Purple Punch #1

The end of the Purple Punch is here! This plant came down on Day 67 from sprout, which is a little rapid, but for the past two weeks this plant has really done nothing in terms of growth. In fact, she's been really weird. I mentioned in an earlier entry that she had started to get really dry, brittle leaves that seemed to come from the same thing that was causing the discolouration in the leafs veins. I'm still not sure if that was genetic or a disease or just a deficiency, but it seemed to make the plant stall completely eventually and feel almost like it was dead on the stem, drying out. Really odd. I still don't think it can have been a deficiency because it started at such a young age, but I'm open to anything. Not gonna worry about it too much. >> HARVEST AND TRIM << Not a massive yield, though 110g wet is not as bad as it first seems and I'm not as disappointed as I might otherwise have been because I don't think this plant has a lot of weight to lose as it was so dry already. There's obviously going to be the stem weight, but I think there's still going to be around 2oz in bud here after drying which is better than I was expecting after the weird end of its life. This plant was super easy to trim, not an overly large amount of fan and sugar leaves. I trimmed it quite tight from the start because again, being so dry already, the leaves aren't going to protect teh bud very much, so I may as well just lop them off. Now it's all hung up to dry in temps of 22-24c and a Relative Humidity of 45-50%. >> DRY BUD REPORT << The dry took about 5 days, which is fast but about average in my environment. The buds went into jars with Boveda 62% packs for a good cure before I smoke properly. Yield-wise, not too bad, as expected I didn't lose that much weight in the dry, only about 50% as opposed to the more usual 60-75%. The final weight is okay, not bad for a plant with such a small size I think. The final buds themselves are really frosty and have a great scent once dry. When I open the jars, you get a really concentrated blast of a fruity, really quite sour smell that is pretty sweet overall and I love the colours, though a lot of the red/purple faded out with the dry, they're a great mix of bright orange pistils, green flower and tiny red hues. >> EARLY SMOKE << Bit harsh, but I'm 100% sure that's down to no cure and they'll smooth right up after a week or more of cure and only get better from there. The high was pretty much a body stone, quite relaxing, one for pain relief and sleep I'd guess. A little mellow, nothing that would blow your socks off, which is perfect for me as I'm quite a casual smoker. >> FINAL THOUGHTS << Funny little plant. I'd like to grow it again because the smell, colours and final bud are worth the journey, however, I am not super impressed with how the grow panned out overall. In future I will train much more lightly, as I think going a bit heavy handed might have had something to do with its small overall size. I'm curious to grow another just to see how a grow might go without the weird necrosis growing throughout the leaf veins, which I'm still convinced was more genetic than anything I did wrong. I enjoyed the plant though and will grow again definitely, maybe in a grow or two I'll pop another seed and compare her with this grow. And that's about that! I hope you enjoyed following the grow and it might be useful for someone in future. Thanks for reading, stay healthy and grow well, until next time, which I think is going to be a pair of Strawberry Bananas once my Orange Sherbet finishes up. Cheers!