DinaFem White Widow Auto

Gave up. Dragged her out of that fricking tub and into my 12/12 flower room. I accepted a 12/12 From Seed challenge and have a Blue Widow, a Kandy Kush, a White Rhino X Mazar al Sharifi (Mazar?) and a OG13 in there under another 400 watt MH. My lifelong flowering Super Silver Haze who had the HPS all to herself now shares the red light with the WWA. The low bay shop fixtures I went to buy were already gone and they were 400 HPS. Crap. I love those things.

People are catching on to the low bay fixtures as grow lights. They were $20 this summer and I should have bought two of each type. Instead I bought 2 MH and they had a stack of the things the guy said nobody was buying. So much for that.

The auto will grow under 12/12, but you may affect your yield. I recently did one with 3 photos and I definitely feel like my yield on it was impacted. I am doing this auto grow on 18/6 light throughout.

BigLittlejohn said:

The auto will grow under 12/12, but you may affect your yield. I recently did one with 3 photos and I definitely feel like my yield on it was impacted. I am doing this auto grow on 18/6 light throughout.

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I'm glad I didn't germinate any more. Talking to a guy with 4 low bays but the fool thinks they are worth $100. For sale for 2 weeks so he may be catching on. But he lives 60 miles away. 4 each 400 watt HPS fixtures with bulbs. I want them!

hotrodharley said:

Working too many hours and she's gone wild. 30" tall at least and not even budding yet.

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wow. bravo, hh. looking forward to the final results.

She will be worth the wait by the looks of things dude, maybe with switching to 12/12 now after having her on the supposed auto light schedule.. you can find out if she is a true auto or not

hotrodharley said:

I'm glad I didn't germinate any more. Talking to a guy with 4 low bays but the fool thinks they are worth $100. For sale for 2 weeks so he may be catching on. But he lives 60 miles away. 4 each 400 watt HPS fixtures with bulbs. I want them!

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That actually sounds like a deal, based on the prices of low bay fixtures I am seeing online. Is he asking for $100 each or $100 for all 4? If it is the latter, you should probably jump on it if you want them!

BigLittlejohn said:

That actually sounds like a deal, based on the prices of low bay fixtures I am seeing online. Is he asking for $100 each or $100 for all 4? If it is the latter, you should probably jump on it if you want them!

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No he wants $100 apiece!!!! $400 for the 4 and wants to sell as a package. Then I still have to rewire them for remote. Too much for used with a real used HPS bulb.

Just about killed her. Raised the thermostat 2 lousy degrees - 17 degrees outside when I left for work. Medicine sucks. 14 hours later I check the room with green light and damn! She's upright but wimpy. I watered and checked pH before I left to day so she had plenty of water. Have to wait and see. Can't wait to frigging retire. It was still hotter than a freshly fucked fox in a forest fire.

She is one tough bitch! Wilted to hell from heat (love working 14 hour shifts) so I left the door open to help cool the place off and the ferrets got in there, climbed her, bent her, broke her. Propped everything back up and laid broken branches over whole ones for support - and today she is almost back to 100%. Planted the rest of my WWA seeds in Root Shooters for a soil grow. Wish my soil growing Blue Widow (photoperiod) was half as tough and vigorous.

Will post a pic after the HPS goes off this evening.

Will update pics on Wednesday. can't stay awke long enough to get pics when the HPS shuts off. Getting up at 0300 to go to work can do that to you. BUT SHE LIVES!!!! And is very happy under that HPS. I also planted the remaining 6 WWA seeds I had in Root Shooters for a soil grow.

Never did get them to open but my purple kush is looking really nice og kush is next grow

All 6 that I dropped into Root Shooters were up in 2 days. Had to transplant 3 into 3 gallons (I have nothing smaller) as they were beginning to stretch so under a 400 MH they went. The DWC recovered fully from the heat stroke while the Vertigo autos really took it in the shorts. These WWA are tough and pop easy.

