Small CFL Setup

SzechwanChicken

SzechwanChicken

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ok so im thinking about cloning my little plants before i switch into flowering. only problem is i dont know how. ppl say to cut off under the 2nd or 3rd node. wtf is a node. all i have is like leaves coming off the main stem. is that a node? the place where they meet? i dont want to chop my plants in half just to clone. can i just cut a leaf off and clone from that? WTF is a node! damit even the folks on youtube have gigantic plants to clone from. who has experience clonign form a small plant.
 
Baz

Baz

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Have not tryied cloning yet so i can't help you, as the stem grows each set of leafs usualy grows away from the stem symetricaly (thats a node) and as the plant gets more mature 1 weill grow out from 1 side then an inch up or so another will grow out of the otherside (thats alternating nodes)

Hope this helps
 
SzechwanChicken

SzechwanChicken

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so i can just cut off a healthy looking leaf and clone that. everything ive seen, ppl have friggen branches so iono. if a leaf can work thatd be sweet.
 
joedirt1971

joedirt1971

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good for you . i just converted a small space. made it bigger added 20 more inchs in height. now total dim. are 50 inchs high .8 foot long by 2 foot wide. pretty weird dim. but goto use what you got. i divided the space. 4 foot by 2 foot , 50 inchs high for flowering. the other half for veg. i made a shelf bottom 20 inchs high. top shelf 35 inchs. i have 2- 4 foot flouce. tubes 40 w each and 2 cfl 20 w for flowering. 4 cfl 20 w on one shelf and 4 20 w cfls on other shelf for veg. it is my second time growing. tried the aero garden first. hard to grow plant to maturity. i now use soil. thanks for listining and good luck.. i can use some advice. please very much a novice...... joe dirt
 
Hairy Bob

Hairy Bob

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I always leave my seeds for a week, if they haven't sprouted, throw 'em in a pot of soil and wait. 8-9 times out of 10 what seems like a bad seed will poke through the soil after another week or so. Once I threw 5 in a pot when none of them germinated. Nothing happened, so I left it in the corner of the room and forgot about them, used some of my other pots to grow another lot, and about a month later, 4 of the 5 popped up within a week of each other! very nice they were too, white russian if memory serves.
Also are you gonna put a reflector above those CFLs? you wanna make the most of your light in that small space!
 
SzechwanChicken

SzechwanChicken

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joedirt1971 said:
good for you . i just converted a small space. made it bigger added 20 more inchs in height. now total dim. are 50 inchs high .8 foot long by 2 foot wide. pretty weird dim. but goto use what you got. i divided the space. 4 foot by 2 foot , 50 inchs high for flowering. the other half for veg. i made a shelf bottom 20 inchs high. top shelf 35 inchs. i have 2- 4 foot flouce. tubes 40 w each and 2 cfl 20 w for flowering. 4 cfl 20 w on one shelf and 4 20 w cfls on other shelf for veg. it is my second time growing. tried the aero garden first. hard to grow plant to maturity. i now use soil. thanks for listining and good luck.. i can use some advice. please very much a novice...... joe dirt
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thanks. yours sound cool too. im not sure if im doing cloning right. but i think im going to switch to flowering very soon. i always have the other 17 seeds left over to get new plants from. only problem now is that i have this other little guy that kinda got fucked when i was away for a week, it got fried while my other plants didnt mind so much. this guy is oly like 1.5 inches tall. so i finally put it in a bigger pot (juice container) and but it under lights. withing the 2 days of having it there. im glad to see its not completly dead. new lil leaves are beginning to show. so now i have to find a different place to set up my veg light for that guy while im flowering the other healthy plants. i figure ill set something up in a computer case i might have lying around.
 
SzechwanChicken

SzechwanChicken

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hmm so ive given up on trying to figure out how to clone my shorties. flowering i think will begin this week for them and ill try to find a space for my not so healthy disaster of a plant too. i think ill see if my "carbon filter" if you can call it that, will work when i tape it onto my fan for flowering. i cant keep putting dryer sheets in there forever ya know. although it does always smell like laundry now, which is pleasant.
 
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brianc01088

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SzechwanChicken said:
hmm so ive given up on trying to figure out how to clone my shorties. flowering i think will begin this week for them and ill try to find a space for my not so healthy disaster of a plant too. i think ill see if my "carbon filter" if you can call it that, will work when i tape it onto my fan for flowering. i cant keep putting dryer sheets in there forever ya know. although it does always smell like laundry now, which is pleasant.
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Ha Ha... don't you wish there was some tree that smelled like laundry when you smoked it? I'd smoke the shit out of it... call it Mr. Snuggles.
 
SzechwanChicken

SzechwanChicken

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Thelowkickk said:
Chicken where did you get those bulb sockets?
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i dont know if they're available at every hardware store, but around here i go to "Canadian Tire". i dont think its in the US but all hardware stores should have the basics in the lighting/ electrical aisle. the sockets i found were in the electrical/wiring aisle, next to all the stuff like outlets, plugs, electrical boxes.
 
SzechwanChicken

SzechwanChicken

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im a straight up baller...... yesterday i got a timer, changed up my bulbs for flowering, and "installed" my diy carbon filter.
they are now about 7 1/2 inches tall by 9 to 11 inches at their widest point. time to start flowering!
im actually jelous of my plants. they get to sit in a nice warm room, while i freeze my vegetables off here in this cold november, hovering at just below 0 degrees C.
 

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