Purple Lemonade Auto - Week by Week Grow Diary & Strain Review

Some autoflowers slap you with attitude the moment they break soil. This one didn’t.

This Purple Lemonade Auto chose the patient route: settle in, get comfortable, and build momentum on her own schedule.

Grown in three-year reused soil blended with perlite, fed gently with FOOP, Green Rush, and Real Growers Recharge, and illuminated under a tag-team of the Electric Sky 300 V3 and the Vivosun VSF6450, she grew compact, predictable, and beautifully pigmented.

LST waited until week 6, not because the grower forgot — but because the plant didn’t need it any earlier. And when the moment came, she bent willingly.

By harvest she delivered  [85.05:gr] wet, coated in purple pigments and bright citrus-berry terpenes.

A smooth run from a strain that knows how to put on a show.

Grow Setup

Grow Diary

Weeks 1 & 2 — Seedling & Early Vegetation

Purple Lemonade opened her cotyledons with the confidence of a plant that’s been here before. Reused soil has a softness and maturity to it — no nutrient shock, no fresh-soil bite — and she settled into it like it was home.

Under the ES300 V3 she stayed perfectly compact, pushing out wide, emerald seedling leaves with zero stretch. A micro-dose of FOOP Veg and a touch of Recharge tickled the soil’s biology awake.

By the end of week two, she looked exactly how you want an auto to look: low, sturdy, and quietly prepping for a run.

Week 4 — Vegetative Growth & Root Development

With roots spreading through the aged soil, she grew with steady, measured vigor. The perlite kept everything breathing nicely, letting the soil dry evenly and preventing any compaction issues.

These weeks weren’t flashy — they were foundational. Tight internodes, strong branching, and foliage that fanned out to claim its canopy space.

No training yet; she was building her frame, and the ES300 kept her posture dialed in. You could feel she was getting ready for the next chapter.

Weeks 5 & 6 — Pre-Flower Begins & LST Applied

Around week five she shifted gears — the canopy rose a little higher, and the first pistils peeked through. Autos don’t give you warnings; they give you openings. Week six was the perfect moment to train, and she responded gracefully.

LST bent her outward, creating a wide, even canopy without a single crack or protest. FOOP Bloom and Green Rush nutrients joined in light doses, reinforcing the transition without overwhelming the already nutrient-buffered soil.

The whole plant seemed to say: “Alright, this is it. Let’s flower.”

Weeks 7 & 8 — Early Flowering & First colour Change

This is where Purple Lemonade started showing why growers love her. Flower sites multiplied along every branch, stacking calyxes and building early trichomes.

The ES300 and the newly added VSF6450 created a blended footprint of intensity and spectrum that pushed the buds without bleaching the edges.

Subtle purples began rising in the sugar leaves — like someone whispered colour into her genetics and she finally heard it.

Aroma shifted into citrus candy territory, and her structure remained perfectly even thanks to the earlier LST.

Weeks 9 & 10 — Ripening & Full Purple Expression

The complete revelation came during these weeks. Rich violets and magentas emerged from the purple tones, enveloping each bud like velvet. The flowers appeared to be dipped in frost as the trichomes thickened.

As the buds finished swelling, pistils curled inward and darkened. The fan leaves underwent a soft, organic fade; it was timing, not a lack.

The plant marched confidently toward harvest with not a hint of trouble because cloudline airflow controlled humidity.

Week 11 — Harvest

By week eleven, her trichomes were mostly cloudy with just the right touch of amber. The colours were fully expressed — the kind of purple that sells itself before anyone even smells it.

TheFamilyShire chopped her and logged [85.05:gr] wet weight.

The dry weight wasn’t recorded, but judging by the bud density shown, she likely cured into a tidy little stash with plenty of bag appeal and a terpene profile leaning lemon zest and sugared berries.

A graceful exit for a graceful plant.

Detailed Observations & Reflections

Purple Lemonade Auto behaved like a veteran cultivar in a veteran medium. Reused soil is one of the most underrated choices for autos — it’s gentler, more predictable, and brilliantly suited to plants that don’t want early nutrient pressure.

Every feeding landed clean, and Recharge kept microbial life humming. The lighting strategy — ES300 for structure, VSF6450 for power — created just the right arc of intensity from veg to bloom.

The plant never exceeded her boundaries and never demanded interventions. This run felt like watching a well-practiced performer on a familiar stage.

Challenges & Solutions

There were effectively no challenges in this grow — not because the grower was lucky, but because the approach was measured.

Reused soil prevented nutrient shock, the organic nutrient lines stayed gentle, and airflow from the AC Infinity setup kept conditions stable. 

The only real “solution” involved understanding the plant’s timing: waiting until week six for LST instead of forcing it earlier. Respecting that rhythm is why the entire cycle stayed smooth, clean, and problem-free.

Purple Lemonade Auto: Final Result and Strain Review

The buds came down dense, vividly purple, and coated in resin. Purple Lemonade is known for her visual flair, but this run emphasized her scent and structure as well. 

Even without a recorded dry weight, the final images show tight, well-formed buds that dried into something any grower would be proud to jar.

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