1st Grow - White Widow, Trainwreck & Skunk #11

winn420

Well-Known Member
Hello everyone,

I ask that no one post comments or questions in this journal because I want to make a journal that's very easy for someone to read from start to finish without having to navigate through 47 pages of comments. Feel free to pm (private message) me with any questions or comments or go to https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/59299-my-first-grow-white-widow.html and post as many comments about this grow as you like. Thank you :mrgreen:

I'm already on day 25 of flowering today but I'll post some pictures from day 1 to current to get everyone caught up. I started with 16 seedlings and I now have 10 plants flowering in my set-up (4-white widow, 3-trainwreck & 3-skunk #11). They were vegged under a 400watt MH along with 420watts of CFL's for side light (4-105watt CFL's). When I flipped them to 12/12 they ranged in age from 20 to 28 days. Also, when I started flowering I pulled 4 of the plants (all 3 skunk #11 & 1 white widow) from my hydro tray and transplanted them into soil in 3 gallon pots to make room in my tray because it was getting very crowded. I keep my PH at 5.7 to 6.0 and right now my nute PPM is around 1100. This is what I'm working with:

(2) 400watt HPS lights (1 of them was just added 2 days ago)
3' x '3 ebb & flow hydro set-up over a 20 gallon reservior
I bought a Co2 "boost bucket" when I started but it's used up in one week
15lb Co2 bottle & regulator (starts in one week when boost bucket is used up)
12,000 BTU portable a/c for climate control (consistantly around 75)
Carbon filtered exhaust going to the attic (also cools one of the lights)
Dutch Passion Seed Co. - White Widow (non-feminised)
Dutch Passion Seed Co. - Skunk #11 (feminised)
Greenhouse Seed Co. - Trainwreck (feminised)
Nutes - Flora Nova grow & bloom, Floralicious & Kool Bloom Liquid
Medium for potted plants - 5 parts Fox Farm "Ocean's Forest" & 2 parts perlite

Well I think that's enough to get everyone caught up on the details and like I said, fell free to visit the other journal with comments or questions or just pm me. Now for some pics...


Seedlings - 3/22/08
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Below: moved to tray 3/24/08
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Below: range from 4 to 12 days old
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More pics...

trainwreck - 12 days old from seed
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Below: white widow - day 14 from seed
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Below: range from 17 to 25 days old from seed
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Below: trainwreck - 23 days old from seed
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Below: white widow - 27 days old from seed
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Here's the start of flowering...

white widow - day 2 flowering
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Below: trainwreck - day 2 flowering
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Below: white widow - day 10 flowering (I forgot to switch it from MH to HPS until day 5 of flowering)
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Below: trainwreck - day 10 flowering
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Below: white widow & trainwreck - day 13 flowering
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Below: white widow - day 13 flowering
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More pics...

white widow - day 19 flowering
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Below: white widow - day 19 flowering
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Below: trainwreck - day 19 flowering
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Below: skunk #11 - day 19 flowering
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Last round of catch up pics...

white widow - day 22 flowering
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Below: trainwreck - day 22 flowering
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Below: skunk #11 - day 22 flowering
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Below: all of my babies - day 22 flowering
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The MH bulb you see in the reflector on the left was only temporary, they both have HPS bulbs now. I'll post some pics tonight as soon as my lights turn on. Thanks for looking.
 
Here's a couple pics I just took with the lights out using a green party light. You can't really see anything. Better pics tonight...

white widow - day 25 flowering
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Below: Skunk #11 - day 25 flowering
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It's day 25 of flowering and my girls just woke up. As you can see in the pics, I have a white widow that has no fan leaves and this is just my experiment to see how it turns out when you chop off all of the fan leaves throughout flowering (I know that's where the nutrients are stored and all that, it's simply an experiment). All pics were taken tonight, enjoy...

PH: 5.7
Nute PPM: 1,115
Room Temp: Current 76.3 / High 76.6 / Low 71.1
Water Temp: 73.4
RH: 48%

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: Skunk #11
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Below: white widow
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Below: white widow & trainwreck
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Below: white widow with no fan leaves
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Below: stats
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Below: the garden
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Here they are looking good on day 26 of flowering.

PH: 5.7
Nute PPM: 1,112
Room Temp: Current 76.8 / High 78.1 / Low 71.6
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 46%

enjoy the pics...

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: skunk #11
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Below: the tray - WW & TW
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Below: the garden
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Nothing new to report on day 27 of flowering.

