CFL Closet Growbox.

[GeddaLiddleHI]

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.

Grow on Gedda! :rastasmoke::hippy:

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)

[GeddaLiddleHI]

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...

[temujin8]

looking good, especially that widow!

[GeddaLiddleHI]

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?

[GeddaLiddleHI]

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.

[GeddaLiddleHI]

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.

[temujin8]

amazing!

[GeddaLiddleHI]

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.

[Mr.GoodMorning02]

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

[GeddaLiddleHI]

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.