Strain
Of all the things I grew this year, I'd have to say this one wins the beauty contest in my book. I kinda waited for the purple to come on but mother nature helped by lowering the temperatures substantially the last few days.
I really messed things up in the spring trying to germinate these seeds originally, finding multiple ways to screw up... but I think she was worth the wait. She didn't get the same head start as some other plants on my patio so the main difference from my other plants was a smaller container (7 gallon as opposed to everybody else in 10 gallon or larger) and in this case I DID NOT top her. At all. She ended up resembling some of the autoflowers I grew this spring and also didn't top - just bigger.