PH: 5.6
Nute PPM: 1,111
Room Temp: Current 75.2 / High 75.9 / Low 72.5
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 52%

no close up pics tonight just the whole garden
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Day 28 of flowering (4 weeks). All is well in the jungle. I'll be going out of town for the weekend so I'm getting everything ready & organized but I'm sure they'll be okay by themselves.

PH: 5.6
Nute PPM: 1,119
Room Temp: Current 75.9 / High 76.1 / Low 71.8
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 56%

white widow
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trainwreck
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skunk #11
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the last 3 pics are of everyone
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Day 29 of flowering. Just got done topping off the reservior and I bumped up the PPM a little. Sorry no pics tonight.

PH: 5.7
Nute PPM: 1,208
Room Temp: Current 77.9 / High 79.0 / Low 72.3
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 52%

My room temps are a little high because I turned off my a/c yesterday and forgot to turn it back on right away so it was off for about 3 hours...The vegg cabinet that I have inside my room probably would have reached 95 or higher if I hadn't remembered to turn the a/c back on when I did, and that might have killed my G13 x Haze mother that's for my next grow.
 
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Day 30 of flowering. Someone told me I should be giving them fresh water once a week so I have been and after giving them some fresh water tonight, the runoff lowered the PPM in my reservior a little so I'll have to bring it back up. Everything looks good, they're actually starting to show a decent amount of crystals. I'm going out of town in the morning so the next update will be Sunday night. This will be the first time I've been away from them for more than 12 hours...feel's like I've leaving behind my child.

PH: 5.7
Nute PPM: 1,127
Room Temp: Current 75.0 / High 77.4 / Low 71.4
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 50%

just a few bud shots tonight...

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: skunk #11
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Below: white widow & trainwreck
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Day 32 of flowering. It seems like they actually got bigger in the 36 hours I was away. I really thought that carbon filter was gonna help more with the smell, though it's not a bad smell to come home to if you ask me. As long as it doesn't hit my front yard...lol

PH: 5.6
Nute PPM: 1,123
Room Temp: Current 75.0 / High 75.2 / Low 71.1
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 48%

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: skunk #11
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Below: the garden
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Below: the garden
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Day 34 of flowering. Nothing new to report today, they're lookin good.

PH: 5.6
Nute PPM: 1,129
Room Temp: Current 75.6 / High 77.4 / Low 73.8
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 49%

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: skunk #11
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Below: the garden
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Below: the garden
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Day 36 of flowering. Yeah I would say the pictures taken with the lights out using a flash look much better than pics taken under the HPS light.

PH: 5.7
Nute PPM: 1,139
Room Temp: Current 74.5 / High 80.2 / Low 74.3
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 53%

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: skunk #11
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Below: white widow
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Day 37 flowering. I got bored so I took a few more pics that look the exact same as the pics I took yesterday.

PH: 5.7
Nute PPM: 1,121
Room Temp: Current 78.6 / High 81.5 / Low 74.8
Water Temp: 75.4
RH: 51%

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Day 38 of flowering. I wish I had something interesting to tell you guys & gals but I don't...lol. They look good to me and the room smells delicious. Pics coming tomorrow or monday. Hope everyone's having a great memorial day weekend!!

PH: 5.7
Nute PPM: 1,141
Room Temp: Current 79.2 / High 81.0 / Low 76.5
Water Temp: 77.0
RH: 52%
 
Day 40 of flowering. I plan to start flushing the plants in about a week. I want to flush them for at least 10 days before I harvest but I guess a few extra days of flushing won't hurt if they end up needing more time to grow.

PH: 5.6
Nute PPM: 1,151
Room Temp: Current 73.8 / High 79.7 / Low 73.0
Water Temp: 77.0
RH: 52%

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: skunk #11
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Below: white widow
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Below: (2) white widow's
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Day 42 of flowering. Nothing new to report in the last 2 days. The room is getting really smelly and the widow in the middle of the tray is turning into a friggin monster. The last 2 pics were using the camera flash while the HPS lights were starting up, I thought they looked kinda cool...

PH: 5.6
Nute PPM: 1,153
Room Temp: Current 75.0 / High 83.5 / Low 74.5
Water Temp: 77.0
RH: 53%

white widow
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Below: trainwreck
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Below: skunk #11
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Below: misc. pictures
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Day 43 of flowering. I used a tape measure in these 2 pics to show the size of the top colas on a couple of my widows...

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