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First Grow! popped up the two white widows in solo cups in the window for a day while waiting for a light and then into Bloomspect blue light 600 watt, 4 inches away.
Transferred to grow tent into a 7 gallon and a 5 gallon grow bag, Fox farm ocean forest and perlite blend, installed ink-bird humidity and temp controller, installed heater, inline filter, fan, humidifier and dehumidifier. dehumidifier not working. humidifier not working. temp and humidity are fine though.
Letting them stay a little slow grow so that 4 other germs can catch up to its foliage. 1.5 weeks behind. Managing temps in new tent, all new products, all new to me. Seems really symetrical, sturdy, happy.
Week 4 Looking good. Nearing my 5th node for topping, humidifier and dehumidifier working (humidifier doesn't turn back on once controller turns it off i may need to tape down the button but turning it on manually twice a day has been fine), starting to get warm out and had to open the bottom screen flap off the bottom but they seem to be working well with the higher heat, soil moisture looking good. Glad my RO water is already near 6ph need to get better at getting right to 6ph without going back and forth with up and down ph formula. Also need to start rotating plants as the light went higher to 24 inches, the plants are growing towards the light too much. Later in this week it got really hot in the tent for one day. 87 degrees F. I gave them really early a 1250ppm nute boost when normally every other watering i keep it at 300-350ppm and Started them on 24 hours of light. It cooled off, it's at a comfy 79 degrees, I sterilized a razor with alcohol, ph'd my RO water to 6 and topped. Topping for the first time ever is scary. Then watered healthily to flush some of that strong nute boost out and turned the fan away from their wounds. I hope I did this well.
I just topped for the first time. Fuc#! It's scary. 5th node.. details in the diary. Can someone reassure me that I did a good job? Sterilized a razor blade with rubbing alcohol, did it on an off nutrient only water day. Very calm weather day. please ready the notes and reassure?
Hi buddy, I read your diary. Yup, she's topped perfectly. You took her early enough that it'll have an impact on the other nodes but you also let them, the 5th develop fully and then take the 6th after a few days of it been shown 👍. As for the RH, you are using a tent right? If you set up your extraction/intake fan and run it for 15mins you'll be able to keep a high RH. I don't like using De/huimifiers in tents. Yoi can get yoit RH high enough by just having your tent sealed up and after 2 or 3 days of your grow room where the tent is, if you keep that door closed the RH will go up to 60% and intake/Extraction fan will draw in the rooms RH into the tent. Also you can either hang a damp towel or lay it on the floor beside the pots. Doing all this will hold a steady RH, cause if it's jumping up and down, then we'll, yeah.
And then when it moves into flowering you can set the intake/Extraction at 100% of the time and it'll bring your RH with it 3% of your grow room if not the same, just open your grow room door and leave it open and it'll bring the RH down to your houses which is normally 40-60% depending where you live, then run a dehumidifier or not, it doesn't sound like you have high RH where u live if you need a humidifier. But these things will hold a stable RH.
RH climbs quickly in tent like 10-20% with a few plants with in mins the temp is slower so you can run the intake/Extraction on a timer 9nce you know how long it'll take the temp to reach undesired range. RH can be as high as 70-80in veg and it'll go that high by doing this.
Good luck, feel free 2 DM me if u need 2.
Topped nodes are coming in strong. Time to start training a little this week. Tops of plants are getting red stem to the top leaves in response to the 24 hour lighting now. Shouldn't be a problem. One more heavy nutrient boost at 1200 ppm before tapering back to normal feeding of 800-900 ppm. Focused this feeding on N and P as it has more Magnesium than my normal feeding.
LST and Mainlining for the first time. Tried to be gentle. I'll definitely loose the lowest leaves and branches next time and top earlier. Not as shapely as I had in mind, but light is reaching every part of the plant better. Offered them up some nutrients backing down still to 1200 ppm. I may just keep it at 1200 every other watering until I see a sign of a problem. They did well on 1600ppm for a second before and after topping. Looking forward to see how my first plants ever respond to this kind of "training" I pained my OCD to see this beautiful growometry get thrown into bends and pulls but I get it. 🙏
once in a while just pushing some leaves away from growth and letting radiation come in better. mostly just letting the plants do their thing now for a while. staying at 1200 ppm and 6ph feedings every other watering. Really filling out after pinning them down and spreading them out. Happy plants.
here and there just moving clusters away from eachother gently with grow steaks and removing a fan leaf or two to allow for radiation coverage. I can tell I'm going to want another light for flowering and ive never seen any sign of nute burn sitting at about 1200 ppm so I'm going to start including some bloom and jump to a higher ppm and more water as they are getting bigger. Lets push these guys a little bit by a little bit and see where they start to stop me. going for a second feeding on a water day and bringing the nutes up to 1700 ppm then back to a big watering to get that out of the soil. started scrog at end of this week
Scrog start, getting my canopy spread out slowly to use the small space. creating a canopy along with giving time in veg for anything to naturally find its way into the grid. Branches are set for the most part. Every time the tent gets opened once a day i come out with a small handful of fan leaves, opening up a little room to breathe, and that may be blocking light to other heads.
Still taking out a few fan leaves at each watering or feeding. Lollipopped and just flipped light schedule from 24 hours of light to 12/12 to start flowering. (Hight limit) Think i found a male in this crop. might have to pull it.
Right before going to a festival had enough time to spot one male and the next day 3 more. I have the 4 but taking out half of the crop makes no sense to the available space. Thats the risk that's run with bag seeds. it's too late to train them around to make better use of space and even if I did try I'm into flower for too long to go back to veg and let them catch up to each other. I will definitely top twice next time. I will also, now that having a set-up and a good understanding, be using banked feminized seed. Now for the flowering education.
Starting the new regiment with molasses and cal-mag included. I brough branches into different scrog squares, and at angles to make a little more room to grow, as my light is now at the highest that it can go before branches are still too rigid.
Slightly working branches down and away from each other at times. Frostyness is really kicking in. I can see wanting a different light next time but this little thing has worked well none the less.
Just letting them do their thing. This site has been a great resource and I'll definitely be referring back to my grow when I do this next. For now I'm just letting things fill out. They've stopped reaching high for the sky. Coming up on my last moments before I flush.
Need to recalibrate my ph pen, eyeballed feeding day today. Trichomes still not yet turning amber. Really ripening though. No signs of any problems. Soil ph sitting at 6.8. Everything healthy.
Starting my flush this week. Smells waver from medium to light right now depending on water and humidity. I've been taking out fan leaves now and getting as much light to the lower larf as I can before harvest. All of these fan leaves are great in a shake. Now no more water. Brought my runoff down to aprox 300, 350 ppm with R.O. water. I used brita water through the grow to retain some of the calcium and magnesium already in the water.. I'm now starving them. No water or food for the week. In the last 48 hours of said week the lights will be off and I'll cut them and set the inkbird controllers to dehumidify a little harder and shut the tents vents if the temp permits.
This was my first grow ever, so I don't have a lot to compare to. I read up on each stage one stage ahead at a time through the grow to be ready for each transition. I look forward to the next grow to do even better. It stayed green in leaf and healthy all the way to harvest. It resisted some really hot days as this summer has been tough.
I stayed diligent retaining the conditions each week as has been expressed in this diary, save some of those hot days.
I'll be updating as it dries, gets trimmed,, and cured with weight.
Hello bro. Frankly, I don't care about its taste and smell. What are the effects of White Widow? Yes, it has a high thc rate, but can you talk about any effects that will distinguish it from other strains? Are there things that make it extraordinary? Can you describe how it makes you feel? What about the colours, music, thoughts and pleasures?
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