Half Pound White Widow

The widow has doubled in size this week. Now almost a foot tall, she was starting to dry out the one gallon pot within two days. To protect her from any droughts I have moved her into her final home in a five gallon grow bag. I added a good dusting of mychorizzae. Hopefully I'll get lucky twice and she'll cruise through transplant with little sign of shock. Once she's adjusted to the new pot I'll top the leaders to boost lower branches. I'm going to be doing some selective trimming to encourage a broad canopy to prepare her for the trellis. I'm not going to install the trellis until I'm ready to send this lady into bloom. Later that day: 8 hours was all it took for this girl to rebound from her transplant. The root system was perfectly established and ready for a new home to grow in. The coming week will have a bit of branch selection and some topping. At this point I'm enjoying not tying the plant down for LST. Sometime the next day: Since she looked so happy the day after transplant I decided to go ahead with some trimming. I removed the middle branches to encourage the lower ones to continue to grow up towards the canopy. To accompany the bottom trim I've gone ahead and topped the top two leaders. No scissors for the tops. I just bent the top over with my thumb behind the stem to prevent breaking the top off lower than intended. On my research binges I've read that scissor cuts take longer to heal than other breaks. In other news; I have started to set up a second grow tent and have rearranged the entire grow room/ ski shop (pics next week). The second tent will inherit the full spectrum LED and this grow will be getting an upgrade. I'll be using the slightly smaller tent to start up new cheebas to run a continuous cycle of fresh dope. There will also be room for me to grow other plants. The Italian sunflower is starting to form blooms and the lavender smells wonderful. Both are currently in with the widow but are about to be overgrown in the next couple of weeks.