wassup everybody this is my 1st grow journal but not my 1st grow....more like 2nd lol. im mainly looking for pointers for a novice grower and ill give as much detail as i can so you all can help me out.

im using schultz soil (3 parts) and black kow compost (1 part) in five gallon pots. theyre roughly 2 weeks old and i started them in peat pots but went ahead and moved them to their final pots. i water them every three days (unless it rains, which is often here), but have no idea when or even what nutes to use. i have 5 in their final pots right now and 3 in peats that i intend to do SOG with.

if anyone cares to know or was going to ask....the seeds came from bcseeds. its the "all new white widow" so theres no telling whats gonna happen lol. heres to a good summer grow! wish me luck

pics were taken today courtesy of my blackberry....they werent all planted at the same time though thats why i say roughly 2 wks old but they were planted within a week of each other

errr.....ive been trying to upload these pics for hours.......

ok! here we go! i just watered them at 700 ml each to last 3 days in the hot florida sun(not including the peats)....these pics were from yesterday.

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this is the biggest one at 3 wks. the weather hasnt been very agreeable with my gameplan to water them every 3 days. it wont stop raining long enough for me to see how fast they drink the water. not only that, but my soil doesnt drain as well as i thought it would and as you can see my babies are suffering is transplanting to better draining soil the best option in this case? the soil im using now with them is completly saturated with water......


here are the others, with an overall shot. it looks like one isnt gonna make it though.....








and...the family portrait of the week

going on wk4....slow but steady will win the race haha. ill start using ferts next week so hopefully ill see a little growth spurt after awards. the plant i said would die eventually did and i replaced it with another, the others recovered fine from the watering situation but you can see the scars on the lower leaves. subtracting the one that replaced the fallen white widow i still have two in peats left that im going to put in foxfarms soil to compare the difference in growth from the others.




this is the replaced plant







here are a few pics of a plant ive been messing with for a few months. ive just been using it for supercropping practice and its been pretty fun. ive got 8 growing tips right now on it and im starting to get the hang of it

So yeah.....after a brief hiatus from riu, I have an update. The ladies have grown quite a bit and I think we're at about day 51. The plants finally adapted to the weather about a week after my last post, but that's also also about the time I got some ferts (fox farms BB). I'm still trying to get an idea of how much I can give to the gang before it starts harming them. The tolerance level varies from plant to plant. I put 4 small spoonfuls of BB in one gallon of water. Right now I just give them a dosage once a week....I can't even call it a watering because I don't even water them anymore since it rains so damn much around here. The longest it's gone without raining here is about 3 days all summer. Makes the process a little more natural I guess lol. I also started to try supercropping on the three biggest ladies a few days ago. I've got mixed results so far, on two of them I bent the stem too much and you can see the signs of stress on them. The other one responded well and is looking fantastic...well,almost. Some kind of bug is slowly muching away at it, but I can never catch the critter in the act! The plant grows so fast though that it's hard to notice the damage until you really look at it,but it's definitely a concern. Other than that, everything is gravy. Even the two in peats started shooting up from the BB bit still no roots coming out of the bottom. I'm trying to wait until then before I make the final transplant, but I don't want to wait too long. Check em out

http://emob902.photobucket.com/album...8/687eee83.jpg
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you can see the stress on it.....my bad buddy

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I bent the stem on this one a little too far I think, as you can see by the signs of stress.

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this one is quickly becoming the star of the show. You can see the damage from pests. The weirdest thing is that this is the only one that is being targeted by insects! Weird for real.
http://emob902.photobucket.com/album...8/03b86064.jpg
this one was the test subject (sounds bad lol). It turned out to be female so it's starting to get pistils all over. I don't expect too much cuz it's bagseed and it's pretty small, but it's a nice bonus still.

http://emob902.photobucket.com/album...8/0ad9f14a.jpg

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and here are the two runts. They're looking really healthy and are really starting to take off.

This iPhone is really kool... I just did everything for this post on it, photobucket and all!

Oh yeah... I meant the grow big stuff not big bloom!

