Auto White Widow - First time

So this is my first time growing anything ever. Did my research but experience is something you learn as you go. Here for thoughts and advice from experienced growers. I actually had 5 Auto WW to begin with but one died do to heat stress. And me being unpatient (Amazon took forever on my order and didn’t have a thermometer and vent, came 5 weeks after ordering) and starting my grow early thinking id have everything on time. Started germinating on 6/6 and by Saturday 6/8 planted in my 5 gal pots with 70/30 coco to perlite. The white labels are ones in which the miracle grow perlite was flushed while the pink are unflushed. Def flush them..These pictures are a the end of week one after planting so 6/15. Didn’t give any nutes for the first few days which i later found out I should have once the first serrated leaves started appearing since im growing in coco coir. Maybe one of plants wouldnt of died 😭. Actually I should have just ran 2 boards or dimmed my lights. My setup 4x 288 LM301B 3000k/660nm Quantum boards each at 120 watts 48x48x80” Ohuhu Grow tent Ipower 6 inch 350 CFM inline Mother earth Coco Coir 50L Miracle grow perlite (all i could find locally) Inkbird AC Dual stage humidity controller Vivosun 5 Gallon 300G fabric pots General Hydroponics Flora Trio, and PH control kit Botanicare Cal-mag Plus Pancellent TDS and PPM reader Great White Mycorrhizae

Day 14 end of week 2, 6/22 planted 6/8. Introduced silica halfway through this week and definitely recommend although I accidentally went by the bottle dosage of 1ml/gal and blasted my plants with too much silica given they became very sharp and greener, darker. I also noticed my main plant I topped was getting really dark and leaves were getting wrinkly and overall didnt look so healthy this on my third week which I will post tomorrow as that ends my third week. I raised the lights some, have temps at 76-85, also giving them 19hrs of light and 4 hrs! Yes I am slowly moving their sleep schedule an hour a day til i get the lights to shut off during Noon to eventually 6pm, currently 6/28 today they turned off at 3:30pm and turned on at 7:30pm. Also took the time to adjust my nutes, getting rid of FLORA GROW since i believe they are getting too much Nitrogen but we will see. Tested run off and the smaller plant tested at 6.55ph and the larger one that was topped also around that range. My solution was ph’d down to 6.05 on my reader and poured slowly and was able to bring the runoff down to 6.10ph also giving more bloom as i saw signs of phosphate def. ppm was around 200-250. Hopefully they look better for tomorrows picture updates! Update. No didn't get rid of Grow, what happened seemed was the shock by the topping seem to of have caused it from up-taking the nutrients it was use too, therefore causing it to build up some of the nitrogen in the medium. Next time after topping, I'll probably give it a much lesser dose of nitrogen and watch the leaves day by day for any toxicity once it seems to of 'caught' up I'd go back to the regular feeding schedule.

Tough week, adjusted soil ph and nutrients. Growing wide but not very tall? My lights are 3000k with some extra red in there. Assuming just genetics, otherwise looking better than the day before update - ignore the feeding schedule, wasn't much of a difference from last week. here is where I messed up, cut off too many leafs while also lst'ing. It was simply to young at this point I didn't know what I was doing. Also should of bumped up calmag at this point.

leaves were really dark green and clawing earlier in the week, dialed down their feed. less nitrogen, the new growth is looking vibrant. They are definitely more thirsty and always seem to have a bigger growth overnight on nights i feed them. So experimenting with feeding them lower amounts and more often instead of having too much runoff and not watering for 2-2 1/2 days. The defoliating one looks good, tall 8 inch and the heavy defoliating def help some as it was the 2nd smallest and now one of the tallest. Pre flowering The topped one is short 6 inch after lst. Has the most tops and really hopeful its going to flourish. The tallest and more vibrant one was not topped nor heavily defoliated just some lst. The smallest one, the ugly one is preflowering lol and doesnt have to many tops nor very tall. Ive done nothing to it and very lst. Always was the small one so never touched it too much. But my qb board fell on it the other day and luckily they are both fine 🤦‍♂️🏽. Just shaved off a few fan leaves

Good week, they rooted the whole pots and confess I've been using Great White Mycorrhizae every 2 weeks since I've started maybe it helped lol had a lot of height added and LST’d it back down, they were droopy from not being fed enough earlier this week and drinking a lot more, about half a gallon every 2 days. The topped WW is the tallest and the widest of all 4, def recommend topping for this strain as long as its growing quick and healthy, if i could go back I would of topped my biggest and leave the smaller ones alone. This is end of week 5 and didn't take pics of the pistils unfortunately but they all started showing them, about 5 days apart so a few of the plants, the shorter ones will probably be harvested earlier.

