temp turning plants purple

[bizzy323]

where im from everyone likes purple so i was wondering how much i should drop the temp in the grow room for them to turn purple and how many weeks before finish? anyone knows? I know this shocks the plant but people perfer purple

 

[dirtyolsouth]

Hi,

With strains that are knows to be purple strains giving them dark temps in the lower 60s to upper 50s will encourage more purple colors... Not all phenos grown from purp strain seeds will go purp tho... I'm at day 58 with a TGA Deep Purple plant and it's dank as all get out but so far it's Deep Green even tho my dark temps hover around 60... here's a shot of her a few days ago... here's a shot of one of the colas on my "Deep Green" plant...

Peace!

 

[bizzy323]

i thought the temps should be low even when the lights turned off.

 

[Droopy Dog]

My last outside of the season turned purple, but the temps went down closer to 40* rather than the 50* that I had heard was the magic number, so no help there.

On a side note, only the plants very close to finishing turned. Like 2 weeks from harvest close.

I had another clone, perhaps 3 weeks into flower that I was trying to get to hermi that stayed green with no hint of purple.

Very strong female indica, never did hermi despite all the stress I put her through.

DD

 

[Hick]

the "bad" thing that I see with using temp's to bring out color, is that the color that cold tempertures promote, is actually a sign of deficiency from nutrients not being utilized. due to the cold tmps.
IMO that means you are depriving it of what it needs at a crusial time. Which I can't see being good for finishing up.. :confused2:

 

[bizzy323]

hick i agree brother but what is the temp range to do that? and its possible with every plant?

 

[legalize_freedom]

DOS...that deep green looks nice man! How far along is she?

I don't understand the purple craze??...really especially trying to get plants that don't have it in their genetic code ...so your going to give them temps below what is healthy for them to try to get a color that has nothing to do with wether you'll get high or not...it all turns to a grey ash anyway. Every body is purple crazy these days????????

 

[dirtyolsouth]

DOS...that deep green looks nice man! How far along is she?

I don't understand the purple craze??...really especially trying to get plants that don't have it in their genetic code ...so your going to give them temps below what is healthy for them to try to get a color that has nothing to do with wether you'll get high or not...it all turns to a grey ash anyway. Every body is purple crazy these days????????

Thanks for the props LF... 58 days today! nah i'm not doing anything special other than being cheap with my heating costs. It gets around 60 in that closet during lights out in the winter as it is. I think purple looks pretty on buds but only if it's trich laden. I actually like it when there is some lime green in there with the purple... but I'm sure not complaining about this DP pheno...

Peace!

 

[bizzy323]

ya i personally don't care about the color its all about quality with me but some people as soon they see the purple color its on for them. I know some people that only try to smoke purple i guess they tryin to be rappers.

 

[JBonez]

dont have much experience lowering temps to make my plants turn purple. I wouldnt do it with the lights on, seems a bit dumb to slow transpiration and purposely create a nutrient deficiency when you dont have to. That would def cause yield to suffer, and i imaging isnt that great for the final product. Then again, i have no experience, i just know that running cold temps during lights on would be dumb. jmo

 

[chuckdee123]

I think purple looks pretty on buds but only if it's trich laden. I actually like it when there is some lime green in there with the purple...

i couldn't agree more!

...i remember asking someone who posted a picture of some dark bud how to get it like that, and they said they went into the early 50's at night. this was beyond their control and it stressed them, but dammit those buds looked good.
their strain was grandaddy purple, which apparently is one of the least dark in color when it comes to purple strains.

good luck...

 

[MindzEye]

If you want purple get purple genetics.. Like blackberry, everything purple except the leaves.. Getting genetics that turn purple under normal conditions is much better than changing conditions to an unproductive state. Its all in the genetics, Like my Purple Kush, there is a good amount of purple also green and hints of orange, pink and red, its like skittles!

If you grow dank it will be dank no matter what color it is..

 

[Dahova]

If you want purple get purple genetics.. Like blackberry, everything purple except the leaves.. Getting genetics that turn purple under normal conditions is much better than changing conditions to an unproductive state. Its all in the genetics, Like my Purple Kush, there is a good amount of purple also green and hints of orange, pink and red, its like skittles!

If you grow dank it will be dank no matter what color it is..

couldnt said it better

 

[Hick]

hick i agree brother but what is the temp range to do that? and its possible with every plant?

no, I don't believe 'every' plant/pheno will color, even with extreem cool temps. My only real experience with cold temps are restricted to outdoors and primarily, nightime cold. But my observations there tell me that the pheno's can or seem to have individual threshholds to some extent. Some will be effected at slightly below 50F, while some might not show it in the 40'sF...IME
With temperture induced purple, "I" find it primarily causes purple to show up in the leaves, while 'real' purple genetics usually show pink or purple pistils.

 

[2Dog]

that is what I was going to say hick....you may see purple stems and fan leaves but not the actual bud unless it was intended to be purple.