Well here we go into Week four of flower! 👏😎 With eight weeks of initial growth behind them now, the Seedsman LE Purple Punch Auto's continue doing great and are stacking their flowers and getting fuller everyday. They are now both in flower and are looking very special! They're both exceptional specimens of the strain and it'll be exciting to see them go through flower with you. Thank you for following along this journey with me, growing these beautiful cultivars is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! 😎🙏
~Grown 100% organic in a 10g fabric pot with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 2-8-4 and 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Bat Guano.
~24hr light cycle during germination / 19/5 light cycle for Veg & Flower
~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed, top dressed every 3-4 weeks and weekly Compost Tea's.
4/19- Week FOUR of flower's here and man-o-man is these girls are looking SWEET!
I watered them with 0.75g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz added @ 0.75 tsp/g and raw honey @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC.
Now this strain is supposed to be a 60-63 day cultivar but I'm a betting man and I say there's no way either of these fine ladies pushing 58 days are close to finishing! I've been giving them 4hrs/day of supplemental UVA during the middle of their 19/5 cycle and I'll be switching them to Fox Farms Cha Ching on their feeding very soon.
Now, these girl's are basically on autopilot and all I'm doing is making sure they're watered, fed, has their pots turned daily and I'll probably remove some foliage from the #2 pheno as she's the BUSHY one!...that's it, easy peasy lemon squeezy!
~💚HAPPY 420 EVERYONE!!!💚~ Have a happy and lifted day!...and don't forget to 'pay it forward' 😎🙏
4/21- The Purple Punch ladies are rolling and continue to stack their flowers forming some beautiful cola's and they have an intoxicating aroma of berries coming off them!
I watered/fed them with their usual 0.75g of dechlorinated water to which I've now switched to and added, Fox Farms Cha Ching @ 0.75 tsp/g, and 0.5 tsp/g of raw honey, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. I also gave her pot a 1/4 turn.
4/23- Today they recieved .75g of de-chlorinated water with Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz @ 0.75 tsp/g, Fox Farms Microbe Brew @ 0.5 tsp/g and Fox Farms Kelp Me Kelp You @ 0.5 tsp/g which with my starting ph of 7.4, brings the ph to a perfect 6.5! Gotta love it when you don't have to adjust the final ph...awesome! I also rotated their 10g fabric pots 1/4 turn each.
This strain was a special 'Limited Edition' offered along with your purchase for free. As it's only listed on Seedsman's website as either Barneys Farm or RQS offerings, with the BF listed as a 60 day from seed finisher and the RQS a 70 day from seed strain, I'm guessing these girls are either RQS's babies or a Barneys Farm strain that decided not to follow the rules...we'll have to wait and see how long these ladies take and what they look like when they're finished!
4-25- With 60+/- days of growth and four weeks of flowering behind them, these 10 week cultivars are coming around the 'final eighth pole' my friends and and will be finishing up soon with the #1 pheno being the furthest along. The #1 phenotype, although only four days older than her sister, is markedly more mature with her flowers stacking up forming beautiful dense cola's! I'll be giving her de-chlorinated water with Fox Farms Cha Ching added for another feed or two, then I'll start flushing her using Fox Farms Sledgehammer added to her water.
The #2 pheno is basically a twin of her older sister only a WHOLE LOT BIGGER. The main difference, size aside, is she'll be under the light for a week or so longer than 'big sis', and as a result is going to finish up being a monster compared to her sister.
Both pheno's are sporting rather small leaves with narrow blades and have, what I'd call moderate node spacing.
Environmentally, the tent temperatures are maxing out during the light cycle at 79 deg. and I'm running them down to the mid 50's during the 5 hour dark period, which really helps with bringing out the gorgeous colors in some strains! The HLG 650R is running at max, pulling 660w at the wall and remains @ 34" above the canopy with the UVA bar running 4 hours a day at mid-cycle.
Today I watered the #2 phenotype with 0.75g of de-chlorinated water to which I've added, Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz @ 0.75 tsp/g, and 1 tsp/g of raw honey, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC, I also gave her pot a 1/4 turn. The #1 recieved the same amount with the exception of having Fox Farms Cha Ching added @ 0.75 tsp/g along with 1 tsp/g of raw honey then ph'd to 6.6 @ 71 deg. to finish fattening her up. I rotated her pot 1/4 turn as well allowing all of her to be exposed to as much light as possible.
Well, onward to Week Nine from seed and Week Five of flower where things are gonna be heating up in the tent with the #1 finishing up and the #2 bulking up! 💪 Be sure to check in on their progress❣️❤️
~Thank you so much for following along so far! I hope you'll continue to follow my journey as things will be getting more exciting as the flowering gets more intense and one of these ladies goes 'dark'... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~