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The plant is looking beutifull across the board, (exept the burned tops)  no nutrient issue whatsoever, its puting out a lot of white hairs and the buds are getting thicker. I think i might get really huge colas – the buds on the biggest branches are almost connected. The odors were also really starting to come in – just that typical weed/fuel/funk smell, nothing really specific yet.

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I dont know what the genetic looks like (black domina) so im not sure if the huge leaves near the flowers are normal or the result of the reveg, but either way i reduced the light time to like 11h30min, just to be sure its flowering, since im completly out of room, the tallest flowers already got leaf and budburn so i had to chop a couple leaves and also one bud 😐 cuz it was allbrown. i also cleaned the lowers and the leaves for the last time (i may go once more), and have been water only for the exeption of the ocasional myco / FFE.

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So i havent been active here a lot since i had a lot going on but here is the update; i had i light leak (or still have it). Since i basicly had my plant on 12-12 since the first of oct. i should be around week 9 – around where i planned the harvest, but you can see that the flowers are around week 5 (and maybe some signs of reveging). I ve changed my set up since the begining first from having no light-block on the sides of the doors of the closet to just some aluminum foil, and now ive added some styrofoam to block the light some more. I hope the light leak was in the begining of flower and not this whole time and i really hope i havent got a leak now.

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And the pic from yesterday, also before i hacked it back

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This is the pic from 2 weeks ago, when i though they were about done with stretch, and before i trimmed.

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So i harvested 4/6 branches cca. 2 weeks ago and the drying is done but i see both from the 2 branches still on and the potency of the rest that i was hasty. But we’re nearing the first frost so ill harvest the rest soon. The smoke is nice, it doesnt taste anything like the still very strong citusy smell – it tastes like cookies or popcorn tho only faintly. Med to low potency but like i said – cuz of early harvest. I may have also lost some weight beacuse i was greedy but probably not much – the total wil be just short of 100g. After i dry and jar up the rest ill make the last smoke report and finish this grow journal.

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Meanwhile th black domina is almost through the stretch, and as u can see its almost at 75% of canopy, which is good to know for the next round, cuz ive decided to only use 1 bed at a time for cannabis so the other bed can rest/be used up by vegetables. To fill up the canopy 100% ill just veg longer or use 2 plants – if i have clones. I also defoliated 2 times to clean the legs up,  took 2 clones and LST a little to spread out the canopy even more. I cleaned up the rest of the salads (i have eaten more then enough) and took out the first radish, and a couple spinach leaves (it isnt visible beacuse its in the back) In the space occupied by salads i planted more radishes and some arugula. I topdressed the right bed with bad salad leaves and the cannabis trim  and i also added ground up chesnuts as a seed meal (leftovers with worms in them which i couldnt use in the chestnut flour i was making) and topped it all with grass clippings.  I started adding FFE(fermented fruit extract) from figs every second watering.

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So i collected the pollen by chopping the male and shaking the pollen out of the sacks. The pollen is now drying in a dark space, itll be ready to freeze soon. I havent really grown white widow before – i have photoperiod femd seeds, and ill only be doing the crossing to preserve the genetics of the male.

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Thanks, i completly forgot that high humidity is bad for the pollen, ill change the bag and def turn off the fan. I wont be pollinating this round, im just collecting pollen, but when i do ill probbavky just polinate before the lights turn off and turn off the ventilation for the night, in my small space the humidity is often at a 100% at night if i dont vent it out so i dont have to spray anything, just let the plant and soil humidity do its thing. Ill probbably cross this pollen (purple urkle i think) with the white widow im running next round.

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The salad is from my own seed, we call it ‘berivka’ where im from, its a salad that doesnt produce heads, u cut the leaves over and over again, since thy regrow in no time. Apart form that i have basil, dill and i am adding spinach this week – in the bed with the male. I am also keeping the male for pollen, ive put a plastic bag around the flowers and will chop the plant as soon as the flowers – pollen sacks open. Its a bit of a risk but well, i hope the plastic seal holds and i get some pollen, otherwise this round will just be a lot of seeds. Honestly i just want to preserve the genetics of this strain, since this plant is from the only seed i had, but i also just want to see if its possible to avoid pollination when growing in a small space. A little experiment i guess

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@somatek You are right about thc degrading in the light, but what i dont see a significant difference between harvesting after the last 12h of light and harvesting after 24 of additional darkness. Like u said, we would have to read some studies on thc synthesis at night to be sure, but it wont be a great difference even if the plants synthesize thc in the dark – it takes weeks to synthesize the thc in the plant, another 24h of darkness cant really give u a lot more thc. Like u could go for it, maybe youll get a little more thc out of it, but id rather just get the thc/cbn ratio where i want it and then harvest immediately. You also waste a day of drying for something that probably wont have a huge effect on potency.

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