First Grow - Purple Hulk Auto Fem

It took 84 days start to finish with these ladies. It was fun watching them grow and I definitely learned a lot during my first indoor run of autos. In this journal I performed multiple experiments throughout the entire grow to see how each plant would react and what would happen in order to find out what works best for me. ~Plant info and types of training performed on each~ HULK A- 5 gal airpot/ Fox Farm OF soil/ LST/ Slight defoliation after week 8 HULK B- 5 gal airpot/Fox Farm OF soil/ *NO LST*/ Defoliation starting week 4 HULK C- 5 gal airpot/Fox Farm OF soil/*NO LST*/ *NO DEFOLIATION* HULK D- 3 gal airpot/ Fox Farm OF soil/ germ in soil/ LST/ Defoliation starting week 4/ Heavy nutrient feeds ~My personal thoughts on my experiments and how they turned out~ HULK A- My biggest plant by far. She started off slow but finished strong. The minimum defoliation I did wasn't to much stress and she recovered fast from everything including my week 4 mess up. I think with less nutrients I could've had an even bigger plant. The LST definitely worked with purple hulk and I would recommend doing it to improve yields 100%. HULK B- I started out having very high expectations for this plant because it had vigorous growth during early veg weeks. I started defoliating week 4 which might've been to early and she got stressed and on top of that I messed up my feed week 4 and burned her and she never really recovered. The shock threw her into to flower way faster than the others and she finished a week faster. LST would have helped her get bigger buds. HULK C- The odd one out, the only actual some what purple phenotype. This lady was strong from start to finish. I grew her as is for everything until about week 9 n then I got rid of a few leaves that covered the main colas. She recovered quickly from neut burn in week 4 and stoped growing at 25" tall . She's def my tallest plant and second largest yielder. I just loved looking at this beautiful plant, all her buds where nice and dense , but still she didn't yield as much as she could've with a little LST. I just like the natural shape of the plant =) HULK D- The little plant that could. This plant really shocked me. It finished in 70 something days apposed to 84 like her sisters. It might've been me and the heavy neut feeding but regardless for her size she produced huge dense colas and 3 oz total wet. She handled the LST right from the get go and also light defoliation didn't seem to bother her either. *Curing Update* After drying for 7 days on a rack in complete darkness and 40% RH I moved into mason jars filled with boveda 62%RH packs and burped twice a day for 20 minutes for around two weeks straight. The bud really developed its berry aroma/flavor after sitting in jars for just about a month. *update 2* After a month of curing this bud is definitely becoming a favorite of mine for its awesome affects/ medicinal qualities and the uniqueness of the aroma and taste. Another smell that's strong after curing is church incense, which isn't a option above, this strain definitely is dominated by berries and the smell of burning incense. thank you grow diaries and ripper seeds!! snagging 2nd was a real honor. I received my seeds here in the states and it only took 3 weeks not bad! so stoked