40+ lbs with 12 Plants in 2 Rooms on a Flip

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Keesje

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Dividedsky said:
I added a 2 ton mini split to my grow room and sealed it(not even close to the size yours is going to be) and it was the best decision I've made. That's the best part is you can just have inline fans and carbon filter blowing air around inside room. Dehus are a must though.
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Do you also use a CO2 generator/bottles?
 
Renfro

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So FOOP sent me some free stuff to mess with. Their cloning gel and some of their nutrients and sweetener. I won't be messing with the nutrients, I don't see myself getting very far with quart bottles anyway. I am however interested in testing their claims on their cloning sauce. Their claims are "roots in 5 days" lol yeah right. I am from Missouri so I gotta see it to believe it.

So I didn't need clones for anything but I took 6 divine gelato #3 cuts and 3 got the FOOP and 3 got the Clonex Gel that I normally use. I cut them to be as identical as possible and they are in the same domed tray stuck in rapid rooter plugs. So they are getting the same treatment. I dipped the cuts in my usual vitagrow antiwilt. Each clone is labeled / dated and I am writing the date I first see a root on each cutting, checking them a couple times a day.

It's not a big experiment with a lot of clones but I figured if there was something obvious I could look into it more, no point is wasting a bunch of rapid rooters when I don't need the clones presently.

So the cuts were taken at 9 PM on June 26th. The first one popped a root on the July 4th (a clonex cut). The pictures are from when they were cut on 6/26/2020.

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Renfro

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Keesje said:
How is it possible?
Someone comes up with a new product and claims how fantastic it is.
And it turns out, it is not!
This never happens in the growing scene!
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Well to make things interesting one more cut popped roots out of the rapid rooter on 7/5 and it was a FOOP treated cut so now I have one each. 4 cuts still have yet to show roots.
 
Thundercat

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Yeah my boss had the foop sample pack too. I love that they don’t tell you what’s in the bottles at all, lol. Just a basic npk ratio.
 
Keesje

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I read a lot of blabla about Aloe Vera.
But I guess it is mostly a high concentrate of IBA.
0.5% instead of 0.25%.
 
Dividedsky

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Renfro said:
I could see it taking an extra day or two for the roots to show outside the rapid rooter plug but yeah we are like 8 days in and only a single clonex cut has shown signs.
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How do you like the rapid rooters? I think I'm going to take cuts and put them into those next time as a backup method to my aerocloner and bubble cloner after a disastrous run taking cuts into my new bubble cloner. I lost most of the cuts from what I think was the water getting to warm. Never has happened before. Was a huge bummer cause I lost some really good genetics from seed plants, dvg- purple jellato,thug pug- black cherry pie breath and thugs breath. So thinking about always taking a 2nd and 3rd back up cuts into soil or rapid rooter/root plugs from here on out, just in case. And when running the new big bubble cloner keeping a 15min on/off timer.
 
Renfro

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Dividedsky said:
How do you like the rapid rooters? I think I'm going to take cuts and put them into those next time as a backup method to my aerocloner and bubble cloner after a disastrous run taking cuts into my new bubble cloner. I lost most of the cuts from what I think was the water getting to warm. Never has happened before. Was a huge bummer cause I lost some really good genetics from seed plants, dvg- purple jellato,thug pug- black cherry pie breath and thugs breath. So thinking about always taking a 2nd and 3rd back up cuts into soil or rapid rooter/root plugs from here on out, just in case. And when running the new big bubble cloner keeping a 15min on/off timer.
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I been using rapid rooters since 2003 and love them. Root Riot plugs aren't as good BTW.
 
Renfro

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So on the FOOP clone gel test. Had 3 more with roots this AM. Now only one cut (FOOP) remains without roots. I don't think the FOOP is any better than the clonex, if anything the Clonex performed a little better IMO.
 
Bigdaddy76

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Renfro said:
I just found a jar from a few harvests ago. It was some Juicy Fruit bud that I had water cured in cold RO water for 48 hours, re-dried, jarred and forgot about. The water during the cure was changed out once at 24 hours of soak.
I thought water curing eliminated smells?
WOW. Totally smells like juicy fruit gum, exactly. Taste is the same. Best tasting fruit strain I have ever smoked. Hits super smooth. Take massive bong rips and immediately feel the sativa "eye". Buzz is so clear and energetic. I took a pic with a tiny nug of gg4 next to it. The water cure takes all the chlorophyll out so it leaves the bud brown, like curing to the max. Makes for such a smooth hit with pure terpene goodness.

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Renfro said:
I been using rapid rooters since 2003 and love them. Root Riot plugs aren't as good BTW.
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What's the difference? The binder used?
I actually thought one of'em was coco+binder, but just checked and both are peat+binder.
 
Renfro

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2com said:
What's the difference? The binder used?
I actually thought one of'em was coco+binder, but just checked and both are peat+binder.
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Never looked into it, they just didn't perform as well. I rarely have a cut fail to root with rapid rooters. Like maybe one out of 200 or something like that. With the root riot's I had less success.
 
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