5*White Widow feminized. Coco.

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

Very interesting!!

I was wondering why my plants seem to be doing ok in 2 gallon pots. I just remembered MG Moisture Control has coco in it and your pics and insite are giving me a good idea as to what is happening in my grow.

Great post, helped me alot :thumbsup::thumbsup:

JG

[Puffzter]

Ok time for a small picture update since I at last got a few decent pictures.
White Widow plants are on their 28th day of flowering and looking great. Sugar forming on buds and fan leaves all over the place.
Plant 5 (the FIM'd one) has 6 stems and a bunch of side branches forming buds. The main stems on this one are all growing 12+ inch colas already but one of the stems on this one is growing a whopping 20 inch top bud.
Dark period is 3am-3pm and that way I am always awake and can tend to them and cuddle with them during all their waken hours. That I do a lot. Picking off a leaf that has lived its life, putting a fan leaf to the side if it blocks a flower. Keep the tent clean. Water, adjust the light and the fans and check temperature and humidity all the time and keep notes of everything. I will not let any of my girls start dating until they are 40 and god save any boy that make them pregnant. One that tried to sneak up on them in the clone/veg chambre just around the corner swiftly got killed for even being in the neighborhood.

Temperature in the tent is 28 degrees C at the top of the plants which is about 79-81 F I believe without checking exactly. Humidity is 45-52% which is also perfect.
I nuke them with 1450ppm and they drink about 1 litre/plant and day now. Thats a bit over 1/4 gallon.
Here we go.

First one is that 20 inch bud formation on one out of 6 main stems of plant 5. The bottle is a 1.5 litre (50 Oz) hehe.


Picture through the opening of the tent. Plants are about 4-4.5 ft tall by now. Closest plant is FIM's #5.


Last 2 overview pictures.



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[anbesol]

Holy Shit dude! Pretty Serious! I forgot about your grow log! Subscribed! What Watt are you flowering with?

[Puffzter]

600W HPS in a cooltube.
And welcome as a subscriber.

Puffzter

[greenatik]

looking sick brah!

mmm white widow :food10:, my favorite

[hatecable]

Man, this is an incredible first grow. All the research has really paid off for you. If you really hang out with them that much, I think that qualifies for a C02 assisted grow Hopefully my WW turns out even remotely that good. It would be really cool to see your excel logs, but alas I dont have excel. I am kinda doing the same thing but with notepad:wtf: May have to find a copy of excel or some other spreadsheet to satisfy my taste for organization.

I dont know about the others, but Im already excited about the weigh in.

[Puffzter]

There are cracked excel for download on piratebay and such. I downloaded a full office pack 2007 from there, works as a a charm.

Updated excel grow log with detailed info day by day will be posted within a couple of days.

Thanks for the kind words by the way and yes I am thinking about CO2 but before that I think I will go for 2*600W hps in cooltubes instead of one to get a more even light distribution and ofc more of it. I think I can keep temperatures under control. Maybe I go for both at the same time as the higher temperatures will be less of a problem with CO2 anyway as the optimal growing temperature goes up a bit in a CO2 rich enviroment.

Now, I could easilly satisfy my needs with half of what I am growing atm and probably even much less and I will not sell. My buddies don't smoke so I am facing a bit of a problem here hehe.
So to optimize even more makes no sence really in my case but for me it does. I like doing things as good as possible and it's very hard to not do ones best. That can be measured in many ways quality being one and quantity being the easiest to measure.
In the case of a given genetics I do not think quantity automatically means lower quality since a happy plant both produce a lot and produce good quality. If you choose genetics solely for yeild quality might suffer though but given that genetic the best quality will be had by keeping it happy.

So, in the end yeild is a good way to keep track of ones progress I think. But, you can only compare with similar setups or your own earlier results. And grows with the same genetics. A good Haze grower wont stand a chance against a decent PPP grower I mean.

There are a few things I believe makes out the corner stones of what you need to know and understand to grow well.

* Light is VERY important. Give them as much as u can and reflect back as much as possible from walls and floor. Photosyntesis makes carbonbased building blocks for your plants and the more of those the faster and healthier the plant grows. As long as you don't heat burn your plants more is always better.

* Air flow: Understand how the air flows through your growspace. You constantly need to get fresh air flowing through all parts of your plants. Why? Well fresh air contains CO2 and CO2 feeds the photosyntesis. The most important nutrient your plant "eats" is CO2. It is of such importance that simplified you can say that nutes in the water and soil are only there to make the uptake of CO2 possible. A plant is made up of mainly carbon and 100% of that comes from the air. Good nutes are really important but the bottle neck is in the photosyntesis. Its easy to satisfy a plants nutrient needs but VERY hard to optimize the CO2 uptake.
In my growarea I had passive intake on the floor below the charcoal filter hanging in the roof sucking air out. A lot of my fresh air went 2 meters straight up and got sucked out. So, I put a small fan on the floor at the intake blowing the fresh air into the center of the room to be sucked up through the plants canopy instead. The bigger fan moving the air over the canopy was also moved directly above the air intake so it would get any air trying to escape directly from intake to exhaust. It blows it on to the canopy now. Results from this change could be seen in a few days in the vigor of the plants.
In short, watch your growspace and try to figure out how the air moves. Take measures to get as much of the intake air as possible to move through your plants before it moves out of the room again.

* Keep it clean. Dead leaves or what have you attracts pests. Once you get those you are in Irak. Sure you can keep them at bay but there are no certain ways of winning per se or stopping the attacks completelly. So, don't give pests an easy way in. Avoid having living leaves touching the grow medium as well. Get them off the plant if they do. (I don't in any way mean that Irakies are pests by the way just that the war wont be won once it is started, there will alway be pockets surviving and starting new attack sooner or later) In short try your absolute best to not come into a situation where this will be an issue.

* Know your genetics. If you read up you will learn how the plant is expected to grow. If you learn that a plant grown freely will grow explosive upwards during its 3rd week you might wanna train it before that if you grow indoors. I made this mistace and now have room to spare horizontally but are fast running out of space vertically. That is not a good way to grow. I could have used my grow space better. Keep that canopy even and use up horizontal space rather than vertical. The less light that hits the floor and the more even canopy you have the better. Top, FIM, ScrOG, SoG, LST to make that happen.

* If you never ever nuteburned your plant you are under feeding it. Slowly go harder and harder on nutes until you do see signs of burns. Keep notes. Once you do hit the wall back off a bit and you can be certain you are at an optimal level for your strain and your grow op. Do keep notes though so you know the next time. Also know that generally they can take more and more as they get older so your first time around you might do this a few times.

Know these simple things and try to use that knowledge as good as possible and the rest will be much easier imo.
These points are a part from the obvious natrually. You need to know how to water, choose medium and grow technique, genetics etc etc but that is a given. Once you have started to grow and have choosen your equipment I think these 5 points are the most important to become as good as possible in.

Now I am no expert at this but I do know what I need to know and need to learn (which is still a lot).

My next time around I will plan more ahead and know better what to expect and be ready for that before it happens.

Puffzter
(you have to excuse my fingers sometimes I plan for a short post and the bastards just wont stop typing)

[Puffzter]

To ease up a bit after that...
Here is my plant #5 alone when I had them all out to check for troubles or any male flower on them and to turn them 180 degrees when they went back in.

6 long colas, only 5 can be made out on the pic though, one is hidden behind the others. Day 29 of 12/12 lighting and I cant wait for them to fatten up in the weeks to come.



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[zebulon]

Great grow log, nice work dude....can't wait to see some hot bud porn....:thumbsup:

[joedirte]

damn dude nice setup