White Widow

[budcraft]

G'day.
Been lurker a little while, so now I thought I'd share a few pics.
My White Widows on day 28 of flowering under 12/12 light given by 400w hps.
3 ladies from an original 10 seeds. Only 6 grew into plants and finally the three ladies. This is my first time growing.

Even though they don't seem to be quite as big or 'powered sugar' looking as Suspectelite's, I think they'll do quite nicely. :thumbsup::rastasmoke:


Cheers,
BC

[Forwhat420]

they look nice. are you using any ferts? i have a widow a few days behind yours. it is just starting to frost a little bit. im at about 21-25 days flower not exactly sure.

[budcraft]

Hi.
Nice plant.
I've been useing Plant Prod ferts but I think I've been under feeding them again. Waiting too long between applications cause I noticed that some of the leaves were getting yellow spots again.

[BeforeYourTime]

Lookin' good, the fatness and sugar will pile on in the next few weeks. :)

[Forwhat420]

yea you may want to fertilize more. they dont like much though. i fert once a week up until week 4, flush, then fert next three weeks, flush and let them go from there on plain ph balanced water 6.5. you should look into fox farm products. grow big, tiger bloom, (at local hydro store or off of the internet) and grandma's unsulphered molasses at wally world. they are good and sticky with nice weight at the end.

[budcraft]

Well I got to say, I'm quite happy with my plants. They sure seem to be living up to the descriptions you read about WW :)
I'm not looking for quantity, just good quality. It'll be nice to get back to some good weed again. Haven't had good sticky weed since I moved here 15 months ago. 6 years with one dealer who supplied very good quality weed at a resonable price followed by 15 months of crap street weed. I so want that wonderfull energetic head high again. Weed that doesn't 'snap, crackle, pop' when you smoke it. Weed that burns in the pipe evenly, and leaves a nice light ash when done. Weed that smells like skunks. Weed that sticks to the bag and and makes your fingers feel like they've been glued. Weed that you can smell across the room even though it's double bagged and sealed in a tin. :)
5 or so weeks to go before I get that again :bonghit:

[Forwhat420]

lol... i know thats right. just came out the room and noticed how much bigger she is than all the other ones and at 3&1/2 weeks how sticky she is already!!!

[budcraft]

A couple more pics Just a couple of buds on the ends of some branches bout halfway up.

[budcraft]

Hey, I have a question now.
Everything looks good and the plants are very nice. They are on day 44 of flowing (6 weeks, 2 days).
I'm starting to see red hairs now on the plants. One plant in particular has more then the other two.
I was not expecting any color change for at least another 1.5 weeks.
I was intending on flushing the plants next weekend.

But now I'm wondering if I should flush them now? Should I?

Thanks.
BC

[Forwhat420]

how long are you going to flower for? and how many times have you fertilized also how often?

[budcraft]

I was expecting about 8 weeks for flowering since that seems to the norm.
I've fertilezed twice. Once at the end of week 1, and again 11 days ago.
The trichomes look good. They look like all the pictures you see of good tricomes anyways :). None have turned amber, and I'd say they're all still clear. Only useing a 30x microscope.
I do want to try to harvest this crop when the trics are still clear/cloudy with only few amber. I do want that head high.

After reading a few more of the FAQs, I'm not sure I'm going to flush them at all now though.

Thanks for the reply.

[budcraft]

Here's a pic

[budcraft]

They're comeing along very nicely now. Getting quite large buds too :) :)
A few pics:
Should be able to harvest in 7 - 10 days I think

[Weedywildwoman]

Looking good! Keep us updated! I am enjoying looking at your plants as I have a couple of white widow in the middle of week two of flower. I hope mine look good like yours.

Also, if you have used ferts just twice I agree with you that there isn't much reason to flush as there is not likely to be a build up of fert salts. I am still fairly new to growing, so that is mostly an opinion though.

Take care...oh yeah, how tall are they? Thanks! :jointsmile:

[Forwhat420]

they are looking good!!!

[Forwhat420]

as for the flush no need just dont at anymore if you are gonna harvest soon

[Forwhat420]

:jointsmile:add

[budcraft]

Thanks.
I have two plants about 5.5 feet tall, and one about 4.5 feet.
I didn't really flush them. I just gave them an extra heavy watering the other day. Poured in 7 liters each. I think that'll do it.
I cut off the lowest branches from each plant last night. Been speed drying them and will give them a try tommorrow. I don't expect a lot since they're small bottom buds and been quick dried. But it should be a good indication of what's to come :)

Cheers

[spongebobsmokepants]

My ww's are2 week veg and 1 week flower, so still really small thanks for the glimpse. I too am interested in their height.

