CFL Grow - White Widow

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This is my White Widow grow at 22 days. It's in an old refrigerator with a 6" intake and 6" exhaust with a 160 cfm squirrel cage fan in the freezer compartment. Not shown is the veg section in the top. In there right now are are two skunk haze seedlings under 2-23's 24/24. There is a passage hole in the freezer section for air flow. I have the hole covered with a black carbon filter so that no light penetrates to the flowering section after lights out, yet air can flow.

It's in Miracle Gro moisture retaining slow release fertilizer soil in a two gallon pot.

The reflectors on the 23's are pop cans cut to fit the base of the bulb.

I moved the WW from veg to flowering 4 days ago and put on 12/12. Lighting is 3 - 42's and 4 - 23's... 218 actual watts.
 

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Oh... Those piles of stuff to the sides are industrial wet floor sponges. I wet them each day and put them in the box for humidity.
 
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Day 30 - WW is 9" high, 30" circumference. First sign of sex, good girl. Beautiful dark green. Took a clone two days ago. Have it under 300 (real) Watts CFL.
 
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Comparison pics of Day 21 and Day 32. The plant is now nearly 11" high with a 36" circumference. I now have an 85W CFL at the top, and a total of about 275 watts of light. Harvest is estimated at 12/16/2008, a total of 69 days.
 

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Just four days has made a big difference. Definite flowering on the top and nodes. I'm afraid it may be outgrowing the frig, and I'll have to put it in my 400W HPS. It's such a beauty I hate to mess with it, though. But I have some Argan Haze in veg, so it may get the CFL seat.
 

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beginningbotanist420

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Damn dude. Thats a job well done. Did you by chance get the "Buds For Less" book? you have a very similar light setup, with the lights hanging from boards.

I would give this grow an A+. Very nice job! +rep

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beginningbotanist420

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On second thought... you should make this perpetual by turning the top half into a veg area. Take a clone right now, then put a few 42w 6500k CFLs over it to make it a mommy. Then about 2-3 weeks before harvest, cut a few more clones, and put them into flower when you chop the other one.

For extra credit, you could do more than one at a time to have a shorter cycle, i.e. a clone cut every 3 weeks, and a week or so to veg, then harvest every 4 weeks and replace it with the new clone.

I dunno... just a thought.

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The light setup is taken from Buds For Less. I modified the setup, wired the sockets in series with one rather than with 3 ext. cords.

I'm using the top for veg/clone, and now the bottom too, since I moved the WW to another area with a 400 HPS light. From now on it will probably go like this: veg only in the top, veg and flower as needed in the bottom, and under the HPS when plant grows too high. I figure about a plant every 1 1/2 months in the cold months, not too shabby.

Attached image is 11/15/2008, when I transferred it to the HPS. I have an Arjan's Haze going that's 19 days old now, will put into flower in a week or so.
 

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yztwofifty

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hey, looking good! I've got some WW going right now too. Our plants are close in age so I'll stay tuned. Come check out my grow if you get a chance.
 
Swale84

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Legend- I dig the light setup. How exactly did you wire the receptacles together and use just one extension cord? I think I have an idea - its probably why the back of the light receptacles have 2 screws for each wire. Nice grow, +rep!
 
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