FastBuds Purple Punch

Well here we go into Week Six the start of Week 2 of flower! 👏😎 With six weeks of initial growth behind them now, the FastBuds Purple Punch Auto's are doing great and putting all their energy into flower production now. The #2 pheno has expressed a beautiful purple coloration in her flowers that is getting more pronounced daily! 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. 4/5- Week 2 of flower and both girl's are happy, healthy and stacking flowers! Both PP's are fairly tall at 17" for the #1 and 18" on the #2 PP, both having great node spacing on them and their flowers are frosting up beautifully!😍 I've switched up their feeding slightly with the addition of Fox Farms Beastie Bloomz and Open Sesame which are given alternately three days a week. In addition, I'm now supplementing their water once a week each with Unsulfured Molasses and Honey @ 2 tbsp/g and 2 tsp/g respectively. The Molasses gives a boost to the microbial colony as well as being loaded with essential minerals and micro-nutrients that the plants love. The Honey really promotes healthy root systems and is a natural anti-bacterial which I've used for decades with tremendous success! I now have the HLG 225 and UnitFarm UFS3000 hung 18" above canopy which the ladies are digging as am I because the tent temperatures are now perfect and are remaining constant! Environmentally, the 'daytime' temp's are a steady 77.4 degrees F and drop to 65 degrees F during the 'nighttime'. The RH is staying around 42-46% which I'd like to be higher to lower the VPD but as the girls both appear healthy and happy I'll let it ride! I also put the risers back under both of their pots to ensure that the bottom of the fabric pot gets adequate airflow preventing a possible anaerobic condition from the roots not getting any oxygen, therefore killing them (it only takes 20 minutes of oxygen deprivation to kill cannabis roots! Keep this in mind when watering...don't drown your roots!). 😎👍 4/7- I checked their pots this morning and they were still fairly heavy and the bottoms were still wet so I skipped watering today. They're both looking MARVELOUS and present a stark contrast of phenotypes with the #1 expressing that beautiful purple coloration in her flowers, the #2 with her snow white stamens contrasting the green of her frosty flowers...pretty cool! I really don't have to do anything to either of these ladies at this point, other than water/feed and I turn both girl's pots 1/4 turn each day to give the entire plants plenty of light as they're on autopilot! 4/9- Well this weeks almost in the books and both Purple Punch ladies are looking absolutely FABULOUS!!! 😍 All I'm doing at this point is making sure they're watered, fed and turning their pots 1/4 turn twice daily. They are running out their final weeks strong, stacking their flowers and ramping up their trichome production with the #2 pheno expressing the most vibrant purple coloration in her flowers...breathtaking!. Both of these ladies are so east to cultivate with their wide node spacing, light penetration isn't an issue and they have tolerated everything thrown at them with a smile...I really LOVE this strain from FastBuds!😍 4/11- Week three of flower has come and gone! The GC girl's are 50 +/- days old now and only have a week or two left in them. I'll be switching them over to straight water for their last week to help them use up any nutrients in them and hopefully bring out some beautiful colors! Both were watered with 0.50g of dechlorinated water with Fox Farms ChaChing added @ 0.5 tsp/g and Bembe @ 1 tbsp/g, then ph'd to 6.5 @ 72 deg. 1.2 EC Well, there goes this week...next week will usher in their final flower development with both girl's going into their fourth week of flower!😍 ~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 and the flowering gets more intense and the end of this journey draws closer... Grow Strong! 😎🙏~