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2025-01-01 - Germination directly in PRO-MIX HP CC in starter trays on a seedling heat mat under a humidity dome.
2025-01-04 - Transplanted into 1 liter plastic pots and placed in starter box. I kept them under the humidity dome for the first couple of weeks.
2025-01-17 - Moved to finishing tent with ViparSpectre P2000
2025-01-31 - Topped and moved to Veg tent.
I selected these seeds during the holiday sale at Seedbank.com. I was ordering some NL#5 (a different diary), and I saw the Purple Punch on sale. Having wanted to add some anthocyanins (purples) to some of my other strains, and finding the description of this particular cultivar appealing, I ordered 5 beans. They sprang to life like they were glad to be home. In the last week of the seedling phase, they exploded in growth, with wide leaflets INDICAtive of indica (not a typo, maybe bad dad joke). These are some of the shortest, stockiest plants I've had in the grow tent yet. They handle light well and in close proximity to the canopy, they are stacked thick with branches.
2025-01-31 to 2025-02-06
This first week of veg and these plants have exploded in growth. I've decreased the potash by reducing the FloraGro from 15ml/gallon to 10ml/gallon. I will be putting these plants into flower in four weeks. I know nothing about this particular cultivar, but the description fit my fancy, and I've been looking to add some anthocyanins to some other indica cultivars.
2025-02-07 to 2025-02-13
With four of these cultivars, I will start flowering in week 5 with two of them, and hold the other two for an outdoor grow by transplanting up for another couple of months. This should create two large clone mothers in prep for the spring planting.
2025-02-21 to 2025-02-27
Growth is slow and steady. This variety of NL#5 from Seedbank.com takes well to LST and defoliation. I call out the seedbank and not the genetics producer as Seedbank.com will not share that info with their customers. If I had not been pleased with most of my previous results from Seedbank.com, I would not have reordered from them because of this seed source "redaction".
The only reason I bring this up is, I question whether this varietal of NL#5 would be close enough to another cultivator's variety to call them both 'Northern Lights' or NL#5? I am hopeful that this batch turns out as good or better than the original NL#5 seeds I bought from Seedbank.com. My next seeds of this cultivar will be from another source, just so I can see if they compare.
I'm curious to know if any of you other growers have tested this out? Seeds from multiple sources, claiming to be the same thing - but are they really? Let me know if the comments if you have.
Well, I would like to say I have a mountain of experience. But, even though growing all these years, I am just now finding all this information I never had before. In the beginning, there was "The Marijuana Growers Handbook" by Ed Rosenthal. Much of that book has proven to be incorrect, but that's really all we had other than our trial and error, and sharing info with the few other growers you might know AND TRUST!
Bro Science to Grow Science is an interesting journey. Stick around and we'll learn together.
Thanks for the comment.
The foliage was so big, and my veg tent way too full for me to notice the lack of circulation around the base of one of the five Purple Punch plants. Before I could get corrective action, the stem became too weak from rot and broke off. This prompted me to immediately take clone cuttings of some of the veg tent cultivars and get rid of what I just can't live without.
Marbanya
