Orphaned White Widow

Dankallday

Active Member
So my buddy planted a widow seed in a cup and let it chill in his backyard he watered it and watched it but nothing special was done for it. he gave it to me to try and save. i have it indoors under 2 reguler fluroescent bulbs (shop lights) and i repotted it with some good quality soil. its been inside about a week now. and the oldest leaves seem to be dying away. but its got a bunch of white hairs and alot of crystals. the plant is about 8 inches tall. is it ready to come out of a cup yet? it just looks to dank to give up on.. what can i do to help it.. budget is tight .. how much water per day? also i have tin foil reflecting light all around it. will this help? great site...

thanks
 

Aethersaegis

Well-Known Member
tin foil =bad it cuases more issues the helps use the insides of empty chip bags for reflector its like free mylar with every snack
 

Dankallday

Active Member
The plant is on 24/0 right now .. i will try and get a picture up but im not good with that stuff... the upper part of the main stem has turned purple and it runs threw the branches and into the leaves the leaves all have purplish color except the bottom two wich are yellow and droopy the bud is sprouting out between the stem and branches.. lots of white hairs and crystals.

also another quick question is the Bright wing lamp with the 5500 lumes/105 watt bulb a good lamp to grow a few plants with ? i think thats my next upgrade....
 

cruzer101

Well-Known Member
Hi Dank,

Look at it this way. The plant is eight inches tall and the root system has...what 3 inches? Yes time for bigger container.
Don't worry about the lower leaves, you are going to lose them.

Purple stem is natural in several strains, don't worry.

OK so it comes from outdoors to indoors. That will stress a plant. Transplanting will stress a plant. A stressed plant will herm on you.

You got one plant right? Why not Grow a mother herm? The plant will fertilize itself and the seeds will be almost all female and few more hermes.

You could have several ww fem seeds and not worry about it pollinating other plants. If you see one with balls just cut them off or get Hollands reverse.

I would put her in a 8 inch pot, hold my hand above the top of the plant and lower the lights until I could feel the heat.

Then I would water her every other day. You don't want the soil wet. you want the top dry and about one inch down slightly moist. I would not use tap water. At least use drinking water. The soil PH should be checked. You can get a meter for around $20

If it herms, great. If not, well you can always clone it.
 

Dankallday

Active Member
OK... yes i have one plant how do i Herm the plant or will it just do this on its own and how do i know when its hermed.? will it yield any smokable bud??

also im going to buy a few things for my plant today..

is there a specific brand of nutes i can buy?

How do you guys feel about the Light i mentioned above? will this yeild decent bud?

thanks for the support..
 

misshestermoffitt

New Member
If you have a Wal-mart nearby, go check in the greenhouse section, this time of year they have all their pots and nutes marked down for clearance. You can get some really nice good quality pots for cheap. :hump:
 

cruzer101

Well-Known Member
I’m sorry; I guess I got ahead of myself. I was thinking of the condition of the plant right now. When a plant is stressed it herms. Yours might do that. IF that is the case then you can proceed with what I mentioned.
You will be able to tell once it matures. It will have both hairs and balls. Mostly hairs, just a couple of ball sacks.

The way to get a plant to herm is to stress it in the veg cycle. You stress a plant by changing the conditions it’s under. Like moving from outside to inside, or going one week at 12/12 than next week at 24/7 then back to 12/12.
Too many nutrients will stress a plant. Transplanting does this also.
It confuses the plant and its mother nature’s survival mechanism

Either way, herm or clone I would be thinking of a way to keep the strain alive.
If it herms you still get bud. Just not as much. Say 60% bud 30% seed 10% male flower. So you still get smoke while the babies are growing.

How much does one plant yield? Well that depends on a lot of things but I would say with a 400w about 1/2 oz dried smoke.
Don’t get me wrong, with optimum conditions, in a 5 gallon container with 1000w hps a plant can yield a couple oz indoors.

If you are buying new the Bright wing lamp with the 5500 lumes/105 watt bulb would run you about $110 right? That’s a veg lamp, what about flower? you will need another bulb say 3000k for flower so now your at $150 Well if that’s so then you could take that $150 and buy a new 400w HPS on eBay, shipped to your door and get twice the yield. Use it to veg and flower. Works fine.

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