Purple Kush - Short as Shit

zoslick

zoslick

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Hey Guys, been a while since I've been here, only because I stopped growing for a few years and decided that buying my med's is getting kinda pricey so I'm back at it!

Anyways, I've been growing my Crop King Seeds Purple Kush since Oct 18, 2017 and the plant is still SUPER SHORT! Not just stubby, but SHORT! Any idea why this is happening? I've searched high and low over the forum and google but I can't seem to find a reason!

Here are the specs:

Strain: Crop King Seeds Purple Kush
Grown Indoor
Lighting: Mars Hydro 300w LED
Germination Date: Oct 18, 2017
Vegetation Period: From Seed to Feb 28, 2018 (about 19 Weeks!!)
Flowering Period: From Feb 28 - Now
Nutrients:
- Fox Farm: Grow Big, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom
- General Hydroponics: CaliMagic (CalMag)
pH Solution: General Hydroponics pH Down
pH Level: From Start to Now, precisely between 6.3 - 6.5, even after adding nutrients, pH'ed between 6.3-6.5.
Watering: Grow Big-2ml, Big Bloom-2ml, Calmag-2ml starting on the 12th week of Vegetation.

Next to my Purple Kush is a Cali OG Kush x Haze which I started growing a week after I started the P.K and this thing is developing well without and signs of deficiency symptoms. (pic)

So anyone have any ideas why the Purple Kush is so stunted or is the plant in general a shorter strain? Thanks in advance!
 

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Blitz35

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zoslick said:
Hey Guys, been a while since I've been here, only because I stopped growing for a few years and decided that buying my med's is getting kinda pricey so I'm back at it!

Anyways, I've been growing my Crop King Seeds Purple Kush since Oct 18, 2017 and the plant is still SUPER SHORT! Not just stubby, but SHORT! Any idea why this is happening? I've searched high and low over the forum and google but I can't seem to find a reason!

Here are the specs:

Strain: Crop King Seeds Purple Kush
Grown Indoor
Lighting: Mars Hydro 300w LED
Germination Date: Oct 18, 2017
Vegetation Period: From Seed to Feb 28, 2018 (about 19 Weeks!!)
Flowering Period: From Feb 28 - Now
Nutrients:
- Fox Farm: Grow Big, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom
- General Hydroponics: CaliMagic (CalMag)
pH Solution: General Hydroponics pH Down
pH Level: From Start to Now, precisely between 6.3 - 6.5, even after adding nutrients, pH'ed between 6.3-6.5.
Watering: Grow Big-2ml, Big Bloom-2ml, Calmag-2ml starting on the 12th week of Vegetation.

Next to my Purple Kush is a Cali OG Kush x Haze which I started growing a week after I started the P.K and this thing is developing well without and signs of deficiency symptoms. (pic)

So anyone have any ideas why the Purple Kush is so stunted or is the plant in general a shorter strain? Thanks in advance!
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Yikes...if i had to make a guess..it would be genetics lol. Not sure what else to say..after a 4.5 month veg, plant should be a tree. Yes your light is not strong, but i use the same one with supplements now, but have used it alone with a couple small cfl bulbs in the past and even after an 8 week veg...the plant produced 5 oz's in the end...6 week veg netted just over 3 oz's. From that 1 distant pic, plant seems healthy..the one next to it is quite a bit bigger, so i can only guess genetics. If you add a few small 23 watt cfl's..they dont cost much..roughly 15$ canadian, likely 10us or less, for 3..they make a big difference and would cut your veg time in at least half!
 
Tiffj

Tiffj

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Size of pot?? Could be the difference, ain’t getting bigger if it’s a small pot, with it being purple Kush they don’t tend to get very tall anyways?? Also could be poor genetics!
 
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zoslick

zoslick

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Glenkush said:
I'm growing 4 PK from CKS right now. I started them from seeds around 15 Dec.

First picture is 26jan and second is 12feb.

They have been started under a 200W cob and then 1000W HPS
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Looks Great! Sigh, maybe the batch of seeds I got are defective... I still have a few more I can try but it's the amount of time and attention put into it that pisses me off!
 
zoslick

zoslick

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Tiffj said:
Size of pot?? Could be the difference, ain’t getting bigger if it’s a small pot, with it being purple Kush they don’t tend to get very tall anyways?? Also could be poor genetics!
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It's a 3 gallon pot, but I'm guessing it's just poor genes... I've grown about 8 different strains and this is the first time I've had this problem....
 
Glenkush

Glenkush

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zoslick said:
Looks Great! Sigh, maybe the batch of seeds I got are defective... I still have a few more I can try but it's the amount of time and attention put into it that pisses me off!
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Forgot to say. One of them is really shorter and bushier than the others... I had to put spacer underneat the the pot to scrog it and even then it is way shorter than the others after the stretch. There's at least 20inch difference between the tallest one.
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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zoslick said:
It's actually my first encounter with Crop King... I'll definitely try another brand... any recommendations?
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What's that in your thumbnail ?

Forgot to mention but.
Somebody already mentioned light used ... Add more !
Those Mars roughly pull half of advertised watts ...

Good luck on your future grows.
 
zoslick

zoslick

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Budzbuddha said:
What's that in your thumbnail ?

Forgot to mention but.
Somebody already mentioned light used ... Add more !
Those Mars roughly pull half of advertised watts ...

Good luck on your future grows.
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That was my first plant I ever grew! It was a Wappa strain.

I have another UFO LED 120 watt light that I used for vegetation. You think I should add that in?
 
zoslick

zoslick

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Glenkush said:
Forgot to say. One of them is really shorter and bushier than the others... I had to put spacer underneat the the pot to scrog it and even then it is way shorter than the others after the stretch. There's at least 20inch difference between the tallest one.
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Exactly like what I have now! Notice that I have boxes underneath the pot so it gets to share the light with the OG Kush. Approximately 20" difference in height too!
 
kingtitan

kingtitan

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How come you kept on going after a month? You would have been almost done your second cycle by now. These Crop King stories keep getting worse...
 
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