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1. It was a great Christmas. I have a new 4x4 tent and a QB light kit.
2. I will be growing a purple strain. I grew 2 photos that turned out very purple in the end, but this is the first time I've sought out a strain for its color. I'm hoping she will really show her colors in this winter grow.
3. I fed .25L filtered water and Recharge at 50% strength. I'll will only feed using Recharge to encourage root development and strong stalks until the first set of full leaves are fully developed. Then I will start feeding AN Sensei Grow P.1-2 at 25% at first. I hope to get to full strength by the time she starts to flower.
1. This little girl is loving the light.
2. She is currently drinking 1l of filtered water every 3 days. She is being fed with full strength Recharge every 3rd watering.
3. Since she has developed her first set of true fan leaves, I will begin nutrients at .25 strength. My schedule should be 1l every 3 days, feed-feed-Recharge.I'll increase that to .5 strength, then full strength within 3 weeks. Of course that depends on DD. I should be increasing the amount of filtered water to 2l as the plant begins to truly develop.
1. What a difference a week makes! DD has developed into a little bush! Secondary branching is developing nicely. There might be some defoliation involved in the future. We shall see.
2. This week she received 2 feedings of 25% Strength Sensei Grow A+B in 1l of water. Next week she will receive 2 feedings of 50% Sensei Grow A+B in 1l of water.
3. This week she received 1 feeding of Full Strength Recharge in 2l of water. This is an increase in the amount of water. I really wanted to saturate the soil with Recharge to develop this girl's root system.
4. Eventually she will receive 2l of filtered water each feeding, but right now the plant isn't developed enough to use that much liquid.
1. DD is definitely transitioned to flowering mode. I saw some pre-flowering growth last week, but now true flowers have emerged.
2. She hasn't stretched much yet. I measured 3 inches of growth for the week, but that could just be basic vegetative growth. We shall see.
3. I've switched to flowering nutes. I will be feeding Sensei Bloom A+B (75% strength) and Bud Candy (50% Strength) on feed days. I will continue with Recharge on the non-feed days.
4. DD is asking for more water so I will be using 2l of filtered water instead of 1l.
5. Sorry about the photos. My phone/camera is a piece of garbage. It is very frustrating.
1. DD is the tallest girl in the tent! She shot up over the week! There has been a doubling in height, and the buds are starting to really develop.
2. Feeding schedule remains the same. Flowering nutes at 50% strength. Next week I'll increase it to 75%. I'll go 100% after that until flush/harvest. I'll still use Recharge after every 2 feedings.
3. DD is starting to show some color at the base of the buds. This strain is supposed to be a darkish purple. I know my temps are pretty low, so that will help! I'd really like to see some purple buds at harvest time!
1. DD is doing her thing! Stretch is really over. She is starting to fill up the stalks with buds.
2. I'm seeing a lot of purple already. I knew this strain was a purple one, but I didn't think she would color up so early.
3. I'm starting to see a little frost on the sugar leaves. I'll probably start looking for developing trichomes next week.
4. I've increased flowering nutes to 75% strength. I'll do one more feeding at 75%, then give her a feeding of Recharge then kick it up to 100%. I'll probably do a slurry test in the next week or so to see how the soil is doing.
1. This is one beautiful plant! Her buds are filling the stalks and she is really showing off some serious purples!
2. I've added to Big Bud to her feeding schedule. I still have 2 more weeks of Bud Candy. Then I'll stop Bud Candy and switch to Overdrive for the last 2 weeks prior to flushing.
3. She is finishing up pretty fast. I might be looking at a 9+ week harvest. I really would like to finish nutes and flushing around week 12 though.
1. I'm really liking this plant! She has great bud structure, nice secondary budding, and that color is killer!
2. She still has a few weeks of ripening to do before harvest.
3. I'll change her feedings to reflect the end of her life cycle. She will no longer receive Bud Candy and Big Bud. I'll also lower Sensei Bloom. Demeter's Destiny will stay the same. I'll add Overdrive to help fatten those buds. I'll use Recharge 1 more time.
4. My plan is to feed-feed-Recharge-feed-feed-flush-Flawless Finish-Flawless Finish-flush-dark-harvest. Since I feed every 3 days, this should have me finishing at 11 weeks. I'd like to go 12, but I think that will be too long.
1. What a beautiful little plant is this is turning out to be. The buds look amazing, trichomes are developing nicely, giving the plant a frosty look, and she is fading in an elegant manner.
