never a truer word said my friend,
ill get a pic update up tomorrow or sunday, these purple buds are dark purple almost black, guess it must be just the genes causing it, all my other plants in flower dont have any sign of purple at all and they have been getting the same cold night time temps, so clearly if its not in the genes then it wont turn purple, if they all turned purple then at least 1 of the other 4 strains in flower should be purple, but their not the buds look like normal none purple buds.
i had a nice suprise as well, the purple widow i planted seems to be an auto, i got 10 of these from herbies, came in breeder packet labeled purple widow regular, how ever his purple widow is short and bushy and is clearly in flower, i thought it was just showing sex but lights are on 18-6 and i take the plants out at night that i want to flower, so i take 4 plants out for the 12 hours of dark and leave the autos in the veg room,
none of the 4 plants taken out the grow room have turned purple, these get colder night time temps than the auto purple thats in flower and dark purple,
anyway back to the none auto purple widow, i thought this was just showing sex, i did not want to flower it but glad is was a fem, anyways over the last couple of days its started to flower and continued to flower under 18- 6, so either its an auto of some type or this purple widow flowers under 18-6, possible some breeding in its past came across an auto, either that or the breeder put the seeds in the wrong packet, so i got 9 left, ill be planting some more in a week or 2, then i can check if their auto as well, it would be nice to find out their auto and femenised, but i wont know till i plant some more,
im having problems with fungus gnats, i planted a northern lights auto a few days ago and nothing happened, i pulled the soil back slowly and came across the seed, all around it was these fungus gnats larvae, so i squashed them and dumped the soil, they was all around the seed the seed had opened but they had clearly ate the root and into the seed, the shell was empty and no sign of any seedling at all so they ate the lot the greedy basxxxds, didnt even give it a chance to grow, so they went in a plastic bag and dumped in the rubbish ive not seen many flying around but i did catch a load a couple of weeks ago, looks like these was the result of them flies, my other plants are big enough to cope but after these have flowered ill dump the soil and start again with a clean room, hopefully that will solve the problem, plus its winter so their wont be any flying around outside, so once i replace the soil i should be ok,
ill try and get caught up with everyones journals,