White Widow Waterfarm. 1st Journal on the forums.

[jimbizzzale67123]

Update: Day 44 of Flower.

Its a New Year and she is going nuts, I cant believe how much she is filling in, cant wait for these last couple of weeks to be over and done with its been a journey and I cant wait to ride the cole train. I have had a slight P defecicency for a bit now, I am so afraid to up the PPM's as I am so close to being finished and she isnt showing bad signs of defeciencey, also My Ph was always hanging around 6.0 since then I try and keep it at 5.7. My next feeding I will maybe do 1650 ppm and use that until I am done.

Now how do you guys flush your plants at the end, I have heard you need to flush for a couple of weeks but I have some florakleen can I use the nutes until the last 4 or 5 days as long as I flush with a little florakllen added to the water for the last 4 or 5 days before harvest?

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[jimbizzzale67123]

Serapis, I grew Red Diesel my last grow it was a free seed I got from ordering on 4/20 fuckin love attitude. Anyways the plant was easy to feed and she never ever gave me trouble I gre her in soil along with Sharks breath and two PPP. The two PPP's had some crazy problems with multiple deficiency I thought it was due to pH problems they were pretty much worthless and I got rid of them.

The sharks breath was alright it stayed way too bushy and never was able to get a lot of light, remember back them I just tied plants down a bit never used a SCROG method.

The Red Diesel was my prize winner she grew monster buds for being in soil, and she was a covered in THC, the smoke was incredible such a potent strain and tasted amazing. My friends have been requesting it and still talk about it too this day and they miss smoking on the red diesel.

I have too admit up until now, red diesel is definitely on my top 3 all time best buds I have ever smoked maybe even number 1. If you haven't grown it you should at least order one from the pick and mix section I guarantee fat buds, potent buds, and a easy too feed plant.

 

[Serapis]

I'll have to consider that. My next strain, already ordered, is Tangerine Dream. I'm getting two UFO Pravada Kush seeds with that. I have enough to cover me this year. I'll keep Red in mind for the next order. I have two water farms and will gladly mix em up.

 

[Arsehole]

Looking good. Just chopped one of my WW's yesterday.

I started flushing a week and a half before cutting (I'm also doing DWC) They probably would have been fine with 4 or 5 days though.

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

I'll have to consider that. My next strain, already ordered, is Tangerine Dream. I'm getting two UFO Pravada Kush seeds with that. I have enough to cover me this year. I'll keep Red in mind for the next order. I have two water farms and will gladly mix em up.

U are lucky I just ordered today and all they had was those Kannanabia seeds for free I probably wont even grow them just give them to my friends.

 

[Serapis]

Check out my grow when ya get a chance. I'm similar to yours, link in my sig. I haven't started flower yet, just starting the screen now.

 

[Megalith]

hey dude,
Very nice! Great lookin bud. happy new year!

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

Update: Day 49 of flower, just two weeks left.

She has been just bulking up and getting ready for the two week sprint to the finish line. I am very happy since I could have had like 12 more bud sites and I could have had them all completely level increasing my yield dramatically, but next time I will make sure it is perfect. I think I am just going to flush for the last 5 days with florakleen, it sucks I have to chop everything I would have liked to chop the top and let the lower buds fill in for another week and a half oh well.

The first pic is of some crazy looking moss I found while hiking in the woods yesterday.


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[upthearsenal]

Hey man, I've been quietly watching and things are looking great! She's really putting on the weight.. awesome job so far man.

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

Hey man, I've been quietly watching and things are looking great! She's really putting on the weight.. awesome job so far man.

I think its my pep talks, I literally stand over her yelling at her like a pissed off coach, I dont care how good she does its never good enough for me. Little does she know I am extremely proud at this point and will be satisfied with anything, but I cant let her know so I just give her pep talks like its the stanleycup finals.

I know its just the co2 she likes but I think she is listening.

 

[Serapis]

Bumpage.... Lets talk dry and cure plans for these loaded grows. This will be my largest harvest. I am going to write and post about drying and curing this grow, so instead of just being a grow thread, it'll be a complete guide, from start to finish.

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

I am going to chop in one week and 6 days and I will be hanging them all inside of the tent and just run my exhaust that is hooked up to my carbon scrubber. I dont know how many jars I am going to need I dont want to pack the jars too tight dealing with this much bud Mold could be a prob.

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

Update: Day 52 Flower.

