Purple Wreck and Bubblicious girls girls girls

Well after my first 6 plants out of bag seed all turned out to be boys I am happy as a pig in shit! I ordered seeds on 8/3 and they arrived on 8/7. I started seeds on 8/8 and had sprouts ready to plant by 8/12. Started with 2 low Ryder (both boys), 3 wreck(1 girl), and 3 bubblicious(2 girls). Of the 3 girsl 1 bubble and 1 wreck are in hydro and 1 bubble is in soil. Lighting is 2 sunblaze 24 with mixed red and blue bulbs and 2 side flourescent. I think my total lumens is 12,000 using only 150 watts. The soil is equal parts scotts patio, spagnum moss, perilite, and sand. The fertilizer is fox grow big, big bloom, and tiger bloom. I had lights on 24/7 for the first 2 weeks and then 18 6 for another week. I went to 12/12 to start the flowering on 9/4 at 3 weeks. The boys all showed quickly and the bubble girls showed in 7-8 days while the Wreck girl just showed today :clap:. The 2 in the hydro are both real nice with multiple branching. The bubble in hydro has 20 prominant branches with many secondary branches forming. The wreck top fan leaves have 13 leaf tips compared to 9 for the bubble. The bubble hydro is 23 inches and the wreck hydro is 19 inches.

I have some pictures but it says I can not post attachments?

Correction the flourescents I am running total 250 watts and 12,500 lumens. Hopefully I can post pictures for you guys soon the 2 hydro plants are huge and I know alot of people are interested in the purple wreck.

The bubble is the hydro plant on the right and the purple wreck is the hydro on the left. The bubble is flowering like crazy. The bubble in the back is in soil and is tall but way behind the hydros in branch growth.

When I decided to start growing my goal was to put together a complete low cost system that would not consume gobs of electricity. Initially I wanted the capability to clone and have enough light to flower 4-6 plants with good yields. I actually got everything but the soil mix from ebay sellers. My total cost so far not counting electricity is $685. The only things I want to add are 2 more sunblaze 24 so that I can have the ability to do seperate growth and flowering. The sunblaze 24 with 4 mixed blue/red bulbs are $100 each. Also I am going to make a ventilation system for flowering.
Here is everything I got;

• 2 Sunblaze 24 CFL
• 3 small 24 watt cfl
• 2 4 plant hydro deep water tanks
• clonex cloning solution
• 1 sheet rock wool starter cubes
• 2 duel outlet pumps
• 4 air stones
• 16 lbs hydroton grow media
• 1 each spagnum moss, peters soil, sand, perilite
• PH test strips
• 1 each 32 oz Fox Grow Bib, Big Bloom, Tiger Bloom
• Seeds 13 purple Wreck, 10 Bubblicious, 5 Low Ryder #2

Today I did 4 clones, 2 purple wreck and 2 bubblicious. I used rockwell cubes, clonex and the the mixed media soil. I used the small lower branches that had not started flowering yet. Then I removed all the lower leaves from the cuttings and did 45 cuts just below where the lower leaves were removed. Then I opened up the rockwool cube so the stem could slide down in. I coated the openings with clonex and then dipped each cutting stem in the clonex and inserted into the rockwell cube. I placed the cubes fully into the mixed soil and have them under 1 24 watt cfl. Hopefully this works out ok and I get 4 nice female plants.

All 3 plants are now flowering like crazy. A couple things of note are with 2 solid weeks on big gloom and tiger bloom yesterday I added grow big fertilizer back in. I am giving them 50% more than the Fox recomendations and they seem to love it. The hydro girls are so thirsty that I am adding 1/2 gallon every 2 days.

If you look in the first pic (posted on 9/18),of the 3 plants you can see strings attached to the top of the bubble girl in soil. I bent the top over about 4 inches down till it could not support itself. It only took a day and it is back up and twine removed. I am hoping it will slow down this ones very rapid top growth.

woops each sunblaze 24 is 8000 lumens and the side cfl's are each 2,000 lumens so my total lumens is about 22,000. i musta been too :stoned: figuring that out before lol.

I was only expecting to get maybe 1 ounce per plant. Now that I am seeing how quickly the hydros are flowering and gowing I am starting to wonder if I will get more? Also wondering if I should do any trimming now or just let them grow as they are?

I got kush to try yesterday and in it was one very funky seed inside one bud. It was the only seed in the bag, The seed has gray and black equal size stripes on it. The kush had a citrus aftertaste and was really good.

