Granddaddy Purple

GDP From Zamnesia didn't waste any time. In just about 36 hours she sprouted from he soil with leaves visible, and without pre-soaking the seed. At the end of the first week, we already see some roots along the side of the transparent starter pot we are using. In a day or two, she'll be ready for transplanting.

We transplanted her to a 2.5gal plastic pot mid-week, using my standard soil mix recipe. She likes the feet room and is doing well. We also increased the light intensity (and raised it a bit) to get DLI up there. I decided that this plant will be vegged out for several weeks to be nice and strong, to make a decent mother plant. I want to practice my cloning game which I haven't got to do in a few months, as I plan to start breeding soon. After we take some cuttings from her, we will continue to let her veg, long after the clones have been put into flower. We will use her genetics again in my breeding project. Just letting you all know, that there won't be any flowers from this plant directly, or at least for a long while.

She's starting to fill out her new pot rather nicely. We gave her a topping mid-week, and didn't waste any time growing the new apical growth out, even though I never got any pictures after that.

She really stretched and bushed out after last week's topping. Some larger fan leaves are telling me she needs more calcium, but nothing to be worried about. She has a fairly wide internodal distance. I may start training her soon if she doesn't tame herself. In a couple more weeks we'll take some cuttings in any case.

We topped her again at the start of the week. We topped her two apical nodes, as well as the next ones down since they were even with the canopy. So, a total of 4 snips. She has some minor calcium deficiency of some lower, larger leaves, but nothing to worry about. I decided I'm transplanting her into a raised bed to really veg her out a long time. That will happen probably next week, depending on how long it takes my cover crop to sprout so I can finish amending the bed.

We transplanted her into a 45-gallon raised bed. We'll see how she does. We're flipping her next week, and we'll be pollinating her with some special pollen I've been saving a couple weeks after that!

We flipped her light schedule to 12/12 at the start of the week, and she's starting to really fill out the trellis now. In a couple weeks she shall get male pollen painted on her buds.

Unfortunately, I got really unlucky and this feminized seed turned out to be a male. This is only the second time in over 20 years this happened, but it's possible. This is not a hermaphrodite, but a pure male. So, I chopped her down and I'm starting over. I gave the strain a neutral rating because I don't want to blame anyone except bad luck.