@St. Tom
Germ pic
Strains: Purps #1 and Purple Afgan Kush
Notes: Day 1 above ground (barely). Popped their heads from the jiffy starter, so I plunked them right into a 3 gallon RainScience Grow Bag filled with 60% coco and 40% hydroton.
Update #1
Strains: Purps #1 and Purple Afghan Kush
Day 11 above ground for both.
Notes: soaking up some good light from CobShop's AutoCobs. Have had two tiny drinks of Prescription Blend at the "Sprout" dilution mix. In these photos they are glistening from their daily misting. Journal is active, and listed in my Signature.
Update #2
Strains: Purps #1 and Purple Afghan Kush
Day 14 above ground for both.
Notes: Purps#1 is doing OK, though not totally truckin' with well formed leaves yet. But Purple Afghan Kush is dying off. So I'm dropping another seed as a replacement.
Update #3
Strains: Purps #1 and Purple Afghan Kush
Day 27 above ground for Purps #1.
Notes: Well, its been 12 days since my last photo update. The 1st P.Afghan Kush is virtually dead. The 2nd one, started at the last update, sprouted but then did not grow, instead it died within four days. So now we're dropping a 3rd; obviously, I really want to grow one of the Purple Afghan Kush plants.
Here is as far as the 2nd one got:
Here's the drop of the 3rd:
Meanwhile .... the Purps#1 is finally well settled in and doing beautifully. At 27 days I'm thinking of giving her a topping soon.
Update #4
Strain: Purps #1
Day 34 above ground
Notes: she seems to be doing quite well; good color, good growth, no visible anomalies. She got topped 3 days ago and handled it just fine.
Update #6
Strain: Purps #1
Day 40, week 6. Moved her out of the crowded tent and into a utility room under her own dedicated COB light. Enjoying the vegetative mix of Prescription Blend. Looking very healthy, Nice and bushy, but not much height stretch yet.
And, a week later, here we are at day 47, week 7. Big changes -- I removed the COB and moved her around so that I could activate my Amare SE450UVB light. This should get things going. Also, two days ago I performed a 2nd topping operation -- this time in 4 places among the secondary shoots. I can already see vertical development.
Yep, now we're cooking. Its another week .... day 56, week 8 and we're getting some descent stretch going. A little LST helps too.
Update #7
Strain: Purps #1
Day 68 (week 9) and oh boy are we now getting some nice action. A couple of days ago space opened up in a tent, so she's out of the utility room and now has a proper environment - also under the Amare SolarSpec SE450UVB light. Currently at about 23" height. Got another round of topping yesterday. Loving the Prescription Blend nutrients. :smoking:
Update #8
Strain: Purps #1
Day 78 (
week 10) Did a tiny bit of defoliating. Need to stop topping and open her open more for some vertical stretch before switching over to 12/12 light cycle. Overall, loving her development. :smoking:
By the way, my Update #6 (post # 115 on pg 12) documented 3 separate weeks of photos: week 6, 7, and 8. My Update #7 (post # 117 on pg 12) contained photos of week 9. Sorry that my Posting Updates and my documenting of each week of the grow do not align 1-for-1.
Update #9
Strain: Purps #1
Day 88 - she's now been on the 12/12 light schedule for 7 days, and today is clearly showing pre-flower development. You can see a bit of red duck-tape around white paper towel on the lower stalk -- that's a splint to address a bad split in the forked stalk due to me being too aggressive trying to tie open the branches with pipe-cleaners. Hope the triage works.
Meanwhile, I've removed all tie downs and instead installed my Atlas Plant Trainer stakes. That should provide support and some more gentle separation of the branches.
Update #12
Strain: Purps #1
Day 120 for Purps#1 -- and 39 days on the 12/12 cycle. Still got a couple of weeks to go.
but I can safely say the roots have reached the bottom 
