vostok
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What's up RIU? I've wrapped up my first couple auto grows (check out my first auto harvests) and am moving on to photos. The first ones in line are these Gage Green Seeds Bastard Series Colombian Gold (name is long af).
There's going to be a couple 'firsts' for me on this grow. The first 'first' is cloning. After I get a couple of these plants established I'm going to sex them, pick out 1-2 of the most vigorous females, kill the losers and establish a couple mothers to take cuttings from. I'm keeping half of the 12 pack so I can attempt to breed them in the future (open pollination, same way this pack was made) - but for now I've got plenty of seeds.
2nd 'first' is that I've never dealt with photos really. With the autos I didn't have to worry about light leaks or flipping to 12/12 or any of that stuff...3rd 'first' is that these are regular seeds. All of the autos I grew were fem...so sexing cuttings and weeding out the males = new to me as well. Hopefully no issues there.
Here are the first couple that have germinated. 2/4 didn't make it (all of my autos germed before this so I fucked something up this time around - thinking too much perlite and they dried out too quick)...
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I'm not 100% sure when I planted these but the idea of this thread is to document the clones more than the mothers...The smaller of the 2 was stretching too much and kinda fell over on it's side so I had to replant it deeper - it had a little shock but is starting to prop back up and take off. So far so good...
I was pretty satisfied with the harvests on the autos so I'm going to stick w/ the same soil and nutes this time around (organic soil, Dr. Earth nutes with a little silica blast in early veg and molasses towards the end of flowering) , adjusting the water pH to 6.5 for each watering. These prospective mothers will be on 24/7 photoperiod until they are large enough to take cuttings from to sex. I've got some research to do on cloning but I don't think it'll be a big deal. I was thinking 18/6 for veg on the clones after they root (24/7 to start), and ofc 12/12 or maybe even 10/14 for flower.
For the most part my growing methods have been on the simple side. I think a lot of this shit gets over complicated for almost negligible differences in results. I might not be pulling pounds out of these tents but sticking w/ the basics has been working out good enough for me atm...I got about a 1/2 pound from this 3'x3' tent on my first grow which way overshot my original goal of around 4 oz. If this grow goes half as smooth we should be golden.
Lighting: 600w MH for veg, 600w HPS for flower (in a 3'x3' tent lol). 400w LED for the clones.
I won't be updating too frequently until things get moving along. As always all questions, comments and even criticism is invited here so let me know what you think.
-Ayr0n
Stick to 18 hours on, and 6 dark until you hit veg, about 30 days later is good,
cloning is but cambium engineering largely replaced by the DIY bubble cloner
easy to build for under $50.00 in most places
you may need to deplete (N) levels before snipping clones off,
just a simple flush is the best for that, if in doubt snip cuttings off lower laterals
to my blog on the old cloner ..lol
https://www.rollitup.org/Journal/Entry/cloning-bubbler-n02.30157/
cloning is but cambium engineering largely replaced by the DIY bubble cloner
easy to build for under $50.00 in most places
you may need to deplete (N) levels before snipping clones off,
just a simple flush is the best for that, if in doubt snip cuttings off lower laterals
to my blog on the old cloner ..lol
https://www.rollitup.org/Journal/Entry/cloning-bubbler-n02.30157/