This a 3 week old budding Black Russian. This plant was vegged for about 3 months from cutting. The previous Black Russian imaged is a cutting from this plant.

As the Black Russian gets older it will get darker purple coloration and finally, when harvested, dry to an almost black colour.


My fave plant from last 2008 and it is my latest indoor grow lst effort...

THE BLACK RUSSIAN:

you know what they say about them russian ladies!
nice example, I bet she'd kick my ass.

woooooww, lookin good! I bet thats gunna smoke real nice!

Supercropped

My NL5's were getting too close to the light.

I crushed, twisted and bent the mainstem about 30 days into flowering.

The first pic is a direct shot, the second is from the oblique.





From the bend to the growing tip of the bud is about a cubit. Plants recovered in no time and adjusted to their new position over night.

I have a rope going around the perimeter which provide support to the tops.

On another plant (not pictured) the stem snapped a little too much for my taste so I went ahead and taped it up with first aid tape (porous, flexible, and not too sticky.)

sorry for the cruddy pics.

Staking



A before and after picture of a clone taken from a flowering cut. They grow wispy. I trimmed about 2/3rd of the loose stems while staking it down. Which left me with 5-6 stems of budsicle.

It may not be the same exact plant, but it is representative of the group.








(yay, 1600th post)

Awesome muadhib bro.. Thank you for the submission.


1600 you pooh bah you


Congrats brother!

grate info thanks

I would point out that the Black Russian in the image was cropped! Another method of getting multiple colas.


See how fun growing is!

1 week later. Here is the God Skunk. Notice that it has now been transplanted to a 2.5 gallon container and that it has successfully adapted to topping.

It is a little to small to lst just yet. Next week for sure.

Notice I trimmed away the lower branches and leaves to allow for good space for watering and future growth.






Look how much it has grow since topping!!!