The Strange and Creative Gardens Thread

billy4479

Moderator
Salutations, My name is billy for those who don't know me . Today I thought I would start a Thread on Strange and Creative Gardening Methods . To support and encourage Those who do things a little different . Some examples of what I mean by this are things like Creative way to hang your lights , Using Christmas tree ornaments for low stress training , Do you make you own pots soil, do you have your own little way of doing it . Please share Your ways of doing things .
 

J2282p

New Member
I try to do experimenting to make the experience much more enlightening. I once had a bagseed hermie at beginning of flower. I then carefully removed every male preflower I saw after close daily inspections. Like Mendel did to his peas. After a week it never grew any more pods. All colas grew seedless except for one lower one that mysteriously seeded itself.

I know I am ranting but I am relatively new and these experimental things are interesting and hard to find.

Anyways. I grew a kush seed I got from seeds4free.com as described at the top of post. Before switching it to the flowering stage I took a cutting from it and put it in a cube of rockwool and into a little dwc bubbler. I grow it slowly with indirect window light because I only have lights to flower one plant at a time. Since veg is about a month and flower is two (for me). I veg slowly for two, for height restrictions. I use indirect sunlight and flourescent. Its about a 7 week old clone. It looks fine but the root system was very small for the size of the plant, about 5 4" root chutes and thats it. The days are getting close to natural 12/12 and I dont want to plug and move this plant around to veg and continue on to flower.

I flower with cfls and substitute natural sunlight when I can. But with dwc and 100 degree heat. Hot reservoir water is a risk.

Today I took the vegging clone in the dwc system and pulled the net cup out of the lid. I dumped the pellets out of the cup and were left with the rockwool and 5 roots. I straightened them out and removed the plant by grabbing the rockwool and it slid out of the net cup. I filled a bucket 4 inches up with soil and laid a root, covered it, laid another root facing different covered it and so forth. It was now a soil plant. It was cloudy out and I set it out into the cloudy partially sprinkling weather. when the sun started to peak and hit it with direct, it started to wilt. I thought I just killed the plant. So I took it inside and placed the pot into a large mixing bowl and filled the bowl with water which raised the saturated water level in the soil pot. Stuck an air bubbler tube with airstone to the bottom of the saturated soil pot and bubbled air into it. The plant regained its structure!!! So now I have a hydro to soil transition phase under flourescent long tubes in "recovery mode" hanging in there.
 

Dboi87

Well-Known Member
Im glad you posted this thread.

I was actually thinking about trying a single plant perpetual harvest. I've read that to figure out gender, it is possible to cover just one branch restricting it to only 12 hours of light inducing that single branch to flower alone. My thought is if this actually works then couldn't you theoretically do a sort of staggered harvest, starting blooming branches at different times so that there is always a portion of the plant in veg while others are blooming?

I doubt I'm the first to think of this so if anyone has any experience or read anything like it please share
 

J2282p

New Member
That is pretty much what I am doing. I had a kush plant vegging slowly in the window in indirect light for two months it decided on its own to show preflowers so I immediately took a cutting from it. I am flowering the mother now. the clone daughter is vegging and I cut a clone from the daughter which is attempting to root now as the clone granddaughter. I plan to do this perpetually.
 

Dboi87

Well-Known Member
Awesome. I've had a little trouble cloning consistently in the past so I've resorted to "air layering" for clones. However if I were actually able to take a single branch all the way to harvest while still on the vegging mother plant, it would cut out weeks that it usually takes to take clones.
 

J2282p

New Member
I have yet to see how the third generation will root. I got one in a rapid rooter and hasnt rooted in 2 weeks. Yet its still alive. I got another in rockwool over DWC. Its only been a couple days but so far so good.
 
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