Shantibaba's Black Widow: The Progressing Saga

[Big Perm]

A buddy gifted me some of Shantibaba's Black Widow from Mr. Nice Seeds.
I got ten reg seeds from @socaljoe and he is also growing his out. Together we are pehno hunting, and have plans to continue this strain, as well as do some crosses of our own. I can't wait to grow these out and have some fun with them.

 

[Big Perm]

Quick post to bring you up to the now on my grow.

Seeds got wet on Dec 12

Started 10/14 light schedule on Jan 5

Today, Day 2 of 10/14

 

[Big Perm]

Day 3 of 10/14 and it is evident that I am going to have Jumanji on my hands soon. So, I'm going to wait a bit longer to have a look at the males. Then I plan on taking two clones from the females and the male that remains and doing a 10/14 from clone run with one set of them, holding the other set back.
Since making that decision, I have started topping them to keep the taller phenos at an even canopy.

 

[Oreguhnism]

Really nice! I have been trying to source Willamette Widow in the 503, it is supposed to be a black widow cut, bred for outdoors here in Valley. Its been worked for awhile.

Fuck yeah! Old skool

 

[Big Perm]

Today I took 2 clones of each of the ten plants. I'm going to keep pushing the seed plants though to find the sexes, then toss all of those females and let the males go for a bit more to have a look at them.

 

[18B]

When I grew black widow years ago...I grew them once and they got out of control...had to keep tying them down all through flower...they are beasts...like 60 days veg...the second time I grew them...Shanti told me to give them about 2 weeks of veg from seed pop and flip them 12/12...it was unreal...massive plants and buds.
I am from the school that I believe you must let a seed plant veg at least 55 days to become a mature plant before flowering.
That blew that one out of the water...
Now I did it with some pre 98 Kali Mist...it did not work out well??? Scraggly plants and a few herms...grew them again with a long 55-60 day veg...awesome plants.

You might want to flip them earlier then you were planning.

 

[Big Perm]

When I grew black widow years ago...I grew them once and they got out of control...had to keep tying them down all through flower...they are beasts...like 60 days veg...the second time I grew them...Shanti told me to give them about 2 weeks of veg from seed pop and flip them 12/12...it was unreal...massive plants and buds.
I am from the school that I believe you must let a seed plant veg at least 55 days to become a mature plant before flowering.
That blew that one out of the water...
Now I did it with some pre 98 Kali Mist...it did not work out well??? Scraggly plants and a few herms...grew them again with a long 55-60 day veg...awesome plants.

You might want to flip them earlier then you were planning.

Awesome stuff.
I'm running them 10/14 from clone.

 

[socaljoe]

Here's a brief picture history of my 8 Black Widow plant

They started off fine, but due to neglect on my part they started looking not so great. I thought I had them back on track, but a few were still not happy. I took a close look and my determination was that I needed to bump up the calcium. I think they're truly back on track now.

The plan, as it stands right now, is to root a cutting of each plant and put them all into flower. The males will not be culled, instead I will allow all the clones to mature and flower. My goal is to run an open pollination to make seed stock for future pheno hunts. I will then take a second clone of each female and replace the seed plants in the veg tent. Eventually I'll do a flower run of only the females and see what I'm working with.

 

[Big Perm]

Day 2 on the clones. Still no sex signs yet on their moms or dads.

 

[Big Perm]

The plan, as it stands right now, is to root a cutting of each plant and put them all into flower. The males will not be culled, instead I will allow all the clones to mature and flower. My goal is to run an open pollination to make seed stock for future pheno hunts. I will then take a second clone of each female and replace the seed plants in the veg tent. Eventually I'll do a flower run of only the females and see what I'm working with.

Gonna be Joe's Favorite Things down the road!
BW for you, and you, and you!

 

[H.A.F.]

I have some BW cured that has a nice spicy sage smell, but the most recent run (with me growing better) has a buttered popcorn note to it Definitely tasty smoke.

 

[socaljoe]

Gonna be Joe's Favorite Things down the road!
BW for you, and you, and you!

I'll be Oprah up in this bitch.

You can be Dr. Phil.

 

[Big Perm]

 

[H.A.F.]

"But I couldn't even do that if I was sober officer..."

 

[Old ST1R]

Today I took 2 clones of each of the ten plants. I'm going to keep pushing the seed plants though to find the sexes, then toss all of those females and let the males go for a bit more to have a look at them.
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Interesting cloning technique. I’d love to hear about it, since I suck at cloning.

 

[Big Perm]

Interesting cloning technique. I’d love to hear about it, since I suck at cloning.

Thanks, I can tell you more about it over on my journal. I'll be taking more clones soon, so I'll show you step by step over there. Cloning is a little hard to learn ,but after you get it, you've got it and can clone all kinds of different ways with pretty good success. When I clone something that I can't take a risk of losing, I use this method.

 

[Old ST1R]

Thanks, I can tell you more about it over on my journal. I'll be taking more clones soon, so I'll show you step by step over there. Cloning is a little hard to learn ,but after you get it, you've got it and can clone all kinds of different ways with pretty good success. When I clone something that I can't take a risk of losing, I use this method.

I’ll be watching your journal then!

 

[Big Perm]

Day 8 bloom on the seed plants. I hope to be seeing some sexing this week.

 

[Opie1]

Interesting cloning technique. I’d love to hear about it, since I suck at cloning.

Thanks, I can tell you more about it over on my journal. I'll be taking more clones soon, so I'll show you step by step over there. Cloning is a little hard to learn ,but after you get it, you've got it and can clone all kinds of different ways with pretty good success. When I clone something that I can't take a risk of losing, I use this method.

Tag me too, I want to see that as well.

 

[Big Perm]

Day 10
Starting to get some of the first signs of sexing.