Purple Chill Auto

Week 13: 16 April - 22 April 2023 Week 13! In which I: * stopped feeding nutrients entirely and moved to a pH water-only cycle for the first grow ever (guess we shall see if flushing is "bro science"?) * chopped the bastard on Saturday morning! 17/04/2023 (day 87): Watered with pH 6.0~6.5 water only. I'm not convinced about "flushing" in the least, but figure if the nutrient uptake will be minimal this close to chop, there's no point persisting with it. 19/04/2023 (day 89): More water. Things are looking frosty under the loupe though admittedly many colas have no visible amber trichomes (while others have up to 30%). 21/04/2023 (day 91): No water today as had fully intended to chop. As it happened, things got too late and I didn't have all my ducks in a row. Had a go at photographing stuff against a black sheet but realise that my camera equipment and lighting set up isn't really going to do justice to the sticky, stinky colas that this plant has produced. Interestingly, the sugar leaves have developed that beautiful purple outline again and the underside of the leaves has got nice and purple. 22/04/2023 (day 92): Chop day! The big stems produce 440g of wet bud on the scales. I will be interested to see where things land post dry-trim. I would love to have 3oz of heads though we shall see! This chop at day 92 was one I hesitated about. I know there's a lot of "two more weeks" thinking but ultimately the decision to chop was borne from my last experience with this pheno (see Beginner Auto Mix Diary) where the sugar leaves ended up fading hard and the whole plant ended its life looking a bit 'overdone'. Under the loupe I had several colas that had 20-30% amber trichomes and several more that were a mixture of milky and clear. The smell of volatile terpenes as I chopped was so beautiful I wish I could bottle it and scent my room with it. Mmmm.