The "C" Crowd

[Opie Yutts]

Krimet the more you trim the more you direct the plant's energy to repair and healing rather than bud production. Everytime you pluck, snip etc.....you are putting the brakes on your plant and slowing things down. Overpruning will also DEFINITELY affect your final yield......a lovely tidbit I found out the very hard way during one grow when I pruned everything I had and ended up with less than 1/2 yield at the end.

PS....Don't listen to the growers who tell you trim everything off so the plant "can concentrate on the buds." It DOESN'T work that way......trust me. The plant uses ALL those extra leaves one way or another. Keep your trimming and pruning to a MINUMUM.

Don't cut anything off your plants, ever. Unless it's dead or ready to be harvested. There are a couple exceptions of course, like if you just can't bend a big fan leaf out of the way or you are topping, but otherwise just leave your plants alone for crying out loud. They grow best by far if they can remain long-haired hippie freaks. Promise.

[SnSstealth]

i second WH and opie....i have learned the hard way about over-trimming...
WT

[Shovelhandle]

That sucks, Bub. Really. Is it as bad as growing a crop to harvest and getting everything ripped off? Either way, don't like to see it happen. Good luck in the future.

Shov

[Dutch Pimp]

So Mr Hound has been taking care of the plants for the past few days and I've just been taking quick glances. I looked semi-closely yesterday.....and was HORRIFIED to discover what I thought was POWDERY MILDEW ALL OVER the buds of my white widow. I even looked at some of them under the microscope (we bought this cool kids microscope to check trichs with...it ROCKS!!) and its ALLLLL trichomes!!! :woohoo: I grew White Rhino before but this but that stuff never got a "snowy" look like these do. Pretty amazing......and she AINT DONE yet!! :stoned::rastasmoke:

Looking great ...as usual WH...:greenthumb:

Say what you will about any strain...but, you can't beat a good widow lady. I like 10% amber; anymore, and she'll drive you into the ground....:stoned:

It don't get any better than White Widow...if it does...I don't want to know...:rastabanna:

[Weedhound]

Didn't check on the plants for 3 days. They were great before, then completely dead when I looked in. A fan went out, but I don't think that's the main problem. I "winged it" mixing up nutes, and PH was too high. Either problem alone probably would have ended up OK, but the two together were too much for the girls to handle. Lesson learned. It sure would be nice to have loads of money so I can set all kinds of James Bond growing gadgets to be controlled and recorded by computer. A print out of temps and other conditions each day would be really cool. OK, I guess I'll set all that up before dinner.

Opie I am so sorry to hear this!! I'd have been IN TEARS!! I remember once a while back I overdid the fungus spray and lost part of a crop......turned out to be less than I thought it would but when it happened I was SURE it was half the crop. I FLIPPED out!

I looked into a lot of those gagdets and haven't found anything affordable yet.......let you know when I do....(or when we win the lottery....)

[Weedhound]

Looking great ...as usual WH...:greenthumb:

Say what you will about any strain...but, you can't beat a good widow lady. I like 10% amber; anymore, and she'll drive you into the ground....:stoned:

It don't get any better than White Widow...if it does...I don't want to know...:rastabanna:

Thanks DP

You know Rhizome told me pretty much the same thing....harvest earlier or she'll knock you out. She got held up a bit with the root problems but I think she'll finish fine.

We have 2 new WW clones we just turned to 12/12 in five gallon buckets so I sure hope she lives upt to all the hype.

[rhizome]

You guys really do think I make this stuff up.

I had the really interesting experiance once of hitting a big ol' bowl of late harvest WW pollen hash ( dry screened trichs) immediately before leaving Abraxas alone and attempting to find my hotel on foot ( a ten minute walk...)

Twenty minutes later...

Neon spinning RLD soccer thugs carnivale music raising the Fear-

Psychic...Powerless...Another man's sac...

I had to sit tripping in Dutch ( politely inquiring if I'm allright) for an hour before I could try for home base again.

Careful w/ that axe

Sorry, rambling, too much bubble for a week running- and we've barely touched the load...

[Weedhound]

Oooo.....can't WAIT! Sh'es coming along slow but steady. It's hard to judge amounts but there are buds everywhere popping out.

[Opie Yutts]

That sucks, Bub. Really. Is it as bad as growing a crop to harvest and getting everything ripped off? Either way, don't like to see it happen. Good luck in the future.

Shov

I'd say getting ripped off is much worse. Having my house ripped off twice in as many years has shown me the light, but I wasn't growing weed in that house. Thank God for home owners insurance.

[Weedhound]

They both suck big time!!