Hydroe,
Welcome to 420, and welcome to the Deep Water Culture Home thread. I am glad you joined the site, and glad you dropped by our BH Home Thread. You came to the right place.
I hope you consider joining the BH club and displaying our logo proudly. The BHs are dedicated to helping new growers, to "paying it forward" for the next new grower tghat coems along.
You have asked for advice or criticism, and it would be so easy, much easier to be brief and tell you not to worry, you're doing fine. I mean they do look good. On the surface, skim reading or speed reading your statistics the first time, I tend to say not to worry, you're doing fine. They are not doing bad at all. You've done better than most new growers as far as you don't show any yellow tips, or signs of nute burn. I can tell by your statistics that you've done your homework and pre-study, for sure.
But that is not why you came here. You came to learn. You came to grow better. You came to be critiqued.
First, I have been given CLONES twice and I have made clones myself, several times. Much advantage in clones for you to know they are 100% females, and that is good. But all my experience tells me, and this is just my opinion, that clones do not measure up to starting with seeds as far as the rate of growth and the size or height they will reach compared to starting with a seed. I read a comparison once, that the writer used a star fish as an example. You can break off a limb, or part of a star fish, and the star fish will easily and naturally grow the limb back. BUT, the broken off limb can not grow an entire full size body back. I have broken off a limb or branch of a pot plant and of a tomato plant. The main mother plant always remains larger than the rooted branch or clone will grow. Thats just the way it is.
I have seen many, many Deep Water Culture grower brag and show pics of obtaining an inch of growth a day, everyday. I have posted three grows on the internet, one on this site, and every grow, I documented an inch of growth daily, from seed, to 32 inches in height in 32 days........or.......... from seed to 35 inches of height in 35 days, on over half the plants. BUT, I got some runts that did half of that. Weak genetics in some of the seeds was the reason. I also got some that grew more rapid, like 42 inches in 35 days, but they were al males..and males grow faster.
Anyway, ONE determining factor for your grow is you started with clones instead of seeds. BUT NOT the major problem of slow growth.
2, White Widow is a Dutch 60 - 40% Sativa-indica Strain, and the smoke is very powerful and the plants very unique with thier white color. BUT, all seed sellers of WW say they are not the largest or fastest growing plants and yields average 2 oz per plant at best. You can not expect as rapid a growth with WW, but agian, not the determining factor with your slower grow.
3, And here is one real NO-NO. You started with 24/7 of light, (that was great, I do 24/7 the entire VEg Cycle) the first week, then switched to 18/6 and then switched to 20/4hrs .
When you went to LESS light after the first week, you confused them, the plants thought summer was ending, and they started thinking about pre-flowering instead of growing larger. Then, you confused them more, by increasing the light from 18/6 to 20/4, telling them to not make pre-flowers, but to go back to VEGGING more. And when a plant gets confused, it stops growing or growing as fast, and it tends to hermie on you too.
4, frozen water in tank? BAD!
Welcome to 420, and welcome to the Deep Water Culture Home thread. I am glad you joined the site, and glad you dropped by our BH Home Thread. You came to the right place.
I hope you consider joining the BH club and displaying our logo proudly. The BHs are dedicated to helping new growers, to "paying it forward" for the next new grower tghat coems along.
You have asked for advice or criticism, and it would be so easy, much easier to be brief and tell you not to worry, you're doing fine. I mean they do look good. On the surface, skim reading or speed reading your statistics the first time, I tend to say not to worry, you're doing fine. They are not doing bad at all. You've done better than most new growers as far as you don't show any yellow tips, or signs of nute burn. I can tell by your statistics that you've done your homework and pre-study, for sure.
But that is not why you came here. You came to learn. You came to grow better. You came to be critiqued.
First, I have been given CLONES twice and I have made clones myself, several times. Much advantage in clones for you to know they are 100% females, and that is good. But all my experience tells me, and this is just my opinion, that clones do not measure up to starting with seeds as far as the rate of growth and the size or height they will reach compared to starting with a seed. I read a comparison once, that the writer used a star fish as an example. You can break off a limb, or part of a star fish, and the star fish will easily and naturally grow the limb back. BUT, the broken off limb can not grow an entire full size body back. I have broken off a limb or branch of a pot plant and of a tomato plant. The main mother plant always remains larger than the rooted branch or clone will grow. Thats just the way it is.
I have seen many, many Deep Water Culture grower brag and show pics of obtaining an inch of growth a day, everyday. I have posted three grows on the internet, one on this site, and every grow, I documented an inch of growth daily, from seed, to 32 inches in height in 32 days........or.......... from seed to 35 inches of height in 35 days, on over half the plants. BUT, I got some runts that did half of that. Weak genetics in some of the seeds was the reason. I also got some that grew more rapid, like 42 inches in 35 days, but they were al males..and males grow faster.
Anyway, ONE determining factor for your grow is you started with clones instead of seeds. BUT NOT the major problem of slow growth.
2, White Widow is a Dutch 60 - 40% Sativa-indica Strain, and the smoke is very powerful and the plants very unique with thier white color. BUT, all seed sellers of WW say they are not the largest or fastest growing plants and yields average 2 oz per plant at best. You can not expect as rapid a growth with WW, but agian, not the determining factor with your slower grow.
3, And here is one real NO-NO. You started with 24/7 of light, (that was great, I do 24/7 the entire VEg Cycle) the first week, then switched to 18/6 and then switched to 20/4hrs .
When you went to LESS light after the first week, you confused them, the plants thought summer was ending, and they started thinking about pre-flowering instead of growing larger. Then, you confused them more, by increasing the light from 18/6 to 20/4, telling them to not make pre-flowers, but to go back to VEGGING more. And when a plant gets confused, it stops growing or growing as fast, and it tends to hermie on you too.
4, frozen water in tank? BAD!
