White Widow Extrm Auto

Sat Sept 10 - Defoliated the plants. I always get anxious when doing this - Because this is my 1st time growing autoflowers, I wasn't sure exactly when to do it. Photoperiods, you control when it goes into flowering. so you're not guess when it's going into flowering. - Also, in my past grows, I had a tendency to do two defoliations…the first one I would always hold back and be overtly conservative in my decisions on what to trim and what to leave. The second trim, I would trim a lot more and actually get it to where I wanted it in the first place - Also, when you defoliate, the plants go into shock for about a week, so it'll be a week of waiting to see if I over defoliated or not - I totally feel that I did over defoliate, but my last grow, I defoliated the same way and it was the best results I have had - I'm aware that it was at the extremely early part of flowering. The pistils just showed up, but I chose to do the defoliation now since autoflowers are on a much faster schedule - It was scheduled to water the plants tomorrow, but I felt it was best tonight… I always water the plants after defoliating...Don't know if it helps with the plant shock or not, also, a couple of the plants had a leaf or two that was showing signs of needing water Tue Sept 13 - The plants never seemed to have gone into shock as is common with photoperiods. Photoperiods usually spend a week in a state of shock. - these autoflowers seemed to still be stretching and growing even after 1 day from defoliating. - underneath the white pistils, the plants are now forming the beginning of buds - I feel I may have to do one more very light defoliation. Fan leaves that I left on the plant have already grown and are now interfering with bud sites - If I do decide to defoliate again, it'll be just a few leaves here and there… nothing as extreme as last time - I may add nutrients to the next feeding. But if I do, it'll be an extremely light amount of each one… just to see how the plants takes it. - I think I may have noticed a slight magnesium deficiency, but I'm not sure. It's amazing how thus far there haven't been any outwardly obvious signs of a deficiency...nothing glaring - I'm hoping that a very small amount of nutrients won't cause any undue harm. - I can't stress enough how light I will go on the nutrients - the tallest plant is 27 inches. It is about 6 inches above the next tallest ones. I wish it wasn't as tall…I feel I may experience some light burn. - If I accommodate this plant by raising the lights, the other plants will be a bit out of my ideal range from the light. I'll keep an eye on it. Wed Sept 14 - I decreased the humidity as you normally would as the grow progresses into flowering. However, I noticed that the humidity level was still hig - I noticed that the cover on the carbon filter looked a little off-white, so I took it off and swapped it with a clean one. - the cloth cover was so sticky! - a little while late when I went to check on things, the humidity lever was sitting right where I wanted it. - I'll have to be sure to keep an eye on the cover to ensure it gets changed when it gets clogged.