The WHITE WIDOW club, Show off your grow

Integra21 said:

http://cgi.ebay.com/400-W-Lumatek-Grow-Light-kit-HPS-hydroponic-grow-light_W0QQitemZ270502956070QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3efb3b8c26
here's a good deal, the same guys I ordered my light from. Fast and reliable. If your willing to spend a little more, you can get a light that is ready to be air cooled if heat is an issue like this one
http://cgi.ebay.com/400-watt-MH-HPS-Lumatek-Grow-Light-Air-Cooled-Kit_W0QQitemZ280440262559QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item414b8acf9f

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Heres a couple more links to go with that:

http://cgi.ebay.com/400-WATT-HPS-DIGITAL-GROW-LIGHT-6-AIR-COOLED-HOOD-400w_W0QQitemZ160386595808QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2557c93be0

http://cgi.ebay.com/400-WATT-400W-HPS-DIGITAL-GROW-LIGHT-AIR-COOL-TUBE-HOOD_W0QQitemZ180445674477QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2a03667bed

You get a generic ballast unlike the lumateks from before, but you also get yo-yo hangers and a timer.

This is the one I bought about 3 months ago(same people):

http://www.thelashop.com/catalog/400-Watt-High-Pressure-Sodium-HPS-Grow-Light-Kit-p-811.html

It says HPS grow light, but its got a digital ballast so you can run MH as well.

If you're going as high as 400 though, you should really invest in one that comes with a cool-tube or air-cooled hood unless you're growing in a large enough space where the heat wont build up as much.

If you buy one of the systems off e-bay ask to skip ebay all together and see if they'll give you a discount for doing so. They have always given me discounts when buying outside of ebay since they save on fees.

Those lumatek systems give you a 5 year warranty on the ballast. Not so on the generic ones. You have to decide if its worth paying the extra money for it or not.

dave630 said:

white widow from whitewidowseeds.com. grown in a closet under 4 2700k 68w cfls from home depot. Used only mg soil and mg bloombooster. ended up with 48g dried. Only vegged for 2 weeks... not bad. sorry for the quality of some of the pics...

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Thank you so much! You all have been so awesome. I am truly grateful for all of your help.

I have been sick for so long and have been waiting for these plants to grow, and now, with all of your help, maybe I can get them going!

Thanks again and Happy Holidays to you all.

It has been really hard looking at all these flowering plants and vegging mine painfully long. The thread has been a wealth of information. I am pleased with how my grow is going and recently put 4 ladies into my flowering space.
They are Dutch Passion White Widow clones from Fem Seeds.

I had 2 plants that I topped, lst'd and trained to grow bushy.





Also 2 others that were only topped once and then LST'd to try and keep an even canopy. One of the shots came out blurry so it is camera shy. It looks pretty much the same as this one. With the hps light in the background it is hard to see the string, but the main cola has been pulled over to the left side.

Little Tommy said:

It has been really hard looking at all these flowering plants and vegging mine painfully long. The thread has been a wealth of information. I am pleased with how my grow is going and recently put 4 ladies into my flowering space.
They are Dutch Passion White Widow clones from Fem Seeds.

I had 2 plants that I topped, lst'd and trained to grow bushy.

Also 2 others that were only topped once and then LST'd to try and keep an even canopy. One of the shots came out blurry so it is camera shy. It looks pretty much the same as this one. With the hps light in the background it is hard to see the string, but the main cola has been pulled over to the left side.

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How tall are your ceilings? Those are gonna be tall when you start flowering.

not bad for some cfl's....

Some pics of my White Widow. This is after curing. Stuff is great!



During the grow:



At harvest. This was just the lower branches. The main kolas stayed on for another few days:

dave630 said:

here's a few more... what do you guys think?

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Very nice results no your grow dude...Very nice indeed
How long did u flower your Widow lady..?





Smoke on Dave....

dave630 said:

here's a few more... what do you guys think?

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Well to be truthful I think I am scared of you because you only have 2 post's and your shit is off the charts.
Very nice looking buds.

being that said welcome to the WW Club.

Week 2 update:

Only another 7-9 weeks to go

DubsFan said:

How tall are your ceilings? Those are gonna be tall when you start flowering.

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I have 8' ceilings although my old starin used to finish at about 4'. This is my first WW grow and I am moving the light once a week. They have been in flowering about 2 weeks.

Little Tommy said:

I have 8' ceilings although my old starin used to finish at about 4'. This is my first WW grow and I am moving the light once a week. They have been in flowering about 2 weeks.

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Tell me about it , soon after putting my WW into flower i found myself very short of headroom and suffering from leaf scorch. she exploded in height in a couple of days, its all under control now fortunately , new grow box built with a bit more headroom and the light right up tight in the apex with an extract fan running just level with the bulb, and a 2 inch gap round the bottom of the box for a passive intake , seems to be doing the job nicely. She must be happy as her leaves are starting to slowly frost over and no signs of distress whatsoever.

Peace , WoW

LittleTommy or anyone else, how much did your ladies stretch in the first two weeks? Mine have stretched 7-8 inches so far. They all stretched 5 inches in the first week, but only 2-3 in the second week. I used MH for the first two weeks since Ive heard it helps with the stretch. Itd be nice to compare it with those using HPS.

I'd say I got about 7 or 8 inch stretch in the second week of flower and the third about another 3 or 4 inch , had to rebuild my grow area due to the stretch, she really went mental and tried touching the lamp in about a 48 hour period, scorched leafs and bud sites galore, not a happy day , she's all good now though theres pics in mysig, you can see how she stretched in a couple of weeks , I was under the impression indica was a shrub , seems its only a shrub when its in veg . . ... lesson learned there though and I know what to expect the second time round WoW

great thread i harvest my first grow which is ww in 7 days ill post pics

.....salute to my sweet mistress, White Widow, and our own club founder: JOE! Wow! What a thread you've started here my friend. I have been off-site for a while and I was JAZZED to find it alive and growing! Got some new stuff going on in the garden these days, posted a new album: new rig. Still making some final adjustments to the new set-up, I'll post more when it's complete. S.L.

My WW is coming along nicely. day 13 of flowering under a 400w HPS.

I've uploaded all these to my thread but its not very popular, more of a diary anyway but heres a few pics to show you my grow they are spaced out from veg up until 2 days ago . . . . . 1 plant flowering , one mother and a clone . . ..

hey Reiss, looking good. ......Whitest, those girls are super sexy. Nice work

This is an update on my White Widow grow from post #873. I am 29 days into the flowering cycle. So far hings are lookin pretty good.

ruva...dude! that shit looks awesome, looks like they're gonna be heavy. I'm right on the same schedule as you with 6 of my own, no pics currently till I get a new camera battery, sorry. But I'm not going to see anything near that type of yield per plant on these. They were thrown into flower in order to fill an empty space, and to make space in the green room for the changes I've made to my method.
S.L.