Mama Mia & Critical Purple Kush

DAREdropout Up-potted from solo cups to 5 gal pots. Doing beautifully in the Ocean Forest soil.

DAREdropout Topped. Still doing beautifully. Roots are poking out through the drain holes at the bottoms of the pots.

DAREdropout Both responding nicely to the topping. Appetites gradually increasing. Turned up light intensity from 50% (150w) to 75% (225w).

DAREdropout Skirted/defoliated. The stretch has begun, so I had to raise the lights. They're drinking quickly, going to have to increase watering frequency.

DAREdropout Still stretching. Had to increase watering volume to 3L per plant because 2.5 wasn't cutting it. Defoliated & skirted a bit more. Pistils starting to appear in the nodes. Buds are on their way!

DAREdropout Raised the light to accommodate their last bit of stretch. Buds are coming along, and starting to sport trichomes. The ladies are starting to get a little pale. Hopefully the increase in nutrients will sort that out. Now that their buds are starting to come in, I added Mag-Pro and Potash Plus to the nutrient lineup for an extra P & K boost.

DAREdropout Buds are fattening & frosting up. Plant is turning a little greener, which I like to see. Increased water volume to 3.5 L, pretty much have to water every 2 days. Aroma is just starting to develop, may have take my air purifier/deodorizer off the timer and keep it going 24/7 until harvest.

DAREdropout Buds are stacking, trichomes are getting thick. The aroma is coming along: sweet and flowery. The plants' individual resin aromas are developing too. The MM is heavy of tropical fruits, guava, passionfruit. The CPK is sweet, gassy, limey. Seedsman says the CPK is supposed to turn earthy with notes of coffee, maybe that'll develop later?

DAREdropout MM is starting to finish, so cutting her off from nutes from here on out. Found a spot of botrytis on one of MM's colas, killed it with a spray of potent baking soda solution (1.5 tbsp/quart of water). It fried the pistils all over the cola and burned spots in the leaves, but it killed the fungus, so I'm calling it a success. Looking forward to cutting these plants down soon. I want to try them!

DAREdropout CPK started showing signs of finishing, do I cut her off from nutes too. The final flush has begun. The soil is so saturated with nutes that a two week flush probably wouldn't phase them. The colors on both are starting to come out, hopefully the flush will bring them out more. MM's bud rot came back, so I chopped off the top of the cola. Last thing I wanted to do, but it wasn't worth risking the whole crop.

DAREdropout Heavy aromas of passionfruit, guava, and tropical fruits. Sweet. Floral. Fruity. Delicious.

DAREdropout First plant I've ever grown that produced colas larger than a coke can. Very proud of this grow. Gassy rosewater is the only way I can describe the aroma.