Purple Kush

Hello and Welcome back 🌱 It‘s now 7 days ago since I put them in Water to Germinate and now it‘s their 5th day of growing. Yesterday, they got their first 4 hours of darkness and now i‘m slowly going down to 18/6 light schedule. I admit, the environment was sometimes very off due to experiments with VPD and leaf temperatur but I think I can dile it in correctly for this growing stage and beyond (hopefully). I was trying to see what happens if I stress them a little and hoped they would grow faster but they 100% didn‘t like it. They heat up pretty fast when the Air is too hot and dry because the roots are not developed and the plant is not established enough. An established plant can stay outside in the heat of the sun and still have cool leaves. So my environment for this stage is as above (27°C,70%RH). Light at 15000 Lux (≈370 ppfd) a little high but I‘ve noticed some stretching and I asumed they wanted more light and I really don’t want any more stretching. My media comes without nutriens so i feed little amounts of it every time they dry out enough. This is a Indica dominant strain so I asume they will stay fairly smal. Btw. If anybody wonders if CO2 bags work, check out the Video I uploaded. They are still seedlings (not really in Veg yet) and so i‘m treating them as such for the rest of the week. Root developement is now the top priority wich, if you didn‘t know, is better in a smal pot first because they are more likely to develope secondary roots but we’ll see. I heard It‘s like topping just underneath the plant. When they are ready to be transplanted I most likely will take the first three. Update: I did all the preperations for Transplant bc I was worried about root bound. I took Nr. 4 out and washed it as carefully as I could to expose the roots. Some of them got stuck on harder peaces of dirt and got ripped off. But it looks like alot of secondary roots developed instead of just one long taproot, wich is nice. I assume i can transplant them in the next few days. I rearanged the plants according to the Lux reading, wich is highest in the middle so the bigger plants (Nr.1 and Nr. 3) went to the sides. Maybe Nr.1 got the „smal“ genetics and it’s not anything environmental. thanks for following along this far and happy growing! Update: hey guys so yesterday I noticed, that the roots are coming out of the bottom. They were trying to get to the bottom of the three pots 😭 i had to do an emergency Transplant wich went very bad because they were stuck in the little pots. I don‘t think i‘m going to use these kind of pots anymore because they were not easy to get out. I even dropped Nr. 3 but luckily nothing bad happened. After the transplant both Nr. 1 and 2 were already ready to get more light. But Nr.3 was turning away from the light and the leaves were hanging down. So to lower the stress and encourage root groth I redusced the amount of light to a minimum and lowered the Temperature and highten the RH. This seemed to work well because the leaves were purking up again. The next day after 6-7 hours of darkness they are doing fine again but i‘m going to give them a little longer to establish themselves in the new pot. I changed the light schedule to 18/6 since I had to give them more darkness yesterday. I hope everything goes smothly from now on.

Hello and welcome to week 3 of this Diary 🙌🏼, Last week I had a little mess while transplanting but the girls seem to be thriving. It‘s day 12 since they came out and i‘m impressed how they are growing already with low humidity and a DLI of around 25 so i think they‘ve arrived at the Vegetationsphase. I would love to push them harder but I don‘t have a real CO2 system in place. You see, my lamp gets really hot at 100% and Plants have something called „photorespiration“ when the leaves get too hot. They confuse CO2 with oxigen and use up energy whith the wrong „gas“. So the optimal temperature shifts when C02 ist added. Not to mention you get up to 30% more yield. I already got some things from amazon delivered to me next week so if you want to follow along you can see me attempt to put it in place and hopefully make it work. I‘m planing to make the whole growspace airtight (but still excesseble) and build my own coolingsystem and dehydration system WIHTHOUT getting new air in to prevent the CO2 from comming out. I think I will finish it by friday and post an update. I will keep it short this time and hope you have a great day, growmies 👍🏻 Update: the Co2 system is in place and it seems that just by making the space Air tight, the CO2 bag in it is enough to highten the CO2 in the tent to 1130! And it‘s still going up. It‘s now actually pretty hard to get it out 😭 I have to rethink the temperature settings because now they can take it. I read that they can take up too 3000 ppm Co2 but we‘ll see. My lights aren‘t that strong and imm not getting a new one. Very important to keep the tent cool and dehydrated tho without etting rid of the CO2 so I bought 6 packeges of dehydrating subrtate in bags and a cooling system wich dehydrates too obviously. I also bought a CO2 reactor, wich can be refilled. It‘s a reaction based off of 700 grams of bakingsoda and 700 grams of Citric acid (it‘s ment for aquariums but who cares). The CO2 device sets a target and shuts on and off when it‘s off by 1/2 of the Zone I chose. It detects when the light turn off and shuts down too. Rn it‘s not even turning on because of the CO2 bag. So if you have one of those, can make your tent Air toght and you can build yourself a cooling sytem you could have a high Co2 tent with less than 100€$. But since one Exhale bag is pretty expensive I figgured investing in a reactor such as this is much cheaper in the long run. The CO2 controller was epensive tho. Tomorrow i‘m feeding the plants again 1100 EC this time (it‘s been 2 days) and i‘m going to keep posting updates. C ya soon 👌🏻 Update: since day 15 i have the tent in 800 ppm CO2, 30°C, ≈50% humidity, 25.000 Lux (≈600ppfd).

