Fo' Twenny Back with another update on our Grandaddy Purple from Blimburn Seeds!
She is looking really good this week. She still have a few of the feformed leaves that look wrinkled. From some googling, I would guess either Tobacco Mosaic Virus or just a natural deformity. She a cutting from a previous run and she has it then too. It isn't wide spread and she still put out quality medicine. Even though she wasn't very Grandaddy Purplish, she was still gassy and frosty! Other than the funky leaves, she looks super healthy with her leaves "praying" to the canna-gods!
Now, let me nerd out with the deets!
LIGHTING:
Increased lighting at dimmer last week with good results. Was about 70k LUX on average @ Canopy.
Turning it up a bit more this week.
8 Outer Boards @ 665.5w
6 Inner Boards @ 601w
LUX APP MAXES OUT READING 78750 LUX @ Canopy. Lets hope its not too much!
RHIZOSPHERE:
If you didn't tune into the last update, I had just flushed pots due to high PPM runoff. pH of runoff was at 6.3. PPM and pH are tested using 2 separate calibrated BlueLab meters.
All Water/Fertilizer is shared by 3.25 plants (.25 because autoflower gets less than a quarter the volume of the larger plants)
2 GAL PLAIN H20 w/fungicide prior to feed
PH to 6.0
1 tsp/gal of Southern AG Garden Friendly Fungicide - Bacillus bacteria known as Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens (OMRI Organic Bacterial Innocclant/compare to Hydroguard
Waited 15 minutes after plain H2O and fungicide
5 gallon tap H20 through 2 KDF filters
START PH: 7.5 (taken from reservoir that contains impurities/residue from previous feeds)
START PPM: 500 (also taken from reservoir)
TEMP: 76°F
.125 tsp Ascorbic Acid added to help reduce chlorine/chloramine
WEEK 4 FEED SCHEDULE:
.5tsp/gal Sledgehammer (Surfactant)
.125 tsp/gal Gringo Rasta Cal-Mag
1 tsp/gal BIG Bloom
.5 tsp/gal Grow Big
.5 tsp/gal Tiger Bloom
.25 tsp/gal Kelp Me Kelp You
.75 tsp/gal BEMBE
.25 tsp/gal Beastie Blooms (Increased due to low ppm of solution)
PPM: 1150
Added to Increase PPM
5 tsp/gal Tiger Bloom
PPM: 1350
PH: 5.8
1tsp/gal RECHARGE
.6ml/gal MAMMOTH P
PH: 5.9
PPM: 1490
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Until next time...
Peace ☮️,
Love 💚,
And Frosty Nugs ❄️🌲!
-Fo'Twenny
@amazongrow, She's still in veg, but she will still grow a lot before she goes into the flower room. I pack them in there pretty tight. I am no expert here, so idk what she will yield. Just being honest. Next run I want to try more of a SOG type grow in half of the tent. The other half I will continue the way I have been growin to see difference in yield. I am still finding my style
By bigger, do you mean taller or what? I thought I should keep my canopy from getting too deep to ensure light penetrates through the bottom. Any suggestions or feedback is always appreciated! Thanks for stopping by the garden!
One of my favs strains 🦄 awesome for my anxiety ! Trying to buy the one from grand daddy purps ,, but they only sell a 10 pack =( Attitude seed bank
Your girl is a survivor ! Damm .. lets see how fat she gets! 😋
Im following this one 😉
@NatureBoyNeo, Yeah, this pheno (it's a cutting from a previous run) isn't anything worthy of the name Grandaddy Purple. Not fruity and not purple, but who knows... Maybe she will show some different traits under the quantum boards. Last run she was under an AGLEX 3000 w/cobs. All that being said, she IS super potent and still really enjoyable.
I'd like to get my hands on some of the GDP beans from Grand Daddy Purp. The original bred by Ken Estes. I used to get some black market GDP that is really just untouchable. Supposedly the producers lost the mom and I have never had anything of that calibre of bud since. It was dense with chunky nugs. It was super potent and incredibly frosty. And it was a beautiful color purple with a shiney white/silver frost and really no green to speak of... Just solid purple buds with bright contrasting orange hairs. It smelled and tasted like Fruity Pebbles cereal. Really just something special. I miss that stuff.
@MrJones, Yeah, my helper took a cutting from a plant in mid flower. She struggled a bit at first and then I put her through all kinds of hell. She has been through a lot and has come a long way. She was lanky last run, but hoping the new lighting might reduce some stretching in early flower.
@FoTwenny, nice. The cutting is from blimburns seed? Do you make seeds? I always regret not making special S1s but theres so many other things to grow!
@GYOweed, This lady was from a cutting and I kept her because she was very potent the first time I ran her. That was prior to upgrading the lighting and she came out so much nicer this run!
@NatureBoyNeo, Thanks for stopping by with some positivity!!! I agree, she's fading beautifully. This cutting is much more colorful than the mother I took her from. I think it's the new lighting helping her reach her potential! Happy growing!