Widow Grow

Late start to my grow journal but better late than never. Quick run down to play catch up on my situation. I started with a mix pack of the widow strains(Black Widow, White Widow, Chronic Widow) from ILGM and all but 2 seeds sprouted. I took the healthiest 5 plants(2 BW, 2 CW, 1 WW) for my DIY DWC/drain to waste hydroponics set up. The first few weeks were a real struggle to keep the plants healthy and avoid bacteria issues, root rot took over the only white widow and had to take extreme measures and transplant it from hydro to an airpot. Btw it is possible to transplant from hydro to coco coir, it stresses the plant but it was able to recover. I bought a 4 pack of airpots so I could transplant the WW and since I took some clones from the BW & CW, I decided to plant them in the remaining 3 airpots. So that is why my tent set up is a little crazy. Now that you have some kind of idea of whats going on inventory wise. Now onto the plant set up. Both CW's and 1 BW are tied down underneath a net for a SCROG grow, only reason I did this was to allow the other plants to catch up while I was dealing with root rot and other issues. So 3/8 plants are Scrog in hydro, 2/8 are plants that were topped and veg'd for 8 weeks(1 is hydro,1 is coco), and the remaing 3/8 plants are clones that were sent to flower a week after rooting and are in coco in airpots. I am running a 400W HPS along side of a 1500W LED, I am fully aware that the 1500W LED is not really generating that amount of power but it is a decent rated light from amazon with two light spectrum switches. Three small fans are running across the tops of the plants and one underneath moving air, plus a 6 in exhaust fan with carbon filter for constant air movement. Temperature and humidity are being controlled by digital controllers and everything is on timers. The DWC/Drain to Waste hydro set up is set up to water every 3 hours from a 15 gallon res and airpots are on timers to fresh water rinse in the middle of the week and nutrient waterings are done by hand in the beggining and end of the week. Please bare with me with this grow journal. I'm terrible at capturing my grow information and pictures but will make a better effort to share my experience. ANY AND ALL ADVICE IS WELCOMED!

Plant are looking healthy. The WW that I had to transplant from hydro to coco is fully recovered and roots are already coming out the bottom of the airpot. All three clones are growing healthy and keeping up with the top of the canopy. Ran a mini flush at the end of the week to start the new week out with fresh nutrients.

Started the week out with a mini flush and nutrient change. Plants are looking healthy and seem to be slowing down on the stretch and beginning to form some beautiful bud sights. I defoliated the main plants in the beginning of the week for the last time and will let them finish out their grow without anymore haircuts lol. The BW clones both have stretched pretty tall so far for being a clone going straight to 12/12. The CW clone is doing well and filling out already. So far so good on the grow.

The buds are here and growing. Not much going on in the garden, everything is running smooth. The CW's are about 30" tall and the BW's are right around 24" but the BW's nodes are super close together and seem like they may make some dense buds. All of the clones took off and are creating some beautiful buds.

Started out the week with a mini flush and nutrient change. The plants are doing great, the buds are filling out and leaves are beginning to get frosty.

Started the week out with a mini flush and nutrient change. Fed the clones that are in the coco coir and they are thickening up well and producing solid buds. This might become an every grow thing, its looking like it will produce a good amount of bud for being a 12/12 clone.

Overall, the garden is doing great. Had a scare with the WW with letting it dry out a little but it looks like its going to be fine. The pistils are starting to change color and leaves are starting to lose color but the buds are fattening up. I can't wait to see how they all turn out.

-Grow is going great. Swelling up -I've been dropping the temps and humidity down during lights off. The temps don't drop below 66 degrees and I try to bring the humidity level down to 30-35% several times throughout the dark period. -Starting my flush. On my hydro plants, I will be using florakleen and hydroguard in water with a ph level of 6.0-6.2. -Flushing the plants in coco with ph balanced water and blackstrap molasses for the remainder of the grow. A nice experiment to see what difference it makes.

Going to be harvesting the plants this week. I've been flushing the hydro plants with water and FloraKleen but flushing the coco plants with water and blackstrap molasses, excited to see the difference. I am trying the 24 hours of darkness before cutting them down, this will be my first time doing this but again, I'm excited to try new things and find my growing style. Took the plants out to breathe and took some pics of the BW's and the clones. More to come ***Cut the plants down on day 60 of Flower. I think I could have spread the harvest out over the week but my tent doubles as my drying tent. 😂 I will post my final harvest once my buds are fully manicured and ready for jars.

These ladies stretched over top all the other strains and had some solid buds.

This one was a headache but that was mostly my fault. I can't rate it fairly since I caused some issues and had to transplant it from hydro to coco but the buds look and smell amazing. I def want to retry this grow.

This strain wasn't too hard to grow and and grew short and bushy.