Jazzman's Gal
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Well, seems like everyone has been as busy as me 
We had a gig to play yesterday so the last several days have been devoted to band practice and getting set up. It was a biker wedding and it was a blast!!! We played "Born To Be Wild" for grins and giggles as the bride and groom roared off on his old panhead for a month-long honeymoon. It was way too much fun 
But now, back to work!!
My clones seem to be doing fabulous. I'll give them another day or two and then check for roots. I've got them rooted in clear Solo cups nestled inside red ones so I can pull the clear ones up to look for root growth. BigJon, here's a pic of the "ghetto dome" I made......................
And here's the more pernament one..............................................
I still got to use Saran wrap and duct tape on this one You can see that the walls of my little grow room are still dark in these pics. I've started painting them gloss white to make things a little brighter for the cuttings.
BigJon, you said you never worried about himidity domes and I considered not making one. I've done rootings on lots of other plants, house plants and outdoor plants and trees, but I always had a greenhouse in the past. I don't have one here in Oregon and thought I should try to create the same happy-plant humidity I had in my greenhouse. Maybe next time I'll try it with just spritzing water on them--lots more humidity in Oregon than in southern New Mexico--but since this was the first time I've tried cloning marijuana, I felt more comfortable making a little greenhouse for the cuttings. I'm so excited about this!! It's working!!
Igorina, on the other hand, does not seem happy although she's not actively trying to die on me.
You can see behind her where I started painting the walls. I'm not sure Igorina is going to turn out well. She's just sitting there, not dying and not growing. However, the little Blue City Diesel cutting I took from her when I cut her back is doing well along with the others. And I have two more BCD's in the garden If Igorina dies, it was not in vain: she gave her life for a great cause. If she lives, I'm going to try a variation on the sea of green growing method called screen of green. I don't have a lot of room and screen of green looks like it'll give me more definite boundaries to keep things under control. We'll see how it goes.
My ultimate goal, which still needs some fine tuning, is to grow outside the majority of what we need. I love having a garden, even if I've only got a few veggies this year. For next year, the garden beds will be revised so I can add more veggies and kitchen herbs while next year's crop is farther away from the house to get more direct sunshine. They're too close to the house. It gets light out, enough to see anyway, at 4:30am and dark at 10pm but the Smurfs don't get direct sun until about 9:30, then they get a little dappled shade from trees on the hillside to the south in mid-afternoon for about an hour and then permanent shade from trees on the west side of the driveway at about 7pm. I didn't think about that when I first planted the clones I had. Last year's crop was grown in a two-foot-tall raised bed where my little walk-way is now. They were higher up so they got a lot more sun in the morning and evening. In spite of this, the Smurfs are bushier and bigger than last year's crop at this same time and I think they're too crowded. I haven't taken pictures of the garden Smurfs in several days. I'll get some pics later today--bug patrol, feeding and all that--and post one here. Anyway, I want the outdoor crop but I want to be able to keep one or two plants at a time going year round. Or start my outdoor crop early so I can put them outside when they're bigger and bushier than this year or last year. Or obtain some seeds for some exotic strain to start indoors and see what happens
I don't know what I'm going to do with the 8 clones I have, yet. I don't have room to grow so many plants inside. At least, not yet. If I have to, I'll give some away to someone who actually knows how to and does grow indoors year-round. Ill bet the resource center in Ashland will be able to help me out. I'll let y'all know if I need to get rid of some; maybe some networking will find the extras a good home, if they need one and I can't find one for them locally I'd love to take a drive down the Wonderful One; haven't made the trip yet this year
We had quite a bit of rain this week. The garden Smurfs really had some drooping branches from the weight of the rain. It's been dry and mostly sunny for two days now (today will make the 3rd day) and they seem to have recovered nicely. I didn't think I was going to have to provide some support until they started stacking but those long, lanky Sativas have very flexible limbs I guess I'll eyeball how I'm going to do that while I'm playing with them today.
