White Widow (fem) Coco Grow/journal

[MCC420]

First time on this forum
First time growing cannabis. I'm already 10 days in from germination on my 5 White Widow Seeds from ilgm.com (posting pics) I'm growing in straight coco Coir medium and using Botanicare KIND nutes (Kind Base, Kind Grow and Calmag to start tho I will be adding a bloom)started my seeds in rockwool Cubes then into Dixie cups (air prunned) then finsishing in 5 gallon buckets also (airprunned) I have two tents one is a 2x4 the other is a 4x4 smaller for Veg bigger for flower. Using an 8bulb BadBoy T5 in veg and a 12bulb BadBoy T5 in flower. Have tons of pics of my setup if interested I'll post em up. Here's my progress so far.

 

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[madgrower]

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Congratulations you are now a parent

 

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Some more progress shots up till today and my some of my gear...

 

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Congratulations you are now a parent

Thanks man! Yeah I'm pretty darn excited lol

 

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Up their feeding from 1ml to 3ml per nute per gallon (Kind Base, Kind Grow and Calmag + at about 522ppm) also lowered my 8 bulb 432watt T5 closer to the plants And they seem to be doing great except that little one in the back. It's been slow since day one.

 

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Just wanted to show off how my veg tent is setup at the moment and see what y'all think. I'm using cheap $20 dollar duct fans from Amazon. One for pulling out hot air then another pulling in fresh cool air and seem to be working great for this 2x4 tent. At times it gets a lil warmer thank I like (82) so instead of a air conditioner I'm using my tower humidifier on cool mist outside the tent pulling all that cool moisture in and it gets to a cool 75 degrees and on the plus it keeps it nice and humid for my small plants. I wanna add that I also purchased 2 fan controllers for like $7 bucks of Amazon and they work fantastic! When the lights go out it's been getting a I lil cool since it's been getting kinda chilly here and being able to adjust the 240cfm duct fans really helps to keep the temp that I need for the most part. I have a small tower fan blowing just above the plants to give them a nice breeze for movement but not to cause wind burn and another clip fan blowing up towards the light moving what lil heat this T5 puts off (which is also sweet for controlling temps) I added a 3rd fan called power circulator by Honeywell that pivots up 90° to circulate air coming from the light and rising heat. Well just felt like sharing after a good smoke and to see if anyone would make any changes. I'll have my flower tent ready in due time.

 

[Enforcer]

Nice set up, well thought out. It looks like you did some research. What is your plan for a feeding / watering schedule?

 

[MCC420]

Nice set up, well thought out. It looks like you did some research. What is your plan for a feeding / watering schedule?

Thanks for the love! Yes I did about 3 months of research before ordering anything to make sure I didn't jump the gun lol. With growing in coco I'm watering with nutes once everyday. I'm using Botanicare KIND nutes (Kind Base, Kind Grow and Calmag +) will be adding their bloom in due time. I started with just pH 5.8 water the first few days after they popped up then mixed in a very low 1ml per bottle per gallon of water for a few days at this point my ppm was around 200 actually less if you consider my water supply had 10ppm to start so nute ppm was under 200ppm then I decided to up the feeding to 3 ml per bottle per gallon which put me around 522ppm including my water. Just last night for the first time i checked my run off pH and ppm and it was sitting at 5.9 pH and 496ppm... Was misting the plants a couple times a day with just pH water but noticed they was getting a lil yellowish in some spots and after cutting that shit out they look alot greener and happeir even tho they never looked bad.

 

[Enforcer]

Thanks for the love! Yes I did about 3 months of research before ordering anything to make sure I didn't jump the gun lol. With growing in coco I'm watering with nutes once everyday. I'm using Botanicare KIND nutes (Kind Base, Kind Grow and Calmag +) will be adding their bloom in due time. I started with just pH 5.8 water the first few days after they popped up then mixed in a very low 1ml per bottle per gallon of water for a few days at this point my ppm was around 200 actually less if you consider my water supply had 10ppm to start so nute ppm was under 200ppm then I decided to up the feeding to 3 ml per bottle per gallon which put me around 522ppm including my water. Just last night for the first time i checked my run off pH and ppm and it was sitting at 5.9 pH and 496ppm... Was misting the plants a couple times a day with just pH water but noticed they was getting a lil yellowish in some spots and after cutting that shit out they look alot greener and happeir even tho they never looked bad.

