Purple Kush

Yeah, it grows very compact in veg. This is actually a mother that stretched a bit so it was a lot less compact than the cuttings I took off it. Also, I'm pretty sure the genes aren't a "true" stabilized PK strain so yours might look different if you paid money for it from a breeder or co-op or something. My genes were just from a friend of a friend that was trying to make their breeding co's own PK strain by crossing OG Kush and a purple pheno and I'm pretty sure I just got a random grab of the seed lot.

that middle pic is beautiful....nice show!

7 full weeks of flower is tomorrow. From what I can tell from the trichs, they are about 75% cloudy, 10% clear, and 15% amber, so I am planning on harvesting tomorrow or the next day. The percentage of amber grew from two days ago. It seems early for it to be finished, as VapedG13 suggested 9-10 weeks finishing for PK, but I am pretty confident I know what I am looking at when I examine the trichs and I think it is ready. I also took a portion of the leaves from the top, middle, and lower branches, and it was relatively consistent, but with less amber on the lower sample.

Has anyone had any experience with plants finishing in only 7 weeks? I am pretty sure I read something somewhere that said high intensity light will make a plant mature faster, but can anyone confirm or deny this or have any experience with early finishing plants in general? I don't want to cut her too early and miss out.

Enjoy the pics, and hopefully someone can provide some insight! :jointsmile:

I say let it go one more week if you can...it will get even more funky. It does look close though...remember, they stop packing on more flowers in the last week or two normally and just swell up and thicken as well as produce more complex sugars and oils..."Candy Up" as I call it. At this point you better be flushing with pure water and letting the plant use up all the stored nitrogen..I would wait until the leaves fall off and go totally yellow then it will literally be like candy and get even more purple. This is on the very early side of being done from what I can see in the pics, don't always just go by pistil color. Your plants do still have alot of "green" in them. Now as far as fast strains go..remember, there are old shishkaberry strains out there and hash plant clones that are done in 5 1/2 to 6 weeks..and I mean DONE DONE DONE. I saw a grow one time where my buddy flowered a whole room in 35 days with the old spice of life shishka's..and it was really funky and totally swollen, stacked out tower calyx's on the bud ends and everything caked in white crystals that were like little mushrooms. Very early fast strains do exist and with Co2 early in flower and lots of light, water, & good nutes with good temps and the right humidity levels you can normally shave a week off most "normal" flowering times. The fastest strain based on all factors I ever saw with the highest yield, best looking buds, and most soaring potency was "Shit" by Mr. Nice in a flat 6 weeks...that stuff is scary strong and grows like a madman. I'm talking big silvery glistening donkey dicks of it in 6 wks that smelled like rotten juicy fruit & skunk ass mixed together with a turd in jet fuel. lol

So what does this purple yum yum you have going smell like?

I started flushing 2 days ago when I noticed all the trichs were cloudy. I decided to flush with RO water and 200 PPM of Sweet additive. The smell is piney with a skunky undertone, and has kind of a flowery perfume scent. The last one I grew smelled like skunk and flowers, but didn't have any pine smell like this one.

What do you think about the maturity of the trichomes? I never go by the pistil color only, but the fact that they are mostly orange coupled with the progressive amber trich coloring makes me think it is done. Plus, the buds have been getting really fat over the past three weeks or so, but the growth has slowed considerably over the last week. But I have only grown Master Kush, that has usually finished in about 53 days or so. I have also noticed a couple little naners growing out of the main cola.

So what do you think about the trich color? I prefer the clear headed euphoric high vs the knock down drag out stone effect, so I don't want to let it go too long, but I don't wanna cut it early either. Decisions, decisions... :jointsmile:

cut off the main cola and let the side branches keep going...see what happens ;)

alot of times with a indica plant/strain when you cut off the main cola it will shock the plant for a week or so...IMO

Alright, so I decided to cut it down today. :thumbsup: I examined the trichs from all over the plant one last time and they all still said ripe so I went for it. I think I should get a pretty good yield, lots of nice fat buds. :jointsmile: Will update with the final weight once they are dry! :hippy:

i cant wait, they look excellent by the way

Well, I ended up with just a hair under 2 oz. The stuff is SUPER potent, covered in crystals, and tastes like piney flower purfume. I also got about a gram of so of fairly low grade "gumby hash" from the trimmings.

In hindsight, I probably could have left it another week to fill out a bit more and could have ended up with more weight, but I really just wanted to harvest before my friends got to town for the upcoming holiday. :jointsmile:

Next time, I am gonna try not to burn up the leaves in the first two weeks and also plan on letting it go 8 weeks and I think it will be an even more positive outcome.

I hope you all enjoyed my log. Cheers until the fall! :jointsmile: