4 Feminised White Widow - Bubbleponics

Current Setup

- 1 x Large BudBox
- 1 x 400W Ballast
- 1 x 400W MH bulb
- 1 x 400W HPS bulb
- 1 x Air Pump with 4 valves
- 4 x 5 gallon buckets
- 4 x Air-stones inside each bucket
- 1 x Intake fan
- 1 x Intake vent
- 1 x Outtake vent
- 1 x Digital pH tester
- 1 x Digital EC meter
- 5 x White Widow Feminised seeds
- pH Down, pH 7 buffer, EC calibrator, nutes

May 18th 2009

4 of the 5 WW seeds have sprouted, 3 of which have roots growing out of the peat pellet. I’m most likely to be planting the 4 seedlings with the best root growth. The 5th seed seems to be a little behind the others that have sprouted but hopefully will sprout in the next few days.

May 19th 2009

All 5 feminised WW seeds have sprouted. I have placed 4 of the seeds in the 5 gallon buckets with the air-stone turned on.
All pots are submerged in pH’d water with a tiny bit of nutrients in. EC meter is broken at the moment so I roughly estimated the amount of nutes within them. 2 of them have hardly any nutes at all.

Currently my MH bulb is broken due to transport, so I'm having to use the HPS bulb for now, but I should have a new bulb tomorrow. Is this ok for the seedlings? They're still on 18/6 with the HPS bulb.

May 20th 2009

All seeds seem to be doing just fine. WW2’s pH level jumped up to 6.2 overnight and I will be adjusting it back down later this evening.
I bought a new MH bulb earlier and will be fitting it later when I adjust the pH of one of my babies.


May 21st 2009

So the plants seem to be doing ok except I'm thinking the leaves are a little yellow? If anyone could give some advice about what they think then that would be appreciated.

Other than the slight yellowish look, they're doing great, nice and perky.

I have 1 spare baby still in the peat pellet. She keeps drying out quickly because of the light even to the point where she's completely flopped over. I'm not too sure what to do about her, because I only have 4 DWC buckets and it seems a waste to just throw her out.

Anyway, here are some more pics from earlier today.

May 23rd 2009

So it's been 2 days since I last posted pics and my girls seem to be doing just fine (I hope so anyway). I think my previous worry about the leaves being yellow was caused by heat stress, as I had the 400W MH light less than a foot away and it was real hot for them (my bad).

All have been keeping a very stable pH, each ranging between 5.4 and 5.8. I'll be cleaning out their water after a week of them being in the buckets, so in 3 days.

I'm wondering about root growth and whether or not the bottom of the net pot should be submerged in the water? Because so far I'm not seeing any root growth, should I be at this time? Or do I need to wait longer? Currently the net pots are sitting a couple of centimeters in the water.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Anyway, here are some pics of each of my baby girls.

Pics: ww1, ww1 closeup, ww2, ww2 closeup etc.

May 24th 2009

So all girls are now showing roots coming out of the net pots. I'm quite excited. They're all looking lovely today. I have a quick question if anyone feels they can answer it. How careful do I need to be when dealing with the roots? I'm talking about things such as lifting the net pot out of the bucket's lid, do I have to be careful not to let the scrape on the rough plastic edge, or can they handle more than I'm expecting them to?

I'll post pictures of the root growth sometime today.

May 25th 2009

I didn't get round to posting the pics of my girl's root growth yesterday, so I've taken a bunch of pics today.

Any feedback would be great.

The pictures go in this order:-

WW1
WW1 close-up
WW1 root growth

WW2
WW2 close-up
WW2 root growth

WW3
WW3 close-up
WW3 root growth

WW4
WW4 close-up
WW4 root growth

WW1 over-head
WW2 over-head
WW3 over-head
WW4 over-head

May 28th 2009

Some more pics of the girls from this afternoon.

I'm have concern for WW4, as it now has brown markings on the leaves, as you can see in the pic.

Pics:
WW1
WW1

WW2
WW2

WW3
WW3

WW4
WW4
WW4 brown marking