Pair of White Widows

Total cost of set was under $300, doing a very basic grow before investing real money so I can get a feel for the process. Also looking at doing some topping, LST and scrogging at this small scale to get used to the process.

Not expecting (or aiming) for more than 1oz/plant, if everything is going well I’ll be doing some cloning and expanding the set up for bigger yields.

Set up:

300W LED from Vipar Spectra

2 x 2 x 4 grow tent

Seeds: White Widow Fast feminised from Seedsman

4” scrubber with 76cfm exhaust - purely to contain smell, heat no issue in the tent

Week 1

Beans sprouted after 3 days using the paper towel method and 2 days later poked their head out of the soil. Was on 24/0 for the first few days before moving to 18/6, also moved my light up to 24” from about 16” after noticing some slight curling of the leaves.

November 10th 2017

Took a couple of photos under the LED's - is this mildew or are they little hairs??

End of week 2 - 14 days from Germination

Had some excellent growth after repotting into better (less woody) potting mix but looks like I've over watered, something to monitor.

Apologies for the colour, taken under lights

One of the seedlings failed to transition into the new soil so I'm going ahead with a single plant in SCRoG. FIMed today after excellent growth over the weekend, going to see how well I can fill up the 2x2 over the next 3-4 weeks before flipping to flower.

Unfortunately I have to flip to 12-12 early, possibly moving in January

I have already FIMed earlier this week but tonight I started some gentle manipulation to get some light onto the undergrowth

Flower day 2

Getting pungent now

I don't think my FIM attempt actually did anything (FIM the FIM??) so I've gone with some LST to expose the undergrowth nice and early and get a nice even canopy - If anything looks off let me know

Nice looking plants!!

Loving how quickly the plant responds to training, these were taken about 4 hours apart

Day 28 from germination, day 8 of flower. Some pretty nice bending of the main stem now after training, going to let it grow out a bit before doing some more.

Day 12 of flower, trying to get some of those fan leaves out of the way. Changed to a bloom type fertiliser (1-3-7) tonight for a half strength feeding.

Currently watering about every 3 days (750-1000ml) and feeding once per week

Getting very nicely pungent now as well.

Any tips, tricks and comments always welcome.

Day 14 of flower

What kind of soil are you using, I'm trying FFOF right now, liking the results

Just a standard seedling raising mix with about 1/5 perlite (we don’t have fox farms in this country)

Getting good results compared to the original potting mix

Nice! Maybe you are able to make your own supersoil? In Maine that's very common

Day 16, happy with how the training turned out. I have 10 bud sites that have pretty even access to light.

Height of the canopy with training is just on 7”

Day 17 of Flower, day 38 of grow

Quick pic of 6 hours of training and growth overnight

Day 40 of grow, day 19 of flower. Buds are definitely forming now, a little more training and I have 11 bud sites with roughly even access to space and light with another 3 that are a few days behind in development and will get some more light with training.

Finding it a little hard to manage the growth with just tie downs so Ive put a little SCRoG net in the tent to keep everything even.