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First, a trophy shot: The Purple Widow. If you squint your eyes she looks like a Grouchy Old Bud with a sugary face!
Every Grower has a favorite and this one is mine.
Aftermath
I reckon it’s time to bring this to a close, so let’s sum up.
TBH, this was a pretty good grow, but I coulda done better. The beautiful colors and the potency of the final smoke made the Purple Widow well worth the effort, but it CouldaShouldaWoulda been betta.
Was it “High Yield?” That’s a fair question and I’ll leave it to you to decide. I am travelling now, and I don’t have my grow log notes with me to state the yield with authority, but I recall the dry weight was a little over 200 grams. I filled six quart-sized Ball Jars with the choicest buds, sieved 4 grams of decent bubble hash from sugar leaf & a pile of smaller buds, and made 10 oz of very enjoyable GD tincture with another dozen little buds.
So, close to half a pound all up. I can’t claim “High Yield,” despite the title, but even 200 grams from one plant, using 150 watts of LED is still 1.3 gr/watt. By that measure, not bad.
The smoke was top shelf, herbal nose, pine-scented menthol in the mouth and potent in a balanced mind/body way. If I sat down with some music I happily spaced out. If I tried to do something more cerebral, like writing, well, you are reading the result! LoL. The Purple Widow is still my favorite with many to choose from.
Lessons Learned
- Re. ILGM White Widow: It was unfortunate that this plant suffered a setback early on, but in the end, the method worked well and the ILGM White Widow was a very admirable partner despite my dereliction of duty nearly freezing her to death.
- Re. Method: The “Structure” of this high stress method was mostly accomplished without any special expertise required. Anybody can push this structure on a cannabis plant. Some plants will accept it readily, others will need some convincing, but in the hands of an experienced HST/LST grower, this isn’t anything special. Just a time-tested plan thoughtfully executed.
- Re. Yield: You’ll have to believe me that my mentor regularly nets a pound per plant from his DWC tent. If you want to max out the yield of a plant that is amenable to this type of training, try this out.
- Re. Purpleness: there appear to be two ways to grow a Purple plant: Genetics, or Mistreatment. In my opinion, the Purple Widow was an example of the latter. Freeze your plant, zap it with “Bud Candy” nutes and fry it under intense LED lights… Guaranteed some purple, so, Yay? She turned out very pretty but more by luck than skill or intention.
Thanks for listening
You folks are talented, experienced and open to new ideas. That is rare and refreshing in these trying times. So, thanks to all for sticking with me on this. I submit humbly to questions and suggestions intended to improve the technique or clarify any misunderstandings. I welcome that discussion.
If anyone intends to give this method a try, tag me in!
Cheers,
-Grouchy
and look at that final money shot 
