FastBuds Purple Punch

Well here we go into Week Three of Veg! 👏😎 With three weeks of initial growth behind them now, the FastBuds Purple Punch Auto's are doing great and sprouting new growth everyday, especially the #2 pheno who's short-wide and stocky! Thank you for following along this journey with me, especially with FastBud's announcement of this 'Tester Strain #2103's name being revealed as 'Purple Punch'! 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. 3/15- Week Three of veg....now things will get interesting fast with the phenomenal growth that both these girl's are exhibiting! The #1 pheno is a tall girl and has only been topped once. I'm going to start LST on her later this week, mainly on side branches. The #2 pheno is on a fast track to overgrow her 5g pot! She is short and stocky with magnificent branching producing a ton of future bud sites! With her LST she has spread out over 2/3 of the surface of the pot but hasn't really increased her height like her little sister! They both continue to receive nightly foliar feeding with Fox Farms Flower Kiss mixed @ 5ml/g and applied just before the 5 hour dark period. Daily watering's continue with de-chlorinated water to which I'm now alternating adding 5ml/g of Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel to for a feed and then switching to Fox Farms Microbe Brew @ 5ml/g and Fox Farms Big Bloom (OMRI organic) @ 10ml/g then each is ph'd to 6.4-6.6 @ 72deg. with a 0.4 EC 350-400ppm. When I water I soak the pots thoroughly, but not to the point of runoff. Twice a week when I water I add water to the trays under the pots to let the plants draw up the liquid into their pots to ensure that the medium is moist throughout for those roots to grow into! 3/17- Both girl's are doing fantastic with the #2 phenotype approaching 8" in height and the #1 that's a week behind her, almost 10"! They both received a heavy watering yesterday in two portions. First, at the start of the light cycle, I gave each .5 gallon de-chlorinated water with 5ml/g Botanicare CalMag+ and 5ml/g Botanicare Silica Blast added and then ph'd to 6.5 @72 degrees using Alchemist PH Down to make the adjustment. This watering was given through the bottom of their pots by filling their drip pans and letting the fabric pots draw up the liquid into them, giving the medium in the lower half of the pots much needed moisture for the growing root systems. The second watering at mid-day was given through the top of the pots via pump sprayer which was filled with the identical solution used to water earlier and each received .25g each. Foliar feedings continue 4-5 nights a week and they both have a noticeable improvement in their overall appearance as a result of the foliar feedings. I now have a HLG 225 full spectrum LED in the 4x4 along with the 315 LEC providing 550w combined showering the girls with abundant PAR! They're both hung @ 24" above canopy and haven't raised the temp's in the 4x4 surprisingly, which is a testament to the HLG 225 (hardly puts out any excess heat!)! The girls are loving the extra light and showing it through some super healthy growth! At this point I'm just maintaining their water and training daily, watching their rapid growth and anxiously awaiting signs of pre-flower which I hope will not be too soon allowing them to gain size! How much FUN this is! 😍 3/19- Well I must say these two FastBuds Purple Punch Auto's are on FIRE! they both have just about completely covered up their 5g pots with their growth. I'm continuing to LST the #2 pheno and she's looking MARVELOUS! The #1 pheno has not recieved any LST yet and has just been topped once from which she's sprouting a pair of shoots from her now! Daily watering's continue with de-chlorinated water to which I'm now alternating adding 5ml/g of Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel to for a feed along with Fox Farms Kelp Me Kelp You @ 0.25 tsp per gallon and Microbe Brew@ 0.5 tsp per gallon. After all the nutrients are mixed in the water, I let it stand for 10-15min, then ph'd it 6.4-6.6 @ 72deg. with a 0.8 EC 350-400ppm using Alchemist PH Down. My well water has a ph of 7.7 and with these nutrients added the ph comes down by itself and only requires 2ml of PH Down to bring it to 6.5. I water heavy yesterday and when I checked the girl's this morning their pots were still fairly heavy so I skipped the AM watering. I'll wait until the afternoon, check them again, and water then if necessary. Their nightly foliar feeding with Fox Farms Flower Kiss mixed @ 5ml/g continues and is applied just before the 5 hour dark period. They both are extremely vigorous and have a rich green color. The node spacing on both is looking great as is their overall development. They've both just about covered up their 5g pots with their abundant foliage. I decided to wait a few more days before top dressing them, as they are looking really healthy and I don't want to overload the medium with unnecessary nutrients. When I do top dress, I'll use a total of 2 tbsp. per gallon of medium of a 60/40 mix of Dr. Earth Premium 4-4-4 and Dr. Earth Flower Girl 3-9-4, spread into the pots and worked in by hand. Afterwards, I water it in with straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5. 3/21- I decided to go ahead and top dress both girls with organic dry amendments today. I used Dr. Earth Premium 4-4-4 and Dr. Earth Flower Girl 3-9-4 @ 2 tbsp. per gallon of medium, with a ratio of 43%/57% respectively, which I spread around in their pots and then worked it into the top layer of medium by hand. After working it in, I watered it in thoroughly with .75g of de-chlorinated water with 5ml/g of Fox Farms Microbe Brew added to further inoculate the medium with beneficial bacteria and mycorrhiza which should really give a boost to my ladies as they get ready to go into pre-flower. Well here we go with Week Three of veg behind us and now there's nothing but excitement from here on out!. 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 next weeks approach with the girls starting pre-flower... Grow Strong! 😎🙏 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 next weeks approach with the girls starting pre-flower... Grow Strong! 😎🙏