First Grow - White Widow, Shunk x NL and some Freebies

Afternon fellow growers,

Here is a quick rundown of my setup. I am growing in a 8'x4'x7' space. I have it broken into 3 seperate areas. A mother/clone cabinet with t5 flos and a veg cabinet with t5 flos as well. My flower area is 4'x4'x7' with a 600w HPS Cooltube. I am using a soiless mix of peat moss, vermiculite and perlite. I am also running the AN Micro, Grow and Bloom ph perfect line.

I have the room controlled by an automation system that takes care of temp, humidity, CO2 and lighting. I am in the 3rd week of flowering and have just now turned on my carbon filter to do a bit of scrubbing as the smell started to get a little out of hand. Here are a couple of pics of the areas and the grow as of yesterday. Hope you enjoy.
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Asmallvoice

lookin mighty fine

looks great!

Thanx Folks.

I will be back home in a few days and will have a nice update hopefully.

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Asmallvoice

Greetings All,

Here is an update, going into the 4th week of flowering and things are going well. The smell is sweet and strong and teh buds are swelling up nicely. Hope you folks enjoy.
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Asmallvoice

OMG!! This is your 1st grow?? NIIIICE.....Mine isn't going nearly as well. I think mostly because of the cold temps. Mr Bill did some work for me today. He worked on some Lowryder #2.

I have a Skunk 47, last one still in the works but no flowers and it's getting tall. I just started the 12hrs of darkness schedule today. Does anyone know if it's too late for this? The plant has been growing for about 75 days. If it's not too late then how long do you think it will take to flower and finish?

Also, does anyone think I can clone the Skunk 47 as it isn't in the flowering stage yet?

You can pull good clones until they are in bloom. Flowered clones can be flipped back, but it adds a month of plant confusion that is best spent with new plants.
75 days is fine as long as the nutrient uptake is consistent.
If it is still growing, you can keep it going.
No joke, and don't get your hopes up, but depending on your setup(600W+) you may be in danger of breaking branches with the weights of the buds! Stakes and cord are all good! Protect your girls!

Many thanx for the kind words folks. I just fed them thier first shot of AN Overdrive as I am sure they are going to finish in about 3 weeks maybe less, as the a few tichs are starting to go cloudy.
I will be securing a couple of the branches that stretched abit on me. Here is a shot of a plant I topped 1.5 weeks into flowering, I did it to as an experiment. I like the idea of twin buds on the main stem.
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Asmallvoice

Very nice Asv!

In my years of growing, I have had the great pleasure of stumbling across the original white widow........she will blow your mind if you let her get super duper ripe! You will simply be astonished with the high! Maybe salivating on yourself if you overindulge!

Please, please do yourself a favor on the widow.....let her go 10 weeks+ flowering....or at least until you have some nice amber spread across the mix of trichomes.

You will not be disappointed!


Great 1st grow man :thumbsup:

Evening All,

Here are a few bud shots as of today. The Skunk x NL is really taking off and the WW is plumping up nicely.
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Asmallvoice

"the smell starting getting a little out of hand." Gee, if only everyone had that problem!
Any chance you could discuss your method there in more detail. This is a good example of what others should do. What do you use for air exchange, as it's one of the more important yet overlooked aspects of indoor growing.

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"the smell starting getting a little out of hand." Gee, if only everyone had that problem!
Any chance you could discuss your method there in more detail. This is a good example of what others should do. What do you use for air exchange, as it's one of the more important yet overlooked aspects of indoor growing.

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Thanx for the reply M8.

I use a 4" 190cfm centrifugal (vortex) fan and a 4"x18" carbon filter. It just sets on a shelf and circulates the air in the room 24/7. I don't use it in the veg state, as the plants produce hardly any odor.

I have double filtration on my passive intake, first stage is a regular (horse hair) a/c filter and just inside the room is a small carbon ( flat) filter that keeps all my intake air filtered to keep out bugs and molds. I then have a small 3" axial fan that only operates when I need to vent some heat buildup. It discharges into the attic and has a filter on it as well (horse hair). The carbon filter exchanges the room once every 4 minutes and does a great job on capturing odors. I have to stick my nose right on the plant to get a whif of anything besides clean air. I keep the room slighly negative to contain the odors. A carbon filter is much less efficient in an area that has positive pressure. So make sure that you keep the area under a slight negative pressure and you will have much less trouble from odors permeating the house.
I know that within 10 minutes of turning off the carbon filter, it smells to high heaven in there and that is a risk that alot of growers need to avoid. You can hide a grow room easy enough, but that smell can linger and be tracked several houses down in a neighborhood if left unchecked.

Once the plants got around 4 weeks into flowering, I saw an epic increase in odor, especially a few minutes after lights out. My light is isolated from the room for cooling. I have a 120cfm axial fan and it pulls air from the garage, through the light and discharges into the attic. (6" cool tube 600w) This allows me to keep very tight reigns on my room temps and humidity.

If anyone has any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

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Asmallvoice

Seems my new camera takes pics that are to big for the site, I have no troubles on other sites, just this one. Will have to see what I can do to shrink the size of the files to within the sites restrictions.

Harvested my oldest WW and she is in the drying room. Will be harvesting the others in a little over a week.

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Asmallvoice