Ta-ta, all. Hope everyone has a good day. Happy gardening!!
We had a gig to play yesterday so the last several days have been devoted to band practice and getting set up. It was a biker wedding and it was a blast!!! We played "Born To Be Wild" for grins and giggles as the bride and groom roared off on his old panhead for a month-long honeymoon. It was way too much fun But now, back to work!!
My clones seem to be doing fabulous. I'll give them another day or two and then check for roots. I've got them rooted in clear Solo cups nestled inside red ones so I can pull the clear ones up to look for root growth. BigJon, here's a pic of the "ghetto dome" I made......................
And here's the more pernament one..............................................
I still got to use Saran wrap and duct tape on this one
You can see that the walls of my little grow room are still dark in these pics. I've started painting them gloss white to make things a little brighter for the cuttings.BigJon, you said you never worried about himidity domes and I considered not making one. I've done rootings on lots of other plants, house plants and outdoor plants and trees, but I always had a greenhouse in the past. I don't have one here in Oregon and thought I should try to create the same happy-plant humidity I had in my greenhouse. Maybe next time I'll try it with just spritzing water on them--lots more humidity in Oregon than in southern New Mexico--but since this was the first time I've tried cloning marijuana, I felt more comfortable making a little greenhouse for the cuttings. I'm so excited about this!! It's working!!
Igorina, on the other hand, does not seem happy although she's not actively trying to die on me.
You can see behind her where I started painting the walls. I'm not sure Igorina is going to turn out well. She's just sitting there, not dying and not growing. However, the little Blue City Diesel cutting I took from her when I cut her back is doing well along with the others. And I have two more BCD's in the garden
If Igorina dies, it was not in vain: she gave her life for a great cause. If she lives, I'm going to try a variation on the sea of green growing method called screen of green. I don't have a lot of room and screen of green looks like it'll give me more definite boundaries to keep things under control. We'll see how it goes.My ultimate goal, which still needs some fine tuning, is to grow outside the majority of what we need. I love having a garden, even if I've only got a few veggies this year. For next year, the garden beds will be revised so I can add more veggies and kitchen herbs while next year's crop is farther away from the house to get more direct sunshine. They're too close to the house. It gets light out, enough to see anyway, at 4:30am and dark at 10pm but the Smurfs don't get direct sun until about 9:30, then they get a little dappled shade from trees on the hillside to the south in mid-afternoon for about an hour and then permanent shade from trees on the west side of the driveway at about 7pm. I didn't think about that when I first planted the clones I had. Last year's crop was grown in a two-foot-tall raised bed where my little walk-way is now. They were higher up so they got a lot more sun in the morning and evening. In spite of this, the Smurfs are bushier and bigger than last year's crop at this same time and I think they're too crowded. I haven't taken pictures of the garden Smurfs in several days. I'll get some pics later today--bug patrol, feeding and all that--and post one here. Anyway, I want the outdoor crop but I want to be able to keep one or two plants at a time going year round. Or start my outdoor crop early so I can put them outside when they're bigger and bushier than this year or last year. Or obtain some seeds for some exotic strain to start indoors and see what happens
I don't know what I'm going to do with the 8 clones I have, yet. I don't have room to grow so many plants inside. At least, not yet. If I have to, I'll give some away to someone who actually knows how to and does grow indoors year-round. Ill bet the resource center in Ashland will be able to help me out. I'll let y'all know if I need to get rid of some; maybe some networking will find the extras a good home, if they need one and I can't find one for them locally
I'd love to take a drive down the Wonderful One; haven't made the trip yet this year We had quite a bit of rain this week. The garden Smurfs really had some drooping branches from the weight of the rain. It's been dry and mostly sunny for two days now (today will make the 3rd day) and they seem to have recovered nicely. I didn't think I was going to have to provide some support until they started stacking but those long, lanky Sativas have very flexible limbs
I guess I'll eyeball how I'm going to do that while I'm playing with them today.Ta-ta, all. Hope everyone has a good day. Happy gardening!!