The buds are continually getting larger and larger, the calyxes are fattening up and the crystals are pouring out. The trics are about 70% cloudy and 30% clear I am going to go for a week and four more days no matter what I have too go out of town for four days and I know she wont make it four days with two gallons of water she drinks a gallon a day now. I have a feeling she will be done by then but I always like to get the most out of my grows next time I will be able to go till I please, I should be getting a pretty nice harvest off of this behemoth.


Sorry some of the pics are a bit blurry.

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[Serapis]

Update: Day 52 Flower.

The buds are continually getting larger and larger, the calyxes are fattening up and the crystals are pouring out. The trics are about 70% cloudy and 30% clear I am going to go for a week and four more days no matter what I have too go out of town for four days and I know she wont make it four days with two gallons of water she drinks a gallon a day now. I have a feeling she will be done by then but I always like to get the most out of my grows next time I will be able to go till I please, I should be getting a pretty nice harvest off of this behemoth.

I was thinking about what I'm going to do when it comes time to chop, as this is my first hydro grow. When I grow in soil, I know not to water within 5 days of a chop. The last thing I want is "wet" bud. With hydro, we always have water....

I'm going to let the plant drain the res dry. Then I'll kill the lights and let the plants sit in darkness for 48 hours, maybe 72, depending on humidity and bud wetness. My goal is to chop the buds when they have lost water and are producing resin heavily in a last ditch effort to attract pollen. The bud will require less drying time that way and I can begin the cure sooner.

You might be just fine to kill the lights and let them set while you are gone, if you needed to. It kinda sounds like your timing is where you want it anyway, I'm just rambling on after medicating.

 

[growalater]

Looking sexy man. I had a grow once where I hung the plant upside down for one day. Didn't notice how dry our weather was and the buds turned to ash in a day. Now I harvest right away and put in jars. So be careful. Luck enough it was mersh weed I was just practicing with. Your buds look legit.

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

I was thinking about what I'm going to do when it comes time to chop, as this is my first hydro grow. When I grow in soil, I know not to water within 5 days of a chop. The last thing I want is "wet" bud. With hydro, we always have water....

I'm going to let the plant drain the res dry. Then I'll kill the lights and let the plants sit in darkness for 48 hours, maybe 72, depending on humidity and bud wetness. My goal is to chop the buds when they have lost water and are producing resin heavily in a last ditch effort to attract pollen. The bud will require less drying time that way and I can begin the cure sooner.

You might be just fine to kill the lights and let them set while you are gone, if you needed to. It kinda sounds like your timing is where you want it anyway, I'm just rambling on after medicating.

You know that was my other plan, because I could just fill the res with 2gal of fresh clean water and when it runs out it runs out, I am sure she wont drink much in complete darkness for a few days.

But, I didn't want to have all of my fans running while I am gone, I would be able to leave most of them on and I shouldn't have any mold problems. I am just terrified of coming home to a mess of mold or something like that. But I guess once she runs out of water the humidity in the cab would have to slowely drop as she is not able to prespire as much water(Dont really know if thats true).

I am sure it would increase my yield a tiny tiny bit but make them frosty as hell.

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

So I was looking at her more, and the buds aren't too close together, and what do you guys think about cutting away some of the fan leaves right before I go out of town, like maybe 15-20% of the fan leaves just in areas where they are bunching up a bit. It shouldn't affect the plant too negatively, isn't the whole point of the darkness at the end to kinda of fuck with the plant and stress it out a bit making it really desperate to get pollinated. Maybe butting the leaves before that will help stress her out a bunch and cause her to get even more dank, I dont know I dont think it would have negative effects i mean I was going o cut the whole thing down anyways.

 

[upthearsenal]

The trichs degrade when the sun is up, or the lights are on for us indoor growers, so when you induce complete darkness there is uninterrupted trich production. As far as taking off any leaves, the jury is still out I think it's just dependent on the system that is being run. Try it out, it might work out wonderfully for you.

If a plant is stressed to the point of self-pollination it'll go herm, idk if it would actually produce more resin, because the pistils are the ones that are receptive to the pollen.

 

[Serapis]

I think I am going to make my ladies thirst in darkness before I decapitate em...


As for removing fan leaves, I have already removed anything that will not grow up to the screen. I only left the smaller upper fan leaves that are near the screen surface and are getting light. The plants have reacted very favorably, noticeably growing even more branching.

 

[jimbizzzale67123]

Yea I have everything below the screen gone, and I just want to avoid mold when I am gone but I guess really everything is kind of out of my hands, I cant get into the middle of the growth cause its thicker than a jungle in there, so if mold is gonna grow I assume it would have already grown.

I think I will remove most of leaves before I turn the lights off for those last 4 days it cant hurt them.