Wow! Great post Amy! So many pictures!
All of your flowering girls are on point!
Gots to give credit where credit is due! You go girl!
Thanks Big Sparks! and welcome to my garden 
Mega Update: White Widow day 110 (+21)
Yesterday I did the post-stretch prune on the white widow. It’s 21 days into flower and I’m pretty sure it’s stopped stretching. Hopefully i didnt do it too early - i’ll prob’ly never know!
I took some bud pics in the early morning light. It’s taking some outdoor punishment but looking gorgeous nonetheless. It’s a sturdy one this!
Then our actual gardner came to do the lawns so I waited that out - while dust went everywhere.
Mid-late morning I went out with the shears.
Here are the before shots. I’ve taken a lot, at different angles, because I’ve never pruned like this outdoors before. This one is really bushy, too!! I want to document it well to refer back to later, if I grow this again.
If you notice white pistil like things like confetti all over the plants, it’s Eucalyptus petals - some of the ones close to us are flowering right now, smells amazing - eucalyptus honey in the air.
Let’s get on wit it!
BEFORE:
From under and opposite to the sun to see what light gets through.
... I dive in!
... And immediately find this amazing worm spider
I remember photographing a smaller version of this a while back i’m sure. I dont know if “worm spider” is what it’s called, I haven’t looked it up. But I swear, it’s body moves like a worm ... it’s both elegant and creepy
There may be 2 of them...
I also encountered this beautiful canna-guardian.
And elsewhere, something which that one left behind maybe!
Or it belonged to this one... or maybe this is the same one, in a different spot... It’s a jungle in here
While I was in there, intrepid explorer of the widow universe, I took all lower shoots that would never see sun, plus a few at the “back” that will also see next to no sun as the big fire ball gets lower in the sky. I took as few large fans as possible - where they were completely in the dark or badly damaged, or mite infested etc. I took a few smaller fans and some tiny weak branches that were crowding around other stronger ones. It felt like so much - and I kind of can see what I’ve done - so I hope it’s not too much. I think it’s pretty good - couple of crowded zones still, but I can adjust later.
These pics are today. Oh - I also plan to put some stakes around and open it up just a little bit.
And because I’m a vain mother(still crushing...)
I thought it’s neighbour Basil was looking quite good too. This one had some struggles with fungus but we managed to turn it around.
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The raised bed demanded a parting glimpse today. Candida was having one of those praying hard to the diffused sunlight days.
So that’s the garden this week... doing what I can about the mites, I will aim to hardspray with the water hose all the plants first thing tomorrow and will do that until the Green Cleaner comes. They’re all holding up pretty well, like me!
It was a mega update so thanks for coming along. I feel like there were lots of critter already too and have something differnt in mind. It’s definitely critter related though as my time in the garden lately has been accompanied by the gentle hum of bees very very high up - in the flowering Eucalyptus I mentioned earlier.
Yesterday morning, with the first light of day filtered by smoke haze and early mist, these trees very close to the garden enclosure really made their presence felt
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I love them so much
This is what I see as I leave to garden so it seems nice that you see it too!
Welcome sir! Glad to have you stop by Very nice of it to save you all that work!family rabbit took a liking and did rather good job on lollipopping them for me...
No - this White Widow is from Dope Seeds (the Critical Mass, too)
Although its hard to get my visual-to-thought cognition right with that date format - we go DD-MM-YYYY - but it’s getting easier! And without the “wonky” US way of doing it, there’d be no 4/20 day! So it pays to read it that way! I just have to be careful I don’t start reading or writing dates that way round here! I’m already using ºF and thinking in Gals a lot... 
Shhhh - a while back I noticed something, let me fill you in.
It’s not getting nasty under there because water doesn’t stay there and not a lot of drench material gets in there (and if it does, it gets drunk/soaked up quickly). I even think it’s drying out completely occasionally, although maybe it’s not - becasue yesterday I noticed a root that was pretty thick reaching out of the pot and into the tray, with a lot of tiny ones coming off it. I’ll get a photo of it if I can. 
for a 4/20 harvest date, like that's gonna time out perfectly!
Well that’s about when this CD1 started pushing out the pistils!bunch of us flipped on 2/1
Priceless! Quite a feat to make kissing, one of the most lovely interactions, look that disgusting! All I could imagine ways a big slimy ball of cheewing gum in amongst the kiss
I’m pretty sure
How you feeling today?
. Today I rest. So i’m feeling a little poorly in some ways but very happy. It’s the aftermath I’ve had to become used to (one never really does tho’!), which in fact is a little less severe this time and that tells me all my ministrations and interventions and management strategies etc. are working. I managed to spray the plants this morning which really needed to happen (IPM) - I only needed someone else to pump the sprayer for me, so I’m happy I could do that. and crawl in to bed. In a little while someone lovely will bring me my lunch and I’ll snooze and watch TV reruns all afternoon. Perfect recovery day 
Hope Cricket is entertaining you and glad to hear you’re feeling well despite all the excitement of entertaining a guest!Phewf! Thanks for asking Archie
I’m having a recovery day. We have a house guest and I did an outing yesterday, which was awesome - saw the ocean
Now, its around midday and I’m enjoying some Haze vibes - noticing that it does ease pain as well but in a different way to the indicas - not so much of the cosy cotton wool blanket feeling. I might chase it with some nice Kush
Cricket on the TV tonight!
Agreed!!
