White Widow and Super Lemon Haze Scrogging in DWC

White Widow and Super Lemon Haze Scrogging in DWC

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Screen of green or scrogging, involves placing a screen over the plants. This will ensure that the plants remain bushy while getting a lot of yield. There are lots and different methods on how to ensure this like LSTs and tucking the branches. Depending on the grower which one they’ll use.

In this case, GreenMachine used tying the branches to control the plants growth, was he successful? Find out as we record his account of his White Widow and Super Lemon Haze grow.

Grower: GreenMachine
Yield: 5-6oz
Seeds: White Widow and Super Lemon Haze

For the materials, he used the following:

• Super Lemon Haze seeds (2)
• White Widow seeds (2)
• Reverse osmosis water
• pH down
• Neem oil
• Ripening blend
• General Hydroponics Nutrients
• Ionic’s UV Balance
• Screen
• 2 feet x 2 feet x 4 feet ten
• 3 feet x 3 feet x 6 feet tent
• Small turn key cabinet (3 feet x 2 feet x 3 feet)
• 4-site DWC system
• Water pump
• Air stones
• 1/10 hp Arctica chiller
• Ez Cloner
• 3-gallon pots
• 5-gallon pots

January 27

While scavenging through his personal seed bank, GreenMachine was able to find some strays. He found two White Widow Seeds and two Super Lemon Haze (SLH) seeds, both feminized. His master plan will be to grow some mother plants and then take clones from those. Then the best clone gets to be kept for longer safe keeping.

He began everything about a month ago in a small turn key cabinet that’s only 3 feet x 2 feet x 3 feet. Good thing they discovered early that it’s too small. So, he bought another 6 feet storage cab and transferred every bit of the smaller cab into the larger one.

For the cab, he will be using a 400-watt MH which can cause heat issues. This is in consideration that the cab is still small and the temperature can easily rise. Looking at how his mother plants grew beautifully, it was not such a problem.

Take a peek. Here are the White Widows:

Next comes the SLHs:

The mother’s clones went easy on him especially since he used the Ez Cloner. Imagine, the SLH cuttings immediately showed roots for him in only a week. The White Widow clones also grew roots in only 11 to 12 days.

Then, he transferred these rooted clones into the reservoir that came with the smaller cab. It’s a little shallow; five to six inches deep and it’s only five gallons. It also came with fourteen 3-inch deep net pots.

As for the nutrients, used General Hydroponics to keep them healthy and green. The ppm started at 400 pm and he slowly increased it to 1000 ppm, anything higher than that can cause some serious burns.

Looks like this type of nutrients worked quite well with his DWC set-up. Together, they grew wonderful buds after they started flowering last December 18.

January 28

All in all, there is a total of eight plants growing inside his tent. They are in five-gallon pots in the reservoir with General Hydroponic nutrients. By looking at the size of the buds on his SLHs, everything’s working out well for him.

Not only that, they grew so big that they have overgrown the cab already. As a matter of fact, the temperature keeps rising causing heat issues due to overcrowding. To solve this, he kept the doors open and hang some reflective on the front to give them more room.

January 29

Some leaves are manifesting signs of calcium deficiency. They have been curling and some have a bit of yellowing. To at least lessen it, he added some calcium-magnesium in the reservoir and raised the pH a little bit.

February 3

Branches are bending on their own. GreenMachine had to tie the large colas up. The buds are packing on some weight and that it is the only way to keep the upright.

February 4

Our grower for today is no ordinary grower. Let’s feast our eyes on the juicy buds he was able to produce. This one is from the Super Lemon Haze:

And another from the White Widow:

Well, growing in hydro has a high chance of contributing to this success. In hydroponics, the grower has almost full control of what is going in to the plant and its environment as well. Not to mention in hydro, the growth rate is beyond belief.

February 5

It’s time to have a little check-up on GreenMachine’s mother plants that were grown from seeds.

First up, we have a White Widow. Even though she is a little shorter than the other White Widow, she is more tolerant with the ingredients. Not to mention that her buds are very long and tight. Yum.

To compare them better, here is the other White Widow from the Greenhouse Seeds. One thing that will be very easy to notice is their height. This one is way taller than the other White Widow. Although it is more sensitive to nutrients than the first one. If our grower would not be careful with its feeding, this plant will wither fast.

Another thing, yes, it is taller but the buds are a little bit lose. Her height may also be the culprit considering how close it is to the light.

Moving on let’s have a peek at another mother plant, the Super Lemon Haze. GreenMachine figured out that this plant is a runt. It has been over shadowed by the other plants, so it has not received that much light. It does not have that much branches and buds too.