RDWC - Purple Run

Day 77 She is producing and gets fat now. Seriously i didnt expect much of her after she exeeded her timelimit, but she is a beatuy now and still grows after 77 days. Seems like she just waited for the others to finish to launch her real potential. I did some LST, because there is enough space now and the branches were relatively close together. So the light couldn´t penetrate deep enough for long buds and i fixed that. The Lumatek runs at 100% 12" / 32cm above the buds. Day 80 On day 80 i´ve done some more LST to widen up the branches or lay them as flat as possible. I also trained the buds to help them bulk or widen out. They are so sticky, that they aren´t able to do it by themselves. I think it helps the plant to use her energy more efficient, instead of fighting against herself. Sometimes i feels and sounds like opening a zipper. After that, there is more light in the bud itself because of the greater surface, without giving more light intensity. The Lumatek delivered now 1500 PPFD on the top of the buds and around 750 PPFD at the lower branches for 3 days. She takes it well, so i turned on the second light to spread the light a bit better. Now i have around 1000 PPFD on the tops, but also on the side. Its an experiment just to see, if i can kill her with light. If not, i can go up to 600W and if she survives or maybe even doing well, i will use more light in the next run. I was a little bit scared at first, to go over the recommended DLI, but now i´m not shure, if the DLI-Chart is a bit cautious. The tops startet minor foxtailing as expected, but no burned tips or white tips, what i think is impressive. These buds are getting huge for what they were behind the others. I think the pics don´t show the real size of the buds. 4 of them got the diameter of my fist and are about 30 cm long. The plant uses a space of 65cm x 60cm and i expect the yield to be over 200g dry buds without trim. I hope she´ll make it 😅 Day 81 I decided to start a test, how much light an autoflower can take. Now i give her 420 Watts from 2 dimensions. Measured with Phantom Photobio Quantum PAR-Meter, there is around 1000PPFD at the buds, some of them from 2 sides. My goal is to see real light burning and feel, how much room is for experiments or where the limits really are. In the beginning i was scared about give her 800 PPFD on the tip of the bud. Now i don´t care about 1500 PPFD on the tip and i think thats beautyful. I testet it in small scale with one bud from the Mazar with 1000 PPFD at first, because 650 PPFD 18/6 / DLI 45 is the recommended chart-thing. I expected the bud just simply to die, but instead doing it, it produced the biggest bud without any damage. Now i will try to kill the plant with up to 600 Watts on one plant with around 2x2 ft or 60x65 cm of used space. I don´t think she will die, but i will know it in a few days 😆 Tell me your guess in the comments, will she die?!? Day 82 She didn´t die yet, but the trichomes are slowly getting amber now. I dropped the EC by 0.2 to 1.6 now and she will only get water from now on with only a bit Calcium to preserve the CalMag relationship (need to bc. of my tapwater) and a PH of 5.8 as usual. I think i will flush her complete in a few days to let her mature and let her use her last nutrients stored. I also want to see her colours ;) Also i need space for the younger generation so i will put her down. Day 84 Because she didn´t die but eats money af, i will end the test. I learned, that the plants are very resistant against "too much light" and won´t get hurt, if i push them a little harder and where the limits of efficiency are. I also learned from this run, how and where to measure the temperatures, to dial in the VPD. I´m sure that the next run will be way better, but i don´t know how much better the yield could be possible, looking at my results and the breeders decleration. This morning i changed the reservoir with tapwater + 0,2 ml/L Calcium, 3 ml/L Cannazym, 1,5 ml/L Cannaboost and a PH of 5,8. She will get about 3 days while i turn down the light every day by 25%. Start with 300 W / 100% Lumatek only.