Okay, most of the work is done. Shes already budding. So just have her under some cfls, you can get the 200w 2700kequivalents, get about 3. There fairly cheap, and if you plan on growing more bud, you can invest in a HPS light system. Youll need a light timer and put the lights on a 12/12 cycle. Get a fan on her and put her in an area where she can get 12 hours of continuous, uniterrupted darkness. You can get a bag of fox farms soil, go to your local hydroponic store and buy a bag for 15 bucks. It should have enough nutrients to feed her until shes ready to harvest. To know when there ready to harvest get a magnifying glass strong , x25 should do.
Heres part of an article on
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4822.html
"By harvesting earlier in the window your buds tend to produce more of a cerebral head high, an effect much more pronounced in Sativas than Indicas. A head high is more psychedelic in nature, providing you with a pleasant mental ?up? state, often ideally suited for social situations when you still need to have your wits and plenty of energy.
If you choose to harvest later in the window, your buds produce more of a body high, which is conversely more pronounced in Indicas than in Sativas. A body high is similar to a narcotic ?down? effect, usually associated with being ?stoned?. A down type of high is often desired in the late evening to calm nerves and drift into sleep. A late-harvest yield is often sought by medicinal cannabis users to ease pain and increase appetite. If you choose to harvest somewhere in the middle of the peak window of maturity, you don?t necessarily get the best of both worlds, but more of a happy medium. If you aren?t sure what type of high you like or want, aim for the middle and you likely won?t be disappointed.
As you continue to examine your plants, you will be tempted, even compelled, to start pulling buds off of your plants to test them out. There is a right way and a wrong way to try out your buds before they are ready, so let?s take a look at your options.
Testing Your Buds
Most new growers start picking at their crop only a few weeks after budding starts. Usually this is because inexperienced growers get too excited and they don?t know that these small, immature buds still have a way to go before they hit peak maturity and reach the highest trichome development. But there is definitely nothing wrong with being excited about your ladies! Even veteran growers still get giddy seeing their plants start to sag under the weight of so much resin.
I dont recommend taking any buds from your plants until they are approaching their window of harvest, and you should only take a small bud every day or two. You can test your first bud when approximately 10% of the pistils have turned reddishbrown; take it from the middle area of the plant. Once you?ve cut your self a small bud to try out, you need to dry it, but drying and curing traditionally takes longer than the entire window of peak maturity, so you have to quick dry it. Quick drying is a sub-optimal way to turn a lush, wet bud into something you can smoke, but it?s the best way to quickly test your bud every other day as it matures."
I do believe that it reaches its peak potency when 50% of its trichomes are amber
For watering, tap water usually does depending on how acidic/alkaline it is, just water her when the top couple inches of soil dry up .once again if you plan on growing, spend some time and just research it, theres alot of resources out there. goodluck!
If you want to learn more, Surf the web.theres alot to it. Good luck
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