Well I wouldn't advise growing with such small lights anyways but just a word of advise from a veteran, You see grows on here people time and say 60-80 days or whatever, this just not the case the vast majority of the time. Typically your going to actually have 250+ phenos in any given seed , even thou you may able to only distinguish 1 to 4 phenos there is really hundreds, every plant is different regardless of strain or anything (something people won't tell you, especially breeders, every seed you plant is like rolling a 250+ sided dice, read some books on cannabis genetics)...Also a lot of times people just cut way too early I think..Also with auto's you can get some real weirdos...and TBH I would never recommend to grow an auto to a noob , they are honestly for more advanced growers, normal indicia/sativa is not only easier to grow its just a better plant so really I don't recommend autos to anyone at all ...maybe advanced growers for just messing around but nothing serious...
anyway...regarding your plant..you can still have white pistols sticking straight up and its good to harvest sometimes, kind of rare but it happens, some plants seem to have them indefinitly actuallly...show some pics and I will tell you if its ready just drop me a message...one rule of thumb, if all or nearly all of your tichomes are solid white/amber/pink and not translucent or transparent then its ready, but post a pic and drop me a message I can tell just by looking at it.
Yea, 43 watts really turned out to be a joke. Originally thought I could run a bit more than that with the size of my fans, but turned out for the worst. Nothing lost though, just a plant and some knowledge gained.
With the chop times, I figured most people chop early as well, but I felt this was going on a bit long. Wasn't especially concerned given I burned it badly, and was using only 43 watts. Just seems to have gone on a bit longer than intended.
Thanks for the info on the pistils. I looked at a few photos of "white" strains, and they all showed an abundance, if not all orange hairs, so I figured nearly all of the hairs should be orange. I didn't know some strains would retain white pistils when ripe for harvest.
I have also found out that white widow is supposedly a 60/40, sativa/indica mix. Of course this varies from seed to seed and so on, but the site I ordered from stated that it was mostly Indica. Maybe the fact that it's roughly a 50/50 mix between sativa/indica is why it's taking a bit longer than expected? Not sure.
I did sample some trim 2 days ago to find out, and it's most definitely not an indica. The body buzz was weak, and most of the feeling was in the head and eyes. Also, because I thought it was an indica, I smoked 2 - 3 hours before bed, and that was a mistake... I couldn't sleep for probably 4 - 5 hours.
I've had a good Afghan before and I can definitely see the difference between this and an indica. To put it this way, I would feel comfortable driving a car after smoking this white widow, but after smoking a strain like Afghan, I wouldn't even remember what driving is, let alone attempt to drive.
I might make edibles with this plant, because the high was not that enjoyable. Overall it just made me feel depressed and bored with little body-euphoria. My mind also stayed relatively clear. Last time I had an Afghan strain, everything was hilarious, entertaining, the body-euphoria was great, my cognitive abilities ceased to exist, and I fell asleep for an hour while using the computer. I've heard edibles give you an awesome body high, regardless of the strain.
I'll try to get a good macro-shot up. I chopped one cola off so far because it seemed a bit more mature than the rest, and am going to give smoking it another try. If it makes me feel depressed and bored again with a lack of body-high, it's going to be edibles.
Online sources are very contradictory in the effects of White Widow. Some sites describe it as energetic, while others describe it as a couch-lock strain.
