably only 60% of what Im putting in the new ones. Day 48: Wife showed me how to up my photo game, so that's in the works. Day 50: Better light but still not endgame for photos

Great week, buds developing nicely, very complex smell, so far whatever the opposite of berries is, in a good way :).

I have to say,, this plant just looks better and more massive with a black background. In the tent under the HPS it looks much less impressive somehow.

Day 64: She's looking amazing, fattening up nicely. Her trichome density is medium, and she's starting to smell of what reminds me of purple smellable grape markers, not strongly yet, but enough that it reminds my brain of that. Day 67: She's starting to fade in the leaves, a little curling at the tips. I checked the trichomes today and was surprised to see a good deal of amber ones. Pistils still 60%+ white. I was really planning to let this go 90 days but I'm seriously doubting it will make it that long. Day 70: Well she's certainly wrapping it up. If we get any purple colour it will be over the next couple weeks.

Day 73: She's starting to show that foxtailing that you see in older mature bud. Still at about 30% amber trichomes. I'm going to let her fade for a bit longer before i cut her down.

Overall it was pretty much set it and forget it. She was the largest of the autoflowers I've grown so far, and I did very minimal LST'ing to her. She was a vigorous grower from the beginning, and I'm very pleased with the wet weight. I figure she cost me approx. 100 dollars Canadian in materials and electricity to grow, so anything in the 2-4 ounce dry weight would be an excellent return on investment. Will report back with smoke review and final dry weight first week of April.