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So one of my keeper's (B) smelled soo good, IN VEG.. YES IN VEG!
I couldn't believe it but yes there it was a soft Grapey Skunky aroma FLowing through the leaves of my girl as I work her soil around at about 1.5 months of veg as a seedling... i shouldn't really call her a seedling, because she was a nice short stocky gal by that time, in a 2 gallon square white pot, I had topped her already a couple times, as soon as I seen the litlle pistils(female sighns)... I topped her... and she reacted... Well, she became a young lady at that point and started to really show her beauty, ; )).
the other one was lil more lanky not smelly like the B, but still very pretty...
soon after topping them the second time I stared taking cut's and got enough to fill a 3 x 6 tray in the FLower room, so on with the making of a Solid girl out of her I went...
I find that if we transplant the seedlings or clones when needed, they seem to explode when they establish(usually about 4-5 days after initial transp.), I try to do this wiht all my purples, transplant transplant etc etc about three times in a single Veg-bloom period... And they love it,... Topping very much ups your yields gtreatly, I always hear about folks complaining about not getting enough yield from Purples and such, and after seeing their full plants or pics, i know exactly why they aren't getting the yield...
their canopy has too many holes in it, a candelabra shaped plant is better with purples than the Strong central cola, and minimal side branching, (Querkle has good branching though in comparison to the purples we usually see, a very good trait too) ytou want to instead bush her out as much as possible, keep her level with all the other gals in the room and then before switching to 12/12, pruning her strong on the bottom..
EX... if you have a 30"-36" bush, you will clean the bottom 10 -12 inches off of the plant... I do this because the cannopy is so thick by the time you are in week 3 of flower that light doesn't ever reach the bottom 1/3 of the plant...... i run my hoods about 20"-24" above the canopy, and it usually only give quality nugs about 2ft down the tall of the plant... The first(top) 15"-20" is all Dank Grade A+ nugs and the rest of the nugs arer still around the A to A- grade... atleast that is the way i look at this subject .. LOL
and of course this goes out for most of the Cali Purples out here..
the ROYAL QUERKLE though is a lil more opened up in structure and gives a better chance of light to the center of the plant, but i still top like crazy, bend like crazy and bush them babies out as much as i can...
Some one once asked that :
"Why would I veg a plant to 3 ft and then just take the bottom foot off before flowering?"
and I answer: "
i Could easily do that, but the Purple plant doesn't give out the amount of tops i am looking for by the time it is 2 ft, of course I would do that if I could, but it just won't have the amount of tops on it by the time it is 2 ft, no matter how much i do, maybe tring LST would help, but I hand water most of the time and LST is a biotch when hand watering(at least it was for me)...
So therefore I have to let her keep going to 3ft (about) before flipping her and pruning her to get the amount of tops i need to make things worth while with a Purple...":smiley_joint:
Note: Purples in general have always been pretty happy with more FOod IMHO...
So to help the Veg speed more, I always like to push them harder than the other's in the room...
I use
Botanicare PBP Soil Formula...
During veg(once well established whether in the 1 gallons or the 5 gallon bags) i give them:
15-20 mL's of the GROW(i'm sure you can use any of the grows out there, I just use PBP)
and the Karma the Cal mag at regular rates...
with added Nitrogen by way of "Natures Nectar"... or Organicare, but I like the Natures Nectar better...
Reason I use these is because they are OMRI listed Fully Organic Nutes, and the bottle contains just pure Nitrogen in regards to Nutrient Value... ;))
And by using the Pure Organic Nitrogen (at half the dose, mixed with the PBP GROW at regular dose) i am adding more Nitrogen, but in Organic form, as to keep from burning the plants if for some reason it ends up being too much, BUT, i hjave NEVER BURNED any of my Purple girls doing this....
That speeds them up, you might at times get a little stretching, but just a little, but over all it has made vegging the Purple Gals easier...
Novel by LOL....... DUB:whew
