I cloned all of my plants to see ther sex. I am cloning in an ez clone setup. after the clones took root I started to force flowering 12/12 . after about a week I planted clones into soil it has now been about 17 days, i have two hermies and two males so far out of about 20 clones, the others have yet to show gender, i expected a little stress when i transplanted after i started to flower but could this be causing them to turn hermie? If so if I caused this by stress of the clones, could the mother plant i took the clones from be female or if the clones are hermie should i discard the parent plant immidiatly? Also in the future should i allow for 2 weeks of veg. state after i transplant the clones from ez clone set up to soil/pots? Pleas help this is really bothering me!!!!!
I've never seen cloning, even very badly done, cause hermaphrodism. I'd bet the source plant is hermie or male. For confirmation, do another cutting or three from the suspect plants, keep the suspects vegging for now. Can't do any harm unless they're flowering. Just prune them back if they are getting in your way. Keep your cuttings' media damp, not wet and see where you are in 10 days or so, bit longer without a heatmat and in soil, shouldn't be much more than 12-14 days, tho. Trash the earlier cuttings you now know are male or herm. Most likely, the donor plants are male or herm and are compost candidates, but doing another pass of cuttings will make you fully sure.
If you are getting at least 50% female, you're doing spot on the average. Better than that is a bonus.
No need at all to veg clones before flowering them. Mums and clones are kept under 24/7 light except for the first day or so after clones are cut, when I run the clonebox light 18/6, with the first 6h in the dark after cutting to minimiise wilt.
question about ur nute supply? couldnt find specific answer in thread. basically im copying ur setup what nutes and how much in each cycle do you give you plants? i noticed you have large enuf res not to reup the mixture so just the beginning mix at the beginng of every 2 week cycle is what i want to know?
Each 125L tank in the flowering area is dumped, cleaned and remixed every 14 days or so. All tanks run Canna Flores 1400ppm @ pH5.5-5.8. Your results my vary, but my tapwater is usually around pH7.1 and each 125L tank takes 400ml of each part A & B to yield that strength. Tank 3 gets Canna PK1314 @ 0.5ml/litre (about 60ml) when the plants it serves are in wk 5. All tanks get H2O2 50% grade @ 1ml/L (125ml per tank) on mixing and every 3-4 days after when topping up the tanks. Each tank requires about 20ml pHDown on mixing and about 10ml on top-up in about a week.
I don't think I've mentioned it before, but in case you don't know it, there
is a particular way to mix a tank of sauce. You must not let full strength multipart nutrient concentrates mix before they are diluted in a large volume of water. The full-strength mixes will react and nutrients will literally fall out of solution. This is why they are packaged in 2 or 3 parts. I fill my tanks with water halfway or more, then add nute mix part A or B, manually mix that in a bit before adding the other part. Filling the remainder of the tank volume using a garden hose mixes everything up very well.
Don't add more concentrated nute mix in the midst of a 2-week life of a tank of nutes. Top up with plain water only and correct pH as needed. These solutions are engineered so the nutes will last 2 weeks and still have enough of each element and, quite importantly, in the proper ratio to one another. If you start adding nute mix in mid tank-life, you stand a good chance of changing the ratio of the individual N, P, K and other elements in the mix.
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dope?
I'm sure I have that wrong!