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Purple Berry Kush
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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.
The Outcome
Week 15
Harvest
What's on the scales?
212
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
212
g / plant
Tastes like
Berries
Fruity
Feels like
0% Sativa 100% Indica

Positive effects

Euphoric

Negative effects

Dry mouth
Reviews. Nutrient
Nutrients performed as expected. My norm is to generally use 50% of the recommended dosage levels on all nutrients. I gave this girl a fairly healthy dose of food. She seemed to like it.
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dalemac dalemac
5 years ago
October 1 > Harvest morning. New trick... get up before dawn... cut your plant down and hang her upside down... then go back to bed. Hehe... I like this retirement stuff. We get smarter as we age. šŸ˜Ž I did a fair job of plucking fan leaves before harvest morning so there wasn't that much work for me to do anyway on this girl compared to some of the other monsters she grew up with. Took me only about 90 minutes to complete my normal processing and washing. She developed into a wonderful purple color at the end there. The unique feature of this grow for me was that I never topped this girl. Subsequently she developed a huge single top cola that grew about a foot taller than the rest of the plant. Served as a demonstration of why we top plants in general. Hard for me to imagine what a bunch of these in the wild looks like but this is what WILD looks like. Diary note > I'll come back later and add weights and things. I threw in a weight of 100 grams as a marker to appease the gods. Total guess. ======================================================================== October 7 > Guess I underestimated my yield a tad... love when that happens. šŸ˜ Ended up coming in at 212 grams buds and 181 grams trim. Woohoo. Another growing season officially comes to a close today. šŸ‘ŒāœŠ Initially I wasn't sure I wanted to use the Trimbag on this baby... because she was my last plant to harvest this year and I had plenty of time to hand trim her... and I harbored various possibly incorrect assumptions about the Trimbag originally which I have now shed. More on that later. Let me lay out my personal Trimbag history here as a learning experience for the community... ======================================================================== Originally I won this tool as part of my September 2018 diary winnings... and I looked at it strictly as a tool for fairly large scale growers.. of which I did not consider myself at that time. I grew an amazingingly oversized Durban Poison for a 5 gallon pot and I got lucky I thought. ... Then I took a look at how much herb I processed this summer and I said THANK YOU Trimbag! It saved me more than enough hours of hand trimming to demonstrate itā€™s usefulness. (October 12) >> Already slowing down in post-harvest mode hehe... so it looks like I did the same thing as last year diary-wise. Now I have another Trimbag on my hands but all I need is another magnet actually (hehe)... the zippers show no signs of sticking up at this point after me throwing about 2-3 pounds of herb threw the mill, and the overall bag has only lightly been used at this point IMHO. I'm a little surprised I lost that magnet and it's not a great sign for the longevity of the embroidery - so to speak, but other than that it's solid construction. And simple. Iā€™ll be contacting Trimbag to see if I can acquire a new magnet and weā€™ll see how that goes. Back to my expectations... I only used this device on stuff I grew outdoors... of which I had enough... more than twice what I grew last summer - but that was by design. If I was to set out a general ruleā€¦ I would say that I expect the weight of buds to be roughly equal to the weight of trim. This is AFTER I have thrown away any fan leaves plucked on the morning of harvest which are not saved as trim. I stop plucking when buds start to get ripped up if I donā€™t. Round 1 >> The first go was the early Amnesia 7 batch (Little Girl flowered early), and honestly, I was unimpressed. I looked at it as maybe I didn't let it dry long enough. I have a ritual of washing all my outdoor grown herb which