Purple Sherpa reduex

Starting this diary in week 4 of flower. I bred these seeds by crossing Red Scare Seed Company - Purple Sherpa x Purple Sherpa. There are two phenomes of Purple Sherpa as verified face-to-face with the breeder. #1 an indica dominant, short stout variety with a more citrus overtone, and # 2 a sativa dominate, tall thin with sporadically placed buds, very compact as with an indica. This plant is crafted from Congolese Landrace (Vintage Pine bud). The # 2 variety holds true with a robust pine at finish with floral undertones and fresh berries and citrus hints. The parents were grown in my first batch in 2017. I grow with all Vegamatrix nutrients, any additions are chemical free and very low in metal content if any. I grow in coco to stay as true to “Vegan” as I can. I crossed a Female #2 with a Hermaphrodite #2 to get viable Feminized seed. So in essence this seed is Vegan, Purple Sherpa #2, F1. As with the parents this strain grows tall and lanky, and began trichome development early in the budlet stage, somewhere midway week 2. This plant has a long flower and can sometimes go a solid 14 weeks before harvest. By week 4 the buds have began developing nicely as a solid precursor to the fat buds I hope to see develop over the next 2 weeks, before trichomes development begins going into overdrive. The plant at week 4 is beginning to emit a strong Pine aroma, with a subtle earthy skunk. The plants are being flowered alongside 1 spilathes(Electric Daisy) flower, and 3 White Widow. Also it’s good to note for observers and for the Growdiaries.com team, I also do apply products at a Foliar consistency. I do this a varying times for various reasons. In my log I will denote my Foliar treatments with the ml/l volume rating as that is how I mix the Foliar applications. I apply 3 product through Foliar applications at varying times in growth. For this diary I will only include what I am doing currently as the weeks pass. Which will be a regimen of pk boosting Foliar a with big and sticky, and mild and pest preventative with ftb. The insides of my enclosures are cleaned and sprayed with Mirimichi Green Pesticide. A Vegan pest repellent made of essential oils. This product is not applied to the plants.

Week went by smoothly. Lapsed on Ftb treatments over the last months as working in a new space for flowering. Got a light infestation of white flies. Back to spraying them every other day with FTB and the problem is waning away. Soon I will return to daily low concentration sprays as a preventative. The pest is isolate to 3 plants only, and had not spread before intervention to the last. You will see subtle signs of the damage the pest caused on some of the remaining fan leaves. Otherwise plant development has been chugging along. This is a medium-long flowering strain and can take upward to 10-12 weeks for full maturity. At week five I’m pleased with the overall setup of the budlets as they are slowly beginning to swell into nice little nugs! As with my past experience with Sherpa the plant never fails to bombard these mid flower sights with tons of trichome coverage. I’m hoping to see these buds really start to fill out over the next two weeks during early-peak flower. I did some light pruning, removing obstructive fan leaves and lower fans that are beginning to yellow. One of the 4 is lagging behind the rest in progress, yet is taller, and larger budded than the others.

This was a pretty stable week. I finally moved my flowers to the new growing area I’ve created. It’s powered by Gavita Pro fixtures and Phillips mastergrow bulbs. They have been in here for about 3 days at this point. From now on my future diaries will showcase more plants, larger scale, but still with artisan minded craft. Excited for what the future will bring, almost as excited as I am to cut down these plants when they take on their fall colors over the next 3 weeks! I’m Expecting a harvest of 1-1/2 oz per plant, but may get more or less. Time will tell.

This is the final week of most nutrients! I’ll be doing 1 more watering with my enzyme solution next week and then on to full flushing with clean balanced water for the final week. I generally only water 1-2 times per week so the fall colors will come on hard after the final week of cannabinoid and terpene production. The plants already are super aromatic with string skunk, Pine and citrus. It has subtle fruity/berry and floral smells. I can’t wait for the next few weeds to conclude to show my final harvest weights, and move on to my next grow Red Scare Seeds Animal Farm.

Didn’t take a lot of Pics this week. Everything went smooth, buds are very frosted and started to darken up quite a bit. The rest of this week the plant will be getting balanced water before the harvest next week! Plants look pretty good and will update after the harvest

Sorry for such a long wait for an update. Life. This plant was great, some of the better Sherpa I’ve grown. I will grow more. The plant is very temperate to cold and heat, but was very easy to flower and maintain. As flower came on I realized these seeds I had stored in a container Mark “purple Sherpa s1” we’re in fact hybrids; two being seeds from my precursor/grandparent of my Canaanite strain: purple Sherpa x Mendo Creme(Pre-Canaan). The other being the other grandparent to my canaanite strain: purple Sherpa x Bruce banner(wiseman). I will have to reflect the title on the revelation. Both strains were bred from the original titled plant (Vegan Purple Sherpa #2). The pre-canaan was a more robust berry creme with a strong camphor undertone after curing. The wiseman is a more pine, flower, and citrus profile. The purple Sherpa flowery citrus is the dominant aroma from the finished flower. These plants, as they grandparents, and their grandchildren have a very complex flavor profile. The finished plant had many deep purple trichromes with golden/white heads. And some white/clear patches. I was going to wait longer but needed to move on to my next batch of plants. Which I will begin a new diary for once they have began flowering. Overall I recommend Red Scare Seeds Purple Sherpa. Though a lower THC plant, the unique flavor and effects truly show off the skill of its original breeder.