Well I'm impressed (window grow)

Hello, everybody! This is my first time posting on this forum. Over the past few months I've been stopping by here to read threads on the different ways one can grow cannabis, and I must say, I am impressed! what an exciting and fun hobby (although I'm sure it's much more than that to many of you) to grow cannabis!

A little bit of a back story about myself (this will only take a minute, I promise): I have absolutely no experience growing cannabis. However, I have a degree in horticulture, and am a full-time gardener, designing high-end garden installations and caring for the plants with my own company. I do a lot of gardening, is what I'm trying to say. Around three months ago, a friend gave me a whitewidow seed. Now I'm obviously not an expert on growing cannabis, but I know enough to know that it's not a plant that can thrive with just window light. It needs the outdoors where it can thrive in the open air and natural sunlight, or it needs the tight constraints of a carefully controlled indoor grow. Anyway, I germinated the one seed that my friend gave to me, and planted the seed in a large planter pot inside my living room. I thought "what the hell, why not?" It may not thrive with window light, but it will be interesting to study how the plant grows, and besides, it will just be nice to have another plant in my house. Over the course of its life, I topped it twice - not unlike pruning any other young plant to encourage wider growth - and I tied down the growing branches to let in more light, as well as to encourage side branches to turn into tops. Fast forward to three months later, and I have this rather large flowering plant smack dab in my living room. I didn't plan for this lol! Growing this plant has really piqued my interest in growing cannabis, and it's something that I'm planning on doing properly indoors with proper equipment and proper nutrition. In three days from now, I'll be moving this plant into my basement where it will spend the rest of its life beneath an led light that I'm buying tomorrow. A couple questions: will the powerful led lights shock the plant? I plan on introducing the light from a further than ideal distance so it doesn't take the shock as bad. Second question: should I give it store bought nutrients this far into flowering? The initial soil mixture that I planted it in seems to be agreeing with it quite well! What other steps should I take to move this window grown plant into a proper grow setup? I'm actually quite surprised that the plant has done this well! As far as a window grow, it looks quite healthy to me. Should I be pruning the lower leaves off to promote flower growth at this stage? I read some conflicting opinions on the matter. Another question is, will this plant be able to produce usable material? And how much? ...I know, bad question... I don't really smoke it myself, but I have friends that do, and I'm very excited to be able to surprise them with free pot! Haha the look on their faces...

Here are a couple pictures:

Just to add: the plant received light from both an East and south facing window, as well as a little light coming in through a skylight...

Thanks in advance for any answers or other info

Welcome to RIU, I hope you enjoy your experience
You have done very well with the plant so far, personally I would remove the very lower growth that receive little light.
Good Luck

MarWan said:

Welcome to RIU, I hope you enjoy your experience
You have done very well with the plant so far, personally I would remove the very lower growth that receive little light.
Good Luck

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Thanks for the encouraging reply, MarWan! I've decided to keep the lower leaves for nutritional benefits. I'm actually trying to figure out how to delete this thread. I thought it was better suited to the newbie central section of this forum, and posted it there as well.

...now to figure out how to delete this.

I would clone it genetics looks nice might be a keeper. The light shouldn't shock it sun light is far stronger. Use able material yes very use able if you get a nice light. Im sub'd. Trim lower growth to send energy to the buds imo. MODS MOVE THIS TO NEWBIE THREAD

Be prepared for your house to REEK! Looks awesome though!

What size pot?

Definitely trim lowers with an led light, their penetration is kind of ass. They're still great to grow under, generally white light leds seem to be winning out over the blurple lights (they put off purplish light). If you really want to keep nutrients from the leaves available you can cut the bud sites out and trim the smaller leaves away after the flip. I find leaving the mature leaves down there gives the plant enough to eat when I start backing off on my nutrients.

Also I'm not sure how much you've looked into led panels, but given your background I assume you're moderately knowledgeable. Be sure to know the true wattage of your light, not what it's equivalence is. The wattage pulled from the wall is what's actually important.

My 2 cents would be to invest in a cmh or like a 600w if you plan on ever growing halfway seriously. They're a good starting place and will ensure that your light is giving the plant enough to get nice dense nugs with a solid yield, especially with your general experience. An led Set up capable of growing that plant to it's potential would probably run in the $200ish range if you diy it. Closer to like 400 or so from a name brand company.