FastBuds Purple Punch

Well here we go into Week Five the start of flowering! 👏😎 With five 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 wide, stocky and getting taller by the day! 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. 3/29- The girls are in flower and doing fantastic! I was fortunate enough to be offered a UFS3000 LED Grow Light by UnitFarm and installed it in place of the 315LEC which, as luck would have it, has also solved my cooling issues in the 4x4! With the UnitFarm 200w UFS3000 LED AND the HLG 225 both running the temp's are now maxing out at 78 degrees during the light cycle...Sweet! I'm really curious to see how the girls respond to this new light as it has a decent spectrum including UV, is about as low profile as you can get due to its remotely mounted driver, runs extremely cool (94 degrees on the board), and is priced under 0.00! Hard to beat! Daily watering continues with 0.75g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC given to each in the morning. Foliar feeding before lights out continues every other night. They're health, color and vigor remain off the chart as they progress into flower! I'm still spending the majority of my time 'tucking & plucking' leaves and making sure the environment stays as close to on point as possible and will be doing some leaf tucking on both to assist the light penetration into the center of the plants. 3/31- Watered both girls this morning with 0.50g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC I have to say that these girl's are really impressive with their structure and growth...just spectacular! The HLG 225 and UnitFarm UFS3000are both running in the 4x4, and are hung 18" above canopy. Temperatures, RH and VPD all are gtg and on point with 'daytime' temps at a constant 76 degrees @ 50% RH, dropping to 65 degrees during the dark period. 4/2- Both girls are in flower and their thirst has increased with the flowering taking place. Their need for phosphorus should also be increasing now and I may hit them with some Fox Farms Beastie Bloom to smack em in the ass with a big shot of phosphorus...I'm still debating. I'm letting the plants tell me what they need now. I'm closely monitoring them (without micro-managing), watering when they show signs of needing it (leaves JUST starting to droop) and nutrients (when their color Just starts to be not as vibrant). Right now they're both doing phenomenally! When I water them it is with 0.75g straight de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 200ppm 0.4 EC and I'm watering through the top, taking time to allow the medium to slowly absorb it to avoid runoff. This weekend I will top dress each with 2 cups of Wiggle Worm Castings and then water it in. When I water in the castings I'll add 2 tbsp. per gallon of Grandma's Unsulfured Molasses to the water which will supercharge the microbes! 4/4- I top dressed both Gorilla Cookies with 2 cups of Wiggle Worm castings and water it in with 0.25g straight de-chlorinated water to which I added 1/4 tsp/g of Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 degrees 400ppm 0.8 EC This morning the girls looked absolutely VIBRANT! They must have really enjoyed the PK boost from yesterday huh?! Both girls mediums were still fairly moist so I held off with the AM watering and will take a look at them this afternoon and see what they tell me! Well it's really been a great week, the girl's are both healthy and doing fantastic, stacking flower! Next week promises to be just as, if not more, exciting so stay tuned for all the action! 😍 ~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 into flower now... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~