RQS - Snow White (widow)

I'm really happy about the White Widow S1 Auto from RQS - it has been a pleasure to watch it grow up from seed and I'm very surprised at how quickly it has pushed into flowering..! Only what... 5 weeks and it's starting to bud..? It'll be done in a month, maybe! So small still! I'm thinking that it'd probably be only 30-40cm tall if it wasn't all twisted up and growing laterally. It responds very well to LST, and takes no time to recover - I put it back in at the end of the last light cycle, for about 6 hours, and it had already righted the leaves and grew at least another 4cm along the apical line, pushing out branches through the skirt. Every day is an absolute joy with this one. I've fed it only one or two times, and watered it only sporadically - it's not been so thirsty but I think that this time I had the soil right, with a mix of mulch in striations to hold a little water that the soil is soaking up, that the plant is evidently liking to drink. Later on, i'll give it some of the TA tri-part nutrients to give it a boost, and perhaps some miraclegro tomato feed at the end, if it needs it - the soil and mulch probably have enough in there for the full term, tbh - the speed this thing is going it won't get so big. Here I was, worried about space..! Not an issue - so far, this thing would fit in a small box..! The MarsHydro TS-1000 (150w) is bathing them in a lovely, warm light, and I've not had to dim it at all. There's a little fan in that room, that's powered by a phone charger. I put this on as I noticed last week that the Widow had some dew on the leaves that were touching, from transpiration, which I don't really want unless it's rain and there won't be any of that when the buds plump up. I kinda don't want her to flower, as I've really loved having her around... Still - another month at least, to enjoy this baby..! I'll give her another little prune later, but no more weak branches - they're all starting to be the dominant ones, but that little one was totally in the dark and, despite people saying, "don't prune ur autos dood!", I thought, fuck it - I want more light hitting these guys so off comes this leaf, that leaf. and this little branch. There's no rush, Snow..! <3 // I want to take off some of the bigger fan leaves (only two removed so far), but I am unsure if I ought to do it at this time, since it is flowering at such an early stage..! I'll ask the other guys who are more experienced with autos to see what they think. Well, Hashy says to not cut them off and to continue tucking them behind the shoots - so I'll continue to do this for a few weeks :D // Today I have restrung all the LST wires, as this thing is growing about 3cm a day in some directions. I am very tempted to chop off some leaves, as I want to make it look like a nice bonsai - I have trained the stem to look like a lazy S and pull back on itself, and I have managed to keep the branches at the correct points, but I need it to conform to bonsai rules... Which means chopping off some big leaves and also some of the inside curve bud sites... Part of me wants to do it so much, but the other part is like, "nooo think of the weeeed!" and I don't even smoke dope, so ... idk why I am becoming obsessed with the flowers :/ I think that, tomorrow I might be 90% certain to chop some stuff. Or I might do it next week, which is only a few days away now. I'm going to put some pictures I made today, but they do not show the stem as well as I hoped - my mother said it is beautiful, and she has an iphone with a great camera, so I hope she can come over and let me take photos with it. She really wants me to give it to her, but idk... I will give her one of the ones that aren't autos for her to plant in her garden. The dog will eat it anyway :D hahaha // Today, again, I adjusted the ties for the LST - this thing grows so damn fast... I am not used to it..! It's so tiny, but it's so vigourous, it's crazy! Down, girl, down! You can bring those buds up when you're stretching properly..! I've lowered the light a little to try to reduce the height further. I'd like to see how bushy I can get this and the Royal Dwarf - I'm not so sure the Widow is a good bonsai candidate, but I am very much enjoying getting old with her :D