OK we're pretty solidly into the grow now at Day 14. Truth be told I expected this to green up, but I'm getting a bit excited now because every leaf is pretty well identical with regard to the slight mottling of green on a pale yellow. Compared to every other one of these beans I've grown it is as healthy and vigorous and as developed as any of them. I could top this now at day 14 at the fourth node if I wanted, but I've decided to let this one grow out in her normal form. I usually cut a couple of leaves off at this stage to get more light into the lower leaves because it's a pretty broad leafed plant. However an interesting effect of this pale leaf trick is that the leaves still transmit a fair bit of greenish light to the lower branches.
Today I mixed up a pretty N rich soup consisting of 2 parts Micro, 2 parts Grow, and 1 part Bloom, That works out to an NPK ratio of 14:7:18 or 2:1:2andabit. ppm is about 1500. That's using the GP3 calculator, which looks pretty good to me. Maybe this plant needs a different mix, but since I don't have a clue about what's going on and so far she's healthy I may as well stick with standard nute ratios.
I'm getting excited now to see what happens because this is usually a very dark skinned plant and then the dark purple kicks in during flower, so what will happen to that. When she just burst out of the seed you could see the leaves were red on the edges so she still has the purple genes in there. So how will she manifest, interestingly although blackberry is packed with trichomes they are hard to see because she's so dark, which is why I'm excited for this to genuinely be a mutation.
The leaves look darker when viewing them backlighted than they do from the top which is the opposite of normal.
Today I mixed up a pretty N rich soup consisting of 2 parts Micro, 2 parts Grow, and 1 part Bloom, That works out to an NPK ratio of 14:7:18 or 2:1:2andabit. ppm is about 1500. That's using the GP3 calculator, which looks pretty good to me. Maybe this plant needs a different mix, but since I don't have a clue about what's going on and so far she's healthy I may as well stick with standard nute ratios.
I'm getting excited now to see what happens because this is usually a very dark skinned plant and then the dark purple kicks in during flower, so what will happen to that. When she just burst out of the seed you could see the leaves were red on the edges so she still has the purple genes in there. So how will she manifest, interestingly although blackberry is packed with trichomes they are hard to see because she's so dark, which is why I'm excited for this to genuinely be a mutation.
The leaves look darker when viewing them backlighted than they do from the top which is the opposite of normal.
