Purple Urkle - Looking For 1 Gram Per Watt

Today is day 57ish of 77 and due to a mix-up in my clone dome, I need to chop one of the girls. That strain normally goes 60 days so we're just a touch early on her, but given how she looks, i'm not too worried. Due to the fact that she's with 5 other girls that still have 20 days left, I wont be able to flush her. I tend to feed my plants until i see a touch of burn, then dial back. I haven't over-fed her and she smells like berries, earth and sweet skunk. If she smelled like nutes, that would tell me I went too far and given her pleasant smell, I have no qualms with not flushing her.

For the last 30 days or so, the girls have been getting roughly the same nutrient proportions and tomorrow is the res change where I switch to 'ripening'. This means I'll cut back the floraMicro and a few of the other products i'm using, I'll stop the liquid KoolBloom all together and start using KoolBloom dry. This is a ripening product that stresses the plants by its NPK ratio (2-45-28 ) and also provides a few secondary macro nutrients. I'll be giving the recommended amount of about 1.25 grams per gallon and will be doing this up to about day 73. I've found this product to increase yields and resin production in side-by-side tests; hopefully the pictures to come confirm what I've noticed in the past.

Again, weekly res change, pH to 5.8 as needed, res topped off with tap water every other day.








Her last day....

Looking beautiful Homebrewer. Youve got me slobbering a little bit over here lol. keep up the dope ass job

Is that Dumpster plant you have the one developed by an Ohio University? I heard back in the 70s or somewhere around there that an Ohio University in Cincinnati had created a super-strain of marijuana. Everybody was excited about it, but it never made it to my corner of the world. How does the Dumpster weed smoke? I can see plenty of resin, but how is it power-wise?

Magnificient said:

Is that Dumpster plant you have the one developed by an Ohio University? I heard back in the 70s or somewhere around there that an Ohio University in Cincinnati had created a super-strain of marijuana. Everybody was excited about it, but it never made it to my corner of the world. How does the Dumpster weed smoke? I can see plenty of resin, but how is it power-wise?

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Yep, that's the strain and I was told a similar story too when I was first given a clone some years back when I was working in Ohio. It's supposedly a G13 x NL cross? It's excellent smoke to say the least but it's indica dominant and I prefer energetic sativas. I keep it around because there is definitely a time and a place for an indica buzz, plus it always amazes me how much resin she pumps out. She's fun to grow! She packs a punch and the stone is heavy and powerful. Again, not my preference but my friends absolutely love it. Friggen junkies .

Dumpster was featured in HT a couple years back - the pics made it look pretty sweet. Supposedly students leaving for summer break disposed of a healthy female in a dumpster with no where to store her at home and other students found it thus the Dumpster was born.

Your ladies look great. I just did a Deep Purple run and was very impressed the quality and the yield was ok too. I had some purpling but high temps prevented me from lowering temps the required ten degrees or so at night time(versus the day temp) for the full on purple effect - the ten degree differential will turn most strains purple I think, at least those that I've encountered. Enjoy the Urkle!

MoppinSauce said:

Dumpster was featured in HT a couple years back - the pics made it look pretty sweet. Supposedly students leaving for summer break disposed of a healthy female in a dumpster with no where to store her at home and other students found it thus the Dumpster was born.

Your ladies look great. I just did a Deep Purple run and was very impressed the quality and the yield was ok too. I had some purpling but high temps prevented me from lowering temps the required ten degrees or so at night time(versus the day temp) for the full on purple effect - the ten degree differential will turn most strains purple I think, at least those that I've encountered. Enjoy the Urkle!

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Thanks for the Dumpster info, I didn't know it was popular enough to get into HT. In regards to temp swings, a true purple strain doesn't need those swings. My room goes from 75 at night to 85 in the day. 75 is far from cool and as you can see from the Dumpster plant, those temp swings aren't coloring her at all.

Interesting, in the winter I have trouble getting into the 70's during the day in my room and everything finishes with purple leaves on the top at the very least. Dumpster, I know, who woulda thought. It wasn't a huge article, just like a 1/4 page ditty with a few pictures of nugs. I remember it well for some reason so the buds had to have been nice. I will see if I have a copy buried away somewhere.

dam dude that is an amazing lookin grow and some tasty lookin buds. +rep for sure.

MoppinSauce said:

Interesting, in the winter I have trouble getting into the 70's during the day in my room and everything finishes with purple leaves on the top at the very least. Dumpster, I know, who woulda thought. It wasn't a huge article, just like a 1/4 page ditty with a few pictures of nugs. I remember it well for some reason so the buds had to have been nice. I will see if I have a copy buried away somewhere.

