Granddaddy Purple: The 123’s of Growing Grand Daddy Purple Seeds

Granddaddy Purple is a heavy Indica strain that’s been linked to a mix of Purple Urkle and Big Bud. Popularly used for its powerful calming effects, this potent strain of marijuana is used as a treatment for pain management and several other health conditions.

If you’re looking for a marijuana strain that affects both your body and your mind like other heavy Indicas, Granddaddy Purple is the perfect strain for the experienced cannabis users and self-medicators to try out. Are you interested in learning how to grow Granddaddy Purple seeds? Keep reading to learn more!

What Are GDP Seeds?

Granddaddy Purple seeds are also often referred to as GDP seeds or Gran Daddy Purp seeds. As mentioned above, GDP seeds are a cross between Big Bud and Purple Urkle. Known for its unique grape and berry scent that it gets from Purple Urkle, GDP seeds grow into extra-large buds thanks to it’s contributed genes from Big Bud.

Is Granddaddy Purple Used for Medical Purposes?

Granddaddy Purple was originally used for medical patients and to this day, is still a great strain to use to self-medicate. GDP can be used to treat both physical and mental ailments.

Most commonly used on patients looking for treatment for chronic pain, stress, lack of appetite, depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Since the THC levels are so potent in this strain of marijuana, the larger than normal dosage of THC in this strain may be needed for those who are looking to experience the full medicinal benefits that marijuana has offer, if they’ve never experienced relief from other strains of cannabis before.

Where Can You Buy Granddaddy Purple Seeds Online?

You should always purchase your marijuana seeds from a trusted and established vendor. When you’re looking to try out different strains of marijuana, you should purchase from a respected online vendor that offers feminized, regular, and autoflowering marijuana seeds.

If you’re looking to purchase from an established online marijuana seed bank that has dozens of strains to choose from, offers discrete shipping, and high-quality seeds, you should check out Weed Seeds Canada for your marijuana seed needs.

Characteristics of Granddaddy Purple

Many people recognize Granddaddy Purple by the stunning purple that’s on this bud that makes it so different looking than other strains of marijuana. Not only is this bud well-known for its sweet scent, but it’s also popular because of the tangs of berries, grapes, and other sweet, fruity flavors that users pick up from this strain.

While the appearance of the massive and dense buds brings together the entire beauty that this plant has to offer, the bright orange-yellow pistils that curve on top of the leaves offer a thick crystalline THC layer that gives the appearance of freshly fallen snow on the buds.

Tips for Growing Granddaddy Purple

If you’ve decided that you want to grow Granddaddy Purple, it’s important that you have a solid understanding of how you need to specifically take care of this plant to reap a high yield. Here are the tips you should know when growing your first Granddaddy Purple plant:

Inside Growing

The Indica genes in Granddaddy Purple cause it to be a bushy, short plant, making it a perfect strain of marijuana to grow inside. If you aren’t looking to train your GDP cannabis plants, they’ll grow to be about a three-foot shrub inside. However, grown outdoors, they can reach to be as tall as eight feet.

Granddaddy Purple thrives in both soil and hydroponic systems, meaning that you can choose to grow your GDP plant in water or in soil. The average flowering time for a Granddaddy Purple plant is at about eight weeks, although it can take some plants up to eleven weeks.

What Does Granddaddy Purple Yield?

On average, you can expect your Granddaddy Purple plant to yield 19 ounces per square meter of your plant. Grown outside, the Granddaddy Purple plant can yield up to 21 ounces per square meter!

Super Cropping

If you aren’t an experienced cannabis grower, we would recommend that you skip this step.

Super cropping can increase the yield on your Granddaddy Purple plant. You should be aware that super cropping is an HST (high-stress straining) and if not done properly, could cause you to do more harm than good to your marijuana plants. This process involves harming your Granddaddy Purple plants on purpose, but as an end result, your plants will grow bushier and they’ll produce a higher yield with a stronger THC content.

By harming your marijuana plant, you’ll trigger the plant’s natural response to protect itself. While this process does carry a certain level of risks, it’s an excellent technique to use if you’re looking to increase the yield your plant produces.

THC is one of the most loved parts of a marijuana plant, which is a psychoactive compound that’ll create psychoactive effects in the brain when consumed. While not many people are aware, harming your marijuana plants will cause your plant to produce more THC to protect itself.

