Early Widow

Northern_Ent April 16: Plant is about 4 or 5 weeks old. It was transplanted after being topped. Watered and top dressed with barley sprouts. April 19 & 20: tied down. This plant was a bit runty and lost a big fan leaf in a mishap when it was young. The topping and LST are adjusting to accommodate that. 😎

Northern_Ent Plant seems to be doing fine after topping and tie down. April 23: applied small amount of barley sprouted seed tea (SST) at about 1:50 dilution. Some of the solids added as top dressing. April 25: looks great. Released main tie down as lower bud sites were at same level. This topping and tie down approach has worked great on this plant that was already missing a main fan leaf. Seems a bit susceptible to wind but otherwise seems good and captures a lot of light from the still pretty low in the sky sun. April 28: lower limb was tied down too long and limb folded. Left it alone as it should recover (supercropping?). Inside all day today. First FPJ (fermented plant juice) of early weeds (likely dandelions) seemed to turn out just fine. Used at 1.5 mL/L for first use, but will be at 2 mL/L normally. April 29: lots of N from the FPJ and barley sprouts (900 ppm )...looks like too much. Added stakes and some pipe cleaner to hold up some branches.

Northern_Ent May 2: back indoors under lights all day today. May 3: outside most of the day. Lights out foliar spray (12 mL/L LAB, 2mL/LFPJ). May 5: some barley sprouts in water this morning. Still looking pretty good. Mostly outside now and will be out overnight for fist time tonight. May 6: looked good this morning but a bit droopy this evening. Had watered with barley sprouts this morning and maybe it was too much. Might also be due to too much sodium...stems have lost turgidity and are weak and floppy.

Northern_Ent May 16: looking really nice. Still a small plant but has 5 nice colas happening and the mild smell now is great. Tied the south cola down a bit to expose the buds more to the low angle sunlight.

Northern_Ent May 18: looking good. Cold and rainy weather for next few days. May 19: near 0 C last night and -3 C forecast for tonight. Definitely pushing it for low temps and does seem to be stunting growth for some plants a bit. Hopefully we can make up for lost time if the weather ever gets better. This WW seems to be doing okay and the flowers keep maturing. May 20: some colours now showing on pistils. Cold again overnight. May 23: nice late spring for the May long weekend.

Northern_Ent May 27: nice weather last few days. Gave her some barley sprouts as a top dressing yesterday. Foliar spray with LAB only at sun down.

Northern_Ent June 1: sunny and hot, about 27 C. Nice change from a couple weeks ago. A good day for trichome formation. June 2: a hot 31 C about 12 days after we had five nights near zero. Welcome to Alberta. June 5: bit of rain and hail today but no damage. LAB silicate and soap foliar in afternoon. Noticeably frostier 😎. Also gave her a bit of barley sprouts as a top dressing on the soil.

Northern_Ent June 11: nice day and forecast is good for the next week at least. Come on trichromes 😎

Northern_Ent June 14: buds seem to have noticeably fattened up since yesterday which is the good news. The bad news is that it looks like brief but pelting rain actually can knock off trichomes despite being under a hail net during the rain. Hmmm. June 15: more thunderstorms today so she’s inside under fluorescent lights to protect what’s left of the trichomes. June 16: buds seem bigger again today, and it’s sunny so back outside. Couple or few more days I think. Decided to water once more with barley sprouts to see what happens. Those should be good for K but they might have a bit too much N. We’ll see. June 20: had it inside for a couple days to avoid potential rain. Will harvest in a few more days.

Northern_Ent June 22: coming down tomorrow. Just water lately and no water last few days.

Northern_Ent Love the White Widow as a classic smoke. This plant was an adopted runt that didn’t have much going for it. She was topped and then tied down which created five colas which was good. Unfortunately using barley sprouts in late flower was not a good idea. They likely provide K which is good but too much N (and growth hormones in the sprouts) seems to have been a problem. These buds are not good but that’s my fault. Will try with malted barley as a top dress instead. For comparison friends outdoor WW, also Fast Buds got 124 g nice dried flower, and combined the two plants also yielded about 2-3 g of hash. Nice plant.