Yup, looks good man. I grow in coco as well. I think your ppm may be a little high for a seedling. I have found that I really don’t need higher than 500ppm, even in flower. But I’m feeding multiple times a day (auto water). You may get away with it once a day though. Just something to keep an eye on. The yellow spots may have been water drops left on the leaf after watering. They will act like a lens for the light and cause damage.

Here’s my grow log. I’m growing the White Widow too. Current run begins at the bottom of page 14 if you wanted to skip ahead. I should harvest at the end of the month.

https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/white-widow-400w-grow.92060/

I’ll take a seat for your grow. I think you will do well. Welcome to the Farm.

 

[MCC420]

Well I've been out running all day today and when I got home first thing I did was open up the veg tent to zoom on the ladies and this lil girl decided to get a growth spurt while I was gone making money. Kinda tripped me out lol and then it got me excited :)

 

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Smoked a bowl of girl scout cookies tonight and then proceeded to give my young plants a photo shoot lol. I pulled them out the tent and made pics without being directly under the light this time and man they sure do look sexy to me. I added all 5 of them in a collage but did zero editing or enhancing just a good lens and good light. Being my first grow I'm taking pics everyday I see changes and can't share with just anyone so I'm sharing with fellow growers :)

 

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I'm addicted to taking pics of my ladies lmao. Check out this link with my newest pics Up Close HD! Pretty badass if you ask me. Even sicker that the Google Pixel XL 2 is equipped with such a badass camera. I'm sure lovin it! To note I think the 5.8 pH water at 522/533 ppm once a day is doing very nice with the the young lady's thus far...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3xfZDbleuKbssRZJ3

 

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They changing on me everyday! Very exciting! Also love how short and busy they are stayin!:)

 

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Sharing more pics. Can't stay out of my tent lol... Smoking on some Vanilla OG tonight

let me know what y'all think about the plants so far.

 

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They growing fast on me! Bout time to transplant. Having to feed twice a day. They drinking it up!

 

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Tonight I finally got the girls transplanted which was much needed. I actually had planned on doing this 2 days ago but work had gotten busy and I was being lazy. Unfortunately they got a lil rootbound and now I'll remember to put lazy to the side and do what I'm supposed to do. Was happy to see that they was very clean and white. Roots were coming from everywhere even climbing out the top. First time I've seen this not on a video so it was an experience lol. Snapped some shots to share. Any input or advice is always nice to read from you guys.

 

[MCC420]

Coming along. Did a lil defoliation on the bottom and put some stick skewers as some started leaning. Still feeding daily with Calmag+, KIND base and KIND grow at roughly 500ppms and 5.8 ph

 

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Update. Had some problems getting my flower tent environment stable thru out the day but I think I got it tuned in now and ready for the girls just gotta get them trasnplanted into the 5 gallon. Got roots sticking out the bottom of these containers already and im having to feed 2 gallons of water now instead of 1. I lowered my ppms from around the mid 500 range to mid 300s as I started noticing a lil nute burn on a few of the plants. I've stopped using the KIND grow formula and added using the KIND Bloom and also lowerd my calmag + down from 4ml a gallon to 1ml per gallon as I had forgot that the Botanicare KIND formula already has this and I believe I may have been locking out other nutrients. Check out some of the pics from tonight!

I have also trimmed up around the bottom twice most recent was about 4 days ago... I waited to late but decided to go ahead and still fim the tops. About 4-5 days ago. Tomorrow I'm taking clones and moving the girls.

 

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My infinity fan didn't wanna run on high which set me back from getting them into the flower tent but infinity is sending me another one no questions asked. In the mean time I'm using the smaller duct fan and they have been in 12/12 for just a couple days and doing good. Here's a pic from tonight.