[growbe]

They look very sativa dominent. I would wait at least til week 9 to harvest. I grew out ww my last grow and my mom plant was sativa dom. I let them go almost 10 weeks and was well rewarded. I'm growing ww again right now from some seeds I got out of the buds (mom is gone) and they are sativa dom as well.
They look real good though.

[budcraft]

I let them veg for a full 8 weeks before flipping to 12/12. This was my first grow, and it was from seed.
The next round will be my clones. 10 days to fully root, then 8 weeks veg. And I'll try to fit 5 plants into my flowering room. Since I'll be useing the same room for flowering as for drying, I'll have a good cycle going. :) My new plants range from
Depending on how much yeild I get from these 3. If lot's of bud, then I'll only grow 3 or 4 plants.
The clones are currently on week 7 since being cut and are 16 - 20 inches tall. Lot's of branches.

I'me watching the trics closely for color changes. So far, they are still mostly clear. And the buds are swelling beautifully.
As for being Sativa dominant, I"d agree with you. Ya just got to love those long slender green leaves.

Oh, and lastly :) I cut up a couple of small buds from one of the branches I hung up last night. Chopped it up and got about .7 g. On my third bowl. Good stuff :) (hence the rambling post)!!

[Shanti_Sativa]

That is some good gardening for first time just wondering how long did u veg for they look like beasts. I got some of my white widows growing right now and they can be smelt from two floors down. They are so beautiful on day 35 of veg. plan on flowering around 50 days. Great plants you got you get them from BC? They have awesome discreet shipping.

[budcraft]

The smell so far has been managable, but it gets noticably stronger each day now. I will soon need to put in some sort of odour control. Ozone maybe??
The room is under a good amount of negative pressure and vented directly outside, way up high so I don't use filters on the output.
In the morning, when the room has not been entered for 12 hours, the smell in the rest of the house is quite mild and not very noticable. But, once I go in and out a couple times, then the smell is everywhere.

[growbe]

Make one of these. http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=61161&page=1&pp=15 You can change the size of the container and fan like I did. They work great.
I also have a scrubber. Don't use ozone unless it's outside the grow room. Too much ozone is bad for you and the plants.

[budcraft]

Thanks! That looks real easy and if it works well, then so much the better.
I did some research into the ozone stuff last night. quickly came to the conclusiong I didn't want that.

[budcraft]

Well, somewhere along the lines, I missed something and something went wrong :(
I was somking the top bud from one of those lower branches I mentioned above right. Then, I hear a SNAP. You know what I mean. I dumped out the bowl and sure enough, there lay a seed :( :(
How the FU*K did I miss something like this? I know these three are female. I've searched and I can't really tell where the pollen could've come from.
If one of these is a Herme, then I'm totally missing it. :(

[JerzeeAmbeez]

They look so beautiful :thumbsup:

[growbe]

Well, somewhere along the lines, I missed something and something went wrong :(
I was somking the top bud from one of those lower branches I mentioned above right. Then, I hear a SNAP. You know what I mean. I dumped out the bowl and sure enough, there lay a seed :( :(
How the FU*K did I miss something like this? I know these three are female. I've searched and I can't really tell where the pollen could've come from.
If one of these is a Herme, then I'm totally missing it. :(
Sam ething happened with my ww. I only found seeds when I was manacuring them-around 25. I planted 6 of them and all of them are female (so far). I'm at day 8 of 12/12 and all looks okay.
I would look for them and keep them. I'll post later about what happens.

[job1.5]

im interested in the final dry weight.

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Your ladies had to get pollen from somewhere,

Do you ventillate with outside air? if so you could of got it naturally.

Did you pull the males out of your grow room early enough? what did you do with them?

The only other way is a hermi. Look very carfully all it takes is one ball

Thats all I can think of,

Still with the seed I bet it was better than most everything you can buy on the street. Plus you grew it, so be proud and enjoy.

excellent looking plants great job. Let us know your finnal yeild weight.

[Weedywildwoman]

If your seed was a result of a slight hermie, you have a seed with xx chromosomes and can look forward to having another female plant. I found some seeds, maybe 5 each in 3 of my plants, and they are female. I must have hermied the plants later on as I stressed those 3 out with certain first-timer mistakes. I'm glad I did now as I had used up all of those seeds and I liked the weed. Just keep an eye on them for the obvious signs. Do you have a window open that could have blown in some pollen? :jointsmile:

[budcraft]

Hi.
I dont bring air directly in from outside.
I got rid of the males on day 5 after flipping to 12/12
I've been hunting for a pollen ball but I just can't find any.
And I think I can tell now that all my plants are full of seeds. :(
What a piss off eh.
Being my first grow, it could be that I'm just not looking for the right thing, or that maybe I dont' even know what to look for.

