Newb Closet Coco Grow, 400w MH+HPS

I make my clones about 4in tall from the tip.
I whack off a branch strip the big leaves from near the top,make final cut, dip and plant.

yay or nay?

When I was pushing the cuttings into the plugs, one of them I pushed in too hard and the rooting tip bent. It's the one that is falling over. Will it still be good?

HTG is tha shit. Listen man i just checked all their shit compared to the rest of the site like discount-hydro.com and they r so much cheaper n shiatttt chyeaa good looks bredren

I don't know, dude. I guess you didn't read the whole thread. The HTG ballast stopped working last Sunday. Still have to call them to see if they will replace it. I had to buy a Lumatek in the mean time.

ya man
sorry for you're loss on the ballast.
ive heard some negative story about HTG as well

mared juwan said:

yay or nay?

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Kind of big, clones have no roots , its hard for them to support a large amount of mass, see what User thinks.

Personally I would make them smaller, once they root they will take off, right now it more about survival, I would remove the 2 large leaves near the top then make them about 1/2 that size. I use about 3-4 in from the tip.

looks good though

mared juwan said:

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Those clones are huge Mared. You only need one node (or two) and a fan leaf (or half of a fan leaf). Mine are usually 2 inches tall max. You could have gotten two clones for every one you have now. You can still cut them in half if you want, no big deal. When they fall over and you want them to perk up, cut those fan leaves in half.

You are seriously discrediting your light setup. One of those cfls, two feet above the dome is going to root clones. Any more light and they might use up their stored nutes and go yellow before they have a chance to root. As for vegging plants with the cfls, you're golden. After the clones get about a foot tall, take the cfls out of those reflectors and hang them vertically between the plants (you just doubled your effective lighting).

TetraHyC said:

Kind of big, clones have no roots , its hard for them to support a large amount of mass, see what User thinks.

Personally I would make them smaller, once they root they will take off, right now it more about survival, I would remove the 2 large leaves near the top then make them about 1/2 that size. I use about 3-4 in from the tip.

looks good though

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Ah, beat me to it.

Hellafied Game said:

HTG is tha shit. Listen man i just checked all their shit compared to the rest of the site like discount-hydro.com and they r so much cheaper n shiatttt chyeaa good looks bredren

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I dont know....The kit they sold me was a lemon....you can't just use it as is (like they claim)

and Mared seems to be having some issues with their ballast (which I have too )

I dont know too much about cloning, havent reached that part yet. but I read somewhere that you should trim each leave very well so that the growth energy if you will, is focused on rooting. Anyway dont take this as advice more a question?

OK, so my clones were drooped over just like you guys said they would be. The four tallest of the six I cut in half. I had read somewhere that you needed at least 3 nodes above ground so that's why I had made them so big. I also cut in half any fan leaf that was a decent size. It's a good thing I did this second operation because the one I had bent the rooting tip on the first time, when I pulled it out that tip was completely bent 90 degrees. So when I recut them I was a little more careful with the scarification of the tips so they would be a little more sturdy when I pushed them back down in there. I would like to ask if this step is even necessary. It's really hard not to mangle or crush the stem even with a razor blade when trying to shave off that outer skin. Seemed to do more harm than good. I'm out of regular batteries so I have to wait for my rechargeables to do their thing before I can get pics but I'll have em later.

So I switched in the HPS bulb to flower the big girls today. Also there's pics of the newly manicured clones.

Look at this monster, I'm going to label it "mared" so its easy to keep track of.

Not much mass to maintain. I can't believe I cut it on 5/10.

Yeah, after looking at the pics I posted I went back and trimmed some more leaf but that's it! I won't touch them again, just let them do their thing.

THIS??

YouTube - Cannabis Cloning.

a minute in for ya mared... for future times... or now!! lol

The race is on.

Mighty Mite Mared has a 10 day head-start on Big Momma.

Lets see what happens.

My plants need watering tonight. I was going to mix bloom and grow 50/50 because they are in their first 12 hour night right now. Any thoughts/suggestion?

edit: 800 total ppms is what I was going to shoot for

mared juwan said:

My plants need watering tonight. I was going to mix bloom and grow 50/50 because they are in their first 12 hour night right now. Any thoughts/suggestion?

edit: 800 total ppms is what I was going to shoot for

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Nevermind, read something else that changed my mind. I'll wait on the flower formula for a while.

You can, the drop in N. helps trigger flowering.

I making a trip to the hydro shop and the club, see if he has any new clones.

I forgot this.

https://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-plant-problems/74481-dog-broke-my-plants.html