Got a lil update. Turns out that my good friend just got arrested and it looks like he won't be back for a while. We were comparing the growth of our wws to each others but I took his three for him so hopefully they can be close to finishing by the time he gets home instead of having died. The weren't in the best growing conditions to begin with and the soil looks almost like pure dirt so I transplanted the healthiest looking one with my remaining soil and placed on the windowsill next to my peats. The other are staying outside because I don't have anymore soil to transplant them right now and I don't want pests crawling out of th soil into my house. With 11 white widows, I'm sure that I'll be a happy young man this winter if The bunch keep up the good work. I also gave the new members about 150 ml of gb since that soil is really crappy. He didn't want to use ferts at first but these guys look to be on the brink of not making it if something isn't done. I also am going to use ferts on them a little more than the others since the soil is so bleh to balance it out a little. Get home soon!


this is the healthiest one


here's the other two. he started to do the supercropping technique as well. i might top them and/or lst them to compare the results.

Quick break from work.....I noticed something crazy today that I'd never seen today before ever in my life. So I was checking on my peats that I have on a windowsill in the house that gets alot of light. It was just after sunrise and the light hadn't reached the plants on the otherside of the sill so I moved them into the direct light and when I did this one of the plants literally started trembling for about 30 mins I kid you not! I doubt anyone will tell me what it was since I've only been talking to myself this entire grow journal.....speaking as a noob it sucks to see ppl aren't more willing to giv out pointers or any kind of constructive critisicm. Oh well more pics up wedsnday.

im thinking i might have solved the mystery bug problem! i was putting some ferts in this morning and readjusting the plants that i am training when i found a small caterpillar under one of the fan leaves. i never did check under the leaves that much before so now i know to make that a habit. everything else is great. im starting to get this a little better and how you actually do have to "care" for them.

yeah everything has been pretty good now. these plants dont need much attention at all....i see why ppl say this is a good plant for begginers now! i think about them all day while im at work hoping the 95 degree sun doesnt toast them to a crisp (it peaked around 104 today.....)

the only minor problem i had this week (besides those blasted caterpillars....havent seen anymore though) was this morning when i was a little rough with two of the HST'd widows and actually split the stems wide open! i was slightly worried about it until some good folks here reassured it was gonna be ok.

as for the ferts, i gave them another dosage today of gb as id plannned to. besides me going through the growing pains of using ferts for the 1st time, the widows have shown very little signs of nute burn. i upped the concentration a little (5 plastic spoons to a gal of water)
but only gave them about half strength as i diluted that mix with straight bottled water. i think within the next two weeks or so ill start giving them the full strength treatment twice a week and see how that goes.

as for my friends plants, one died a few days ago but the others are looking great since the 1st time i gave them ferts. i bet his will end up looking better than mine with all the crap theyve gone through with the terrible weather the 1st few weeks lol but its all love this was more or less a joint op between us but i have the better growing locale on my side. his plants are just starting to get the 5 flora fan leaves. mine range from 3 to 7 i believe....i hope i get one with 9 that will be kool haha


after my little caterpillar ordeal, this is the healthiest plant. lookin good.....lookin good




these two are the ones i damaged this morning......you can tell by the slumping groing tips. im pretty sure theyll be ok though ill have to see what they look like in the morning.



battle scars from the caterpillar saga...still my fave though. since these are from bcseeds, if any of these look to be a real widow its definitely this one....dont want to speak on it too soon though. this is the only one ive come up with a name for so far.....Star!



even the runt of the litter is starting to come up!




these are my friends two. they sure do like them some grow big......the bottom one grew so fast that it completley straightened out the 90 degree bend in the stem! i think it was trying to tell me something so im letting this one grow without training



and here is ms lady. judging by the development id say im somewhere around 3 weeks? thats a complete guess....i never though this would be a female in the first place because i tinkered with it so much and intentionally stressed it to learn from it. im not even using any nutes but i will be using molasses to see how that works out by the end of the week.

my only real concern is that i have no idea when to expect them to start flowering. seeing as to how this one just burst into flower has been really irking me because it happened in the middle of july out of nowhere. i have this one in the same spot as the rest yet they dont flower (thankfully so)? if i could get another month of veg i would be more than happy but i doubt it...........heres to hoping!

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