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This will be my attempt at the ole infamous Grand Daddy Purple.. maybe not the original but I hear this one packs a punch from ILGM. So far, so good. Only about 200ppm of CALiMAGic, pH that to about 6.5 and watering when soil appears dry.
Same thing for the most part.. watering 200ppm of CALiMAGic when soil appears dry and watching them grow. These two GDP's are identical so far, almost growing at the same rate.
Very happy ladies, they're always reaching for the light. Even dropped a small fan on GDP2 the night before the pictures and she looks like nothing happened.. still the same 200ppm of CALiMAGic at around 6.5 pH when dry.
These plants are super strong, growing quickly and bushing out perfectly. Topped them both a few days ago and they responded well, kept on growing. May introduce some light nutrients within the next couple weeks but for now just Armor Si and a little more CALiMAGic. Also doing a weekly dose of some Recharge.
Very strong plants.. they are growing quickly and have responded to everything well and continue vigorously. Did some defoliation this week as well as some tie downs on GDP2 to try and let the lower branches catch up to be like GDP1's more even canopy. They are also now under the FC-E3000 so they can adjust to the light before we flip to flower.
These two are looking fantastic, growing quite vigorously non stop. Installed the trellis netting, as well as changed the light cycle to 12 hours just a couple days ago so hopefully by the next update we will have pistils to show off. Just a few tie down adjustments, defoliation and some light nutrient doses this past week. I also plan on increasing the nutrients gradually over the next week or so as well.
Continued adjusting the tie downs every couple of days as the stretch begins. They've been under the 12 hour light cycle for about 9 days now but no pistils as of today. Plenty of defoliation over the past couple of weeks as the tie downs are creating many more tops and they are looking fantastic. Also sprinkled a layer of food grade diatomaceous earth on the top soil as a preventative.
These two have been looking quite nice recently moving along quickly, but as the temps in the area increase they are showing a bit more heat stress. Hopefully we can pull through before any ill effects come along. Aside from the heat, everything else with these two GDP's has been smooth.
Stacking very nicely, love the structure of both plants as you can see the genetics are quite consistent.. at least with these two seeds. As these two are doing great, I plan to start increasing the light intensity and introducing some KoolBloom soon.
They're looking fantastic so far, leaves appear very happy as well. I believe the weekly Recharge consistently this run has dramatically improved my root health and it shows in the plants themselves. Added Liquid KoolBloom into the mix this week and I can already see the buds bulking up nicely. Plan to start decreasing nitrogen levels and more KoolBloom as we go into later flowering.
These two are doing fantastic, taking everything well. Haven't really had any issues growing these two GDPs and they have also been very consistent with each other.. strong in the genetics it seems. Switched over to a modified Lucas method to decrease the nitrogen levels and add more PK for bulking season 💪😂 and really just watch them grow at this point until the flush begins in a few weeks.
Everything seems to be going alright. Got some foxtailing going on with most of all the buds on GDP2 so Im assuming a pheno trait possibly? Or very well could just be heat stress.. but no light stress I don't believe, the light is only at 80 percent and most likely not even reaching 1000ppfd at the top buds. Also may have found premature seeds forming.. will continue to monitor but we are still pushing to a harvest regardless.
Skipped last weeks update after confirming what I was assuming in my previous update.. we indeed have seeds.. and a lot of them. GDP2 practically has a seed in every calyx.. and not like a normal swollen calyx, you can see the seeds popping through and they are very hard when you squeeze them. I'm not entirely sure if this is a result of stress in flower as it did get quite hot throughout the grow in the mid to upper 80s Fahrenheit at times or if this is a result of somehow becoming impregnated by a hermie I had in the tent next to these. Either way, we will be pushing to harvest and seeing what can be used either for edibles or rosin and potentially saving a few seeds for an experiment. Last week I gave them a couple doses of KoolBloom and that was it.. this week I've begun flushing as we are nearing the 63 day mark.
I have 2 GDPs from ILGM that now have seeds. One much more than the other but certainly seeds. My question is can these buds still be used for rosin/edibles? or even smoked? And can these seeds potentially be feminized as they may have been stress induced? Or assume bad and toss?
First of all - having run a dozen or so strains from ILGM - find somewhere else to get seed. This is a consistent theme with them - intersex traits aka herms
Yes you can still use the bud for anything you like.
If you have seed - it came from pollen. Pollen comes from males or females with intersex/herm traits.
Now. Can you use those seeds in the future? Sure! But you’ll likely be going down the same path.. and end up with inherent intersex traits that will pollinate your buds.
Not the end of the world. The plant just focuses more on seed production once it’s been pollinated, but it’s still useable product.. just not quite as quality as if it hadn’t been pollinated.
They were chopped down this morning just before the lights went out, a few days earlier than the flowering time listed on the website but the trichomes looked cloudy under the loop and I was just ready to move on from these as they produced a decent amount of seeds. Either way, I will post a harvest update once I finish the drying process. They smell and look great aside from the seeds so the plan is mostly for rosin extraction and edibles.. I may post some of the rosin pressing results as well in a few weeks after drying and curing.
Was a very easy, quick grower especially in veg these plants moved along quickly and very consistently in my 2 seeds I popped. But the plants ended up being hermaphrodites as did one of my other seeds from ILGM... as well as a couple seeds that didn't even germinate. I've grown in these conditions with much better results.. the smoke wasn't awful, smells nice but plenty of seeds to go along with it which may be growers error but again.. hasn't happened to me previously so the genetics may have some of the blame here. Either way the plan is to press rosin or make edibles so its not a total waste.
Plants grew quickly like I said in the previous review but the buds were very disappointing. Not entirely sure if the seeds were a result of impregnation from a definite hermie also from ILGM.. that was in entire other tent that didn't end up getting anymore hermies except the next tent over containing these two GDPs also from ILGM.. Or if they couldn't handle the environment they were in and stressed out some seeds.. but either way not what I was hoping for.
They look happy and healthy.☺️💪 just harvested some GDP a few months ago. Purple phenotype 5 for 5.👍😀 o heard that the Green pheno packs more of a punch, but have had only purple so I'll check back with you. Happy growing.😊✌️
@Nordynllc, Thank you for support, and I'll have to go check out your dairies for sure. I heard a majority had the purple shades come out and its what sold me, maybe we'll get a green pheno and test the theory.
keep your RH levels down, maybe try some fungicide early and keep leaves and soil dry, hopefully this time before flower the spots dont return 🙏 Are you reusing your medium ?
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