Hello guys and welcome to the start of week 4! It‘s day 21 since Germination and day 19 of (outside) groth. The plants are now developping their 10th side note, wich means they’re nearly ready to be topped. I want to do it as soon as I get a good grip with the scissors. My Environment was pretty much hot and dry (30°C,40%RH) half of last week, just to see if they could take it or not. This strain seems very robust because it can take hot and dry climets pretty well as long as they are not overfed. Some seem to be more sensitive tho but I think this might also be caused by overwatering them this one time. Only Nr.3 struggled really. Today I watered again but only a moderate amount. I think this might be the last week in Veg. We‘ll see how fast the sideshoots pop out as soon as they are topped tomorrow. Until then, happy growing 👍🏻🌳 Update: Reduced the temperature to 28-29 °C and they seem to do alot better. They are stretching their leaves again, wich has not really been the case the last few days. 30°C seems a little too hot for this low amount of light. Update: I prepared the plants for Flower and cut away all the fanleaves and sideshoots that were on the lower half of the canopies. Tomorrow I’ll be switching them to flower to give them a day to recover and then for the stretching phase I will be putting up a net. It won‘t be set up parallel to the light source instead It will be more like a curve because the sides get less light than the middle.

Hey guys ✋🏻 it‘s start of week 5 and day 26 of growing for the plants. Today I switched the light to a 12:12 schedule and put up a scrog net. Since my light gets more intense in the middle I build it this way. In the end I hope that all the buds get the same amount of DLI. Starting Flower the plants will need a bit more nutriens during the stretching. I will tug them under the net everytime they grow out of it. But they have to reach it first. I hope they transition well and during the night I will keep the tent as dark as I can by making my living space dark as well. We‘ll see how this week progresses. Happy sunday growmies 💪🏻 Update: today (D29) I watered Nr.1 and Nr.3, since they didn‘t need water yesterday. The EC of Nr. 3 and Nr. 2 were around 2.0 wich is good but Nr.1 had an EC of 6.0!! I think she doesn‘t need as much food as the other two because shes smaller. I watered enough so the EC went down to ≈3.0. I‘m also beginning to tug some shoots under the net but they all will need to reach up. I hope this doesn‘t end in chaos. Thats all, c ya soon🌿

Hey guys welcome to week 6 and day 33 🙌🏼 The girls are getting really big now and i‘m tucking the new groth every day. It‘s pretty dificult to get good light penetration through to the lower branches but I will try to wait until day 21 of flower to cut anything off. I don’t want to stress them. For now I tug the big fan leaves down and keep the humidity as low as i can. They do transpire alot. Well, thats it for the start :) nothing else to report..

