TURNING PURPLE?

strain: purple skunk aka shaman from.dutch passion flower week 1. turning purple? yay or nay?

In my opinion it's just the cold that makes em do that

You may have ended up with a good colorful plant ......usually my experiences with cold temps causing purpling it will show up on the actual leafs and stems ....that looks more like actual good genetics as far as purple goes .....just my opinion ......but keep that plant healthy cause those buds are guna look amazing color wise further down the road very cool .....and I don't see no issues so yay for my vote ......good job

Now just why do you think they call it purple skunk?

There must be a reason they call it that....

Resinhound said:

Now just why do you think they call it purple skunk?

There must be a reason they call it that....

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yes but there is a small percent of shamans that turn out to be purple..

Nice then.

First off you are well over a week into flower, looks more like 3-4! The purple color comes out later in flowering with most strains, usually 4-6 weeks in. Some turn purple in the last few days. Cold temperatures can increase the purple color of buds. I do this on purpose indoor during the final few days of flowering during the night to really make them look good. I can see a little hint starting to show in your pic.

moparhomo said:

First off you are well over a week into flower, looks more like 3-4! The purple color comes out later in flowering with most strains, usually 4-6 weeks in. Some turn purple in the last few days. Cold temperatures can increase the purple color of buds. I do this on purpose indoor during the final few days of flowering during the night to really make them look good. I can see a little hint starting to show in your pic.

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i meant 2 week, now is third*

Higher K use can enhance coloring in strains with the trait.

Plants don't turn purple. The purple pigment is already in the plant, you just can't see it because the chlorophyll hiding the color. As soon as the plant stops producing chlorophyll you will start to see the underlying colors. You can kind of see the colors as the plant is growing. For example my Pre 98 Bubba Kush is almost black as it grows. It turns a wonderful deep purple at finish. On the other hand my Agent Orange is a light green and turns yellow during the flush. I had a Green Love Potion strain that ended up a beautiful deep red.

Basically to see the colors you have to get rid of the chlorophyll. Obviously you don't want to do this while it's growing! If you grow outdoors your plants will eventually turn on their own due to nutrient lock-out because of the lower temps. Indoors all you have to do is flush your plants.

Back in my collage days one of my favorite labs was the one about plant pigments. We went out and got a bunch of leaves and ground them up. We added water and used a test strip to suck up the mixture. As the water climbed up the paper it left bands of color depending on the weight of the pigments. So you end up with bands of purple, red, yellow and green. Cool shit!

Purple buds not purple leaves is desirable in my book, purple leaves just look deficient...

Bubba kush from clone, she's outdoors and the first one of mine to look like this.