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the white widow plant is now to big for the greenhouse. let´s the how it will perform on the outside now. i just let it grow. only nutrient and no training or something.
she is doing really well. we are at the beginning of week 5. she is currently getting a lot of rain. but also enough sun and daylight. you can clearly see that she is preparing for the flowering phase. i have not used any growing techniques on her. just sunlight and fertiliser.
we are entering week 6. unfortunately the last few days have been very rainy. heavy showers at times. but the plant has survived. two thunderflies are sitting on it and a small spider has built a nest out of one of the small leaves.
i found 1-2 small black insects, i hope they are not aphids!?
i think it has now entered the flowering phase.
Looks like black aphids and some sort of predator fly. maybe a lacewing as they eat aphids.
Most aphids can be blasted off with a jet of water from the hose they don't latch on to hard. Do this in an area where they fall off they can't easily walk back to the plant, Then apply a soapy water mixture, let it sit on for a few min and rinse off, dry plant in the shade and the bugs will be gone. They can come back but hopefully not in any crazy numbers. Pesticide is also an option but I don't like that when its starting to enter flower. predatory bugs are also good, but when the plants get super sticky they can also get stuck in them.
Good Luck!
we have the second week of flowering behind us. the plant grows a good 10 cm a week. i have removed the large leaves. unfortunately the german summer is a long time coming. we sometimes only have 8 degrees at night. lots of rain. i hope it's not too much stress for the plant. because of all the rain, it only gets fertiliser every two days at the moment.
we are entering the 8th week and the 3rd week of flowering. she is no longer going up. the buds are getting thicker. i have cut off a few large leaves. she is doing really well. no parasites or diseases to be seen. so far i am very happy with her. very robust
the 9th week. it's slowly starting to smell. but it's a really faint odour. the trichomes are starting to turn milky and the pistils are changing colour. i think it will be ready for harvesting in 1 to 2 weeks. it still looks very healthy. i hope the next few weeks will be really sunny again. unfortunately it's very changeable weather at the moment
she is doing really well. the buds are getting thicker and the smell is also getting a bit more intense. unfortunately it rained a lot last week and the humidity was very high. i hope that no mould has formed in the budss. the next week will be really sunny and she should still enjoy it. and i think i will harvest her in a week's time.
unfortunately the week didn't go as planned. i discovered mouldy spots on her and decided to harvest part of her earlier. the mould hadn't progressed that far yet, so it wasn't a huge loss. i harvested a total of 101g wet. let's see what the rest of the plant will bring on the scales? from the state of flowering she will certainly need another good 2-3 weeks or even longer, let's see. but she coped well with the partial harvest.
after i had to harvest a part of it last week because of mould, the rest of the plant is growing and thriving really well. there is no further mould so far. however, i have moved it out of the constant rain and it is now standing under a roof. maybe i will harvest the rest next week. it also doesn't get as much fertiliser.
it actually behaved exactly as indicated by the breeder. a bit of a shame that it was so humid in germany and it got mouldy. but otherwise it was very resistant. a beautiful and easy to grow plant. a classic
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