CFL KC36 & Royal Dwarf

[Wajimaya]

Wow, sounds awesome. Pretty sick fan also. I bet that fan is a bit loud.. i know my 120mm fans are pretty loud as it is. That's a great idea about the air purifier. I might have to look into one of those. With my girls flowering *actually the Royal Dwarf by it's self* the smell got kind of bad.. then i used the ONA. Now i have a candle lit, and the frebreeze oil sents (these by far work the best to get rid of/ mask the smell. Highly suggested) and they are only like 3 bucks. Last a week. But in the long run, getting a carbon filter would be smart.

 

[gingerbuddha]

Hehe, i just recently ran out of my febreeze oil scent. i got a canister air freshener thing downstairs. Right now it smells because of people smoking... its def not the plants yet so im not worried. My roommates are cool its just i dont want neighbors to start smelling skunk. I've heard the like 40 dollar or so air purifier from walmart works pretty well, a lot of people from GC suggested them. And yea, im not extremely worried about how loud it is, so long as you cant hear it outside of my room (door is usually shut).

 

[Wajimaya]

Nice dude. I have a 26" fan just running all the time. It's white noise to mask the cpu fans. lucky you have roommates that are cool. Mine are good people, just a little naive. Walmart... I'll check that out.

 

[gingerbuddha]

With the exception of this fan i just ordered, i've gotten all my supplies at walmart target or lowes. And ya, i have a large oscillating fan that covers up the noise of the smaller fans. I think once i get the light proofing down ill move it to a diff closet where i can have the fans in my room but facing the closet, that way if anyone comes into my room i can just turn them around and it will look like theyre just cooling my room.

 

[Wajimaya]

haha that's exactly what i'm doing.. Great minds think a like.. at least that's what they say.

 

[gingerbuddha]

the way i see it, if cops knock on the door i can spend about 5 minutes disassembling everything and use them for their normal household purpose, and if need be, flush the plants. voila, clean.

 

[Wajimaya]

I will be taking Clones today. Pics coming around 1pm PT

 

[Wajimaya]

Took this picture last night. Thought I'd share.

 

[HighLife4Me]

The royal dwarf looks great. How far along is she? When i tried on my first grow, it f'ed my plant. Started growing stem and stop producing bud. Glad to hear your transplant went well.

 

[Wajimaya]

The royal dwarf looks great. How far along is she? When i tried on my first grow, it f'ed my plant. Started growing stem and stop producing bud. Glad to hear your transplant went well.

Today is day 25! Pictures will be up soon, if cloning goes as planned. I have 2 hours before my next class.

 

[Wajimaya]

Alright so I took two clones from my Kc36 mother. Check out the pics for how I set it up. I'm thinking every 2 weeks I'll take 2 clones. That should give me enough room in my Flower container to Sog it up and have a continual harvest (obviously every 2 weeks). Issue I have to consider is the uneven height issue. The ones that are older are going to be much taller than the young ones. So I'm probably going to have to stair my lights so that the low ones can be near the fresh clones and the tall ones are next to the almost ready to harvest.

I now have 6 lights in the flowering container and they fit really well. I did have 5 and 5 (in each container) but with the big pots and the tall humidity domes, it didnt all fit like i wanted. Plus 4 lights really close to two plants seems to be working great. At least for what it is.

I am going to be keeping the clones in the humidity domes until they root (of course). and then they will stay in the veg container until they have strong roots. Then they will be placed in the flowering container for the rest of their lives. hehe. I am hoping to have them out of the veg container in a week and a half.. but I am allowing up to two weeks. If it goes beyond that, well then that's how it's going to be and as soon as I transfer them into the Flowering container, I will cut new clones.

Issue I need to think about is that my mother Kc36 might be making branches that are ready for clone faster than I will be cloning. Actually I'm pretty certain this is going to be true. In which case I can either: Make a second flowering container, or take 4 clones every couple weeks. I think i can fit them, but it will be something I need to test.

Enjoy the Pics!

Comments and suggestions are welcome always.


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[HighLife4Me]

Everything looks great! Thats the same way i do clones. Using a 2 liter bottle. Works great .. Are you using powder or gel for rooting?

 

[Wajimaya]

Im using Gel, but I have heard that powder works better? is this true?

 

[Wajimaya]

Everything looks great! Thats the same way i do clones. Using a 2 liter bottle. Works great .. Are you using powder or gel for rooting?

haha and yeah, i got this method of cloning from you.. thanx bro.

 

[Wajimaya]

Sad news guys. I went home for the weekend and two of my flowering girls might not make it. My tallest and second youngest. I will post pics in a little bit. Need to recover myself. I was in shock. They simply ran out of water.

Are there some ways to auto water without having to set up all the tubes and water pumps?

 

[gingerbuddha]

eek. sorry to hear man. I let my plants go a little too long without water today. one was feeling pretty dry and even had a tiny bit of discoloration but im now thinking that was a cfl burn. never underestimate how high those leaves will move after being lst'ed...

 

[Wajimaya]

Hey guys, I went home again this weekend and came back to the below pics. My heart dropped. But it is not a complete loss.. One the flowering girls (no pic) has recovered. The one in the picture below however has seen very little improvement. Hopefully having 12 hours off of heat will be good and her roots can recover.

In good news, my Royal dwarf (last pic), Kc36 mother and the two clones are doing great.

I still really need to figure out how to water these girls on the weekends. they need to be watered once a day because they are in such small pots. I was thinking of setting them in a bowl of water, and that should hold them over for a couple days.

That is what I am going to work on, these next couple of weeks and in two weekends from now I will be going home. Any and all Ideas are welcome. Please help.

I will be taking pictures and updating tomorrow.

 

[HighLife4Me]

Im using Gel, but I have heard that powder works better? is this true?

Yea, a lot better IMO. I never have a problem getting roots with the powder. With the gel i had issues before.

Sucks to hear about the water situation. Glad the others are going good. Be careful with the bowl of water. I tried that with one of my plants and the water level was to high and the soil sucked it up and really over watered my plant. It would be nice if you could hook up some kind of drip

Anyways gl. Hope it works out

 

[Wajimaya]

Yea, a lot better IMO. I never have a problem getting roots with the powder. With the gel i had issues before.

Sucks to hear about the water situation. Glad the others are going good. Be careful with the bowl of water. I tried that with one of my plants and the water level was to high and the soil sucked it up and really over watered my plant. It would be nice if you could hook up some kind of drip

Anyways gl. Hope it works out

Thanks for the input. Yeah i had a drip set up, but there just simply isnt enough room for it in my grow area. I need to get a cab to grow in, as that will solve a lot of my problems, I just need more room lol..

 

[Wajimaya]

alright so pictures will be coming after class. So around 1pm. I had to cut my girl (pic from yesterdays update). I topped her two branches down and cut off all the main leafs as they were dead. We will she if she recovers. I have hope.

All of the other girls have recovered almost to 100%. Like i said, i will be posting pictures in a little bit. I will also be going to the hardware/garden store we have in town and be looking for a system for auto watering, or something that is slow release. I may end up going to the local hydro store which is a good 2 hours away if need be; as i do not want to be coming back to this type of disaster again.