I am going to post this update tonight even though I cannot ā??seeā? a lot of progress in the last few days. Here at the 3 to 5 week period seems to be a bit of a lull in the fast paced changes we have been able to chronicle every few days throughout most of this grow. To be fair to the purpose of this grow log (to help others learn along with me) I need to comment on this ā??lackā? of visible changes. I would never want a lull like this to worry someone else as it might have worried me, before I learned to be more patient.


There are indeed subtle changes to the flowers and to the entire plant. The buds are growing. In 3 days I can see growth at the top especially, the flowers are filling out and I can now see the process that will be making them taller. Note how all the leaves in the bud structure are looking up to the light and how the bud is building on itself from the top. Check out these two pictures to see what I mean. This by the way is the top flower from one of the 4th internodes.



Bud 25 days ..................................... Bud 32 days

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In today's shot you can see the top of the canopy. This is a happy plant. The entire top of the canopy is a sea of eagerly reaching leaves, soaking in all the light they can capture. These upwardly thrusting bud structures would logically contain the most efficient leaves on the entire plant, processing the light at least distance, and then being right on the flower they are supplying with nutrients. In addition to this optimization at the top, some very interesting things keep happening below the canopy.




Discarded Leaves pile
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I see a lot of questions on the forum from first time growers about the lower fan leaves yellowing during flowering. People seem to freak out as soon as they see this process start to happen, and I want to stress how natural and necessary this process seems to be. That pile of leaves is what has fallen from her in the 32 days of flowering. Wellā?¦ almost fallen off. I believe strongly in causing no stress if I can avoid it, believing that the plant knows much better than I as to what to do; so I do not clip the bad leaves. I wait for them to be absorbed and become brittleā?¦ and most of the time at this point they will separate cleanly at the base of the stem with just a bit of movement. Some will argue that it is best to clip them as soon as they start to yellow and be done with it, but I believe that the plant is efficient and will absorb what she wants from this leaf before releasing it. I donā??t know which method is correctā?¦ but I bet that each method turns out with approximately the same results. The maximum that I do is to move a dying leaf into the open if possible so that it can do its thing without blocking the light to other flowers. By doing this I feel that I am also fighting possible mold problems by moving the leaf to where it can dry out in the fan breeze.




under canopy left ............................ under canopy right
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Hillary obviously has a master plan. She started out at the very bottom and cleared out the old fan leaves. It looked so obviously to be intentional when exactly one leaf in each of the 4 lowest branches yellowed and died off. When these 4 were finished, she did it againā?¦ 4 leaves, from the next lowest growth. Now you can see by the pictures that she has cleaned out the under the canopy pretty well and has ā??naturallyā? made under the canopy an efficient place for the remaining flower structures to get all the available light that they can. She is now working on cleaning up the underside of the screen itself. She has picked out fan leaves that are inefficient, i.e. those that are covered up by structures at the top or those that are blocking the light to other flowers. Her picks as to which leaves to remove is logical and seems to have a definite purposeā?¦ to move efficiency up the stem to the very top of the canopy.


If I saw any other signs of leaf problems I would worry about all this, but I donā??t. Every other leaf on the plant looks healthy and the closer they are to a flower, the thicker and deeper green they become. It is a wonderful thing watching natures plan perfected in a weed and its amazingly efficient processes. Sort of humbles you if you think about it. :smokin:


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emilya Reviewed by emilya on . Emmies Grow Log - White Widow Grow Log (pics coming when I get the ability to post them) 12/06 - Started germination 12/09 - 10 5/5 seeds germinated and transplanted to 6ā? pots. Light set to 24/0. Light is bare minimum at this point, 4ā? shop light with standard grow bulbs from hardware store. Ordered $500 of new lights online. 12/13 ā?? got programmable thermostat and light timer today, now set to 77Ā° day, 70Ā° night. Also set light timer for 18/6 and added a fan to the closet to evenly distribute heat Rating: 5