I'm baaaaaaaaaack. What a change-up. That bathroom totally sucked so into my flower room at 12/12 under 1000 watt HPS. Oh hell yes. She measures over 48" tall 2 days ago and easy 48" wide at her widest and budding like hell! Smells absolutely stinko - mmmmmmmmm. PPM around 650-700, pH 5.8-6.1. AN Sensi, B52, VooDoo juice and touches of Beastie Bloomz and Cal Mag. Very easy keeper and as a newbie to DWC it's an obvious recommendation for those considering DWC. Dinafem White Widow Auto. I popped 6 more in dirt!!!! 20 October, all popped in Root Shooters. Screw swimming parties, paper towel beds and crap. Seed from container into Root Shooters into heated dome. Use a reptile mat from Pet Smart for $15, and blow the $50 hydrofarm mat off.

BTW I think she will finish at 82-85 days guessing. Not bad considering power failures, heated almost to death that one time, living in that bathroom. Great plant. Good girl.

Again, separate post to newbies to DWC (I've grown since 1964!) - before you order a single seed to germinate for DWC buy a good pH meter and a good PPM/EC meter. Before you order the seed. Make your unit, get your rockwool etc but buy those two necessary pieces of gear. I use a Milwaukee PH55 but I am NEW to this and welcome the experienced to name good and better units. For PPM I use a HM AquaPro2 but again - name away! I think EC is a more accurate measurement of nutrient or mineral level and availability to the plant. Going to buy a pure EC meter and start readings to see how they correlate.

Looking real good there hotrod. I agree completely that PH and EC/PPM Meters are a must for any DWC grower.

Been very impressed how healthy she is and how she uses a ton of water and loves the PPM around 650-700. The smell is dy-no-mite! Very pineapple right now. That sweet/nauseating/stomach content smell that is sooo potent smelling. Like strong pineapple, you know? Never grew any pineapple strains and this doesn't claim to be pineapple. Maybe it smells like something else, who knows? In my field a sense of smell is critical. But some strains smell like something on a light sniff and something else with a deep old snort. Who knows? I trimmed all lower limbs that didn't reach a certain height on their own and she's still vegetating nicely while flowering. The 6 in soil are wailing today. Love those Root Shooters!!!! Highly recommended.

BTW - out of 17 White Widow Auto seeds from Dinafem (I gave some seeds to an AK MMJ patient as a gift) all germinated and did it quickly and yielded healthy quick growing seedlings. The MMJ patient has NO experience growing and is just doing what I'm telling him with CFL right now. 100% germination yielding healthy growing plants.

Highly recommend White Widow Auto from Dinafem.

She's drinking about a gallon every 2 days now. Several times she used a gallon in one day. What a happy plant. She really is and a pleasure to grow. That is what a guy on another thread I did about some WWA I popped in soil said about some he grew. His smoke report made me excited!!!! She smells so fine. It's winter in AK and the snow is here but I can still smell her when I top the stairs.

Broke a bud off in the dark after work last night rotating her under the light. I use green LED. Quick dried in microwave. 1 minute at a time at 40% power. Tupperware container with dry paper towel on the bottom, a damp one stretched over the top and the lid on loosely with 1 corner fully up minimum. Works great but doubtless has to screw the trichs some. Reduce the effect.

Well it ain't one hitter quitter yet but 3 good drags on my steamroller and hell yes! The 'wave takes out the harshness. Trichs are pretty milky with a few amber but going to wait until Wednesday I think before I take any buds.

Little smoke report update: make that damned good on 3 hits and it keeps on keepin' on too, buddy. Screw the "autos suck" on this one and it's in my first DWC. Think what someone who really knew DWC could do with this strain? Wow.

Nice Hotrod. I am giving serious contemplation to doing something similar with my Pineapple express....on one of the branches where the buds that won't be that big anyways.

My daughter taught me that. It makes the smoke less harsh, brings out the real flavor and tightens the buds.