has generally tended to cause things to dry a tad quicker than what one would expect in the field. I walked away from this initial experience like boy I hope I screwed that up and it works better on round 2. Round 2 >> Cream & Cheese CBD ... I think this girl did more to confuse me than anything else. The buds were not oversized but she seemed to take forever to dry. Part of this is probably attributable to excess humidity in the first few days - a weird week - we actually had some rain which is very unusual. But even after a week of drying I only managed 63g of shake on this batch (via the Trimbag). I'm going WTF? Ahem.... I ended up with 269 grams of buds for my Cream & Cheese. After that 63 g shake by bag I added 165 g trim by hand... and I was seriously wondering why this bag thang existed. Turns out C&C was not a good example.... so don't let the bad things weigh you down. Round 3 >> Next came Northern Lights - and my attitude changed completely. I harvested 319g buds, but the initial run with Trimbag generated 144g trim which I followed with 186g hand trim. NL had very dense buds and large internodal spacing which made trimming EZ. She was a monsterā€¦ but at the same time I had her trimmed in under 4 hours. Of all the beasties I grew outdoors this summer, this was the largest yield for a single plant - but trimming her was a relative breeze, and it felt like it. I thought I hit the sweet spot for maybe how dry the herb needed to be for the product to work wellā€¦ but probably only partially correct. Plant structure is significant. Round 4 >> Next came round 2 with Amnesia. As I noted in my diary I knew I was going to end up with a pound of herb on this particular strain so I tried to beat this particular batch up to minimize my hand trimming and see what the effect was. The end result of this was that I generated a smaller amount of buds from the larger sized pot (Little Girl was in a 10 gallon container and generated 235g buds/ 360g trim and Big Girl was in a 15 gallon container that generated 223g buds/ 493g trim). Round 5 >> Next came where weā€™re at in this here diaryā€¦Purple Berry Kush. Now originally I wasnā€™t sure I wanted to run this baby thru the mill. I THOUGHT that maybe because I hadnā€™t topped this girl and I didnā€™t put her in a pot bigger than 7 gallons which put her at a direct disadvantage vs my other outdoor girls that the yield would be substantially smaller, but Iā€™ll be damned she ended up with 212g buds. Very satisfied thereā€¦ and this stuff smells great when I let her get some air. The key here on trimming for this round was twofold. I let the buds dry longer than I normally would have by a few daysā€¦ because I had nothing pushing me to make space for reason Aā€¦ and because stuff was intervening for reason Bā€¦ golf tournamentā€¦ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in SF (Robert Plant was awesome - we share the same birthday and he was 71 in August - I can only hope Iā€™m still rockinā€™ that hard in 9 years)ā€¦you know - stuff. PBK ended up working out the best of all. 212g buds vs 181g trim. Thatā€™s the ONLY variant that ended up with more buds than trim. Part of that was how easy PBK was to maintain. I only did ONE major pruning of internal growth - probably later than I should have - I was trying hard to let her grow as wild as possible. But she was very easy to prune fan leaves off when that purple time came. Itā€™s seems clear at this point that indicaā€™s are easier to trim than sativaā€™s with a Trimbagā€¦. but Iā€™m not sure thatā€™s going to be a revelation to anyone. As far as Iā€™m concerned, anything that grows with an inter-nodal spacing that allows you to neatly separate your buds will work better with the Trimbag. DRY is a necessary ingredient for using this device. Probably drier than I am accustomed toā€¦ but thatā€™s why somebody invented Boveda packs right? Anywayā€¦ Iā€™m a VERY SATISFIED Trimbag customer at this point. It takes a little work to determine how dry your herb needs to be but even if you have to experiment, the number of hours you save from hand trimming will eventually make it worth your whileā€¦ and as a newly minted senior citizen I can say that while my time might be free - anything that helps reduce pain - including time spent