My very first grow, White Widow

Bah-humbug

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Sorry forgot you had included specs. Did you get the doors on and how airtight is it ? Ps. Thanks for sharing and y9ur set up looks great.
Thanks for asking. I did finish the doors. They turned out pretty good but I still have some minor work to do with sealing them. Although small, I do have a bit of light leakage coming out of the right door near the hinges so if light gets out, both light and air can come in. I have an extractor set up with a carbon filter so air shouldn’t be escaping the cabinet though there but instead getting sucked in. Tomorrow I will be weather stripping the doors so that should take care of that problem. We shall see

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Also here the the plants as of earlier today

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Poobzilla

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Yeah haha, got white widows as well but photos and I was about to ask why are your plants growing so quickly but if they are autos thats about right
Yeah I've been following along and realising mine are not going to be quite the same as not auto ww. Will be good to compare the 2 grows though.
 

Bah-humbug

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Yeah I've been following along and realising mine are not going to be quite the same as not auto ww. Will be good to compare the 2 grows though.
Sorry forgot you had included specs. Did you get the doors on and how airtight is it ? Ps. Thanks for sharing and y9ur set up looks great.
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All done. I went ahead and put a weather strip all the way around the frame of both doors and that did the trick. The light leaking out of the first picture is just the light reflecting off of the back wall coming out of the ven holes that I have on the bottom of the box.
 

CptTripps

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Gaffer/Duct tape a couple of furnace filters over your intake holes from the outside. That'll help with light, and also stop dirty air from getting inside.

Great looking cabinet!
 

CptTripps

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Anyone has some advice on defoliating?
At this stage, I took off everything that wasn't connected to small growth. Here's a before/ater pic o what I did on my first grow. It rebounded in spades about a week later. I think my plant was at about the same stage as yours...

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Keep in mind, this is advise coming from a complete newb. Within a week it didn't look like I'd done anything at all though. It all came back stronger than ever.

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Bah-humbug

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At this stage, I took off everything that wasn't connected to small growth. Here's a before/ater pic o what I did on my first grow. It rebounded in spades about a week later. I think my plant was at about the same stage as yours...

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Keep in mind, this is advise coming from a complete newb. Within a week it didn't look like I'd done anything at all though. It all came back stronger than ever.

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Thanks and thank you for including pictures. Helps a lot. I’ll update by days end.
 

Bah-humbug

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The plants right after defoliating and 3/4 days after. Looks like nothing happened. Need to do some more work to expose some of the buds being covered.

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CptTripps

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The plants right after defoliating and 3/4 days after. Looks like nothing happened
Yup. Just like I told you.

I'm defoling one plant, and not another. Then, I'll compare yield and see which is better. They're both from the same seed source, and have been growing similarly otherwise.

Good luck!
 

Bah-humbug

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Alright so the plants are growing healthy as far as I can tell. Today they are 34 days old and the cabinet is getting quite full. I decided to use a net to try and keep everything as flat as possible.

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CptTripps

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I was wondering how heavy should I defoliate at this point. I don’t want to over do it.
From my (limited) experience in defoliating, it's hard to over-do it. I just take off fan leaves that are blocking other growth. You start nipping them off, and before you know it...you have a sickly looking plant and a pile of leaves. Then, 5-6 days later, it looks like you did nothing and the plant is much bigger.
 
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