Shantibaba's Black Widow: The Progressing Saga

[Big Perm]

Day 7 on the clones. They all have roots now. Some are even lifting up out of the cups! I'm very impressed with these clones. Very clone-able.

The seed plants are just now starting to show sex, so this should be some pretty good timing.

 

[Old ST1R]

Day 7 on the clones. They all have roots now. Some are even lifting up out of the cups! I'm very impressed with these clones. Very clone-able.
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The seed plants are just now starting to show sex, so this should be some pretty good timing.

So it looks like a collar on top of some perlite in a cup. How much water/feed is in the perlite?

 

[Big Perm]

So it looks like a collar on top of some perlite in a cup. How much water/feed is in the perlite?

Enough to make the perlite wet but not soaked to the point to where the perlite is sitting in water. It won't evaporate out. I mixed 1g/gal Calcium Nitrate. Heat pad, dome, and foliar with the same mixture once in a while, but it isn't needed. I just do that to keep the clone from using up its own supply while it waits for roots. You'll get the same results, just get yellowing on the bottom leaves from a N deficiency. The Ca helps the clones root, too imo.

 

[Big Perm]

If anyone else is growing this strain by Shantibaba, feel free to post it up in here. I know Joe is planning an open pollination, so he's going to be sitting on a few jars of BW seeds.

 

[Big Perm]

The clones are rooted and in 2gal bags. One clone from each female. I topped them right before giving them 36 hours of darkness.
I got six females and kept one male. I have one clone of each held back.

Day 1 Bloom

 

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Day 4 Bloom

 

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Day 7 Bloom
I put up the support net. They took a little Vandamage while I was putting it in place.

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[Punisher84]

How much light they getting? Watts..

 

[Big Perm]

How much light they getting? Watts..

300w, sorry. Thanks for asking.

 

[MtRainDog]

Interested in those clone collars and the colored part in the middle... can you point us to where you can source those things? Or if they're DIY, tell us what exactly you did there? I'm a perlite guy myself, so very interested in this. Thanks in advance!

 

[Big Perm]

Interested in those clone collars and the colored part in the middle... can you point us to where you can source those things? Or if they're DIY, tell us what exactly you did there? I'm a perlite guy myself, so very interested in this. Thanks in advance!

Thanks. It's a 2" net pot with the bottom cut off. a 2" neoprene insert, and a solo shot cup.

 

[Big Perm]

Day 12


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Day 16

After some training.

 

[socaljoe]

Haven't posted my Black Widow in a bit...the BW tent was getting overgrown like a Vietnamese jungle. Had the break out the machete to make sense of things.





After many days of hacking, slashing and finding my way through, I ended up here:



Blue cups are Black Widow. Still a bit sorry looking, this was a couple days after potting them into solos. Looking much happier now, 3-4 days later.

 

[sfrigon1]

Day 7 on the clones. They all have roots now. Some are even lifting up out of the cups! I'm very impressed with these clones. Very clone-able.
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The seed plants are just now starting to show sex, so this should be some pretty good timing.

Love the technique. I have a similar method . Rockwool cubes on top of the perlite

 

[Big Perm]

Day 21


More training


And bud formation!

 

[socaljoe]

Put my Black Widow into flower 2 days ago. Can't wait to see what they do.

 

[DEF NO ROOKIE]

Day 21
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More training
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And bud formation!
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Nice work dude with the plants and training. Hey just curious what light is that? And was u the one who had the hlg vs hgl thread on another forum? If so what was the final results at the end? Thanks just curious..

 

[Big Perm]

Nice work dude with the plants and training. Hey just curious what light is that? And was u the one who had the hlg vs hgl thread on another forum? If so what was the final results at the end? Thanks just curious..

Thanks. Yeah that was me. About halfway through I called the side by side off, because I messed around with the lights so much there was no way it could be viable at all.

 

[DEF NO ROOKIE]

Thanks. Yeah that was me. About halfway through I called the side by side off, because I messed around with the lights so much there was no way it could be viable at all.

Right on dude. Did the hgl boards produce anything special that wood justify spending that much for hgl boards? I no the hlg quantums are pretty dam good choice to go with especially if u go the diy route. I like how the hgl boards targeted certain spectrums but for them prices id never buy from them. Just curious if ur results was anything close to HGL'S big claims they made b4 the side by side contests started back then. Thanks for ur time bro.

 

[Big Perm]

Right on dude. Did the hgl boards produce anything special that wood justify spending that much for hgl boards? I no the hlg quantums are pretty dam good choice to go with especially if u go the diy route. I like how the hgl boards targeted certain spectrums but for them prices id never buy from them. Just curious if ur results was anything close to HGL'S big claims they made b4 the side by side contests started back then. Thanks for ur time bro.

That side by side was with the old lights they sold before the current model. I didn't do a side by side with their current boards.
I do run a lot of different kinds of lighting, and diy stuff, too.
You asked earlier what light this is. This is the Amare Bar8 Solar-Spec C