Pistils everywhere! The smell is much stronger but the carbon filters do a perfect job filtering it out. The week started off slow, no growth from Sunday to Tuesday, PH was over 7 and flushed it down to 6. Growth resumed Wednesday and doing great. My smallest plant is actually the one that was defoliated early in veg, big mistake that had to do with timing. Height from 10-14" with lst.

Finally moved the lights closer, been wanting too but my biggest plant was having issues and upping all their doses seems to have helped so far. Added silicon every other feeding and some great white for the last time. Runoff is better, humidity is better, temps are a lil higher but they seem to be fine. My smallest is a mere 12.5 inches, followed by 13.5, 14.75 and 16.5. They seem to love the light distance and sad my lights come with no recommended distance so all by trial and lil research.

Was a pretty easy week, just fed everyday. Dropped the GHE grow, they seem to of slowed growth and haven’t seen much of a difference in height last 3-4 days. A bit of leave curling so also working my nutes just slightly down a bit to find the balance. They really thickened up this week like I am shocked, hopefully they keep it up. Height 13.5, 14.5, 15.5 and 18.5. My topped plant is my biggest one, drinks about a gallon a day at least.

Decent week, plants are growing slowly and drinking less now that they aren’t stretching, humidity jumps around 50’s to low 60’s at night. Got rid of calmag since I keep reading calcium is a semi-mobile nutrient. Want it out before I harvest maybe in 2-3 weeks. Ph was low also around 5.3 and fixed that as well. Other then that, they look good haven’t seen any dead leaves, smell great, lots of trichomes.

My back left plant is finally gaining some weight, its been lagging far behind the rest. My front right was the first to flower early week 5 maybe day 30 and has matured the fastest. Maybe done in less then a week, took a clipping (sample) hope it bulks up more, the other two are on par with each other and trichomes are still clear from when I last looked Tuesday day 66. Leaves started discoloring bad so I’m not giving up calmag, big mistake! So much none sense on the internet, my sample will be dry within a few days and ill see whether or not I’m going to be doing a flush or not, leaning towards not as I don’t see the point of hurting my plants, research shows you lose quite a bit of yield when you flush.

This was a really bad week, the week started off with my leaves slowly turning yellow from the top down, my biggest plants PH had dropped to around 5 and wouldn’t go up. It took about three days to get up to a decent level. My other ones seems to of stopped yellowing. The smallest one has not grown at all and the pistils were turning brown all over. Dried so I went through and cut it down Wednesday. Around 400G Wet, 388 to be exact. I did take a sample last week and after curing it definitely smokes good even most of the trichomes weren’t ready. Good news, I bumped my lights to max, was around 340 watts for four QB boards. Didn’t have a small enough screwdriver to adjust drivers til now. So each panel gets full 120 watts. Although I am only running three now.

Cut down half of the largest plant earlier in the week due to that half dying for unkown reason. The rest I cut down Sunday, these are its final pics. The trichomes were cloudy, maybe not %100 more around 80-90 on average but I’m fine with that, Sunday would of been technically 87 days from seed to chop. Got some huge dense colas! My small one I cut down at week 11 got me 82G dry, well over twice what I thought I would get due to the dense nugs. I am thinking I’ll get close to a pound dry total no way to weigh the wet weight atm but all of them together is quite heavy.

Definitely happy with the results, three of my plants could of gone to week 13 but with the issues I was having it was better not to. Probably going to go for a photoperiod sativa maybe 60/40 or 70/30. Two plants, four was too much work.