White Widow Auto

5 WW auto seeds for my first grow. Trying to get informed and learn as much as I can. ~10-12hrs pre-soak in water cup -> seeds in peat pellets in a propagator LED: Mars reflector 96 in a 70*70 space Light feed in soil; "enough utrients for 1 week" day 4: transfer to 11L pots (filled maybe 9L)

thinking about adding root stimulator. Still have not needed to water the pots. The plants love 24/0. Going to need fan and filter relatively soon...

giving a little root stimulator It's a shame there is not enough soil! But the plants will deal with it. Stems are growing beautiful and thick. Temps were a little high. All are growing very fast. 👽

Slight chlorosis at the tips of the new growth Nothing to complain about anyway, they are 99% healthy and looking great Done some foliar feeding and regular feeding... Intense growth but the new growth still looks funky

4 Girls and a fresh smell. (Plant height measured from the top of soil) Vigorous growth. Very thirsty. Yellow-tipped new growth remains, but it seems insignificant. As leaves mature, only small tips remains yellow. Corkscrewing has stopped, so that is a good sign. Hairs and buds are appearing everywhere. No signs of N toxicity... (clawing) The small re-potted one is living somewhere else. It has grown some pollen sacks! Rootbound → repot → way different light schedule → 2x topping Learning every day. Documenting the "flower stretch": Day 1: 65cm Day 6: 80cm Day 7: 90cm Truly insane growth in the last ~36hrs

They grew rapidly in the last week. The problem of the yellow tipped new growth is still there. So I decided to give them a load of water with just a drop of nutrient (+75ppm). It has been happening since before I've really started feeding them. The soil is a light mix with ~1 week of nutrient. Maybe it is a nutrient burn anyway. It's kind of hard to tell. Buds are growing bigger :)

Pics from day 4 of this week. Now we see some purpling. I think it's due to temps. Purpling is closer to LED, where the "on/off" difference in temperatures s bigger Gave plain water last week; some deficiencies are now apparent at the bottom leaves so I feed them again. 550 ppm in 220 ppm tap water @ 6.7 PH Buds are beginning to look nice though :)

This week, the buds are getting fatter The purpling has gotten rather extreme on one cola. It's not happening on other ones which are at an equal distance from the lights. Oh well I noticed a lot of general yellowing of the plants so I gave them a good dose of nutrients. Let's hope they get fat 👽 Later I will post some pictures with the LED off

Purpling on one plant, lots of light-colored fan leaves on the others. The buds keep growing and maturing. The seed source says 9 weeks but I am aware they often take longer. I wonder if the top buds will eventually grow to the size of the preflower buds.

No complaints here... looks like some good bud. Picked a seed from one of those huge calyxes. Hope there's not too many in the plants. 😊 I think they are pretty close to ready. Should examine the trichomes later, Right click -> Open picture in new tab to get a better view Seems like the pinched top actually got fatter than other tops. Might try this technique in another grow

Just plain tap water this week. At the end of w10 I gave less nutrients. 4 plants are wildly different. Not the best genetics, I guess. Totally different buds, colors and THC (front left plant seems to produce the least THC). Also, slightly different stages of maturity. Looks like it will be a great smoke! There is hardly any smell.

Overall there are a lot of "fall colors". The plants look ready for chopping but the trichomes are still clear/white mixed (mostly white) so I think I'm leaving them as long as I can until I see a few ambers. day 3: 10-20% amber trichomes on one plant. Chopped day 4: chopped another. The other plants' trichomes are still white Will update when harvest is complete :)

Waiting for the last 2 plants to finish. One will be ready any day, the shorter one might take until the end of the week. This strain barely smells at all. Hopefully some curing will bring out a little flavor. The buds on big colas are super sticky and very dense. The tops are not very fat but slim and compact. I am pretty pleased and learned a lot.

Well, the last 2 plants were chopped yesterday. It has been a very educative and fun experience. Thanks to the kind strangers here for the help and interest. Some bud is already curing in jars. When everything else is dry and trimmed I will come back with the harvest update and pictures. You can check out my next plant, Critical XXL, here: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/12361-critical-xxl-zambeza Shoutouts to jazz, slugface, mr banana fort, AJ and jonko killer 👍

Everything has been curing for 1.5-3 weeks now, so I think it is time to do some weighing and bring the conclusion to this diary. The weight currently is 135 grams. I have only weighed the quality buds, not included is a jar full of fluffy low-quality stuff. I'm sure the weight will decrease a bit over time as the buds cure further. I have trimmed most of the stems and leaves so that there is as little excess weight as possible. Super sticky. A very sugary smell has started to develop in the jars. I sampled some of the dried fluffy schwag but have not smoked any of the good stuff. I think the bud will develop a very sweet taste. I learned a lot. Thanks everyone for checking out my first grow. :)