greenbehemoth
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
Well here is my often promised but long overdue grow journal for my Purple Power plants. I have called this journal First Grow Outdoor UK - "Phase II" as although my Cinammon plants had a couple of weeks head start, I'm treating the whole grow as one. I'll keep the journals separate though to avoid any confusion (on my part that is LOL). OK, so what am I growing this time:
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 (they are feminized seeds), and supplied by salviaonline.co.uk. I can heartily recommend both companies by the way, especially salviaonline.co.uk for their excellent, speedy and friendly / helpful service. 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."
Worried I have left it VERY late, but Jim at salviaonline assures me there is plenty of time. I think I mentioned this in my other grow journal, but I have seen these seeds advertised on another website which states that they were specially produced to react to low intensity light, and that they happily flower in the shade or under fluorescent lights. Given the state of our weather, I hope they're right.
Soil Mix
My soil mix is the same as I'm now using for my Cinammon plants, ie professional compost (which contains nutrients and trace elements - NOT Miracle Grow) with about 20 to 25 per cent perlite.
Germination
As usual I simply popped the seeds straight into the soil, about couple of millimetres down, covered, watered lightly and four days later all four seedlings emerged.
Light etc
With my Cinammon plants I had them under fluorescent lights 24/7 for the first four or five days; then outside sun during the day / fluorescent lights by night for another four or five days; and thereafter outside 24/7.
This time I put the Purple Power outside 24/7 a day after they emerged (the weather was super, so I reckoned they'd be fine).
Progress To Date
Although the seedlings look healthy, and have not stretched nearly as much as my Cinammon did in the first week, growth was much slower for the first few days. I put this down to at least one, but possibly two factors:
1. The seedlings were outside from about day 2 and, therefore, didn't get the benefit of the fluorescent lights by night; and
2. This is only a possibility - the Cinammon seedlings were reared in Miracle Grow Moisture Control compost. Could this have helped them on their way? I don't know, but I certainly would have concerns about using Miracle Grow for the entire grow, hence why I changed it for a more basic but quality compost.
Current Position
I have now changed my tactics and bring the Purple Power seedlings in under fluorescent lights at night and they are beginning to catch up. I reckon I'll keep doing this and maybe even rig up a few lights somewhere so I can continue to make sure they get as much light as possible until they are ready to flower. Remember, they will likely flower early, and have a short flowering period, so I want to get them as big as possible before that happens given how late in the year it's getting now. A few pics just to let you see how they look:
Pic 1 - 5 Days
Sorry this one's a bit dark, but you can see the variation in the seedlings here - the one in the right foreground has a purple stem whereas the others are green.
Pic 2 - 7 Days
Pic 3 - 7 Days
The brown areas on some of the leaves is just a bit of soil dust that blew in from the field next door presumably (I heard the tractor a while ago). I'll wipe it off later ...
BTW, I rubbed a couple of the leaves today and the smell left on my fingers was absolutely beautiful, like a sweet grapefruit. I really hope these work out - if the buds are anything like that ... WOW, can't wait LOL.
Anyway, hope this has been of some interest. As usual, grateful for your comments. Speak to you later ...
greenb.
Well here is my often promised but long overdue grow journal for my Purple Power plants. I have called this journal First Grow Outdoor UK - "Phase II" as although my Cinammon plants had a couple of weeks head start, I'm treating the whole grow as one. I'll keep the journals separate though to avoid any confusion (on my part that is LOL). OK, so what am I growing this time:
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 (they are feminized seeds), and supplied by salviaonline.co.uk. I can heartily recommend both companies by the way, especially salviaonline.co.uk for their excellent, speedy and friendly / helpful service. 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."
Worried I have left it VERY late, but Jim at salviaonline assures me there is plenty of time. I think I mentioned this in my other grow journal, but I have seen these seeds advertised on another website which states that they were specially produced to react to low intensity light, and that they happily flower in the shade or under fluorescent lights. Given the state of our weather, I hope they're right.
Soil Mix
My soil mix is the same as I'm now using for my Cinammon plants, ie professional compost (which contains nutrients and trace elements - NOT Miracle Grow) with about 20 to 25 per cent perlite.
Germination
As usual I simply popped the seeds straight into the soil, about couple of millimetres down, covered, watered lightly and four days later all four seedlings emerged.
Light etc
With my Cinammon plants I had them under fluorescent lights 24/7 for the first four or five days; then outside sun during the day / fluorescent lights by night for another four or five days; and thereafter outside 24/7.
This time I put the Purple Power outside 24/7 a day after they emerged (the weather was super, so I reckoned they'd be fine).
Progress To Date
Although the seedlings look healthy, and have not stretched nearly as much as my Cinammon did in the first week, growth was much slower for the first few days. I put this down to at least one, but possibly two factors:
1. The seedlings were outside from about day 2 and, therefore, didn't get the benefit of the fluorescent lights by night; and
2. This is only a possibility - the Cinammon seedlings were reared in Miracle Grow Moisture Control compost. Could this have helped them on their way? I don't know, but I certainly would have concerns about using Miracle Grow for the entire grow, hence why I changed it for a more basic but quality compost.
Current Position
I have now changed my tactics and bring the Purple Power seedlings in under fluorescent lights at night and they are beginning to catch up. I reckon I'll keep doing this and maybe even rig up a few lights somewhere so I can continue to make sure they get as much light as possible until they are ready to flower. Remember, they will likely flower early, and have a short flowering period, so I want to get them as big as possible before that happens given how late in the year it's getting now. A few pics just to let you see how they look:
Pic 1 - 5 Days
Sorry this one's a bit dark, but you can see the variation in the seedlings here - the one in the right foreground has a purple stem whereas the others are green.
Pic 2 - 7 Days
Pic 3 - 7 Days
The brown areas on some of the leaves is just a bit of soil dust that blew in from the field next door presumably (I heard the tractor a while ago). I'll wipe it off later ...
BTW, I rubbed a couple of the leaves today and the smell left on my fingers was absolutely beautiful, like a sweet grapefruit. I really hope these work out - if the buds are anything like that ... WOW, can't wait LOL.
Anyway, hope this has been of some interest. As usual, grateful for your comments. Speak to you later ...
greenb.