Hello grow friends, Today is the start of Week 7 and it‘s day 40 of groth for the plants. It‘s safe to say, they transitioned nicely into flower and spread evenly throughout the tent. It was pretty time consuming to get enough light to the lower branches but it seemes to be paying off. At the start of next week, I have a heavy defolition planed so at day 21 of flower most of the fanleaves will be cut off. This will help tremendously with the high humidity i‘m dealing with. Somehow I still manage to get it down but I still have a job to go to and not much time to devote. Anyways, c you soon guys and have a great start to the week. 🤟🏼

Hey guys and welcome to start of Week 8! 🌻 Today is day 21 of flower so i went ahead and cut most of the plats Fanleaves off. It took a while but now the Airmovement is improved and the humidity should also be lower. I also hope I didn‘t stress them too much. From now on they will be reseaving less and less Nitrogen going forward. I hope the colours come through as well 🤞🏻 Thanks for following along and I will keep updating the progress. Happy growing 🍀

Hello guys and welcome to week 9! Today my dehumidifier broke so I have to keep the tend open during the day. But for now everything is going smothely. The EC is pretty high at roughly 2.4. I will bring it down to 1.3 until the end of the week. I‘m ipressed how big the buds are getting even tho they aren‘t maturing yet. But I’m not familiar with this strain so we’ll see whats going to halpen. I hope I don‘t get mold issues later on so I‘ll keep a close eye on the humidity. Thanks for coming by and have nice rest of the day 🍀🤟🏼

Hello and welcome to start of week 10! The buds are getting really big now. I asume they will stop growing after this week and then we‘ll be entering the maturing phase. I didn‘t like how Nr.3 was growing in the middle. It had too many leaves and too few buds. So I‘m trying something new and defoliated her one last time today so the buds could get a little bigger. Let‘s hope it didn‘t cause any harm. Nr.1 and especially Nr. 2 are doing amazing. They smell sweet and fruity and look gorgeous. No purple colour yet. I will only be posting once a week since there isn‘t much happening in terms of groth. Just bud developement. Happy sunday to all 👍🏻🍀

Hello guys and happy easter! Today is the end of week 6 of flowering and start of week 11. i will slowly reduce the amount light they resieve since they mature better when it‘s down slowly. I think Nr. 2 and 3 got a little leavy but still are beautiful. Let‘s see how they‘ll keep developing. C you next week 🙌🏼

Hello guys, today the plants reach end of week 7 of flower. Nr.2 is ripening pretty fast and Nr.1 had a little bit of a grow boost. I‘m not sure when to harvest them but i‘ll try to keep the temperature cool and the lights slightly higher. The leaves are taking a more yellowish colour. This run it doesn‘t seem that the buds are going to get purple but i won‘t give up hope yet. 🙏

Today is day 82 and start of week 9 of flower. I‘m pretty sure Nr.2 is nearing the optimal harvest time. Unfortunately I will have to wait for the other two but I tink they are getting there. The frost on Nr. 2 is much more prominent but still I don‘t see any amber colored Trichomes on the buds. Only on the leaves. Next Week I hope they get the desired look. Still a little more developement to go but i‘m very happy with the plants so far. I hope this diary doesn‘t get Boring but I‘m actually glad the plants develop in a slower pace since thats more desireble. The buds from Nr. 1 and 2 are very dense and hard like a Rock. I hope the wheight will represent that. Sorry for the late update, have a nice rest of the Day 😌

Hello again guys and welcome to day 89! The girls are taking their time but finally the trichomes are turning milky. As you can see from the videos, they still aren’t quite there yet. I really want them to reach their maximum potential instead of rushing it. I think in maybe a week or so they should be ready! Thanks for stoping by

Hey guys, sorry for the late update i was very busy these weeks! I took photos so you can see how they looked 8 days ago. They still didn‘t seem mature enough so i waited a little longer. This week (yesterday) I cut them down and turned on the AC. They will need to Dry for at least 12 days so i‘ll post an update as soon as I get to smoke them. I read that terpenes and canabenoids are synthesized during light hours and some people let the lights on for 24 hours before harvest. So I did exacly that. Thanks for reading my diary 🙏😊

Hello again 👋🏻 Yesterday the plants were cut down. It took them 12 Weeks of flower to reach maturity. The amber Trichomes to Milky Trichomes ration is different on each plant. Nr. 2 has (in my estimation) 15%/80% Nr.1 10%/90% and number 3 might still have 10-20% clear trichomes. She was behaving weirdly from the biginning and needed the longest to mature. The plants are now under constant temperatures of 13-15°C and 55- 65% humidity. In the tent are two fans pointing away from the plants and I tried to hang them in a way they can rotate a little. Unfortunately i don‘t know the exact weight but the dry weight should be about 70% less. I‘ll try my best to harvest in the correct time frame but i‘m no expert. If you have any suggestions, please comment!