2. There have been a few changes in the feeding schedule. First of all, she is a thirsty girl these days. I've been feeding closer to every 2 days rather than 3. Secondly, I've changed Sensei Bloom and Bud Candy to 75%. I've omitted Big Bud and replaced it with Overdrive. Today was the last feeding of Recharge.
3. Next week I will reduced Sensei Bloom and Bud Candy to 50%. I will continue to use Overdrive. This will be the last round of feedings.
4. I anticipate harvest in 2-3 weeks. Trichomes are still clear to milky, but she is starting to fade, and the buds are really starting to swell. I'd like to be flushing by the time those trichomes turn.
1. I can't believe DD still isn't finished. This strain was the first one to really start packing on the buds. I thought it would be a fast finisher, but she is taking her time, putting on weight, and...foxtailing a bit!
2. I've stopped all nutes. I'm using Flawless Finish to flush the plant. I'll add that to my waterings then flush with plain water and repeat.
3. I'm thinking 2 weeks from harvest tops.
1. DD is about ready for harvest! Buds are fat and juicy. She looks done. She smells faintly of grapes! Although that might be the purple buds I'm looking at influencing my sense of smell.
2. I pulled her out of the tent today for a final flush, photographs, and a look at her trichome development. Trichs look all milky. I'm looking for more amber. I have a few more days until dark period and harvest.
3. I'll let her dry out for a few days then put her in the dark for 3 days to really let her finish up. Harvest should be late this week.
4. I'm really looking forward to harvesting this plant. She is easily the best plant I've grown to date.
1. DD is down and drying! Final Flush with filtered water was last weekend. I gave her a few days to dry out in the tent, then I put her in a dark room for 3 days.
2. Chopping her down was a breeze. She was basically a few branches covered in buds! Poor me.
3. I believe that I let this girl go a week or two too long. I noticed numerous hermies when I was trimming her today. I couldn't tell what they were in the tent, but now they are easily identifiable. I took a photo. The plant wasn't going through any stress, so I believe this was a case of letting my plant go too long. I would've harvested a week earlier, but I did not see 1 amber trichome. I've been looking at the trichomes twice a day for the last 3 weeks! I need a solution for this otherwise I can't use trichomes to determine harvest time.
4. This strain was the lightest of the 3 plants I harvested, despite the 75g main cola. She weighed in a 341g wet. I'll see a solid 2 ounces out this girl. I'll post finishing weights, bud photos, and taste observations next week when I pull her out of the drying box and trim and jar her.
Shout out to Sweet Seeds. This is some solid genetics. I really liked growing this plant. She was a vigorous grower from day 1. I did not encounter any problems throughout the grow. By harvest time she was very photogenic. She took nutes well, and I fed her a lot! She had a faint smell of grapes when I was harvesting. I'm hoping that fragrance increases as she cures. I would easily grow this strain again! I have 3 more seeds. I might put 1 outside this summer and see what happens. The next time I grow this strain in my tent, I think I'll put her in a 5 gallon container.
1. DD is down and curing as we speak! She weighed out at 79g. There was another 7g in sugar leaves and larf.
2. She was ultra frosty when I pulled her out of the tent. That made trimming a chore. I chose to wet trim this time, and because of the stickiness of the buds, I had a hard time getting into some of the crevices for sugar leaves. The resin would just gum up the works!
3. I definitely waited a week or so too long. The hermies that I discovered when I cut down the plant had pollen in them! I cut into one and a small amount of pollen came out!
Congratulations! Very good job at all times! 👏
A great harvest, with a super delicious appearance. 😍
Thank you very much for trusting our varieties, and having shared your experience.
And thank you very much again for the score of 10 out of 10!! 👏😍❤️
Sweet smokes!
- Apolo
@Sweet_Seeds, Thank you. Those are very kind words. Your genetics were excellent throughout the grow. I basically just fed her, trimmed her, and gave her good lighting. This is an excellent purple auto grow choice!
@Th3L0rAx, The buds look and feel fantastic! You could use the budstalks to wash beat the dust out of your carpets.
I'm really happy with the whole grow. I'm just stumped on this amber trichome thing. Luckily I'm gaining more experience and I can better gauge if my plants are done.
@Th3L0rAx, I'm using a jeweler's loupe. I'm harvesting my 8th plant now, and I have yet to see amber trichomes. This time I really wanted to wait it out, but there were way too many indicators that the plant was done. The hermies I didn't even discover until I trimmed her and put her in a dark room. I'm hoping they are relatively new.
