CFL Closet Growbox.

nope haven't tried it before. and i don't see how it could cause light stress since it's only a brief period right before the switch or right before harvest. esp right before harvest there isn't really time to turn hermie. and yes, it's freakin killin me to see those juicy white widow buds and know i can't smoke em yet.
but anyway, new pics for today.
first up is the white widow. a farther away shot than i usually do, and next to a gallon milk jug to give you a better idea of the plant's scale. next is a closeup to give you a better view of the buds. and last is a closeup of that nice main cola.

next up is the Power Skunk. it's almost definitely rootbound since it needs to be watered at least twice a day and doesn't seem to be developing buds anywhere near as fast as the white widow. but, again, i don't want it getting any bigger than it already is so i don't want to move it to a bigger pot...while the widow's still in there anyways. depending on how far along the skunk is when i harvest the widow i may just fill up the whole tray they're sitting in with soil and transfer it to that, but we'll see...
anyways, the pics. first just a reg shot of the skunk. then a side view so you can see how much denser the leaves are around the light i put right in there. and last is a closeup of some of the budsites so you can see how they're comin along.

hey gi , ladies look lovely:thumbsup: i'm going to try the 36hrs of darkness right before havest for my next crop:thumbsup: see if it makes a difference . sounds like u r going 2 have 2 do something with the ps though , cause if she gets rootbound , it going 2 affect ur yield , so i would repot her :thumbsup: i know u don't want her 2 get any bigger , but if u do nothing at all , it will stress her & she will strech upward cause she can no longer grow outward . i don't know much about soil grows dude :( sorry ! i'm a hydro person myself :thumbsup: want2beagrower:jointsmile:

alright, so i broke down and got a bigger pot for the skunk. since it's winter time now all the gardening supplies have been more or less replaced with christams stuff, so i had to get a slightly different kind of soil, but the new stuff is lighter and should hopefully help with allowing root growth. i'll post some picks when i do my regular postings to show bud development. and hopefully the skunk will spend most of it's effort with the newfound room in the soil developing bigger, better buds and not getting bigger overall...

uuuhhhh, title says it all...

k, the first pic is of the new pot i've got the skunk in now. kinda hard to tell the difference without a direct comparison, but there's no room to stick the old one in there with the new soooo just trust me that it's bigger i guess. and the last image is a closeup of the bud you see in the center of pic numero dos. there isn't really any main cola on the skunk nor does any bud seem to be developing significantly more than another, so i just picked one in the middle...

f****en awsome dude :thumbsup: soon the ps will look the same :thumbsup: want2beagrower :jointsmile:

Question...well first a statement, then a question.
So i had one branch on the skunk that was just way too tall...again. My only choices were to raise the lights up higher than they should be in order to benefit the lower branches, and more importantly; the widow. I had been raising the lights little by little, but they got to be just too far, at least 6 inches above the top of the widow. So i decided to tie this rogue branch down...again. Unfortunately in the process i bent it too far and it, i guess folded would be the best description. Since it was already pretty f^@*ed i just clipped it off. Rather than waste what buds it had on there i hung it up to dry out. Now i know people will clip of buds during flowering for taste testing, but not usually whole branches, and i know pruning your plant during flowering is bad. So my question is whether or not this is going to stress my plant out to much and cause it to start going hermie on me.

i would use some vit-b or superthrive to help the plant cope with her problem . just keep an eye out for hermies in the next couple of weeks . want2beagrower:jointsmile:

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Question...well first a statement, then a question.
So i had one branch on the skunk that was just way too tall...again. My only choices were to raise the lights up higher than they should be in order to benefit the lower branches, and more importantly; the widow. I had been raising the lights little by little, but they got to be just too far, at least 6 inches above the top of the widow. So i decided to tie this rogue branch down...again. Unfortunately in the process i bent it too far and it, i guess folded would be the best description. Since it was already pretty f^@*ed i just clipped it off. Rather than waste what buds it had on there i hung it up to dry out. Now i know people will clip of buds during flowering for taste testing, but not usually whole branches, and i know pruning your plant during flowering is bad. So my question is whether or not this is going to stress my plant out to much and cause it to start going hermie on me.

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Actually, you could have left the broken branch on there & wrapped the break with a little masking tape, and it would have been fine in a couple days.
Being that you clipped it, it's all good... I don't think it'll cause any problems. Don't make a habit of it though. :cool:

Grow on Gedda! :rastasmoke::hippy:

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Originally Posted by dooobster

Actually, you could have left the broken branch on there & wrapped the break with a little masking tape, and it would have been fine in a couple days.
Being that you clipped it, it's all good... I don't think it'll cause any problems. Don't make a habit of it though. :cool:

Grow on Gedda! :rastasmoke::hippy:

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o forking seriously!? i mean, i'm glad it's gonna be ok, but now i'm just pissed i clipped it off when it coulda been saved to produce much juicier buds. :(

well i'll have to remember that after i cut these beyotches down and start growing my next set of (hopefully) Albino Power Skunk (working title; White Widow x Power Skunk)

so i decided to smoek some of that skunk that i harvested early and i must say: holy crap! Not that it was particularly strong bud, but the fact that i got preeetty baked of the stuff was just amazing. I wasn't expecting to get high at all, so i was quite surprised at just how f*@#ed up i was all of a sudden. and if that's what she does when so premature... well i can't wait for the fully formed buds. And that's just the skunk!
I've had the widow on a regimen of just plain water for a little over a week now, shootin for a harvest date of the 29th, but that depends on where she's at. Maybe even longer, as the leaves still don't look yellow at all, plus none of the trichomes are amber yet; all still pretty cloudy. i prob won't do any more pics until right before i harvest. Or just some showing why i haven't harvested yet, we'll see...

