Growing the Widow

Thought id share this log...This is still early done with aeroponics they are looking good so far, first time for me PH at 5.5 and ppm of 495. 100 watt MV lamp for now 400W HPS later and seedlings under some floros.

How old are they in the photos? Do they seem to be smaller and grow slower than some other strains? I'm growing a few seedlings and some of them might be WW, but I'm not entirely sure because I didn't keep track of my seeds. The seeds were also small and green, unlike some seeds that are more brown or tan, and I think that WW seeds are the small green ones.

First one, I can't compare. They seem good though I have some that were planeted at the same time that just popped up. I think they are about 3 weeks old in the bigger picture and the seeds were large and light brownish

Hmm oh well guess I'll find out when they flower, or never.

Excuse me for not seeing if it's obvious, but how does that aeroponic setup work? Looks like flood-n-drain to me.

From the top it looks the same from the bottom the roots are suspended above the nute mix which is sprayed in a fine mist onto the roots every 5 minutes.

Oh....if you were referring to the first picture at that point in time I was just giving them 20-30% nute mix (hand watered) and the roots weren't out of the pot yet.

Ahhh! Yeah, I was referring to the first pic.

Ok from the first pic here are the 3 bigger ones that I put under the MV lamp...do they look good? Any advice? Oh and I took close up of a suspect leaf...not sure what the marks are. They are getting 50% nutes...Should I increase?

They look big enough to go up on nutes.
The marks on the leaves are maybe just physical damage from a scrape or something. They don't look like insect munchings.

Ok I just put the little ones under the MV lamp last night with 50% nutes, they seem fine and I increased the nutes to the larger ones to 80%, the damage to that one leaf has become more evident but hasnt grown in size. I think its ok, there is also some bright whiteish specks on some of the leaves I believe its just dust from cutting shit in that room. Any advice is welcome.

Is it ok for the roots to be suspended in the nute mix....there is a air pump going 24/7 and ill probably start using H2O2.

Ok I added H2O2 3% 30ml per gal and 7ml/gal everyday after that. The smell from the nutes went down big time and it looks like the plants are really enjoying it. On the biggest one I noticed there were more markings on as well as one of the smaller ones, my reflector which is pretty lite fell on the big one im guessing that's what the markings are from or maybe from a water bead sitting on the leaf with a nute mix when I was hand watering them when they were smaller.

I cut them back to 19/5 lighting from 24 and the week before flower I will cut it back day by day till flower day on 12hr. I will keep the MV lamp on them for the first couple days of flowering then 400W HPS. Does this sound good as well as the amounts of H2O2 being added previously mentioned?

Here are some new pics....that leaf burn was from getting some nute mix on the leave. No new burn has occurred. Im going full strength nutes soon....as soon as the smaller ones get a bit bigger. How do they look?

Is this normal for 3 weeks of growth....funny I started them all at the same time....some just took allot longer to sprout.

Are u using mercury vapor bulbs? If so are they any good?

I think MH a tiny bit better but MV puts out very similar light and I got the mine for $40 if they had MH I would have gone with that but MV I think is doing good so far...do they look good for 3 weeks. I should get a MH

tell me how the mv works out. i have one that i was going to use instead of floros but people on here talked me out of using it saying it sucked compared to hps and mh and it uses to much energy for its output

They look good to me. Nice and green.

Prepare yourself for the stink though if those are really White Widows. They are skunkier than a motherfucker! If you can hide the smell, the smoke is worth it. :thumbsup:

Ozone gene in the room... Yea I did some reading and im selling my self short....so I picked up a new 400W MH with a good bulb and all ($149 after shipping:dance: ) with remote ballast and a decent reflector. But the MV definitely grows em fine but if I want what im looking for ill do it proper. At 3 weeks old the larger one has a light piny smell already. Ill run both HPS and MH for budding yea!!Man all this shit is $$ but im sure it will be more than worth it since I can legally sell the extra to the dispensaries....me being a patient and all.

I was just told that mh and mv are the same bulbs is that true?

They are different....similar in light spectrum but much more inefficient and operates differently