Outdoor Update: Plants are really starting to pick up their growth pace. Having this log is enjoyable as I can easily go back ten days and see how much they’ve grown. Gave them a good defoliation a few days ago, and they loved it!
Indoor Update:
Starting to look at the trichomes as they are 9 weeks after flip. Think they have a week or a bit more to go, but my chop finger is starting to get itchy.
Thanks for hooking it up @Oldtimerunderground. Fun surprise seeing that purple kush cross in there! I only have great memories of smoking purple kush years ago.
You’re most welcome 
Thank you bro 
Indoor Update:
Harvested the Pura Vida F2 today. @nube thank you for helping these genetics reach me. It feels good to have finished a plant created within the OG community. I took her to 70 days from flip, and she had all cloudy with a sprinkling of amber trichs. I found a handful of seeds on her lowers, but overall it doesn’t seem to be too far widespread. I believe that it was user error. My tent’s zipper really isn’t lightproof, and this was the plant right in front of the zipper. Once I taped up the tent, I did not see any further evidence of herm. Smoking a bit of finger hash now, and it’s a very deep, relaxing body high, with a clearish head which feels pretty therapeutic after the long week. Can’t wait to cure her up and try her for real. I can put together a grow/smoke report from the formatting I’ve seen here around the site and post it in the Pura Vida Co-Op thread once she is all cured up if you like? I’m new to trying to grow fully organically, and I don’t think I really reached her full potential as I had some struggles with my soil, and had to change up what I was using mid veg, but it was a lesson learned in trying to recycle and re-amend my own soil. I ended up transplanting her to fox farms ocean forest, and that helped a lot. Next time way less dry amendment when amending, and maybe I can complete a truly 100% organic input grow. Thanks for reading.
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!Nice grow! I’d prune the insides out more before bud. All inward facing fans. I’d make them pretty naked. Get that air flowing!
Meant to tell you we get moths and caterpillars every month of the year in So Cal except December. Just an fyi
Hi @Meesh Thank You! I really appreciate that! Any advice I can get from you I will take! I gave them all a modest haircut yesterday, but I always feel so conflicted hacking away at them. In my head I know they like it, and it’s good for them, but it still scares me. I’ll take your advice, and really go at them in the next couple of days. I did actually re-home the Zkittlez and the Norge today to my girlfriends place, which is 10 miles inland. This should reduce the humidity factor a bit.
And yeah, the caterpillars are my mortal enemy. They come after my vegetables with a vengeance too. I’m often too lazy to spray every plant I have going with BT, and usually just stick to the MJ. My poor mint plant has been destroyed in the past week. Thankfully it’s indestructible, as I’ve had it for about four years, and it can completely go brown, and then a month later come back strong.
I used to be such a reluctant pruner. That’s where growing a practice plant is helpful. That’s what I did last year to hone my pruning skills. Once you see the results, you get over it fast. You should be able to see through those girls. Seriously, hack away. I would get rid of any lower branches and any inside node growth as it won’t get sun anyway, and larf from the bottom is crap. The goal is to remove anything that’s gonna be crap and direct the plants energy to the outside and top of the plant.
That’s a great idea. Having one set aside and not being invested in it’s outcome to experiment on would be so educational.
I had zero invested in last year’s practice plant, that sucker turned out so bomb! I’m actually puffing on it now as we speak. A Bruce Banger, turned out I really dig 50/50 hybrids. I had it in a 10 gallon along with a Spectral Tangerine in a 10 gallon. Pruned the shit outta the practice plant and supercropped it. The Spectral was bigger, but yielded 1/3 of what the practice plant did without the pruning.
Edit- Wait, I lied. Bruce was last week. This week I’m puffing on Blue Gelato 41
That’s awesome. Maybe I should take my weakest plant, and do the same. One of my Norge’s is a little smaller than the rest and just hasn’t bushed out. Norge should be strongly indica dominant, so I could be doing myself a favor pushing one more than I’m comfortable with.
You got nothing to lose but larf, homie!! Do IT! You won’t be disappointed!
I’ll take a pic of one of my girls tmw so you can see under her skirt…
Please do. A guide will help me from skimping.
I actually did a video last year of me pruning the practice plant. It’s somewhere on my 2020 grow log. I’m assuming sometime in July. If I can find it, I’ll throw it on my log again for this year.
Hey man, that looks like a happy harvest to me! Especially for your first try at organics. 
You did a great job with one of the small phenos, similar to my pheno #1 from the thread. 
If you’re interested in growing more of those F2 seeds, the taller phenos are quite a bit different so look for those. If you love the pheno you found, try growing out the seeds you harvested and just watch them real close for signs of gender fluidity.
I think it’s really cool you want to do a grow/smoke report. 
Everybody will appreciate it! I found the PV changes and grows in complexity a lot during cure, moreso than some other strains, so you might give it a few weeks of sampling and reflection before reporting. I’m excited to hear how it turned out.
What are you thinking with a 100% organic input grow? You gonna mix your own soil from a recipe?
Thank you! I’ll definitely give it a good cure time to see where it finally lands before putting together a report. In terms of the organic input grow, I think I would like to do my own mixing. I’ve been working on building the inputs at home myself. I have a compost bin that after a few years with only one or two users has really started breaking down material more quickly, and a worm bin. I figure I can use some of my soil from previous grows, amended with buildasoil’s craft blend dry amendment, my castings, and compost. I guess if I’m recycling ffof it’s not truly organic, but everything else added through the grow would be. Alternatively, I could probably use my older soil in my veggie garden, and could start with a new base like Sunshine #4. What do you think?
No need to use a new base mix imho. I think you’re on the right track reusing stuff you already have! Adding your own compost and castings, and mixing in a little craft blend. Definitely gonna be on point.
You might add a little extra aeration when reamending and recycling. I find that recycled soil gets a little heavy over time and about every other cycle I add extra aeration to keep it light and fluffy.
