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I love to grow, but I sure like when a good grow comes to an end.
I grew purple push pops outdoor in 2023. It was my favorite strain and my go to strain for 2024.
The strain had a medium yield harvest outdoors in 2023 at 10oz/plant. It yielded on the higher end for indoor with 7 ounces per plant. The highlight of this strain, other than the purples, is the density of the nuggets; they weigh 50% more for the same sized nugget as compared to the gelato. Dripping in resin.
The quality; the density of the nuggets, the deep purple colors, and the sweet grape and cherry flavor makes it a true connoisseur strain. This baby is dripping with purple trichomes. The inside of the buds is a vivid violet color.
Resistance: the purple push pops had relatively fewer issues than the gelato in the tent. The insects seemed to stay off the PPP and she had a relatively strong pest resistance.
The plant showed very few signs of nute burn or deficiency throughout the run. I punched her with a lot of PK (dry koolbloom) at the end and she handled it well and fattened up on schedule.
I grew the strain using a Scrog. This allowed me to maximize the number of colas that we’re getting direct sunlight. The even canopy allowed me to have a zero LARF grow and all high-quality nuggets. I’ll definitely do a scrog again when space is limited.
I will grow purple push pops again for sure.
Fiance review: ”Couch lock, munchies and nap time. Best purple weed I’ve ever had”
Additional notes: equipment reviews that I was unable to include: AC Infinity and Autopots
I used the AC Infinity fan and pro controller. I wasn’t able to add this equipment to my set up and hence no review. The fan was fine, but the AC pro controller is a game changer and I recommend all micro growers to move to this platform solution to monitor your Grow. It brings a whole new level of monitoring and control.
I used autopots 4g plastic pots with the older aqua valve. Other than reservoir funk, I liked how the system performed. I have to note that I grew my gelato in the 5g and 15g fabric autopots and the autopots didn’t seem to perform as well in the fabric as the plastic autopots - in my set up. I had the thought fabric pots, which were larger, would grow materially larger plants, but that was not the case. The fabric pots didn’t seem to hook up as well as the plastic pots.
I’m happy with the outcome, but I feel that I could’ve done better and have more room for improvement. I definitely love the “set it and forget it” feature of autopots.
Improvements: Next grow, I will put silica granules (power si) directly into my substrate to keep (liquid) silica out of my reservoir and trays. I’ll have to figure out the fabric pot issue so I’ll be calling autopot.
I just started using Jacks RO on this grow and I was impressed with the stability and the cleanliness of the solution. It worked very well in my autopots. The one part mixed up very clean and was very pH stable. The results speak for themselves.
This is definitely a quality tent. That being said, I think it could use some improvements, particularly on the zipper starts. Secondly, I would like to have a side air vent where I could remove the netting so that I can place a window AC unit through it.
4 Purple Push Pops PPP (grew 2023 outside). Clones from my clone guy.
1000w LED, 4G Autopots, coco/perlite 65/35, RO water, Jacks RO, AC pro Controller and T8, 5x5 GG Tent with extension. Garage grow SoCal
We concluded the ripening this week with AC and dehumidification at 70° 40% relative humidity lights on and 65° and 45% relative humidity lights off.
We’re feeding Jacks RO and silica to the end, hence the fan leaves are still relatively healthy. This is a no flush grow.
I’ve n been growing at 80% lights (800w) for most of the Grow. During ripening, I pushed it to 90% or 900 W. On the final day, I run the lights 24 hours and I run 15 minute cycles of 900 W and 1000 W.
Just following the science; No more flushing and push the lights higher and higher at the end.
We started a slow chop to fine tune the quality and get more light deeper into the canopy.
After 4 more days of testing and monitoring they were ready, it all came down and we filled the 6-tier drying rack.
We’re curing At 70° and 55% relative humidity for two days and then bumping that humidity to 62%. The test round (top colas) is already in jars and beginning the burping stage.
Fiancé is happy, the hard work is coming to an end, and it’s time to start enjoying the fruits of our labor.
Best of luck on your grow.
@Krisis, aww TY. IDK if we even can finish it in a hot garage…. still have July and 2 weeks in August to ripen. 🤷🏼♂️
Today was 82 in the tent at “night”.
I’ll take this grow as a learning experience.
Congratulations on the harvest. These look fucken amazzzing. Awesome job you guys did here. Impressive. Would love to grow some of these. Great video as well. 💚
@Krisis, thanks so much for the nice words. I’ve throughly enjoyed and appreciated your willingness to engage, share and help me along the way.
I couldn’t be happier with the yield and the quality. I had a wild target of 1.5 lbs, but
I cleared over 2.5 pounds of solid nugz in the 5x5. Zero larf.
I’m kinda stunned……
@Krisis, thank you so much Krisis!!! I’m so happy with my results….. are you ready…….
2.5 pounds of solid NUGZ in the 5x5.
11.5 oz on the two gelatos (All weighed and jarred).
A conservative estimate is 24 oz for the four purple push pops. It’s still curing. But the PPP may go higher -
It’s super dense, and they were much more buds than the gelato. So I wouldn’t be surprised with 30oz on the 4ppp.
You were super inspiring to me with your first grow!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍
Looking great! Those autopots are awesome. The other outdoor grow you have on here was killer. Cool you wash hash, I'm gonna get into that a little bit more moving forward. I'm going to be flipping a tent to flower shortly, you've got me excited to see mine stretch and bloom!
@theVotanaGarden, when you’re growing a couple of pounds outside, it’s easier to throw a few pounds of the mid and lower grade in the freezer and just hash it. That way I don’t have to trim lower grade bud and I get some super Stoney high quality hash. Some of it was as good as my rosin. I ended up with over 3oz of bubble hash….. wheeew….
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