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I run two Ebb & Flow tents with rockwool starter cubes and 6x6x6 rockwool cubes for their duration. I have been running rockwool flood drain exclusively since 2012 just because its low maintenance, clean and normally yields decent results. As my previous journal is a few weeks away from harvest, I am prepping with 36 clones for the next cycle. I began with a single G13 Labs White Widow seed around 3 months ago, which I grew into a mother in my 2x4 tent. I just cut 36 clones off of her and am letting them root for a few weeks in my clone / mother tent. Once my current cycle is harvested I will move these into my 4x8 flowering tent. Depending on their size and health in a few weeks I will transplant them to larger rockwool cubes and move them all into my larger tent to continue their 18/6 for a week or two longer before flipping to flower. I will only be feeding them RO water with about 150 ppm's for the next two weeks. Looking forward to running this single strain SOG journal.
These clones were suffering because I forgot my heating pad was switched to always on. They dried out more than they should have and I lost 3 of the 32. Most of them are bouncing back and I'm going to run them for a couple weeks on 18/6 before flipping to 12/12. This is going to be a fun one!
Its been a bit of a quiet grow so far, just waiting for the action to start. I had to cut three new clones off my WW mother to replace three which didn't make it during rooting. I can't wait until there is more to show here.
This week I am flipping to 12 12 and changing out the nutes, turning on my second light, as I space out the white widow girls. I'm excited to be flipping to flower now. Although I started with 32 plants I lost 3 of the clones so this will be a 29 plant grow. Since the nutes and RO water for veg are still good, I'm transferring them to my smaller mother tent res (the pictures with bucket)
The plants are starting their flower stretch. I'm holding my breath on them not getting too tall or I'll need to drop my flood bed lower. They are happy thriving girls, and I need to prune them all back this week or I'm going to have a jungle soon.
Time to defoliate! The grow is steady eddy right now, and I'm beginning to see the beginning of calyx's now. I'll add more pictures at the end of the week too.
I defoliated a bunch more, and harvested 5 plants a bit early for necessity. So far probably about 5 dry oz harvested and the rest will still be going for a few more weeks. Everything looks and smells good although I did temporarily use tap water and I accounted for that in my nute ppm, i noticed it did still make a negative difference on the quality, with more burnt tips etc. I'm hoping I can get enough clones off the mother to do another run of these. I absolutely love the medication this white widow provides.
Things are bouncing back from the bad water week previously. I did some defoliation, and have already harvested about 5 plants along with sampling a bit early. Absolutely great effect this white widow provides and I can't wait for these girls to finish up.
So I had a rough week with lighting but an exciting week with a new RO system I installed. My light timer accidentally got bumped to always on and I was unaware for about a week. I realized when the night time temps were not dropping in the tent and the tops of the buds started sprouting veg growth (not good). I've already sampled these though and although they don't look like they would win a beauty contest, they certainly have a powerful nice long lasting indica dominant effect. I just cut 36 more clones of these off my mother plant and they will be going into flower in about a week.
Harvest was nice although I wasn't able to get pictures of the whole harvest in a single shot. I did have a mistake this grow, in that the final week the lights stayed on 24 hours a day (inadvertently the timer got bumped to always on). It didn't seem to have much of an effect on quality, but its not my finest batch.
You will not regret growing this strain oh god she is so sticky lovly widow taste takes you back :) Great start cant wait to see this grow progress. :) 👊