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Week 1 Seedlings of White Widow x Big Buds
Fed 5-7 mL / gallon of liquid seaweed. This was a bit strong and got a little nutrient burn on seed 1. We brought it down to 3mL / gallon which seems to be perfect. The Liquid Seaweed really promotes strong early root development.
Video: https://youtu.be/Z4r9jS0yYk4
Seedlings don't need nutrients till about 21 days or 3-5 nodes. However we do use a Liquid Seaweed to help promote early root growth.
Video: https://youtu.be/e2uKvT2O_BM
The girls will receive their first feeding on day 21. It is my first time growing with Canna nutrient line and also in Coco. I can't find any good feeding guides so we will start with 1/2 strength around 10mL/gallon of Canna Coco A&B. Check out our daily grow logs at BiggestLittleGrower.com
Our initial feeding was far to strong for our poor girls and we inherited some obvious nutrient burn. We immediately stopped nutrients and cleansed with 5mL/gallon of our liquid seaweed for the next few days.
Unfortunately shortly after getting nute burn our girls were heat burned by our space heater. Seed 1 was substantially affected in her main fan leafs. We decided at this time to top and defoliate seed 1. Seed will be FIM'd as she was not to affected by the heat and looks rather healthy.
Video : https://youtu.be/8MNPdYf7lnk
The girls are making a nice recovery from their extensive training. Seed 1 was topped, defoliated, and eventually super cropped on her main top. I continually do crush supper cropping on each branch to thicken the stems. Seed 2 was just FIM'd and then later began LST. Both are recovering very well.
Video: https://youtu.be/0IpNyBbI5as
We kicked Nutrients up to half strength now, you can see the dosage above. We did the finale supercropping and LST on the girls. It looks like we have about a week to go before flipping to flower.
We gave the girls another easy clean up and it is time
to switch to flower. 7 weeks of veg from Seed. We still haven't decided on a bloom booster but hopefully we will soon. Check out BiggestLittleGrower.com to
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The girls have finished their first week of stretch since flipping to 12/12 light cycle. Their nodes are staking up nice and tight and that will hopefully lead to some fat colas. We've spotted some pre flowers and confirmed female, which was expected as they are feminized seeds.
Unfortunately Seed 1 hermied out and we had to remove her/him from the room. if you check back at Week 8 photos you can actually see a male pollen sack that was already formed. While it may be a blessing in disguise as Seed 2 is filling up our box quite nicely. We have increased our nutrients to 3/4 strength and will be adding Canna Boost very shortly. Our nodes are still stacked nicely even through stretch and it looks like we will have some nice colas. Video: https://youtu.be/lu0A4y5i1Mw
Our girl is chugging right along and taking well to 3/4 strength nutrients. Her internode spacing remains tight even through her long stretch. This surely will lead to some nice size colas that will definitely need some assistance.
It's week 4 of flower and it's time to give the girls their Canna PK 13/14. We will continue 3/4 strength of Canna Coco A & B, and 7ml of Cannazyme. Through week 5 we will start with our Canna Boost and use till finish. https://youtu.be/ue2fq6aEw5c
It's the start of week 5 and our Canna PK13/14 has packed on some weight for us. We started with Canna Boost as promised while bottle label strength is 8mL / gallon, we went ahead with 12mL / gallon for that extra kick. We started to show a slight magnesium deficiency after stopping the use of our liquid seaweed. Our girl is back on it now and her issue has subsided. Now begins the finale countdown to harvest. Video: https://youtu.be/gVGnP6pLXKM
5th week of flower is complete and it's time
to start week 6. The girls have really frosted up this week. I'm anxious to see these calyx's begin to swell up and for the girls to pack on their final weight. We started the girls on their Canna Boost last week and will continue with that till finish. Photos are Day 42. YouTube video https://youtu.be/UDsS7bWjj9E
Day 49 of Flower and we've hit 7 weeks. We are reducing nutrient intake and preparing for a finale flush before harvest. With 1-2 weeks left we are getting really close to the finish. Looks like our lower night time temps have brought on some darker colors. Video https://youtu.be/GskvFHRWzkQ
Day 56f and week 8 and the girls are ripening up. Looking to harvest within the next 4 to 8 days. Just waiting for some more cloudy trichomes to show up. We've reduced our feeding to Canna Boost and Cannazyme only. For the last 4 days or so they will receive plain water. Really stoked how this girl has turned out so far and I can't wait to harvest her. Thank you everyone for likes and comments this far I so appreciate you guys. Growers love ✌️🏻-BLG
Video- https://youtu.be/NVoXwpqe9AQ
White Widow x Big Bud is a very hearty strain that can produce some impressive results. Taste and smell updates coming shortly soon as we dry and cure. Check out our harvest Video here: https://youtu.be/xBFVZ6fE0-k
Wow dude what an excellent looking harvest. Strong work! I grew White Widow Max and if yours is anything like that it is definitely one of my favorite smokes. Congrats!
I was wondering if you could talk about your drying/curing process at all? I really like the drying tote idea.
@Grimbol, thanks man really appreciate it. I live in a low humidity climate so drying is pretty tough. I needed something that I could hold humidity in essentially to slowly dry my buds so I came up with this tote idea. I drop a humidity monitor in the bottom and I just essentially check it morning and night and see what humidity levels were. If they got up to 60-70% I would open the lid about 6". As humidity dropped down towards 40%-50% I would close it down just a little more say 2-3" open. Continued this cycle till I no longer reached that 60-70% humidity level. I dried for 1 week and I prob could have dried 2-3 more days. Once the tote stabilized around 45% humidity I jarred them up at this point they were slightly crispy on the outside. Any time humidity in jars hits 71% pull buds out completely for 30 mins. Once you stabilize at 70% or less inside jars curing can begin. Essentially every 12 hours you open your jars for 1 to 10 minutes to circulate fresh air. Soon your humidity will Ready 69%, then 68% etc. The slower the better result. Continue this for 2-3 weeks until you reach 55% humidity. Now it should be smokeable and enjoyable. Longer term storage is now safe and curing will continue in jars till humidity drops below 50%. Once below 50% curing can not and will not ever occur again. Hope that's helps man.
Great diary man, going to be doing a RQS White Widow grow after my first and your diary is giving me a lot if confidence. I like that as well as using Coco, you also used the same type of nutrients I will be using though I'll be using BioNova (A+B, PK). New to this but the amount of nutrients I see people use makes my head spin. I'm also planning on using an LED, albeit a 600w lamp instead so hoping the extra power can really help them kick on. Will be referring back to this diary often when the time comes.
How was the smoke in the end?
great job man, i am just checking your videos on youtube over the mainline topic, fabolous work as well.. would you maybe like to join our group chat? =)
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