[spongebobsmokepants]

I bought a $70 carbon filter on e-bay that handles my 6x5x6.5 room nicely. Rep up for those nice ladies!:jointsmile:

[JerzeeAmbeez]

Great pic of WW

[budcraft]

I think this weekend will be harvest time.
The trichs are clouding up, and I even spotted a few amber ones. :)
I'm pretty sure I at least achieved the minimum quantity I wanted. I was hopeing for 4 ounces. I think I got more :)

[YotaBoy]

Looks like it is going to be a fine harvest. Is it all for you?

[budcraft]

Yup, all for me :) :) :)

I took a good long look at all three plants useing a 60x microscope. Definatly 80-90% cloudy, and the tops had a good smattering of amber trics. So, I havested them today :) :) :)
The picture of the hanging buds might seem a little weird to you. I laid down on the floor and shoot straight up.
Also, you can really see the color difference in the buds. The top row, and the two buds on the right of the 2nd row are from Plant!1. the rest of row 2 and the right of row 3 is Plant3, and the rest are from Plant6.
Plant3 has a much lighter color. The buds are the densest I've ever seen. Rock hard. (it's a little weird).
And plant 6 was very green in general. The buds on 6 are also light and not dense. Squishy even.
Plant1 had great buds. Lot's of trichome coverage, Very firm buds.
It'll be fun comparing how they smoke :stoned::stoned::stoned:

[pccdrom]

nice buds, 1st time? enjoy....

[growbe]

Awesome job!
Mine are at week 2. I tried bushmasters on 2 of them with dif amounts aded to each plant. I did this late-day 10 because they were stretching like a bitch. Seems to have stopeed growth, but they look a little off because of the stuff-not as healthy. But it kicked them right into flowering-this is not to say that bushmasters was the main reason they starting flowering so fast and not days in flower.

[Weedywildwoman]

Great job! I hope mine look as good as yours! Enjoy!:thumbsup:

[budcraft]

Thanks :)

I'm amazed at the degree of shrinkage when drying. It's like watching 2/3 of my bud evaporate :(
But, DAMN!! It's good bud!! :) :) I'm happy so far.
This White Widow has a very unique smell to it. I've not smelt weed like this before. It's...interesting.

BC

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

So what do you think your finnal weight will be?

[privatepile]

What height were they when you vegged them?

[Doc 007]

Nice work with the WW.

[budcraft]

Well, it's all dry now :) :)
Total weight that I put into jars is: 191.7 g (6.7 Oz)
I've rather happy with that. That doesn't count the bunch I've smoked. Total would be over 2.5 Oz per plant.
The buds are a bit overdry too. But, we'll see what happens as they start to cure. :)

Woo-hoo!!!

Cheers. Thanks for responding to my posts and for the comments. Time to go enjoy the rewards (then move the next round of clones into flowering, .....) :rastasmoke::rastasmoke::rastasmoke:

[privatepile]

Thats a lot of high quality weed.What height were they when you started to flower?

[budcraft]

Thats a lot of high quality weed.What height were they when you started to flower?

Thanks :)
They were between 24 - 30 inches when I started to flower.

[privatepile]

Wow i plan to flower mine at 12 inches so i should get less but still better than the weed you buy in Ireland.

â?¬300 ($434.19) for a ounce of low quality weed full of seeds.

[JerzeeAmbeez]

damn private, that's just messed up!

Budcraft you did a really good job! Hope it smokes well too with a kickass high
If you still got those seeds from the buds are you gonna grow them since you made them!

[budcraft]

I haven't been seeing many seeds at all. I think I made a mistake in my last evaluation about seeds. I do see some, but releatively few. And no, I won't be planting them :) I have a good couple of mother plants here that I think I'll just stick with :)

Private, yeah, that IS messed up. Good to see you takeing matters into your own hands :)

Cheers,
BC

[Forwhat420]

nice going bud!! so what was the total amount of days you flowered?

[smokenss]

fuck that i wont b going to Ireland for a holiday i paid $350 for a oz the other day and that is high dew to it being really dry around the state.Normaly $250 - $300 is the go here

[Mr.Blue]

wow in ontario i can get ounce from $160-$200