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I started this grow 94 days ago in northern California, and today saw the first solid sign of amber trichomes. Breeder said 80-100 days, so that's not so bad. Genetics were stabilized Lemon Haze, Ruderalis for autoflowering and dwarfism, and some sort of faddidling to reintroduce Haze genetics...

Agreed on the journal. I keep a 'strains' spreadsheet to track durations and outcomes for each plant, as well as a running narrative of nutrient applications and similar events.

Yeah, that's what puzzles me. How to tell the difference between a 'condition' that needs to be corrected (a deficiency or excess) and the plant just doing what it wants to do. The fact that you've grown in high sun without purpling suggests it's something in my technique. I only add nutrients...

I can't imagine why you thought I gave you a "thin-skinned" reply. I'd love to avoid pHing my water. My soil is a mix of my own invention, and I'm not sure it's able to buffer pH as you mention. As of this moment I've only ever harvested 6 plants, so I don't have lots of examples to compare...

Like I said, I'm new, and everybody says you need to pH your water, even for an outdoor grow. My tap water comes out about 8.8 and I've been taking it down to 6.5. You tell me this is maybe unnecessary? I've also read that the purple anthocyanins are a natural reaction to sunlight, a method...

The leaves are dark purple, but the buds have some of the color, too.

Could be, I suppose. We've been going about 62–80°F day/night.

It came from an eight of mixed budlets. It could have been anything.

Ok. . . . let's say it's phosphorous toxicity locking out the uptake of potassium. Then the reasonable thing to do would to flush with plain pHed water, no?

Hmm. I'll take that under advisement, although it seems unlikely. It's in dirt (my combo of organic potting soil, perlite, seeding soil, and extremely mild nutrients, applied once). All it gets is pHed water.

It's been yellowing leaf by leaf throughout the grow. Also, about four of the lower branches kind of punked out on me so I lopped 'em in favor of the more successful ones.

Ah, OK. So I still have no idea what I'll get. If the plant expands by a third from where it is now and fills out with buds, I will be very, very happy.

I also thought the 12-hour rule applied, although it certainly looks like it doesn't.

And this was an escapee from a professional grow operation in my town focused on productivity and not seed production. Maybe it's some sort of dwarf that they found convenient to grow. The fact that it flowered outdoors before the natural photoperiod has been reached (I'm guessing on this, of...

I have an Ultra Lemon Haze Auto growing in northern California at present, in a very sunny but protected spot. In response to the sun, the plant has gone deep purple, but is otherwise healthy as a horse. It's my opinion that purpling is no big deal, just the plant's natural reaction to abundant...

You think so? That would be great!

What's interesting to me is that it's so short, when I understand (not from experience) that sativas tend to get very large outdoors.

I was hoping it had a classic silhouette, or leaf proportion, or some such that would make the right expert stand up and say "Right! That's a [insert esoteric genetic pedigree here] . . ."

This is my first season as a grower, and in addition to the seeds I got from seed banks in Europe, I had a few that showed up in a couple of batches of budlets that I got from the local dispensary. Whether they were the result of an inadvertent fertilization or the plant doing a hermie, I did...

Hmm. I'll try to attune myself to the differences. I've only harvested 5 plants so far this season, and I don't think I've gotten any of them quite right.