Welcome back to week 5 of Purple Punch, kind of a middle week it looks like...
Nutrient solution is quite high in and out this week, which is probably due to the added CalMag, but worth keeping an eye on over the next week as I might need to bring the runoff down a touch. PPMs in are at 1062 PPM and 1238 PPM in the runoff. (Note: my water sits around 350 PPM out of the tap.)
Day 28 - Height: 10"
This plant is shooting out pre-flowers now, but hasn't quite got into full flower just yet. I would've thought she probably will by the end of the week, however. She's still a bit leggy in the stems, they're not looking very fat to me and the inter nodal spacing seems a bit long, but hopefully they'll chunk up a bit as she goes into flower. Looking really healthy though and coming along well now she's bushing up properly. I'm hoping by the end of this week she'll fatten up on her stems and put on some size all-round really.
Day 32 - Height: 11"
I added a small amount of CalMag to the watering schedule as I noticed a few very tiny brown spots on some of the leaves. I probably would have done so anyway as it's usually about week 4-5 that I add CalMag once a week for a few weeks just to stave off calcium issues. Otherwise, this plant is starting to come along, the pre-flowers are starting to show proper now and she should start working on producing bud from next week, which will be interesting to see, as her internodal spacing still seems a bit lanky to me. We shall see very soon! One thing I have noticed with this plant is that a lot of the leaves have only three fingers, which may be the phenotype or it may just be a mutation. I doubt it's anything to worry about, but it looks quite weird though!
Thanks a lot for following along, grow well x
Looking good, I once had a plant that had fairly similar symptoms to this one however I believe mine was caused after a brief powdery mildew infection. The plant continued to have hard leaves but was still producing buds well. It's hard to tell sometimes and it could just be a weird random thing but I thought I'd let you know about my experience with similar symptoms.
Happy growing!
Peace ✌️
@UKPersonal420, It's weird when they do something like that isn't it, I guess it's all learning though! Appreciate you telling your experience, if nothing else it makes me feel slightly better haha! 👌