Alaskan Purple

I decided to skip an intermediate stage of repotting and go straight to a 2 gallon pot for the period between now and when I move my plants outdoors and put them in their final fabric pots - somewhere around the summer solstice... or about 4 weeks or so. During this period they'll be inside my tent under KIND K3 LED lighting.

Veg mode is starting to kick in nicely now. I've been keeping my girls fairly dry... giving them just enough Azospirillum infused water to keep the area around the base of the plant wet. Don't wanna drown the developing root system. Babies don't drink that much.

Things are really starting to move along in veg land. I'll have to study my past grows to see when I should be topping these plants for the first time - but this week is a likely candidate for the initial snip. All my summer photoperiod girls were topped above the 4th node on June 1.

There's some serious secondary growth going on after the initial topping last week. All the girls have recovered nicely and are well on their way. There are enough roots visible at the bottom of these pots that we could transplant at any time... but I'm probably going to wait one week until after some major electrical work is completed on my home.

Well... this is graduation day for all my outdoor girls. Yesterday they spent their first full day in the sun (minus a couple hours shade mid-day)... and today they were repotted into their final 10 gallon outdoor fabric containers. They've been outdoors full-time for about 72 hours now, so they've had a nice acclimation period (I avoided moving them outdoors last week when we had a couple 90 degree days).

The girls have only been outside for a week now but we just had our first HOT spell. Yesterday, the summer solstice, we breached 100 degrees for a few hours... so I just stayed inside all day. The girls handled it surprisingly well. They still don't drink that much because a week ago they were in 2 gallon containers and the roots haven't filled in all that space yet, but they're working on it. Things are expected to be a bit more seasonal the next week or so.

This week was hotter than normal. 4+ days over 80 degrees. Gonna cool down significantly this week. Did some undercarriage pruning on all plants this week. There seems to be a bit of leaf curling - upward with this plant that I can't quite figure out. Other than that - she's the brute in the garden.

I had two plants sustain some wind damage this afternoon. Acapulco gold #2 almost split in half. Alaskan Purple just had one branch break at the main stem. Fortunately the damage was noticed within a couple hours and I think this can be repaired with good old-fashioned duct tape. Doesn't bode well though for when we enter flowering stage and these girls start to put on some real weight. I had already provided a wind brace for the Purple but that didn't help in this situation. Things got really cool for a couple days this week with fog all day but temps have now returned to normal.

We're just coming out of a short hot spell where we got close to 90 for a few days. Now we've settled back into a more seasonal upper 70's with regular morning fog. Nobody is flowering yet... but we're not far away. Picked up another 6" in height this week. Things are moving along.

We're in a fairly steady weather cycle now with minimal fog in the morning and temps getting a bit hotter than forecasted to... a couple days in the mid-80's this week. All the girls are up to about 1.5 gallons of fluid a day. I've done minimal pruning this summer. Nobody is flowering just yet... but soon.

I'm not ready to declare this girl as flowering yet, although she's probably only a week away. The other 3 girls on the patio are all sativa's and this is the only indica. She's was the biggest but now things a kind of a tie with my Acapulco Gold #2.

Ever thing is going along nicely. A moderate weather week with only a couple days in the 80's. A buddy of mine is coming over to water my plants while I bug out for a few days for a wedding on the east coast.. so I can see what humidity feels like again. I'm still not willing to call this girl flowering yet.

I'm a day late updating my diaries because I was back on the east coast last weekend for the wedding of my niece in Newport, Rhode Island. Had a buddy watering my babies while I was gone. A LOT hotter back east than where I've been living in central California. This baby Finally started flowering while I was back east. Full speed ahead.

Things got seriously hot yesterday, close to 100 degrees in an otherwise reasonably cool summer. All my girls have been getting by on 1.5 gallons per day of fluid. In general I'm using a heavier nutrient load than pervious years... which had been in the range of 50% of recommended - now I'm closer to 75%.

Things are moving along well. Temps haven't been too hot, although we were in the mid-80's today. Should be a bit cooler for the next week, which is ideal. Gave all the girls a probable final pruning to remove those internal shoots that will never really develop.

Things have been moving along nicely, but we're about to enter a moderate heat wave of like 4 days over 90 degrees and approaching 100. One of my Acapulco Golds is really frosty and ready for harvest and I'll probably flush her this week and harvest her Saturday before the heat sets in. This purple baby isn't really that far behind according to the trichomes but I'll give her another week. She ripened quickly and I wonder how she'll handle the heat. There is some distinct purple coloring near the base of the pistils.

This plant grew quite large, but she was practically the last to start (obviously) flowering. She then ripened quicker than almost everything else on the patio, except I harvested one of my Acapulco Golds a couple days earlier. Good thing too because today the heat wave REALLY set in. It's 107 degrees out on my patio right now, and I've put out an umbrella to keep my remaining two plants out of the direct sun as much as possible. This is crazy hot. Fortunately I'm hang drying my plants in my garage now, where I used to hang them in my old grow shed in the backyard... which is probably pushing 120 degrees about now - like 40 degrees warmer than my garage. I'll be back in a week or two after drying and trimming. September 14 - This girl rapid-dried in my garage during a passing heat wave where it was over 100 degrees outside for 4 days in a row. The yield was lower than I expected for such a large plant but I blame that on topping the plants once instead of twice which is my norm.