Canachris
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is this legit ? I thought color was caused by genetics
Purpinator?
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zigzagman1960
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Snake oil
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Canachris
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ha... I thought so, back in the day I went thru quite few packs of zigzags. they were small but I had no problem with em. most of my friends preferred easy widers but they were like smoking cardboard
zigzagman1960
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Anything with made up names and silly cartoons on their labels are no better than less expensive tried and true fertilizers such as Shultz or Jacks. Go to the nursery and pick something good for tomatoes. Calcium and magnesium is always good to have in your tool box too. But the “specially formulated for bigger buds” and all the other nonsense is marketing.If you are lucky enough to get a purple phenotype in a batch of purple seeds-good for you, but keep the green ones green till the chop, don’t try to turn it colors.
I just read the web page and it says it aids in purple colors for plants that are already genetically predisposed to show that color. And it is a fertilizer or nutrient mix so some of the active ingredients might already be on your shelf. Maintain a standard feeding and dosage schedule and if the plant has the right genetics it should show more purple and possibly a deeper shade of purple.
One web site I looked at mentioned that potassium was one of the major components for the stuff. That might be a place to start.
if you want colours drop your night temps.
a consistent 8c or under at night will pull colours like crazy if it's genetically inclined. will get some even if it isn't. daytime temps have to be in proper growing range though. if it remains cool the plant stalls out.
i grew loads in heat challenged spaces. the lighting used to supply the majority in several grows. lights out got cold.
a consistent 8c or under at night will pull colours like crazy if it's genetically inclined. will get some even if it isn't. daytime temps have to be in proper growing range though. if it remains cool the plant stalls out.
i grew loads in heat challenged spaces. the lighting used to supply the majority in several grows. lights out got cold.
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Canachris
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my last grow endured very cold nights an age produced very pretty purple buds, most of my plants that I have grown between October an April have to deal with cold nights and I get purple stems. not buds tho. I'll have to look into the genitcs of the GG/platinum Kush and see if either has purple tendincy.
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Canachris
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Fu**in auto correct, excuse my typosmy last grow endured very cold nights an age produced very pretty purple buds, most of my plants that I have grown between October an April have to deal with cold nights and I get purple stems. not buds tho. I'll have to look into the genitcs of the GG/platinum Kush and see if either has purple tendincy.
My outdoor plants will pick up a purple color towards the end. Yes, it gets cold around here after mid-October on through to December. Purple stems start well before that.
It is my indoor plants, grown in the same size containers with the same basic soil mix that will show a lot of purple in and near the buds by harvest time. Actually they show even more purple color. The purple stems start showing up while the plants are still in their vegetative stage.
The photos are from a recently harvested plant and were taken just a week to 10 days before harvest . That plant had purple stems and leaf petioles but the leaves themselves did not start to change color until about 4 weeks before harvest. I would go downstairs and check the night time temperatures in the basement room and then in the tent several times and during those checks it never was below 65F. I really think that the purple leaf color is more a sign of the plant shutting down and showing its 'autumn colors' rather than a sign that the temperatures were too cold.
It is possible that using the Purpinator is an easy way to get some size increase in buds and get more of the purple color. Since I am working out a feeding schedule already I will stick to what I have going and keep tracking purple leaf color and save the money. I have nothing against the Purpinator or rich, deep purple colors. If my method produces some bonus colors then it is not broke so why fix it.
Blurple LED light turned off. The T5 LED tubes were left on and approx 1/3 of the diodes are red. Camera is a point and shoot Lumix.This photo taken 10 days before harvest.....
Same lighting conditions, camera, etc. It is a different bud from the same plant. Photo taken 5 days before flower.
I have another clone of a different strain in the flowering tent now and it is under the same basic nutrient schedule. If I remember I will take a photo of the bud leaf colors before harvest.
marcus611a
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About time somebody agreed with me. In my experience using that on many different plants it does not work you can't make a plant turn color if it's not going to....
i think it attempts to boost some of the naturally occurring compounds that come with cooler temps. beyond that it is a decent mild pk boost, which is how i would treat it.
Purple is a genetic trait from my growing experience. As are all the other colors.
Save your money.... if you want purple and/or black you need the seed.
I grow them regular.
Save your money.... if you want purple and/or black you need the seed.
I grow them regular.
I made my own seeds - I've got a strain that is extremely temperamental but goes almost black. First go I got a lot of seeds now on the 3rd round and a lot less to almost no seeds.
Good weed even when she was seeded.
Purps I think comes from Indica from the colder regions like Nepal that area.
We can lower the temps at night but that just turns the fans purple after trim everything is green again. I like it when the nugs are mostly purple with a tinge of lime green mixed in and it smells like gassy fruit. yummmy... Those plants in the pics my last past smell like watermelon and gas.
Good weed even when she was seeded.
Purps I think comes from Indica from the colder regions like Nepal that area.
We can lower the temps at night but that just turns the fans purple after trim everything is green again. I like it when the nugs are mostly purple with a tinge of lime green mixed in and it smells like gassy fruit. yummmy... Those plants in the pics my last past smell like watermelon and gas.
Here's what I found but could not verify on the ingredients:
"Potassium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Monopotassium Sulfate"
"Potassium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Monopotassium Sulfate"
On one of the websites I looked at for info on Purpinator the writer said it was a Potassium heavy fertilizer.
Fox Farm has their trio of 'finishers' and the ChaChing is used the last 4 weeks of flower and it is a 0-0-50 if I remember right.
Interesting for those who have gardening as either a full or part-time hobby can come up with their own Purple-Plant blend. Those who just want to grow something that has purple in it can buy an extra product. There is room for both groups.
Bigjake8
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I've tried a bottle of it and got a very slight tint on my blue cookies and crown Royale but nothing noticeable on my lsd was gonna get another bottle but they raised the price 10 bucks over terminator so I passed
Stopped by a grow store yesterday and those are the only 3 ingredients listed on the bottle if I remember right. Forgot to take a picture.
Checked the MSDS sheet on the Purpinator web site and they are listed there. Cannot find a large enough on-line photo of the front of the bottle to show the amounts of every nutrient, and salt, listed but the N-P-K is 0-2-4.
Pulled a gallon bottle off the shelf at a HTG store in lower Macomb County and took a picture of the front. It did not come out very well at all but I can sit here and read enough to come up with:
Available Phosphoric Acid........ 2.0%
Soluble Potash........................... 4.0%
Soluble Magnesium................... 0.5%
Sulfur........................................... 1.0%
1% Combined Sulfur
All of those are already found in the fertilizer mixes I am using.
Looking at the Purpinator web page I found the info inside the quotes below. Notice the companies mention of needing lights in a specific range. Not only does the grower need a plant that already has a predisposition to show purple but they also need the right lights.
Available Phosphoric Acid........ 2.0%
Soluble Potash........................... 4.0%
Soluble Magnesium................... 0.5%
Sulfur........................................... 1.0%
1% Combined Sulfur
All of those are already found in the fertilizer mixes I am using.
Looking at the Purpinator web page I found the info inside the quotes below. Notice the companies mention of needing lights in a specific range. Not only does the grower need a plant that already has a predisposition to show purple but they also need the right lights.
