Emmies Grow Log - White Widow

[emilya]

Great job Emmie!!!

Thanks!

Now that you are almost done with your first scrog, is there anything you would do different because of the gained experience?

I did that to you too didn't I? Evil tiki! lol. Let's see...
First, more plants! Nothing quite as sad as half a screen unused.
I am not as convinced as I was before that the added side lights did much other than to heat up my grow tent. It turns out that the water usage increase that I saw in week 3 probably wasn't the effect of the added lights after all, it was the normal spot in flowering where this happens. Next time I will not worry about the side lights and will concentrate more on the top of the canopy.
When I am training the next group, I am going to pay more attention to the eventual placement of the secondary bud group (next down from the end bud) as improper placement or blocking light with fan leaves from these buds WILL result in stunted growth of these buds as compared to those next to them. I have several cases where half of that second set were blocked and now are half the size of the bud right next to them on the branch. This could have been avoided.
Next time, 10" instead of 12"
And next time, near the end of the 3 week stretch, I will let those ones that are barely long enough to go to the next hole in the screen go upwards. Those that I forced are going to be a challenge getting off of the screen, and I think they could have developed more fully if I had let them go up instead of forcing them to barely hit that next hole. The ones that were able to get that extra 3 inches vertically took advantage of being closer to the light and I have to realize next time that the screen isn't the final height of the SCRog, it is the screen plus the length of that last bud set... or about 4-5 inches above the screen. Shooting for that across the entire screen will make the upper canopy more even actually and I think overall production will increase because of it.

great looking first grow. beautiful plant. ive been checking this since the start and looking good looking good.
had a question bout the WW, did you notice it was sensitive to nutrients? got one started my self and have read people talking about that.
nicely done

I found just the opposite Gare, but then again I didn't start with nutes until about the 7th week of vegging either. I think if I had tried to add nutes along with all the troubles I had in the veg stage, it would not have gone very well. From the point I started the nutes however, we were in a rapid growth cycle and she took to the nutes very well. I read someone to say that White Widow could take all the nutrients you could give her and I gave her the high end of the recommended amounts, EVERY OTHER TIME. If I had tried to do more, I am sure I would have burned her and I could see that at the levels I was giving her, just the very tips of some of the leaves showed a nutrient burn, and mostly after one session where I gave molasses along with the nutes. I have learned a lot about nutes during this grow and realize now the tradeoffs I made using the Fox Farm line of nutes. Don't get me wrong, they are good nutes... but they are chemically based and do very little to promote the health of the soil and its microbial life. It has worked well for me though, but I know that I had to remain consistent after going down this path, as taking these nutes away in the middle of the grow would have probably left my plant unable to thrive alone and not using the entire Fox Farm line (including the solubles) would have left her lacking in some way. It's an interesting ride we take these plants on with these nute programs... When I use up these nutes I am going to try the Advanced Nutrients line and see if I do any better with a completely organic system that takes care to keep the soil active.

You won't be able to tell the difference between the nearly and the very ready. They kind of get ripe from the bottom up. That looks ready to me, but my scope won't look at these pics all I get all little dots on the screen...TeeHee

When I saw the patch of amber on one of the upper buds I was thinking that they are almost ready and I have noticed a bit more of the ripening from the bottom as you say. I am still watching those trichomes though, and can see that they are still lengthening and thickening and that too large of a percentage of them are still clear. I have determined from my early sampling that although the intense cerebral high that comes from the early stage buds is not quite all that I desire in my finished product and know that I must hold out a bit longer for more of the body high that will come from this hybrid as the trichomes ripen a bit more into the colored stages. I am confident that this is going to happen sometime this week from all the indications I am getting here. I am hoping to time this right with the flushing and cutoff from the nutes, that before that happens, she also throws out a heavy layer of trichomes onto the leaves. So far, she looks quite juicy, but not nearly as frost covered as you see in some of the pictures. Each day surprises me a bit though, and I suspect I will wake up one of these mornings to a snow covered field of frosty and delightful goodness. There is that troublesome adage you hear out there too, "When you think they are ready, wait a week." I think we are there. Yep... this week will be it.

Be well everyone,
Emmie