I bought some white widow seeds from Dutch Passion in 1998. I managed to keep them going until 2006 when I stopped growing.

I found them easy enough to clone and had a 75% success rate. I found that the 25% I lost was mainly due to strict culling. I always found that the stragglers were hard to grow and were not worth keeping. I was sharp on using gel and a scalpel making the final cut in a shallow bowl of water. I always made sure that the stems were cut at an oblique as possible angle and that the gel and covered one trimmed branch set. Size at cloning did not seem to determine how well they would go although very small sections were less likley to succeed.

It was not unusual to see strikes within 48 hours. I never could work out what it was that caused the extraordinary growth in about 5% of them where they went ballistic with root growth. By seven days roughly 50% would be valid and removed. By two weeks I would have the 75% that I would keep. I kept two mother plants under 24 hour flouros in beads. and could guarantee to get sufficient off them.

I used rock wool that was well rinsed and had a clean rainwater supply. I used a cloning nutrient, cannot remember what, heat trays underneath plastic grow trays in a cupboard. I shielded the light by putting cling wrap to act as a moisture hood between the lights and the clones.

I did nothing out of the ordinary and the strain survived four house moves and believe it or not two busts. I used to check them frequently and removed plants from the grow hood as soon as they were viable and into the hydro set up.

The plants always yielded well but I found if I let them get big the heads were susceptible to mould. I aim to see shortly how well they can grow outdoors. They were mega potent and you have to see white widow heads in the flesh! They produced an astonishing amount of resin and the tedium of trimming with sticky fingers always yielded a few balls of A1 hashish!