Hi all, OK this might seem a bit radical but I'm going to do it anyway, for various reasons (don't worry, I haven't gone mad and decided to chop my plants down or anything like that). First of all I realise the forum is a bit dead at the moment, but my Purple Power grow journal isn't getting any attention (apart from trusty UKCyrus that is - thanks UK). Secondly I know how difficult it is to keep up with everyones' journals, keep your own threads going and deal with the everyday rigours of "normal" life. And lastly I can't be bothered keeping two grow journals going at the same time anyway. So I've decided to bring my Purps in here - hope that's OK with all of you. For those who may not have seen my Purple Power journal I'll give a brief summary of what they are and throw in a few pics of their journey so far. From the sales pitch:
Purple Power
Flowering period: 6- 7 weeks
Yield: Fast, maximum harvest outdoors
Harvest: Half End September (Holland)
Type: 90% Sativa
Stability: 40%
NOT recommended for indoor growing.
For purple & lavender !
A very popular early and fast flowering variety for outdoor growing. Buds become purple to lavender-blue. Flowering starts mid-July to the beginning of August in Holland.
So yet another crazy attempt to grow Sativa outside in the UK. The seeds were produced by femaleseeds.nl (again they are feminized seeds), and supplied by salviaonline.co.uk. You may also be interested in this qoute from the femaleseeds.nl website:
"Our outdoor strains are specially developed for countries with a colder and short summer, like Holland."
These are weird LOL. They didn't get a lot of sun for about three or four weeks, just LOTS of rain. This really stunted them. All the leaves were at the top four inches of the plants, and although the top fan leaves spread their wings pretty well, that was about it as regards foliage. That was until a few weeks ago when the weather started to improve and they started getting about four to six hours of sunshine per day. Suddenly, like in the space of a week and a half, they virtually tripled in height and the side branches started to appear.
As a result they look very odd LOL - really stretched out with not a lot of foliage under their hats. Having said that the stems are really thick and they're healthy looking, so I'm now reasonably hopeful of getting at least something to smoke from these girls (confirmed).
Pic 1: 5 days.
Pic 2: 19 days.
Pic 3: Beside the Cinammons at about five weeks. You can see how barren they are on the foliage front.
Pic 4: About seven weeks. At last some sun -they have started to grow and the foliage is starting to fill in.
Pic 5: One of my night-time specials, age eight weeks.
Pic 6: Taken yesterday, age about nine weeks. The three tall ones are 57 inches. At last they are starting to look like something, just not sure what LOL.
Pic 7: Finally getting some shelter from the elements behind their Cinnamon cousins.
So I hope this was a sensible move. From now on I will update both the Cinammons and Purple Powers here, and just forget about the other journal. I think it will work better all round. Thanks for looking. All comments, criticisers and scoffers welcome