White Widow fem CropKingseeds

Just getting started. Started soaking 5/5 for 24 hrs. The into wet paper towel in baggie near heater for 24 hrs. Each cracked with a small showing of white. Then placed into solo cups with leap frog covered with about 1/8" of soil and watered with tap water a bit and covered with plastic wrap and placed in front of heater at 75 degrees F for 2 days. By end of second day all three poked through. Then into 10 gallon fabric pots full of leap frog. They appear to not like something I am doing but not in intense danger. Will not water for 2 days. Added Cal mag 2.5mL ph 6.2 1/3 gal each nothing else. removed baggies on all except smallest. Added intake fan and switched to 18/6. (Dark from 11pm-5am). This White Widow strain is more sensitive than Norther Light due to its sensitivity to nutrients and water which NL NEVER EVER showed me.

Heater stopped working; so need to replace. Explains the 65 degrees! No overwatering and no nute burn on new growth! The 0.33 gallons per 24 hour per plant is REALLY going to be 0.33 gallons twice a week; next is Wednesday or Thursday. Heater should be in by then, too. [Nope, damn Amazon is bringing it June 1st. Maybe I will buy one local as a back up.] Things are going very well right now. Thinking about how to do a perpetual harvest, cloning, and mothers. Each plant has 3 nodes currently. (Will top after 6th node visible to begin manifolding into 8 colas. At this growth rate that may be the end of the week if the heat doesn't affect it too much.) [as of 5/26 Tuesday, The plant has 5 nodes if you count the cotylhedons. ] *Remember to shake all your bottles before mixing AND EVEN the ph down bottle!!!!* [5/28, Holy shit the Big Bloom container's liquid went from clear to brown? Did I finally shake the bottle enough to loosen up aged sediment? WTF!] *Shake your bottles more than you think you need to!* 5/31 - Plant A and B showed slight leaf curling, dryness, and darker green coloring. Since there has been so much growth I expect that curling due to too much light. Went from 21" up to 27". Plant A 3.5" tall, B 5", C 6". Nodes: A and B have 5 visible while C has 6. Turned up the temperature one notch , but I should move it to a 18/6 on off. I expect by the end or middle of this week all will have at least 6 nodes and I will top above the third to begin manifolding a la Nebula. Week 3 of veg starts tomorrow. I need to increase humidity also thinking of the dry leaves. I will likely put a humidifier in this week on a low setting to see what it does.

[6/2] Adding 5ml/gallon of Cal mag (2.5mL was an error), and of A B C: B and C are ready for topping at third node (6th node is visible and differentiated from 5th node); just waiting a few more days for plant A to catch up to the rest. Added a Jalapeno plant to grow area since on 6/2 this morning frost is killing it slowly outside despite covering all plants with sheets. [6/3] Turned up the heat more since the temp was at 73 degrees (good for the pepper plant coming in from the cold). Every plant had 6 discernable nodes, so I topped at 1/4" to 1/2" above the third node after cleaning my scissors. Very exciting and disturbing. Another grower was shocked I topped them. We will see. [6/5] No problems noted from the topping. Everything needs watering, put its gonna be plain water ph'd to 6.2 and only 1/3 each. Putting another gallon or so into humidifier but will turn it down so it lasts 2 days. Temp was 85 and 50% when i checked earlier. Can't LST yet. May try to clean the leaves. [6/8] switched back to 24 hours on due to the fact I have an electrician working up to 8 hours a day on some shit in the attic. Cross your fingers! Room was 91 degrees at 64% RH, lowered the heat by one notch which should bring it down to low to mid 80s. Each plant had 4 nodes on them so the second phase of Nebula's Manifold was done today. I just need to go down later today and LST everything with some 10 or 12 gauge wire. Gave each a little bit of water, not ph'd so around 7.0. I will begin taking clones late this week or next.

[6/9] - I may have Mainlined a bit too early on 2 or all plants. There are little nubs that count as 3rd nodes, but they so tiny! I wanted to get it done to allow time to recover and veg. One or two leaves on a plant look like nutrient burn, but I thing it may be stress or pH problem on that plant. I don't know it is new growth. Also, I expect to see problems this week as I did not use my pH meter but I guessed based on what I had been doing last week. I just hope the plants forgive me! It was challenging to put enough pressure to LST well without breaking the stems. Some I was able to be aggressive others not as much. It will take daily to every other day adjustment and moving of tie downs for the foreseeable future. I used 10 gauge spool wite, but its stranded wire so it kind of sucks. I would prefer solid piece wire. I had turned down the heat because it was getting in the 90s, but then it dropped to 75, so up it goes again! Today I added 1 gallon of nutes to each plant; will water again on Saturdsay I think. [6/10] - LST snapped Plant B's 2nd node today. All other LST good. Removed LST from Plant B until its determined if I have supercropped unintentionally or reduced by Colas from 8 to 6 lol. Also, wtf! The light and heat are off! Who what and how!? It comes back to the timer/constant power strip being off. It must have been triggered somehow. I removed any tension on the device to eliminate what may have been the problem. Hopefully Flowering or hermis were not triggered. The humidity was 100% with a temp of 55 degrees. Jesus!!! I guess I am checking the plants before work at 5:30am now. Loverly. [6/12] - When waiting for the 4th node on the second cutting during Nebula, wait 1-2 more days if its too close to call and you risk cutting the nodes you need. Now I have a plant with only 5 node points which will make the colas either taller or fatter or both making it harder to dial in temp humidity and light during flowering.

