white widow first grow pics

[mgro1]

This is my first grow. I did some research online and decided to go with a 44x28x76 box made out of 1/4 thick plywood. I have the walls painted white along with a 6mm painters plastic stapled and taped to the walls as well. I have a 400 watt hps light hanging 21 inches from the light and it stays at about 82 degrees. Im running at 18/6 light cycle and I am on day 9. I germinated the seeds in miracle grow seed started potting mix inside jiffy pots. Took about 5 days to sprout. I will be posting pictures quite frequently

 

[mgro1]

so i am on day 18...looks like a nitro deficiency...i added some miracle grow at 24-8-16...ph is at 7.0 temp is 82....they are now in 5 gallon buckets and still on 18/6

 

[mgro1]

now on day 23...look much better after adding some nitro to it...still watering around every 2-3 days with 1.5 liters per 5 gallon bucket...ph still at 7.0 temp 82 and 400 watt hps at 21 inches....

 

[mgro1]

day 28....switch to straight 24-0-0 on nutes now...shooting up real nice...looks like 3 females...not to positive tho....ph is still at 7.0 light hanging at 21 inches...temp around 82....smelling niiice. any feedback always appreciated as always...

 

[mgro1]

On day 33....i added 3 teaspoons of dolomite lime to each plant to try and lower the ph....i started lowering the ph of the water i use also...also cut back on the watering a little bit because they were looking a little water logged i think, which puts me at roughly every 3 days at 1.5 liters per 5 gallon bucket...as you can see there are now 4 plants...4/5 females...not to bad...i tried my hand at the cloning...i used shultz take root rooting hormone and put them in jiffy pots filled with organic seed starting jiffy mix soil...i ordered tiger bloom and big bloom by foxfarm...i should be able to start that on tuesday....all the npk levels are extremely high...not sure if i should flush the pots or just leave it alone....advice always appreciated....

 

[DWR]

gona sub this one... cheers

 

[ijustgrowGREEN]

your plants are lookin sweet ! seems like your very organized and taking all the right precautions. is this your first grow with white widow, or your first mary jane grow ever??

 

[mgro1]

your plants are lookin sweet ! seems like your very organized and taking all the right precautions. is this your first grow with white widow, or your first mary jane grow ever??

This is my very first grow ever....

 

[ijustgrowGREEN]

cool, keep up the good work and keep the pics coming. the tighter ship you run in the garden, the better plants you produce. your on your way to a very rewarding gardening experience.....

 

[mgro1]

On day 35. i tried my hand in building my own carbon scrubber...basically i took a 20x20 box fan and bought a 20x20 centrail air filter then lined poured active carbon in the ridges of the filter...after that i took the filter pad which i got int he central air department area at home depot and taped it on top of it to hold in the carbon...iused probably about 20 ounces worth of carbon...taped it to the front of the fan have it on the high settingand so for so good...it has eliminated all odors in my room so far...any input?

 

[Ready2Inhale]

those are gonna be NOICE...

 

[DankBudds]

im going to grow another 6 WW also. How did you tell if the were male or female so early? Are you going to LST or top?

 

[mgro1]

im going to grow another 6 WW also. How did you tell if the were male or female so early? Are you going to LST or top?

I just saw the white hairs coming out...it was real hard to tell at first but all showed signs within a week of eachother. the other one was iffy but after seeing the 4 that were clearly females i could tell the 5th had a sack on it with no hairs...ill try to take some close ups for you...im doing Lst. there budding real real nice now...The ph is a little high so i am expecting a package tomorrow for ph down concentrate for the water and some florakleen to flush out the nutes bc they were all extremely high...i just got tiger bloom and big bloom in the mail today....ithink i was water logging them to because they were curling up and looking real wrinkly for a while but now i let them dry a little and looking better...

 

[widowskunk87]

Looking good mang, keep it up! I'ma be watching this as well

 

[mgro1]

alright day 37....Just got my nutes, ph down and florakleen in the mail....i just flushed out all the pots with water at 6.0 ph (with the florakleen also)....i did it until it ran off....ill be starting the nutes next watering....ill have some more pics in about 3-4 days when i need to water again...

 

[mgro1]

i realized that about halfway down the plants werent getting any light at all since they were so bushy so i got two desk lamps from goodwill for 4 dollars total and two 150 cfl's for them and put them at the base of the plants...ill put some pictures up in a couple days...

 

[mgro1]

My carbon scrubber isn't working as well as i hoped...is there any good household or commercial air scrubbers anyone would suggest? something real good?

 

[mgro1]

day 42 here...just added 1/2 strength big bloom and tigerbloom and started watering with 6.0 water...ill be adding nutes every other watering...

 

[widowskunk87]

lovely pics

 

[mgro1]

Ya i just did a soil test after the florakleen and its still at 7.0 but i can tell it did go down some....Im getting some nice bud all over them now....They were growing a little slow but im thinking thats my fault again because im still overwatering...I was watering when they were lightly moist....What i have been doing now is watering heavy and just waiting till there dried out no moistness at all...which seems to be like every 5 days or so....after watering with the nutes the levels are still somewhat high so I won't be using any this next watering....they are looking good though....there so big now that i had to redo the box with another fan but its working ok...i cant get the temp down tho from 88...Will that hurt it bad? Ill have some pics up soon....