looking good, especially that widow!

so i went and got a mason jar for curing my widow when it comes down. which will hopefully be in the next day or two, as soon as it starts showing signs of N starvation. and the little packet inside made me wonder: what would drying (or even curing) some cannabis with one of those desicant packets in the container do? Make it dry faster? more evenly? or jsut fork it up completely?

ok, so i think it's time i gave you an update on what the skunk looks like, esp since she's really startin to take off on the bud production.
first is just a pic of the whole plant. then one of the main branches on the left that's got kind of a fork bud goinh on. third is one of the oldest branches, just under the pushpins i was using to keep it bent down without tying it. last are some buds that have bunched up around that lower light.

and now for a quickie on the widow. i didn't feel like pulling her out of hte box so i only got some minimalist pics. first the top of the main cola then a bud just under the main cola. As you can see the leaves haven't started yellowing and the trichomes are still very much white. I'm not worried about getting the trichomes to turn all that amber, cause i'm goin for a more cerebral high with the widow, but i still want the leaves to be showing some nitrogen deficiency before i cut her down. i want that taste to be smooth, no reason to half-ass it at the end.

amazing!

alright, so this makes me feel dumb but i still felt i should share this with all of you. This REALLY simplifies the whole CO2 pop bottle process, which is really what you want in such a solution, right? Cut out the whole plastic wrap part, just clog up the mouth of the bottle with an absorbant material of your choice. I used 3 cottonballs jammed together side by side (i though stacked up might allow them to fall out) which fills up the whole neck of the bottle. This makes setting the thing up a whole lot easier and you aren't going to get a little stream of vinegar instead of a drip-drip because you messed something up in the plastic wrap stage. Got it in there with my plants right now, and now i present some pics of Gedda's CO2 Bottle Mark III.

hey gedda, just cruising around the forums and saw your thread. Just a few thoughts. shame you didn't tape that branch back together but we all learn from our mistakes. Her buds seem a bit light still so imo, keep her going a while longer, but that's your call. besides that, very nice job. that widow is looking tasty, makes me want to give her another go around :jointsmile:

keep up the good work, I'll stumble back to check on the progress.

mgm

oh yeah, i plan on keepin that skunk goin for quite a while longer yet. just lookin at all those buds is MAD tempting though, so i'm glad the widow's just about ready to come down. On that note, i was reading here (fifth paragraph down) about taking some buds from the top early and letting the lower ones mature, esp with the increased light they get from the upper foliage being gone. So i was thinkin of cuttin off the main cola (the most mature/ripe part of the widow at the moment) tomorrow after my lights come back on since it has some trichomes turning amber around the edges of the leaves now. And since i was going for the more heady, cerebral high of early - still milky white - harvested ganj it seemed appropriate. Especially in an attempt to avoid harvesting too early or too late as the article warns about. Since this is my first grow to make it to harvest (my second overall) it seemed relevant advice.

so i havent' been keepin up with my promise to keep you all psoted on my harvest-time goings on...my bad. anyway, i still havent' harvested the widow. not really anyway. i decided to cut off the main cola nad dry it out, jsut to see what it's like. And it's...weeelll...AWESOME! wow. It's still not dried and cured to the extent it should be, but i used a technique to quick dry it in the microwave one night when me and my friends couldn't get any other bud and it is potent. I mean...wooo! Anyway, i've had it curing for a few days now in a mason jar, and i decided to toss in a little packet of clay desiccant as well, and i actually think it's helping. I smoked a little bit of it this am when i got home from work and it actually seemed stronger, i could only hit the Janitor (my favoritest bong) once before i said "ooook, i'm done." My theory is that the desiccant absorbs water, so more of the water leaves the bud sooner than were it allowed to go on naturally, so that no resin evaporites out along with the water. But that coudl jsut be my high hopes for my first harvest. Either way, i'm gonna be happy with the crop. And the taste was surpriseing as well, i was expecting it to be VERY harsh havign been quck dried in a paper bag in the microwave, but it was actually pretty tasty. Still haven't harvested the rest of the plant, i'm waiting for the other buds to develop a little more. Slowly choppin my way down the plant, takin the most mature buds and workin my way down. And if it's stressed out and goes hermie by the time i reach the bottom; good! then i'll have more seeds! Skunk's still...skunk. Buds have gotten much fatter, but nothin to write home...or on a forum, about. Probly got another month at least before i can think abotu harvesting her. Not sure what's makin my flower times run so long, but whatev, at least now i know i'm gonna have some NICE buddingtons when i'm done.

hey gedda...yea i had a sknkman's orignal hazexskunk and it flowered for 8 weeks...def could have gone to 10-12 maybe longer. but me and my partner got impatient and chopped it early. but man does she smell nice. im sure yours can go much longer as well so stay with it. glad to hear ya had a successful (complete) grow so far :thumbsup: maybe get some pics of dried nugs later? take it easy


mgm