011821 Disaster Strikes.
This plant is nicely structured but much smaller than I’d like due to poor environmental conditions. Winter in Cape Cod is no joke and my shabby little basement grow room is frigging cold and dry. We were out of town for the day and then: First, the power went out and the heater wasn’t on the emergency generator subpanel (who knew?), so the room went stone cold. Then the humidifier died and the RH dropped pushing the Vapor Pressure Deficit well out of the happy zone for a vegging plant. Transpiration and growth stopped entirely and I had a very sad Girl on my hands.
I got it under control after a couple of days, but dammitall! It should be smooth sailing from here, but the damage was already done.
“When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root. This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness…”
-Tao Te Ching
Here’s our Widow approaching “The State of Stillness!”
She may not look it in this picture, but this little girl already has the muscular shoulders that will support a whole bunch of that subtle White Widow medicine. She probably won’t reach full potential due to my environmental fail, but I trust the Structure to prevail.
The screen and perforated pot edge are gradually replacing the garden stakes as LST anchors as we guide the branches outward below the screen.
Here’s a link if anyone is interested in this type of SCROG screen.