My Nirvana White Widow/Bubblicious Grow

This is my first auto flower grow, and my first grow in about 8 years.
As the title says, Nirvana White Widow x3 and Bubblicious x1.
I’m growing in a 4x4 tent, in soil, 3 gallon plastic pots.
They sprouted and we’re kept under a 4 bulb T5 fixture for 2 weeks then moved
under 400w HPS until earlier this week I put in an HLG 550 v2 rspec.
My soil is a mix of FFOF and FFHF with added perlite.
I’m using Dr. Earth dry nutrients, Life and Flower Girl.
Keeping my watering at proper ph 6.3 - 6.8 and just started adding
cal/mag when I hung the new light.
P.S. The ages are, White Widow #1- 42 days, Bubbliciou- 31 days, and
White Widow #2 and 3- 28 days. All have had LST and White Widows 2 and 3
were topped at 15 days.
If they look a little droop, I just gave them a good soaking right befor

My eldest, White Widow #1

Pretty plants. How did the topping go on your widows? My next grow will be my 2nd time and I really want to top it. I will eventually do lst but topping seems like an easy one step process to gain a little more weight. I feel discouraged by all of the don't top autos talk. The seed is a critical purple from growers choice and everyone I've talked to that grew that strain said it goes way longer than expected so I figure it will respond well. Thanks for reading

Jman108227 said:

Pretty plants. How did the topping go on your widows? My next grow will be my 2nd time and I really want to top it. I will eventually do lst but topping seems like an easy one step process to gain a little more weight. I feel discouraged by all of the don't top autos talk. The seed is a critical purple from growers choice and everyone I've talked to that grew that strain said it goes way longer than expected so I figure it will respond well. Thanks for reading

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Thank you, I honestly couldn't tell that topping slowed anything down at all. I'm basically a new grower, did a photo closet grow several years ago and then this one. I only topped 2 of mine, but I did LST on all of them. I'll decide after this grow and comparing the topped with the not topped as to whether I'll continue doing it on all my autos, but LST will be SOP from here on out.

This is a couple shots of White Widow #3 that was topped. Looks kinda weird but otherwise healthy and growing good.

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This is a couple shots of White Widow #3 that was topped. Looks kinda weird but otherwise healthy and growing good.

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Right on. They look green and growing to meee. Thank you. I'm going to just do it to gain the experience. We will see what comes of it. I'll be checking out this thread to see your progress if you post it. Have a good Wednesday.

Gave all a healthy dose of Dr. Earth Flower Girl and watered down with some calmag added. They seem to be taking up a lot of water, I’m sure because my humidity has been all over the place. They seem happy and health. My goal from the beginning has been to learn. My yield goal of 6 ounces may be a little much.

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Gave all a healthy dose of Dr. Earth Flower Girl and watered down with some calmag added. They seem to be taking up a lot of water, I’m sure because my humidity has been all over the place. They seem happy and health. My goal from the beginning has been to learn. My yield goal of 6 ounces may be a little much.

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I love it. They look great to me. I'm rooting for you. Okay, back to UFC 248. Have a good weekend.

I’m thinking a combination of needing more cal/mag and my light being a little close and turned up to high. I’d appreciate anyone elses thought...thanks

looks like your ph is out of balance

Gond00s said:

looks like your ph is out of balance

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Thanks for the reply, I’ve been keeping my water at 6.5 no less than 6.3 or more than 6.8......however I’m using a cheap Chinese meter from amazon. I’ll calibrate and test with my old school kit