I kinda like your idea about getting a loupe that works with your phone. The magnification will be much better. I'm not a young man. My eyesight is not the greatest. I hate getting old.
My thought is that the soil still has too many nutrients for the plants to truly exhaust themselves. Hence, no amber trichomes.
Amigo Harvested great news 🍃🤘🎩
Grapes nice.
Amazing 79g you got there think you did best out of all the diarys so far and what a treat for us to see her 😊.
Are you going you age the resin to see how terpines adjust and flavour grows?
And Bovida 67? Or 59?
I hope her buds flavour 🍇🍓🍒🍍🍋🍊🍉🍌 erupts in curing for you. Congrats 👏
@Quexos, yes on eBay anolog and digital. Approx $1- $2 on eBay crystal do 1 liter for $8- $15 I use round gold anolog one I cut disk out of metal lid top exact size seal with silicon little bit on top press in gauge fit ack nitrate of ring around inside of jar I have clear/ white silicone ones then clip on the gauge clip. You can read humidity from out side jar 😎 I have to rebuild all my stuff.
@Ygrowz, Good idea! You mean those little guages they use for reptile cages? You can buy them by the caseload. I've never heard of the Germanus crystals.
Maybe I'm the one who should be doing a bit of research! Thanks!
@Quexos, bigger pots are for sure better for photos yes!
I'll take a look at that!
Indoors bro, the Blue Gelatos are in 10g pots lol indeed! Like to give them roots some space ^^
@@SeedLover, I've always grown in 3g canvas pots. None of my autos were root bound or anything so the size of the pot didn't hinder them. I really think bigger pots are a good idea for photos. I'm just not sure about autos.
Currently my Orange Critical Punch is in a 7g pot. I'm treating it like a photo so by our reasoning, it should be huge!
Are your 10g plants outdoors? If not, that is a lot of space for a plant.
@Quexos, she should 👍💪😁! Well I have never grown any automatics so don't even know how it develops in terms of roots, but 5g seems fine to me for any cannabis plant. I might be wrong. My channel+'s are in 6.6g airpots and BG41's are in 10g fabric pots.
@Ygrowz, Flavor is developing. It has a sweet aroma when I break up the buds. The aroma isn't the greatest. Sage sounds right
I'm still burping my mason jars. I'm hoping the aroma will improve over time.
@Quexos, hi how is flavour and smell developing?
I've only got sage like flavour from curing still 2 weeks. My humidity is 68% in jars . Froze trim to get some tricomes shake off sweet leafs n made a tiny bit of hash .
Amazing looking plant! Congrats on your harvest. I have noticed that not all plants will show amber at peak harvest time. Nor will all the pistils darken. Sometimes you just have to go by experience. I like to take a sample and dry it for a few days and test it. If I like the way it smokes it's good to go because it's my meds and that's all that really matters. Peace bro
@Smowkabowl, I'm a hobby kinda guy. I like to do the best I can, but you are right. At the end of the day you just want some good herb to share with your friends.
@Quexos, me too. I still do all the trichome checking and be patient and push 'em as far as I can but I'm not out to grow award winning plants on steroids. I just want some good cannabis. Peace
@Smowkabowl, Man that is good to know. I'm still learning and I've been really trying to be patient and wait for those ambers, but now i run into the danger of waiting too long. I'm starting to be able to see that the buds are done. The more your grow...
@Quexos,i grow 4 of them every one were different from lightly pink , darkred to violet and nearly black and the taste were different too
but all of them very good
@Ygrowz, Thanks! I didn't even think to save any pollen. I didn't even know it was there.
I think I went a little too long though. I'm thinking week 10 or 11 would be a better harvest window. I'll need to look at the photos and see if there is any significant change between the weeks.
She's looking awesome I'm well jealous, I hope mine fills out as much as yours though considering I'm using a 6.5 liter plastic pot and biobizz I'm quite happy with my first grow 3 different plants to learn from & 1 is purple.😎
Looking forward to your harvest report.
@Ygrowz, I think your plants will fill in as much as my plant. Compare the photos of my plant and your plant at the same age. You might get more purple towards the end. Mine went grape right away though.
@GandalfTheGreen, This one is supposed to be purple so I'm not surprised, but my Royal Creamatic is also a bit purple, and I have my last grow of AFGooey and Bubba's Gift that were both very purple. I guess I like purple a lot!
@evilsurfer, That is a great compliment, thanks! I'd take the credit, but I really just left her alone. I kept her fed well, gave her good lights, and good soil.
Quexos
