Hi all, at last I'm doing an update. This thread sort of died a death as I got way too lazy and concentrated too much on my Cinammons, and then I disappeared for like a month, so sorry about that. I don't have a lot of pics of these Purple Power plants, so I'm afraid you will just get a very brief flavour of what they've been doing over the last five or six weeks or so.
First a bit about the plants. 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. At least I think they're all girls. Pretty sure about three of them, the next couple of days should confirm the fourth - I think I can see white pistils starting to emerge from the little sacs so fingers crossed.
OK, now for the pics. Sorry the quality isn't great on most of these. The first one shows them beside the Cinammons at about five weeks. You can just about see how barren they are on the foliage front. They looked pretty dire to be honest. The second pic shows them at about seven weeks and you can see that they have started to grow upwards and the foliage is starting to fill in. The third pic, one of my night specials, was about one week ago, age eight weeks. And the last pic was taken today, age about nine weeks. The three tall ones are about 57 inches, the fouth a few inches less. At last they are starting to look like something, just not sure what yet.
Hope this hasn't been too disappointing. If nothing else at least it proves I haven't thrown the towel in and smoked them LOL. Thanks for looking
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