[6/14] - Cut off the 2 main leaves under each manifold. Adjusted the LST to make tings flat with some mild super-cropping (HST?). Watered each with 1/2 gallon of water. New pH meter reads 6.0 after all nutes and without pH down. Odd? Since last meter usually showed 7.2 at the start. WTF? Probably should calibrate to make sure. Grr. Smell is increasing enough for wife to notice when door is open for 30 minutes. Don't know what other defoliation I should do since Nebula Manifold doesnt mention it at all. Don't know what else to do but wait for it to grow about 19 inches, then switch to 12. Maybe by the end of the week? IF so, I would flush at week's end. [6/18] - Replaced 2nd heater, maybe burned out due to the power strip I used which was the same model as the one that fucked up before. I am done with these two models! New Volcano heater coming and new powerstrip coming. Good growth continues. I measured 8 inches of soil, with 8 inches of plant, totalling 16 inches from bottom. The light and filter are 14" from ceiling of tent. Leaving me with 30" of growth room left. 8 inches of plant with 30 available means that total plant cannot be taller than 38 inches, THUS I would want 1/2 of total to be when I switch to 12/12. 1/2 of 38" is 19", so 19-8 = 11 more inches before switching out of veg. Will this be by the end of the week? Will I have more electrical problems?!

[6/22] - The heater dried some of the plant it was hitting so I had some dried out tops that needed to be topped a node or two. The heater should have been lower hitting the sides of the bag rather than the plant matter. Anyway, I traded out the crappy heater for Vornado! Trying on low settings first then working up a bit at a time. Still using humidifier off and on. I should be more consistent and refill it daily. Plants grew 4" since last measurement. Did some minor LSTing of a few taller colas not too much. I have 7" more to grow in veg before switching to 12/12. I expect by the end of the week. Removed old built in timer power strip for a an AFC one that has good ratings. I do need to secure it better with some duct tape to keep it from putting stress on the heater plug. Smell has not increased. Did not water today or yesterday as the temp was only 70 degrees when I got in today. I hope to have it up to 80 to 85 by end of the day after playing with the Vornado. No change in nutes yet. I plan to flush on Sunday before switching to 12/12. I am tempted to defoliate but I won't do that until a few weeks into flowering and just the lower canopy. [6/24] - Nute watered .5 gallon each at about 6.2 pH. When I had done previous calculations I had forgotten about leaving space between light and canopy during flowering which will be between 12" max closeness to 18". 60" tent - 12" for light and filter = 48" -18" for flowering light space = 30"-8" of soil in pots = 22" of total available growth. Theory is that when reached half of desired growth switch to 12/12; in this case is 11" tall. Plants are after current round of LST: 9", 11" and 12". Theoretically, any time would be good to switch them over. Perhaps 1-2 days of LST recovery, then flush with 2 gallons of 6.2 plain water into container for each plant, then switch over to 12/12. Did some mild defoliation today on fan leaves. ONe plant appears like its leaves are smalle than the other two. Only explanation is that this is the plant that got the brunt of heat stress from the old heater. Bad news is that I had hoped the electrician would have been done by now fucking around, but no. So there is a risk of fucked up shit happening next week after I switch to 12/12; unless I make it so its only on from 9pm to 9am? UGH. Added second fan blowing down from top and lowered light to around 22"

[6/27 - 2/3-1 gallon of ph'd 6.2 water for each plant. No further LST done until more difference noted between cola size. Will be on all night until 10am tomorrow morning, then off during the day so that the Electrician won't fuck with the need 12 hours of light when he fucks around. May not give any nutes this week as I have noticed the tips of one plant reacting as if it has nute burn. Will water again on Wednesday or thursday. Next Saturday or Sunday I will switch over to flowering nute levels week 1, but I am going to give half strength since I seem to be pushing the edge already with normal levels. No stipid algorthm I am not feeding them. [6/29 - Hard to believe I started this back on 5/5! Looks like I will be going at least another 8 weeks putting me at 8/29 to harvest! Manifolding took extra time I guess. At 1030pm, I will check on the plants since my time has light on 12/12 starting light at about 10pm. I will just give plain water at 6.2 tonight. Plus measure and check distance from light as well as temp and add water to humidifier. Did some light LSTing --couldnt do it well since the woman and child were running around over my head smelling the door being open indubitably. [7/2] - Hard to check easily when its set to dawn at 10:30pm! Definite stretch of 4 inches all around. Noticed some yellowed leaves on the bottom. No super duper signs of disease just aged out I guess. Will remove soon. Did not water as the soil was mildly dry but not arid dry. This is the first grown where I have not seen any signs of algae. Of course I used to water every single freaking day with nutes! WTF, if it wasnt for that other shit being NL, it would have been bad. Sizes are 19, 18, and 16 inches relative to the last measurements. Tips of at least one plant showed nute burn, but not all over...so is it on the edge of nute burn OR is it just a phonotype thang?

Lots of space between bud sites noted thus the stretch. Distance to light is short at 16" but plants dont care. The smallest of the 3 plants is only 2" behind at its highest point. I didnt do LSTing but I will in the next day or so. Gave each plant about 3/4 to 1 gallon of nutes phd to just under 6.2. Leaves on the bottom of the plants are yellowing and/or falling off: this is normal. No signs of malnutrition anywhere. My wife asked how much longer? I told her 2 months at least. I guess she expects me to not grow again right afterwards. Ha!

Trimmed about 1/3 of bottom growth off leaving mostly colas. Did I cut too much? 1/6th was falling off dried and yellowed anyway and now wow. Once 12/12 started my humidity levels became 73% or more at 73 degrees. No damage except maybe could have been better growth with more perfect numbers? The plants are very beautiful especially the 8 cola rectangle of symmetry. Gorgeous. I want them all like that from now on lol. Getting worried since I have never take a grow this far. Remain calm....