ChadBroChillin's First Grow! - White Widow - UC DWC

Alright Alright Alright!

Its time for my first grow! Ive got seeds in water getting all germed up

Im going with Cropkings white widow for my first run. I ordered some Ethos Morokan Kush but my order got forgotten for 3 weeks or so until i called wondering where it was. They no longer have the Kush so Im getting the Crescendo x1 whenever that manages to get here (ive been assured of some freebies as well).

I have a 4x8 tent with two 1000w lights in air cooled hoods, cooled by an infinity t6. I have another Infinity t6 hooked up to the filter extracting. Its in my cool basement, 15c and 55% humidity. I have the fans exhausting outdoors through a window panel; however I have the ability to unhook the light exhaust and vent into my basement or even into the tent itself should it ever require more heat or less humidity.

Im looking to do a journal from seed to harvest of these white widows, I want to see what this under current dwc can do. Ive owned a hydroponics store in the past, ive had tomato's in something similar in our show. I knew gear but i didnt know shit about growing really, the tomatos were fine but they could have been so much more.. Ive since learned a lot and am looking forward to making some killer fucking weed! I only want top shelf buds around here!

Ive also started an instagram: @ChadBroChillin

Thank you and please feel free to ask questions, suggestions or just chat. Im quite bored these days since falling down a mountain, recovery has been slow and this is one of the main reasons ive decided to start growing, give myself a chill hobby that can make me some money and supply my weed that makes the pain go away and an opportunity to build friendships.

Looks good,, good luck have fun!!

the widows will love it in there, verry nice

U might have to move your epicenter to the outside of your tent esp w the x2 1000s u have and no chiller... gta keep the water temp in check and below 70 or ur gna have nothing but problems root rot and everything else...And your gna need a top off reservoir as well as in a rdwc setup they like to have a constant water level so u gta get a top off and I always kept mine a week ahead for nutes so during the week the plants slowly get their next week of nutes mainly for bloom since veg is about the same...I also am a big fan of pc fans like ac infinity 120mm USB fans x2 does 108cfm which is all I used for my water chiller cut 4 holes in the epicenter 2 for the fans and 2 for exhaust and it kept my 100gal rdwc setup at 68f also I usually run my bloom setup at night too help w heat as well as I don't run ac or anything like that just power whore waste of money if u can get away w it which u can in a basement that's for sure been doing it for years gta love my bucket company setup tho sure is nice not having all that water and utilities like rdwc does and sooo much easier to clean and maintain

You dont need a second reservoir that's for lazy people. I'm fully aware of possibly needing a chiller but I'm going to make sure before I spend a thousand dollars on one. All you did was copy your post from my build thread, i already answered your book there.

I didn't copy it but okay and a res does alot more than that but okay you know it all already so g.l

Update: Day 5

5 of 6 seeds showing amazing tap roots 3/4 inch long or so but we have one straggler at 1/4 inch tops. I decided to just go with it and see how it turns out. ive semi lost which one was the small taproot one, its one of two on the right side of the dome.

Soaked my rockwool cubes in 5.5 PH water PH'd using my hanna growlabs meter (this thing is amazing), and then placed seeds taproot down in the cubes which was not super easy as the tap roots were long and curved.

We finally have seeds in medium, I cant wait to see how this grow and new hobby progresses. Its my first hobby since I fell and could no longer shoot my bow.

AdmiralGeneral said:

Update: Day 5

5 of 6 seeds showing amazing tap roots 3/4 inch long or so but we have one straggler at 1/4 inch tops. I decided to just go with it and see how it turns out. ive semi lost which one was the small taproot one, its one of two on the right side of the dome.

Soaked my rockwool cubes in 5.5 PH water PH'd using my hanna growlabs meter (this thing is amazing), and then placed seeds taproot down in the cubes which was not super easy as the tap roots were long and curved.

We finally have seeds in medium, I cant wait to see how this grow and new hobby progresses. Its my first hobby since I fell and could no longer shoot my bow.

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Everything you do looks professional. I love that. Are you winging your own grow journal or using an online journal?

Offmymeds said:

Everything you do looks professional. I love that. Are you winging your own grow journal or using an online journal?