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It's the October 2009 issue, page 13. There's a good little snippet - "...big yielder and quick grow at 55-60 days". Having trouble with the scan right now, but it's the same story.

MoppinSauce said:

Dumpster was featured in HT a couple years back - the pics made it look pretty sweet. Supposedly students leaving for summer break disposed of a healthy female in a dumpster with no where to store her at home and other students found it thus the Dumpster was born.

Your ladies look great. I just did a Deep Purple run and was very impressed the quality and the yield was ok too. I had some purpling but high temps prevented me from lowering temps the required ten degrees or so at night time(versus the day temp) for the full on purple effect - the ten degree differential will turn most strains purple I think, at least those that I've encountered. Enjoy the Urkle!

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The story I heard was that the Dumpster strain had been genetically altered to produce huge amounts of thc. At the time it was said to be 100 times more powerful than common weed. It was probably hype, but that's the way the story was told. HB wouldn't have a different preference if it was that great.

Magnificient said:

The story I heard was that the Dumpster strain had been genetically altered to produce huge amounts of thc. At the time it was said to be 100 times more powerful than common weed. It was probably hype, but that's the way the story was told. HB wouldn't have a different preference if it was that great.

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I can tell you it's not 100 times more potent than common weed. Regardless of potency, I don't like the indica buzz .

ya man that is some great bud for sure...almost makes the purps on my wall look like shit haha

homebrewer said:

I can tell you it's not 100 times more potent than common weed. Regardless of potency, I don't like the indica buzz .

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So you like Sativa's? You might like Shackzilla, it's basically SSH crossed with Jack Herrer. I got a few beans that I'll pop next year since I didn't get them in time for this years grow. I'm hoping for the ultimate sativa haze high.

I want to say today is day 64 of 77? That sounds about right. As you can see, I'm one plant short this week since I chopped one last monday (pic and info below). During these last two weeks, I'll usually cut back the nitrogen a little and add koolBloom dry to increase weight and resin production. The plants responded immediately to the lower dose of floramicro and tomorrow during the res change, I'll probably increase the N a little as the ladies are starting to get a little lighter-green than I would prefer. I also remember that koolBloom dry isn't that kind to the leaves which probably means GH is calling for a larger dose than necessary. Some tweaking is needed tomorrow and I'll probably go with a half to three-quarters dose. Another sign that GH is calling for too much is the smell of the flowers. They've gone from a sweet, fruity smell to that of earth and minerals with a touch of fruit. 1 gram of KoolBloom dry per gallon of water is too much for this strain in my opinion. We'll see how a lower dose affects the smell next week. These observations of the leaves and the aromas from week to week are very important if you want to grow healthy plants with big yields. Best-case-scenario in my book is a green plant who hasn't lost a single leaf, whose flowers smell natural and as you'd expect, and is getting exactly what it needs in the doses that are optimal to weight and resin production. The trick is trial and error until that is achieved.

Weekly res changes and pH'd to 5.8 as needed.








Here is a small nug from the dumpster plant that I harvested last week. She yielded 95 grams which is a little shy of my 100 grams/plant goal, but about normal for this plant as it doesn't tend to yield as well as the purple strain. Regardless of yield, I can never complain about the quality.

that looks so sweet i can't even describe

homebrew, your pics are awesome. are you taking a flash-shot while lights are off? if so i guess it doesn't cause light leak issues? if not, please tell me how!?!?!?

no denying the size of the main colas, that is for sure. also, the dumpster looks kill. Exactly the type of bud i like to have in my jar

any updates? im in on this grow! i still got a lot of shit to learn!

I realized late this past week that my days have been off by 4, meaning I started this grow on day 32 and it was really day 36. So today is really day 74 and based on the look of the buds, the sweet fruity smell, and the cloudy tric color, I’ve decided to start my flush and harvest a few days early. I also have six Ak47 plants chomping at the bit to replace these ladies so I need to get chopping sooner-than-later. I’ll get into my flushing method in a day or two but I thought I’d update with a few bud shots before I begin the final stage.





These leaves look terrible as they were too close to the light early on in the plant's life. That didn't seem to hurt the yield too bad.

nice pics! those buds looks very very nice.

Extremely nice! Those are huge calyxes drenched trichomes if i've ever seen...well, huge calyxes drenched in triches
Keep up the excellent work man