May 8th, 2024 - Harvest of White Widow
Well the big harvest day came and the white widow is now trimmed and chopped from the main stem. It now hangs in the kitchen. It's not as big as I wanted but I can see the heat and the flower was reaching a decent ending so I decided to finish the grow once the brown hairs came through. The plant just before chopping the stem, notice the amount of sails removed in the bucket Dense flowers for the picking Gloves should be worn but they should not be sticky since you should have only removed the non-trichome sails The process was to first remove all the sail leaves that carried no trichomes with it. Those would be the leaves that had the signature "crystals" on top the sail. You can see how much the sails create a false idea of how large the plant really is. With non-trichome sails Without non-trichome sails With non-trichome sails Without non-trichome sails Remember these sails are just to gather light and convert it to energy, making plant sugar. All non-trichome sails I