trimming - becomes quite significant. NOW ā€”> The other side of this coin is that I will probably NOT use the Trimbag when I get back to indoor growing in early Decemberā€¦ because I expect to be growing much smaller plants. Most of the things Iā€™ve grown indoors top out at less than a couple ounces so itā€™s not clear to me that Trimbag is necessary with a yield that smallā€¦ but I can test that theory later this winter. ================================================= heheā€¦ I kinda promised myself ā€œno more winter cropsā€ after last summers bounty but I found that making edibles consumes a significant quantity of herb, and I really like my brownies. So now that Iā€™ve stocked up to solve that problem, I plan to get back to some indoor growing (because growing is FUN)ā€¦ mainly autoflowers. I actually have better control of temperature for things that I grow in winter as opposed to summerā€¦ but I have to add the heat to make that happen. That compares with the difficulty of adequate cooling if I run my lights during daytime in summer - even with night lights summer temps can be a problem with no AC. I donā€™t have AC in my house. Itā€™s a function of California microclimates. If I lived 15 miles east of here - weā€™d BAKE with no AC (air conditioning). If it werenā€™t for coastal fog - this whole place would be a desert. With climate change - weā€™re heading that way even WITH the fog. We roll the dice here every winter and hope we get enough snow in the Sierra to hold off the firestorms that will come in the fall. We went thru a period of ā€œdroughtā€ here in California a relatively short while back but even though we are officially out of our drought phase the fall firestorm intensity seems to be getting worse every year. But this is a clear sign Iā€™ve consumed too much indica for one evening and Iā€™m starting to lose track of.... just about everything. Anyhowā€¦ I think Iā€™m about diaried out for this year. I have a pretty freaking serious vacation planned to celebrate my retirement for late next monthā€¦ Las Vegas golf > Joshua Tree National Park camping > Palm Desert resort golf > Beach camping South Carlsbad > Torrey Pines golf > Laguna Beach > Pismo Beach camping > Monterey. Itā€™s been about 30 years since I did anything this crazy (and that was a Grateful Dead tour in 1987 thru Arizona/Utah/California for my 30th birthday). Big difference this time around? Cannabis is LEGAL for the entire trip. I will be well stocked enough to sedate anything that gets near me. See yā€™all in December. šŸ˜Ž
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Belverde
Belverdeweek 15
Awesome plant šŸ‘ŒšŸ¤©..good luck for the trip...i do almost the same vacation four months ago..yea..weed legallšŸ™šŸ™šŸ˜‰...hope the best šŸ‘šŸ‘
GreenHouseLab
GreenHouseLabweek 15
Beautiful colours!
MovingOn
MovingOnweek 15
Beautiful plant!
Momgrowsthechronic
Momgrowsthechronicweek 15
Very well done! Love those purple strains and they usually taste great too, enjoy the fruits of your summer!
CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowweek 15
great result !
Crawlndog
Crawlndogweek 15
Love the colors...šŸ˜ And it looks wicked with the one cola! šŸ˜µ Great Job!
Tomfromdelmonte
Tomfromdelmonteweek 15
Excellent photos and write up. Enjoyed reading this diary from start to finish while im laid up from an injury and can't move, very entertaining. Thanks for the effort.
Fitzwell
Fitzwellweek 15
well done šŸ‘
Welovephattrees420uk
Welovephattrees420ukweek 15
The colours in picture 2 says that jah passed this beauty to you for a reason dude . That's tattoo images ,so cool.
SpliffSeeds
SpliffSeedsweek 14
Nice
Cogollo_eu
Cogollo_euweek 13
šŸ˜šŸ˜šŸ˜, looking awesome Bud!, Wish you all the best with your near harvest time with such a beautiful plant. Green love šŸ’ššŸ’ššŸ’š!!
THCandME
THCandMEweek 12
Beautiful!
OntarioBigGreen
OntarioBigGreenweek 12
Very nice !!
AncientGreen
AncientGreenweek 11
Great looking plants man!! That plant is going to have huge buds.
Anxious_Passenger
Anxious_Passengerweek 5
Good luck man!
MrBlocc420
MrBlocc420week 15
Fresh beans for next season šŸ‘ŒšŸ¾
Betagemini
Betageminiweek 15
Beautiful grow, main cola, everything!šŸŒ±
Organic_Grower
Organic_Growerweek 1
Have you been having difficulty in the germination stage?