Since my last post all 3 plants have gotten alot of crystals and are starting to get real stickey. Fortunately I have had no health issues and just did a complete water change in the hydro container(the first). All the trichomes are white with the exception of the big top bud on the soil bubble plant which is starting to get cloudy. The bubble and purple wreck hydro are flowering well down all the branch nodes. The bubble hydro is 35 inches and the purple wreck hydro is 27 inches. The purple wreck is starting to show purple in the top. Also 4 of the 5 clones I did have finally started to root, the 5th did not make it. While the 4 gallon hydro may be bit small I have not had any issues and am really pleased with the results so far. I am almost through the 1 quart tiger bloom and will need to order some more of it but the grow big and big bloom will easily have enough for my clone grow. Hopefully my nooby luck holds for the next 3-4 weeks :smokin:

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It's looking really nice m8. Also nice to see another Swede. :)

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wow they all look great.:thumbsup:

Nice grow going on! Excited to c results, keep up the good work and everything will go great.

Also, thats the first 13 tip fan leaf ive seen. GLORIOUS!

Lookin good baggs.
You're gonna love that PurpWreck... I just finished growing one of those out and it's magnificent smoke. :D

Thanks to Puff, Hydro, Medi and Dooob for stopping in. I am really looking forward to finishing these being my first grow. I have been reading that the purple wreck may take longer to finish than the bubble and thanks for letting me know how good your purple was Dooob.

I am wondering if bending the top of the soil bubble right when it started flowering contirbuted to the large top bud. I have no idea myself, but the upward growth did stop on that one and the top bud is just huge allready. The spoon in the picture is 1 1/2 inch accross

I am having a hard time fighting the urge to cut one of the buds and try it but will wait for the.....:bigsmoke:

good luck bagsend......i wanna grow the PW soooo bad.....one day maybe, but good luck....dooobster PW was awesome....im sure he will have plenty of advice throught this grow! :)

First I realized that the soil plant I have is not a Bubblicious but a Purplewreck. So I have 1 bubble hydro and 1 each of purple wreck soil and hydro.

I got a little lighted microscope yesterday 60-120 power. On the soil purplewreck the large bud on top is starting to get some amber trichomes. Right now it is mostly 1/2 clear and 1/2 cloudy with just a few amber scatered in. The lower buds on the plant are mostly clear with a few cloudy. Both the hydro plants are all clear.

Should I cut just the top bud and let the rest of the buds grow or should I let the top bud grow, what should I do?

To be more descriptive the trichomes look like they have a ball at the end. When I look at a magnified area of say 30 trichommes I see 4 or 5 that the ball of the trichome has turned amber while the lower stem part of the trichome is cloudy. Again this is only on the big top bud of the soil plant and I am wondering if I can take just the top bud?

All 3 plants are doing great. Bud growth was very rapid the last 7 days
A few of the significant events this week

bubble hydro lost 6 or 7 fan leaves
bubble hydro top cola is 13 inches long of almost solid bud now
purple wreck are developing very dense buds
soil wreck buds are getting alot of red/brown hairs
soil wreck is getting some amber trichomes


I harvested 1 middle bud from the soil wreck and it weighed 1.4 grams wet and did a slow dry in the convection oven at 130 degrees. The bud was so resinous that it smoked like hash in the pipe and was green tasting but a Crazy Good head high. Based on the weight of that bud the plant should be 30-35 grams wet right now. Based on this I am flushing and will harvest this one next Sunday at 45 days flowering. The hydro are not even close and will be 3-4 more weeks.

All 3 of these plants were put on 12/12 flowering very quickly. The soil plant was very small on 9/04 when I started the 12/12 cycle and I am wondering if this contributed to its fast finish? Pictured next to a large banana this bud is BIG for this short time. I am so happy I found this site and got all the information to do this!

After looking at the trichomes again this morning I decided to harvest just the top and let the rest of the plant go one more week. This is the soil plant that I have been confused about what it is. It smells totally different than either of the other plants. It has a strong citrus lemony smell, the hairs are orange and the look of the bud and small leaves is yellowish. I am wondering if the seed bank threw in a few seeds of another varity because I only ordered 10 purple wreck but it came with 13 seeds. Also it has developed so much faster than either of the hydro plants. If anyone has any idea what it may be I would love to hear it?
I am just going to call it the mystery plant from now on. The top weighed in at a whopping 15.5 grams.:dance:

they are most likely all purple wrecks i have been growing pw for a year now and i still have four diff mothers i still cant chose the best one is more sativa 9 weeks and leaans toward trainwreck lemony head high one inishes in 7 weeks little smell but couchlock high one turns purple stays short and smells like candy 8 weeks. the other is the heaviest yeild done in 8 they seem to vary a little have fun