In the wild, a marijuana plant is susceptible to being eaten from wild animals. Since this would prevent the marijuana plant from reproducing and creating more seeds, the increased levels of THC act as a deterrent and ensures that the plant is kept safe.

If you stress a marijuana plant as it’s growing, the plant will produce an elevated amount of THC.

Cropping Your Plant

Super cropping your Granddaddy Purple plant will require you to locate all of the bendy branches on the plant and bend them in the direction that you want them to start growing in. Bend and squeeze these branches in whatever direction you want them to grow and tie them down to prevent them from growing in any other direction. If you end up breaking a branch, use tape to attach it back to the part it broke off from, as the plant will be able to heal itself.

You’ll have to use this technique during the vegetative state. If done right, your plants will produce more branches, resulting in more buds. Plus, your plant will be shorter and you’ll have better control over it. Again, this technique is best left up to those who have experience growing marijuana and are looking to grow their Granddaddy Purple plant in a confined space.

Humidity and Temperature Levels

Granddaddy Purple plants prefer to be grown in adry climate, while it does have the capacity to be grown in slightly chilly temperatures for a small period of time if you’re growing your plants outside. Just as a general rule, you should keep your Granddaddy Purple plants between 20 Celcius to 26 Celcius during the day. You should make sure that the temperature you’re growing your plants in during the night neer drop more than 10 degrees.

This strain of marijuana doesn’t do well with humidity. If you’re interested in growing Granddaddy Purple, you need to have a solid understanding of how humidity levels affect this strain. Humidity levels measure the amount of water vapor that’s in the air. The higher the percentage levels of humidity in the air, the fewer nutrients your marijuana plant will be able to absorb.

If the humidity levels become too high where you’re growing your plants, the stomata on your plant will close, which means that your plant won’t be able to absorb any water. While there are some marijuana growers that believe that high humidity levels are great for plants to thrive, Granddaddy Purple isn’t a strain that does well with high humidity levels.

With Granddaddy Purple, you need to ensure that you keep as little humidity in the air as possible, at around 50% or lower. If you aren’t too careful, your Granddaddy Purple plants can begin to mildew and even rot.

Feeding Your Plants

Just like with every other marijuana plant, it’s important that you focus on feeding your Granddaddy Purple plants enough Phosphorus, Potassium, and Nitrogen. During the vegetative state, it’s important that you keep feeding your plant enough Nitrogen. As your plants enter into the flowering stage, but sure to switch to feeding your plants more Phosphorus.

If you aren’t sure what to feed your plants, go with whatever organic option is available. The majority of synthetic fertilizers that are available on the market tend to have too high of a concentration of salt in the soil, which can cause your plants to have difficulty absorbing nutrients.

Harvesting Your GDP Plants

The flowering time for a Granddaddy Purple plant is about eight weeks old. If you haven’t noticed the purple hue developing on your plants during the flowering stage, don’t worry. This purple color usually becomes more apparent after about six weeks, which you should use when you’re thinking that you’re ready to harvest your plants.

Once the buds on your Granddaddy Purple plant start to complete turn purple, your marijuana plants are about a week or two away from being ready to be harvested. If this is your first time growing a marijuana plant, you can also look at the plant’s pistils and see if they’ve changed colors.

At the pre-flowering stage, the pistils on your female marijuana plants will be white. When your marijuana is ready to be harvested, the pistils will turn a reddish-brown color. Your plant will be ready to harvest when around 80% of the pistils have turned this darker color.

You can also tell your Granddaddy Purple plant is ready to harvest if you take a look at the color of the trichomes, which are the small crystals that cover the buds and the leaves of the plant. Your plant isn’t ready to be harvested if the trichomes are clear.

Once your plant is ready to be harvested, the trichomes will turn white. Your plant is ready to be harvested if the majority of the pistils are red-brown and the trichomes are white!

Growing Your Own Granddaddy Purple Plants

If you’re someone who’s interested in growing your own marijuana plants to self-medicate, Granddaddy Purple may be the perfect strain of marijuana for you to start growing. With the heavy sedative effects that the powerful Indica causes, many people describe the high that Granddaddy Purple brings as uplifting.

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