12vs Mainlined White Widow

Welcome to my first grow journal.


-most recent pic of White Widow #2




Training Plan:

• Mainline each White Widow for 8 colas

Grow Room/Equipment:

Electrical:

• Converted my 50amp welding cord to supply a sub panel I made for two dedicated 20 amp circuits, as well as a custom 8 outlet box.

Lights:

• Flower - 600w HPS w/ Digital Ballast & EasyCool 6 Reflector hung from these.
• Veg 300w LED (400w mh on hand now)

Ventilation:

• 303 cfm Fantech 6" inline fan
• Flower room 16" oscillating Hurricane .
• Veg room 6" clip on fan

Gadgets:

• Accurite Temp/Humidity gauges.

• Lux Win100 temp controlled outlet.

• Heavy duty appliance timer from Lowes.

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Day 1
March 29th, 2015

• Planted two feminized White Widow sprouts

Day 3 - "Rise and shine"
April 1st, 2015

• White Widow growing up, and planted two Nirvana Freebie seeds

Day 13
April 11th, 2015

• All 4 growing together, and testing flower room rack fitment

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Day 17 - "let there be better light"
April 15th, 2015

• Topped both White Widows once

Day 28
April 26th, 2015

• Mainlined White Widows at the 3rd node

Day 30
April 28th, 2015

• Growth flipped back up toward the light

• Nirvana Freebies growing strong, ready for mainline soon as well (much taller less bushy than the widows)

Day 31
April 29th, 2015

• Planted 1 Purple Kush seed

Day 33
May 1st, 2015

• Topped again for 4 colas

Day 36
May 6th, 2015

• Topped White Widows only again for 8 colas

Day 45

May 15th, 2015

• 8 colas starting to peak

• FIM'd the baby Purple Kush

• She works out

Day 50
May 20th, 2015

• 8 cola and 7 cola White Widows side by side

• Purple Kush

Day 52
May 22nd, 2015

• Transplanted one White Widow into a 5 gallon smart pot to compare end result of 3 gallon to 5 gallon between the two White Widows who are mainlined.

Day 54
May 24th, 2015

• FIM'd Purple Kush growing up nicely at 25 days old

• Training going well, installed a wire system to hold colas in place

To be continued......

 

Day 57
May 27th, 2015

• Gave first feeding of 1/2 tsp per gallon of General Organics Bio-Thrive Grow.
• The simple FIM and bend in the purple Kush is opening up all the top sites.  I might stick with this method next time if I can get good results based on how quick and little stress the plant sees. 

• Completed the final structure for my 7 cola White Widow, she's ready to skyrocket colas now. 

• Left 4 shoots in the middle of the 8 cola White Widow to potentially snag as clones or leave to grow?  I think they'll just end up blocking light for the main colas later so i'll probably clip and clone them for next go.   

\n\nRandom site note, the White Widow in the 5 gallon smart pot has already far surpassed the 3 gallon in size when I check nodes.

 

They look great so far, i'll be sure to follow along. 

 

I got mine from Nirvana, the 5 seed feminized batch.  Hopefully yours take off  just as well, White widow seems like the perfect indoor plant.
 
I don't have anything to compare to since this is my first grow, but if you don't mind a full 8-9 week veg I love mainlining so far.  8 colas that you'll have full control over appealed to me instead of having a jungle for my first grow and wondering what was going on in there.
 
I watched a grow from Nebula haze pretty close before I started, and the last 10 days of veg seemed to make all the difference in the colas and they ended at 9 weeks veg.  Thats the point i'm at right now, deciding how big I can go before i'll run into trouble with flower stretch.
 
 
Day 62* 
May 30th, 2015

• getting much bigger by the day (the sativas on the right refuse to stay down, lol)

 

• random trunk pics

 

Day 63
May 31st, 2015
\nTransplanted second White Widow into a 5 gallon fabric pot.  The different color leaves between plants I believe is from a root issue on the one I transplanted today.  The 3 gallon pot had 2 smooth stones at each drain hole (a suggestion on the forum somewhere that I didn't read enough into it apparently since thats a no-no.  So I hope the leaves will turn bright green again like her sister with the transplant and fresh soil surrounding instead of rocks.
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Flower Day
Day 67
June 4th, 2015
\nThey're 12/12 now.  Here are the White Widow's  (the runt is definitely still smaller, next time i'll sort out slow growers at week 1)
Look at 4 days of growth since the last pic!  Only 1 real 12/12 night so far.

 
Always fun seeing the stems get fatter and fatter 
 

 

Day 68
June 5th, 2015

• Im sure everyone's prayed for a female at some point, thankfully the nirvana freebies are female!  

 

• The 1 month veg time fim'd Purple Kush is looking to produce 6 or so smaller colas, can see it peeking in the back left. (very very tempted to throw it outside......i'm the most indecisive person about these things)

 

3 day old clones.
 
I put them right in ocean forest, a dome, tube lights on 24/7.  
 

 
 
The funky looking one on the left was funky looking before I cut it
 

 
55-70% humidity with the smart pots, so I think its time to replace the duct boosters, lol.  I was thinking of this Fantech fan, if anyone's had experience with it that'd be nice to hear if it will clear a 5x5 room well.  

 

Thanks for following guesswhat.  Pretty excited to see how these shape out over the next few weeks.

 

Day 72
They're growing ~2" a day now, welcome to the jungle    So damn excited.

 
 
Useless garage tool #1 found a use watering hard to get to plants, lol. 
 

 

I just hope I didn't veg too long and have height issues later.  I'll have to check when the lights come back on, but I had about 24" of room for them to stretch and still give me 12 or so inches to the light.  I see pics of people with stray colas almost touching the light, once my inline fan comes I might be able to pull that off with the added cooling. 

 

6" fantech inline and speed controller arrived.
 
68 watts on the sticker, I swore they used more (maybe older versions did?)

 
Hoping to knock temps from 79-81 to 75.
 
Replacing two 6" duct "boosters", I needed a real inline fan for the 5x5.

 

Got this one. 303cfm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WCW9U0/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2VCOZMMU5A8B1
 
I have it at about 30% right now and temps are 73F.  Might be quieter than the duct booster at this speed.  On max it pulls like a train and sucks my door shut, lol