White Widow Indoor Veg Outdoor Flower

[Tead]

They were fem'd seeds, and I think you can see hermi action more often with fem'd seeds.
Thinking back... I think I've done this dance before... perhaps a few times. I think I'll chill and keep an eye on them. Pollen sacks tend to stretch out a bit into a somewhat oblong shape.

Cheers

 

[BUD08]

Sorry to see the boy ya got there. im almost sure that its a boy. The rest of them are looking great though. Way to grow

 

[BWC BayArea]

Tead that sounds like the "bananas" I keep hearing about. I'm tryna figure out why people rush to cut the males even when they are unsure. Y? Don't they have to go 12/12 b4 releasing pollen? I hear the males mature a little faster but what's the rush? Which leads me to my next question, what compelled u to keep her around and U suspected she hermied? Just curious.

 

[Tead]

Tead that sounds like the "bananas" I keep hearing about. I'm tryna figure out why people rush to cut the males even when they are unsure. Y? Don't they have to go 12/12 b4 releasing pollen? I hear the males mature a little faster but what's the rush? Which leads me to my next question, what compelled u to keep her around and U suspected she hermied? Just curious.

I think many growers, including myself, have limited space. The hermi will polinate all your females and you'll end up with calyxs full of seeds rather then sticky wonderful resin.... it can be pretty risky... especially in an un-attended garden. In this case, my babies are in the sun, so they'll pump out pollen whenever they want. I didn't see any hermi action untill ~2 weeks after they hit the sunlight. I suppose autoflowering varieties would create pollen whenever they hit maturity no matter what light.

My motivation behind keeping her (it?) alive was 2 fold. I wanted to make sure... I caught them very early, and it's a new strain for me, so I was unsure. My cupboard's a bit bare at the moment, and I want to get some bud off of her to get me over the hump.

Cheers!

 

[Tead]

Text updates...
Mother green's been clipped to hell. I think I got 10 or 12 clones off her over the last few days. All her uncut stems have now been clipped at least once. She looks fine... just a bit funny.

White it the tri-node gone bi-node. Too bad she went back to 2 noded growth... the tri-node patern was fun. She's growing normally and looks fine

Blue is my hermi. She's really tall with huge spaces between the nodes. I'm pulling off the pollen sacks as I see them. I'll let her grow so I can get some bud of her. Bitch... how dare she change sides on me!

Red is my well manicured baby. She got sunburned the other day... but looks fine.

Weather has been very wet and warm over the last few days. Several inches the last few days. I'm trying to figure out an effective way to feed when the skies are dumping. I've tried adding food to the pots between showers, but I'm pretty sure it just gets washed thru.

Had a bit of an accident the other day that took me out for a few days. I'll live, but the pain meds really make me pissy. MJ has been quite helpful in taking the edge off the meds as they take the edge off my pain. That's just a whole lotta edges.

Cheers!

 

[Tead]

Forgot to mention... I've bailed on the humidity dome via ziplock bag idea. It's just really sloppy and hard to keep the bag the way you want. Plus, it wasn't saving me any space. Read about using plastic wrap rather than a bag (thanks BWC) today. Might try that soon.
Dug out the clone tray and humidity dome and got it going.

Cheers!

 

[Tead]

Felt bad talking about momma green without a photo....

She looks all clipped up and wierd.

Cheers!

 

[LostMarley]

Just stoppin by 2 say u have a really dope a#! grow right here bro.

 

[Tead]

Thanks LM... it's getting there, but has a ways to go. I'm shooting for an indoor/outdoor sea of green concept with the ultimate target being a weekly harvest. We'll see how it works out.

Cheers!

 

[Tead]

So, I saw this blurb about the Greenhouse Seeds WW strain...

"We suggest the final 2 weeks of the flowering cycle to turn the lights off altogether or at least down to 6 hours. This keeps the flowers from re-growth and stresses the plant into giving up it's last drops of goodness as crystal to protect the flower... try it!"

While I'm a fan of putting your plants in darkness for a few days before harvest, will a 2 week period of darkness give me something amazing?

Any thoughts or experiences?

Cheers

 

[Tead]

I gotta take a moment to brag on one of my babies. I did a bit of stategic grooming on Red, and she really came out nice. I numbered the tops of her below, and she's got 6 major blooms right at the top of the plant all relatively the same height.
I'm just extra bonus happy with her.

Cheers!
Geaux Tigers!

 

[BWC BayArea]

Dunno bout 2 weeks in the dark thing. I wanna know how u put the #s on ur plant's pic.

 

[Tead]

I use a image manipulation package called GIMP. It's free, and just as functional as Photoshop.

It's real easy... just click the text button on the tools pallete, adjust the text size and color options, then type in whatever you want.

Drop me a line if you need step by step instructions... Always happy to help!

Cheers!

 

[Sgt. White]

White label strains are my favorite, I'm gonna try growing the Rhino and Widow as soon as I put these into flower. This was good reading, let me know how much you get off of Blue.

 

[Tead]

I'm diggin on the frosty strains too. If nothing else, just for the visual impact of the frosted buds. I grew an Ice plant that I harvested early.. but she was quite beautiful in all her frosty goodness.
I'm extra impressed with the growth rate and form of White Widows. Sorry I didn't try them 'till now.

Cheers

 

[Tead]

Nute questions...

My plants are fully mature and flowering and, while I'm ramping up my nute percentages... I'm still only at about 40% of published numbers. This is the first time I've grown this strain, and this is the first time I'm adding nutes in a coherant fashion.

So, Where do folks end up in their feeding? Should I expect to be feeding them 100% (or more)? Am I ramping them up too slowly?

Cheers!

 

[WeedyMcWeedWeed]

i feed mine 100%+ and im just starting week 4 flower. but i am new and learning, i use FoxFarm nutes. no nute burn, they love it

 

[Tead]

hmmmm... perhaps I need to speed things up a bit.
Thanks Weedy!

Cheers!

 

[BWC BayArea]

Tead, this is the funny part of the grow. I have had the same strains on the same nutes at different ratios and got different responses. I have gone full strength from jump b4 and started low and tried to work my way up and stopped around 1000PPM (full strength is 1500+ PPMs ) as plants started to curl tips. So I am interested to figure this out too. With the lower PPMs the plants seem to finish with an inferior product. This is what I've observed in my experiences.

 

[Tead]

I think you've hit on an excellent point BWC. I have not been using my PPM meter... just the feeding schedule. Perhaps I should dig it out and see where I stand.

Thanks for the idea!

Cheers