Lets Get Growing

Man those plants are looking good. Great job. From what I have seen on these forums that does look like nute burn but I'm noone to advise.

Is that a mother plant? It is bushy as hell.

Looking at your avatar, I think you live near me.

lmao nah thats Long Chainys cabin hmmm my dream cabin ....... california thoe yea there my mothers i am going to get a fogger mister for my cloner and those sponge plugs...........then i can trim my mothers.........yea there getting to big i want to cut them now but i need to wait tell i get the plugs and mister....then i need a fan for my flower room i hope i can get it all tomorrow and hook it up then hopefully with in a week my clones will be flowering (cross fingers)

Yea i heard that you can trim roots on mothers to help i guess stunt growth ?? i am trying to look up some info on it but i have my first son and if you have kids you know, every time i try and sit down and look up some info cry cry cry blablabla oh well have to wait 12 hours tell mom gets home then she takes over and i am off to work

Oh yeah... I can relate to that one...

I got 2 of them kids and they dont even let me watch me own tv

Hulk, Here it the ticket...

Go on Ebay and buy a couple Glass baking tubes. They are made from pyrex glass usually and will work great in my opinion. I am just about to order a pair to utilize when these plants I have are harvested and my box is empty.

I gotta check dimensions for bulb fit, but I think I saw the perfect diameter for my bulbs last time I checked availability.

alright just fixed my cloner up a little bit more i couldnt do what i wanted but i made what i had work..........my local shop didnt have the plugs my size i needed so i just got one size bigger and cut them down to the size of the holes in my cloner well stupid me cut them down to the exact size and not a 1/8 bigger so hahaha they feel right threw my holes ..... oh well i put them in my net pots and they fit perfect so that will work..... they didnt have the mister foger i was looking for grrr ...........so i just hooked up another bubble stone and pump that i already had.........


Well i threw all my old clones away .......they all did get roots some had more then others but they all had some i just didnt like how they looked.....but i learned from it and going for round two.....i hope this is not one of those three times a charm grrr

I am going to take some clones tonight or tomorrow im not sure .......the lights are going to turn off in a hour and i dont think that would be good for fresh cut clones....but what do i know... im still new......so what does every one think ????

Going to take some pics of the plants before i cut clones.... i am going to top it agian, its taller then it needs to be plus i can use them as clones.....very bottom branches are almost reaching the top and there from the botttom shit i will messure them but there huge alright going to take a rip and some pics be back in a min

Alright here is the clone giver.......i am not to sure how many cuts you can do to one plant at once..........i heard to many cuts at one time can shock the shit out of it or even kill it.......i was thinking after i heard that maybe i should trim one day and take clones a few days later.......whats a good size for a fresh cut clone trying to cut as much as possible,........can i cut a bigger branch that i want to be a clone then cut that to the size of my clone ?????

can i cut a bigger branch that i want to be a clone then cut that to the size of my clone ????

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that is what I did. First I cut the main stalk so the plant would be only as tall as i wanted, then i cut that piece to about 4 inches, threw away the bottom section and used it for a clone. I have read that 3-5 inches is ideal for clones, but I have been using much smaller (harder to keep alive I think).

What i have been doing is bubbling my cuttings until they get roots hanging a couple inches, then slicing a rockwool cube and inserting clone with roots hanging out of bottom already. That way I dangle them through the net pot into nutes. I have only done one batch like this, but thus far, they are doing well. I took pics of a new sprout this morning at 9AM. I am curious to know how much a root grows in a day, so I will take more pics later to see length.

I will veg these cuttings for 4 weeks while my others a finishing flowering, then drop them directly into veg box in the baskets they are already in.

oh ya!!! I forgot to mention that the amount of air your plants are getting determines how quickly the grow (I believe this from my own experimenting, and it makes sense...). I have reduced the amount of airflow to where the mothers are just barely staying green instead of yellow with too much water. This has appeared to slow growth considerably. Each time I take a cutting, I will raise the airflow to give it way more that she needs to help with recovery and healing, then lower after recovery. With the increased airflow i have seen increased growth. and I'll argue the fuck outta that theory... lol

You can call me, "Daddy Nature..."

Alright here we go agian.....the first try with the clones did go they all had roots just i didnt think they would make good clones....so i toosed them and cut new ones this time topped one mother alot i took 6 clones but i tossed one .....and topped the second mother and threw that in the cloner for my 6th clone.......but back to the first mother i just tryed to top all the tall shoots so i could try and make a even canopy. i hope these clones take

Those mom's are some clone producing machines. Lookin good.

thanks taken i hope there moms and not dads still havent found out that yet but when i topped the secound mother i was reallly looking at it and saw those little leaves that come out by the shoots/stems/branchs whatever you want to call them had a white outling on the tips so we will have to wait and see

ya you might very well have preflowers on them. You have a magnifying glass or something like that?

nope i am looking for one thoe... i got micro on my camera but right now its in the clone dome i dont want to stress them to much..... my clones today are bent over i hope they come back up right..how long should you keep them under the dome?....i noticed that the two center plugs get the best water coverage .... you think it would be ok just to switch net pots around or would that shock them???....im just trying to be paitient with these ones

You cut them last night? I don't know man. They should be back upright. Whenever I cut clones, they droop for about 4-6 hours then they slowly straighten back up. If I take clones at night, then they're standing at full attention in the morning.

Misting them is important. It's like a blood transfusion to a person bleeding to death. It's the only way they can supplement the water that they're constantly losing because you cut they're legs off! So you need to constantly pump them with water.

A clone in an aeroponic system, in my opinion can't be given to much water for the first couple days. It takes about that long to seal itself off from the wound. Also you need to watch for embolisms (I think thats the word? just smoked a fat bone) which is when air gets trapped in the cut and water can't flow up the stem because the air is blocking it. You'll be able to tell because the stem tip of the clone will turn brown, then black. It's gonna die if that happens. When I cut clones, I always have a pitcher or distilled water with superthrive in it, and also hydroguard. I cut the clones as long as I can. The more leaf sets on the clone, the faster it can root. Also this allows me to hold the stem under water and make a second cut about an inch or two above where I made my first cut. This allows any trapped air to esacpe and leaves you with a watersealed cut. Then I take a razor, slice up the middle of the cut so it splits the stem in two for about a half inch to an inch depending on the size of the clone. Then I make diagnal cuts on each side of the stem underwater. Then I immediately dip the clone in clonex rooting gel for thirty seconds. Swish it around good, I dip as much as I can in there, then it goes in a neoprene plug and right into the misting cloner. The cloner has tapwater with a ppm of 160 a couple drops of superthrive 10 ml of hydroguard, and 2.5 ml of floragro.

shit sounds like a good setup to take clones..... i will have to use it next time ......yea all my clones have half of a stem thats kinda up and the top is all drooped over its been almost 24 hours now...... oh well thats life.......i am misting them with ph 5.8 water and spraying the dome then putting it on its not a tight seal thoe.......my last clones were smaller and all droppy to but they all got roots like a week later....how long should i leave the dome on for???

... i got my 6inch booster fan...for my flower room going to go hook it up, hope it helps with the temp problem....... I was thinking if the clones dont take and i get the flower rooms temp around low 80's i will throw one of my topped mothers in to flowering hehehe always have a back up plan

Exactly man. After 4 plants I just decided to was time for some bud when I did find a girl. Cut some clones off but still put her in...