The easiest plant I ever grow. Strong, perfect grow (no slow period, no weird leaves) and an amazing defense against pest.
Germination : Seed direct to the pot. First leaves in 4 days.
Perfect reation to topping and LST. She actually loved it!
Smell during flowering : Normal, not too strong. Beside the growing room, my house wasn't smelling.
TASTE REVIEW:
10 April 2021 : I was pretty sure some weeks before harvest, that she wasn't the strain I'm looking for. It doesn't have the terpene profile I'm looking for (AKA Purple Quest).
But she is still a decent strain, which remember me an organic grown Somango i smoked once ^^ Sweet, a bit of caramel.
EFFECTS REVIEW:
The perfect day smoke to me. She never made me sleepy. I'm often taking my guitar after a joint ^^
She make me relaxed, a bit lazy, talkactive and creative. She doesn't make me hungry.
My next grow will be a Royal Queen Seeds strain again! The "Legendary OG Punch"!
Because of her parents : OG Kush, and Grand Daddy Purple (Mendo Purps!). That sound VERRY promising!
I believe that the Mendo Purps is a parent that may be linked to the taste I'm searching for, so this next one is a good candidate :)
DRY AND TRIM UPDATE:
From 418.16g wet to 101.62g dry. Drying took 10 days.
Started the cure, I'll update the diary in some weeks to review taste and effects ;)
Nothing to complain about, this worked verry well.
But I will not use the fish-mix at the recommended dose during veg next time.
I noticed the plant absolutely loved Fish-mix by spray. But I will probably only use 25% of the recommended dose for watering, next time.
I used the TS1000 during all veg, and switched to a TSW2000 for flowering.
Those lamps are the best option for the new grower. The quality/price ratio is unbeatable, and will provide awesome results.
I got two lights, they both came in the best condition, no default, no issue.
I will recommend this brand (and this product line) to any begginer, or anyone who want to upgrade to a LED / stronger light.
Nice tent. I like the little window on the front, that let you see inside without opening the tent.
The tent miss one feature : being abble to attach the "door" to something, so it could keep open easilly.
This plant is my 3th attempt, trying to find a specific taste I'm searching since I started to grow, in 2020.
Plant just been harvested. Now it gonna need some more weeks of drying and curing, before I can finally evaluate the taste π
So, for now, I can only talk about the grow, and I'll edit my diary later.
10 weeks of flowering (total 20 weeks), this was a long run!
Royal Queen Seeds say that strain usually take 7 to 9 weeks of flowering.
Mine took a bit longer.
She was absolutely the easiest plant I ever grown.
She never shown big sign of deficiencies. She germinated fast (seed direct to the pot).
I applied main-lining method (Nebula's / Topping at node 3, then node 3 again) and performed LST during the growth.
She perfectly dealt with it, never slowed by the toppings. I remember that she took less than 10 hours to recover from second topping, and re-allign every branchs to the light, after LST.
This was insane to me.
I did some mistakes during the grow :
1) Excess of Biobizz - Fishmix during grow, until early flowering. This been fixed by following the advices from @AsNoriu who suggested to transplant the Queen to a new pot.
So she moved from a 16L to a 30L during 2nd week of flowering. This was risky, it's not really recommended to transplant during flowering.... But the risk at to be taken.
And she totally did good. One week later, she was looking way more healthy. 2 weeks later, she was on fire!!!
2) I brook the main cola, same week than the transplant. I was trying to apply the LST again. A bit too much of tension, and Crack!
Quickly fixed. The plant don't even realized. She don't slowed bad signs, and continued to grow perfectly.
She spent some weeks outdoor during Veg.
And this is how i got some thrips problem during end of veg. I sprayed black soap, then water, and then Biobizz - Leafcoat.
This got rid of mainly all thrips. I was still seeing one or two begining of flowering, so I continued to use water and biobizz - Leafcoat.
But as she was flowering, she started to get totally covered of trichomes, even on fan leaves, and under the leaves. Thrips had no chance there.
So the plant ended this problem by herself, and I don't had to spray anything during flowering, and never saw thrips again ^^
Hi there!
If you are mainlining then you should remove the lower branches now too. If you plan on removing them I suggest that you take the lower branches off at the same time you top your plant. I think it's better to do one bigger stress than keep stressing her little by litle all the time
Happy growing!
@StunFlower, Thanks :) π I believe the key for success is just, spending time on it, and placing the string at the right place.
At some point it become instinctive.
@DreamOn, Thanks dude :) I appreciate ^^
It's the first time I'm doing Main-lining. I can't really estimate how great this gonna make the harvest...
BUT it's definitly a good and sexy looking plant :) I love how symmetrical it is !
@Greatgrowman, Well dude, the only thing I can say is it works :D I never tried any other brand.
It's easy to use, and since it's organic, it seems verry difficult to overfeed your plants.
I'm going to try the biobizz "leaf coat" this week. This is a foliar spray, made with latex and water.
I applied the "Fish-mix" as a spray yesterday on the leaves, and the plant REALLY loved it.
So... Good product line to me. But i can't compare it with anything else ^^
Good luck with your grape ape :)
Hey mate, just like the most say, i totally agree, your training has developed a very nice plant, almost efficient like math calculation ;)
Great work mate