Trying to knock out a few more photoperiod grows with strains I really want to try some crosses with once I do grow a few males. White Widow seemed like a must-grow. Not sure if i have even smoked it before. Going to try to take this one to around 10 weeks in flower if I can. My first two grows I did two phenos of the same strain but have switched to doing two strains a run and tried to pair with another mid-flowering plant but I don't really have any I wanted to grow so i picked white widow even though mine is claiming 8 weeks. I was reading of people taking it up to 11 weeks. Another thing i could do is just stagger my harvest by two weeks if my new veg plants do not need to be transplanted into my flower tent. After trimming the last run, it would be nice to not have to trim a whole 4x8 tents worth in one go. Although it is pretty brutal for the two drying weeks as the only good place i have to dry my herb is my studio but is also where i spend most of my time.
Germination took 4 days. Let them float in distilled water overnight. Then I gave them a tap to seed if they would sink to bottom of cup and once they did I sow directly into my 5-gallon pots. I used pretty much all recycled soil this time with the exception of my seed start mix that I had made up covering the top 2 inches of the pots along with a small crater in the center for for the seedling to be happy in the first two weeks. This method seems to work well for me. Only time it did not work was with the two other Neville's seeds i had but they apparently have a poor germination rate as it is and i did it in a 30-gallon from start to finish. Up until now i have been breaking the 30-gallon pots into a clean trash can and letting them break down the 10 weeks it takes me to get new plants in and by then its more usable and reduces bringing gnats back in.I did re-amend with equal parts gia green 4-4-4 and power bloom, neem seed meal, humic acid and rock dust. I also am going to try to no-till into the 50-gallon pots and remand but will see how that goes. Its alot easier to transplant from 5 to 50 than 5 to 30 gallon.