First grow, stealth style

Here is how I clone when in soil. Also in a peat pot, all I had...

Cover, little space to breathe and mist every other day or so..



my aloe stash [old organic gardening standby...]

The McDonalds cup is a good idea. I don't have mine in any kind of dome.

avrum said:

Hell yeah, cloning in a cup of water rocks. I have 95% success with that method. Only one advice - It's better if move them away from direct light.. they will root faster. Maybe build a small cardboard shed or something..

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You just mist them a few times a day? I remember reading indirect light was best. I would put them in the window sill but I have 3 cats. Lol. I can rig a cardboard shield easy. The cfls are about 12 inches from them ton a side note, tomorrow I'm making beer can reflectors for my flower cabinet!

Nah I only start misting them after they have rooted and I put them in the soil already. Keeping it simple!

avrum said:

Nah I only start misting them after they have rooted and I put them in the soil already. Keeping it simple!

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Awesome. Thanks man!

cedarghost said:

You just mist them a few times a day? I remember reading indirect light was best. I would put them in the window sill but I have 3 cats. Lol. I can rig a cardboard shield easy. The cfls are about 12 inches from them ton a side note, tomorrow I'm making beer can reflectors for my flower cabinet!

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Indirect light is best and a little bit of warmth but not too much....I actually mist the JUST the plastic bag over top not the cutting itself. The baggie also has the corners cut out just a bit to allow air exchange. Once every other day or three, just when I notice there isn't anymore droplets. This keeps humidity high and the leaves uptaking while the roots are still trying to develop.

Then when they root, I actually don't spray and take the dome off for a couple of days and then transplant.

That's just what works for me.

Beer can reflectors in full effect! These are going to help get some light in the corners. I also put mylar on the ceiling. I plugged a light into oneof these, plugged it into the wall with the reflector on the bottom so I could look at it. It was bright as the friggin sun. I still see spots...lmao

reflectors in full effect. I had to douse some of the lights to get and ok picture. i am having to lst and/or supercrop daily to keep them even. The lights are about 16" from the bottom and most buds are a couple inches below lights.

I guess this has kind of turned into a first grow journal by a newb who isn't afraid to experiment and not take this shitt too seriously!
Anyway, after looking through so many other journals and seeing how fast these bitches grow, I am thinking I should have only kept two and scrogged. So I guess technically since I have 4 plants in a mini SoG. Anyway, I'm going to flip my veg cab to 12/12 after my clones have rooted. Then swap them to the big cabinet, when I harvest these 4. I have no idea when they will be reday, so I am guessing 8 weeks from the flip. I will start rotating based on that. So when these clones are a month from roots, I will cut more and put them on a clone shelf I made. So every 3 or 4 weeks I should harvest, move clones that have been 12/12 for a month into the big cab and move new clones that have been vegging for 2 weeks into the smaller cab for a month, then keep rotating.
Eventually I may add an autoflower in.

some pics of the girls this morning.

Group shot. The two on top are the first two I put in. The bottom two are the little ones that are about 2 weeks behind. They are growing fast since I switched them to smart pots.

Buds showing everywhere! Between those top two in the group photo, there are over 25 buds!

some updated pics.

That is freaking beautiful man, keep up the great work.

Thank you! I have never seen a bud that wasn't cured before. This is so exciting! lol
I ordered some seeds today. I got NL feminized auto, blueberry kush and I can't remember the other. It was free, though.

Great news! One of my clones in the tap water has 2 little roots on it! I don't know about the ones in soil yet. I will give them all another week, then transplant, veg a week or two, cut clones and flip. My little seedling is doing great too. It already has 4 nodes and the leaves are nice and lush. I should be on track for a two to three week perpetual harvest. Hard to tell because its bagseed and I've never grown before.

Anything I need to watch for headed to harvest? I'm in MG MC and a bit of MG potting soil from transplanting. I'm thinking of hitting them with a 1/2 strength feeding of MG Bloom Booster once a week starting next week. I have NO idea how much longer they will grow. I am also starting to think about flushing, but someone said you couldn't really flush soil. I need to do more research....

Clone update...everything rooted!!! Soil and tap water. I picked the best 3, transplanted them and transplanted this 2 week old seedling from some REALLY good bagseed. I'm going to veg them a few weeks, cut clones from them then flip them to 12/12. That should give me a harvest every 3 weeks. Depending on yield (which should get better after a few grows), I may just do a few grows then play with autos, as that may be enough to keep me in meds.

Thats looking nice man, my first grow was stealth but now i just use my old airing cupboard and cant wait to see the final result

ukHoppa said:

Thats looking nice man, my first grow was stealth but now i just use my old airing cupboard and cant wait to see the final result

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Thanks! How far along are you?

We be scroggin!!! No more taking them out every day.

I still have about 5 or 6 inches I can go up with the lights. They are slightly too high right now for 2 of my plants, but they will stretch.

Latest scrog picture....somehow two plants got seeded. I can't find any male flowers or bananas, but then again I can't really get them out easily either. I'm just going to check the best I can and spray the plants and box with water everyday to try to keep pollinating to a minimal. On a good note, I managed to get two GOOD clones, one sativa and one indica. I now realize i would have been better off with just two plants at a time instead of four...