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Thank you for the compliment. It's nice when someone notices ones work.

I'm not entirely sure how to answer your question though. This is my first grow journal and I also havnt really read many if any other journals. So i guess you could say I'm winging it.

I'm using a good old fashioned notebook and I also created an instagram for my growing updates called @chadbrochillin .

Day 7: 5 of the 6 seedlings are taking off, there is still one behind, it will probably be behind the entire time. Im going to call it bitch-brian.

We have our first roots coming out the bottom of the cubes!

For the day 8 update:

The leaves on all the seedlings have spread out now and they are growing 3/4 of an inch per day or so. Ive noticed already that there are probably two different phenotype's if not three. Seedlings 1 2 and 5 are all the same height, seedlings 3 and 4 are about half an inch taller and 6 (Bitch Brian) has caught up a little so she may end up being one of the tall girls phenotypes. We shall see!

Lots of roots coming out the bottom I cant quite decide when i want to put them into the big system under real lights. For now I will mix up a very very light dose of fert and give the cubes a little water. I'm not sure if i've talked about fert yet. I'm going with Jacks 321 for the veg stage and then i will go with an augmented jacks for the flowering stage. I'm also going to be using 65% hypochlorite to keep my res clean. I'm armed with an accurate scale and an magnetic mixer.






My original seed order has finally arrived!!! So excited. I should have waited maybe since these will be late for Christmas as is anyway but what can you do!!

AdmiralGeneral said:

Thank you for the compliment. It's nice when someone notices ones work.

I'm not entirely sure how to answer your question though. This is my first grow journal and I also havnt really read many if any other journals. So i guess you could say I'm winging it.

I'm using a good old fashioned notebook and I also created an instagram for my growing updates called @chadbrochillin .

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I have a spreadsheet with fert mixture, rez cleaner, temp, etc. but it's worthless really. It might be better if I had linked pics to the grows. I never review it. You tend to remember mistakes, fixes, grow issues, etc. Pictoral presentations with a little narrative might actually give better instruction & empirical evidence IMO.

I'll be following along. I want to see your discoveries & results. Thanks.

Day 9 update:

I finished the main grow room. Turns out i had a lot more to do than i thought. Thankfully my amazing girlfriend helped me get it all done. Water is heavy. Will work out a better system later. Had to plumb in all the air lines and air stones, transplant the babies, clean the hydroton etc etc etc

I mixed up a 1/4 strength batch of jacks 321 and ph is steady at 6.5 and 350 ppm


Seeding in her new home!

Its day 16 now. I decided to give it a week since there isnt much growth at this stage. Last night I saw a huge jump in size compared to the last few days of very slow but steady growth.

I've lowered the lights another 6 inches I think it's 30 inches above.

Room temps run a solid 24c atm in the shade. My rez is running a little warmer at 26 or so. I think some mylar covers for the black buckets would help significantly.

Humidity in the room is sitting at 50% but I expect that to rise as the plants get bigger. Humidity in my basement is 60%. But I have a few cracks to seal in some old windows that might help lower that. I've also got the fan from my lights heating and drying the area.

Ph is steady at 6.0

Ppm steady at 380 last update I said 350 but it was 380 (500 scale). the white stuff is calcium hypochlorit.

Day 18:

was more steady growth. I did a full res change with 380 ppm of Jack's PhD to 6.0. Room temps are 25c water temps are also 25c. I really need to figure out something for the buckets but dont want cheap mylar glued to them.

Day 25 Update: Most plants working on their 4th set of leaves. #2 struggles mightily, must be some sort of genetic disorder meanwhile bitch-brian is growing nicely just a few days behind! Room temps are now at 26c

We have the first roots coming out the bottom of the net pots which is a very good sign and something I've been waiting for.

I was ambitious and had hoped I wouldnt need a chiller but unfortunately not all plans work as.. planned... so a water chiller is in the works. I'm thinking a 1/10 hp chiller should be fine for my grow room which should have about 40-45 gal in it. I need to lower the temps about 6.5C in the res. If you know of any good deals on chillers atm please let me know! so far i think the best ive found is about 500cdn for an ecoplus 1/10hp

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