Dinafem First grow: White Widow Autoflowering CBD

[Wietie]

This is my first grow ever. As I suffer from osteoporosis I want to grow several CBD strains to make my own oil. I have very little to no experience at all in growing weed, 30 years ago I had a plant in my garden, that's it, I read a lot the last couple of weeks and wanted to give it a try so here it goes.

Setup:

• 60x60x140 IKEA kit
• Mars Hydro 300W LED,
• clock,
  
• Arduino
• Garden Highpro vent GH-V-117,
• Can-Lite Carbon filtre
• 24l pot,
• Plagron batmix + 30% cocos
• Biobizz bio-bloom and TopMax
• Fan 5W

Started with 18/6 light

Day 1, feb 5
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Started in an old server
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Day 5
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Day 11 and time to change rooms
24 liter pot with Plagron batmix + 30% coco so I don't have to fertilize for growth, only give tap water with lots of Ca and Mag here
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Day 14
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Day 17
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Day 19
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Day 20 and time for some improvements in the IKEA closet EDIT: and switched to 20/4 light
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Day 27 still small, 17cm, but big healthy leaves and many internodes. My lamp is at 35cm maybe I should raise a bit so she can stretch?
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and a little tech stuff: al my sensors in an app
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[Lester Fuzell Sr]

Looks good. I'm currently growing three White Widow autos using a SWICK watering system (capillary wicking) with 4" plant trays and perlite. Plant are in my own Super Soil with an OF/ topping in 3" Dirt Pot fabric airpots. They are W3, D19 from seeds now and are in second veg. Is an indoor grow inside a 2X3 tent. Lighting are two (2) 150W SunSystems HPS grow lights. The tent is vented with a 4" fan w/ carbon filter.

I use base dry organic amendments such as bat and seabird guano, alfalfa, sulphur, EWC, dried banana peel meal, rabbit droppings, kelp meal and others. I create solutions with tap water (for the microminerals and Mag and Ca) to augment the soil and maintain a living environment.

I have numerous grows over the past year and a half some good some failures. Started with coco and I'm a soil and SWICK convert so far. Ill update with pics soon.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

hi and welcome
nice kit you got,nice set up to.plants look happy and healthy.
raising light can help with stretch.
good luck.

 

[Free Flow]

Looks good bro, good luck.

 

[hairyman]

Like your style pal,

Intrested in your sensors and app is that off the shelf or home made?

 

[Spanglish]

Looks like you're on track and off to a flying start. Best of luck for the rest of the grow and will be tagging along

 

[ultralow]

Looking good so far.

The sensor thing is a great idea, might have to do something similar in the future. 35cm is a bit close for vegging with the mars, here's the distance guide.

 

[AutoWonders]

As I suffer from osteoporosis I want to grow several CBD strains to make my own oil

Nice and healthy so far. You might consider buying a vaporizer and vape the cbd plant. I've done that quite a bit. That strain is 1:1 cbd/thc and is a little weaker thc. The 2:1 is where the high, if you want to call it that, is very different. There is no silliness factor caused by thc because it's 2:1 and thus, is not psychoactive. You can go about your business unencumbered. I have cbd oil pills, but those are just too expense at this point. Hopefully prices fall as we get more and more states to become legal.

 

[Wietie]

Thanks for the warm welcoming and tips.
I put my lamp at 45cm now and tried a bit of leaf tucking, would it be too late for the ponytail technique, maybe I can try that as this plant is very small compared to others at same age. Can not compare to exactly the same strain as I can't find a WW auto CBD report, maybe the CBD version is smaller?
anyway, Day 28

And a little bit more info on the tech stuff and sensors, it's home made but not very difficult a lot of tutorials are online
try to search for blynk, ESP8266 and temperature
this is a really good instructable: http://www.instructables.com/id/From-Blink-to-Blynk-an-IoT-Jorney-on-the-Wings-of-/

last two days

as you can see soil humidity is going down from the point of watering en soil temp drops by 1°C, next time i put my water at room temp and not directly from tap as it takes some time to be on normal temp again.
air temp drops with 2-3°C from the moment light off and air humidity raises from 36% to 60%, I also stop ventilation at that time, otherwise temp would drop even more I guess.
any feedback welcome for this newbie
Light on 12:15PM off 7:45 AM I know strage but I have my reasons as I can have somebody in my home from 8AM to 12PM

@ultralow @hairyman @Spanglish @Free Flow

 

[Dinafem-Mark]

Firstly thank you for putting your faith in our genetics for your first grow we won't let you down!

Secondly I love to see hand made grow zones and you have created a beautiful environment which should keep the plant happy and healthy through out this grow

And finally you are off to a flying start and I'll most definitely be along for the ride and watching with interest mate

Looking great so far

All the best

Mark..