Over the last 2 days, the back left plant has been putting a lot of purple into the leaves instead of just the bud; I'm so happy to see these pretty colours. It's giving me a bit more hope that this might pack the punch my wife is looking for. It's also just sad that most of the best purple leaves also are suffering from light burn being too close to the light (but too late to change that).
Seeing the back two plants not pack bud on super tightly (this might be because the main colas are too close to the light), and the 3rd plant foxtail like crazy has finally pushed me over the edge to try to clone the 4th plant. Initially I didn't because when I flipped she barely had vegetation. At week 3 I didn't because I was wondering about potentially epigenetic changes from revegetation potentially not being great for a mother plant.
Now much later I finally just had to. And I'm extra glad that I tried now that plant 4 is starting to show a bit of purple on the bud. Of course, if she takes a similar progression of the back two plants, she's got 2-3 weeks of purple bud, and 1-2 weeks more of slowly purpling leaves.
Speaking of purple, the leaves are really starting to show nicely. But I am losing my mind a bit; I'm ending week 11 since the flip, and 2 plants might be another week yet, and the other two may now be looking at 2-5 weeks more? They're so fat, I'll have to give them the time they need.
I always thought "flowering time" was from the flip, not from bud appearing. In theory GDP should be 8-10 weeks.
I'm tempted to try doing something like putting ice packs by the air intake of the tent when the lights go off to bring out more purple.
If the back two aren't ready yet by next week I might switch to 11/13 and possibly 10/14 another week later.
A couple of things to try to get your plants to finish faster. Increase light distance and reduce light hours. If you've already got big buds on there you really just need them to ripen. Pumping them with light will just encourage more growth and foxtailing. It looks like you may have a variety of phenotypes, maybe not all will turn purple.
@indoorontario, I can't increase light distance for the plants that most need it; I have the light wire wrapped to the top center pole as close as I could manage. The front two plants are on 4" platforms, but the back two plants are partially using them for support; to remove them I'd have to use more yoyo's (which I do have) and spend the time before I could lower them. And they front two are already around 19" from the light which is in theory a reasonable distance.
I could reduce intensity of the light. Moving from 290w to 260w would be about a 10% decrease, and might help with the foxtailing that all but one plant is doing. Also, this would help with some burn the back taller two are doing. Even better, it's a trivial amount of time to do. I don't know why I stubbornly avoided dimming the light seeing the taller plants burn a bit.
My last grow is gdp but not make diary. I love this strain so much easy to grow fast great yield and response very well for topping. easy to clone and smell like mint+flower. My best pain killer from serious Herniated disc. I love this strain
Question. did you ever cover the top with more medium when the roots were showing? I’m havig same thing where roots are showing from the stem and curious if I should just add more ?
@Colorado_cookies, It depends on how much space I've left at the top of the pot. Currently my pots are pretty full, so where I have roots showing, I've just been leaving it. Some of the loose coco/perlite on top gets shoved to the sides during watering, and I'll periodically move some back towards the center (which is primarily where the roots show), but there's not enough to settle, so it slowly gets pushed back out to the sides.
Ugh, I just typed a long rambling update, and it got eaten because I didn't confirm email address yet.
Anyways, I'm planning to transpot this weekend. I haven't had time to work on making mini screens to test a scrog vs lst (I like screens attached to the pot (likely the elevator in this case) , to make moving/rotating plants possible, and moving them out of the tent allows the back to be worked with.
I think that LST under a screen is much easier/faster not fighting with wires, but the intiial setup is a pain. And if the screen is made of too weak of materials it either doesn't last, or doesn't help train well enough.
Mainlined plant seems to far behind the others that I will be amazed if she compares favorably to them in harvest. This might be a crap test, as I'd be ok with a few additional weeks of veg if the total harvest was at least on par with just LST/HST training, as they're more time intensive due to the number of branches.