topping for the first time

hey all, is this going to regrow roots for this top that i took off my plant, the plant was a lil over a month old probably and stood about a foot tall but was very very bushy

i took a large cooking pot with a glass top, and removed the knob for better light penetration and it left a lil hole to get some fresh air, but hopefully still keep some humidity in. Then i put a small amount of water in the bottom of that pot for humidity, and put my plant in it.

the plant is being nestled in a styrofoam bowl, with a lid cut out of a styrofoam plate, and the 1" rockwool cube slid into the top plate, keeping it steady and the roots(hopefully) out of the light, with a good amount of rooting gel on the cut stem, and in the rockwool. then distilled water is kept up to about a 1/2" in the bowl, penetrating about a 1/3" of the rockwool. and im using a 42 watt/2700 lumen cfl bulb right above the glass top. the whole cloning contraption is kept in the closet with my 400 watt hps and other 2 baby plants that im growin(b52) but isnt close to it at all.

the rockwool was ph'd with the distilled water by the way, and its just some good badseed that managed to make it this far in organic mg soil and gh hydro 3 part nutes (left over from dripper)

o, and should i run that sngle cfl buld 24hrs a day until roots show, and then take it back into 12/12, or should i just keep the light at 12/12 and let the top'd plant section grow and bud until its ready to harvest?

its been like 6 hours since i made my contraption and so far its building up condensation nicely on the inside of the lid, so that must mean humidity is up ill let you guys know how it works haha.


you guys dont wanna discuss??

o and how do i mix the hydro nutes for soil, i kno the roots pull out what they need from the soil only so do i need to lighten the amount compared to hydroponics, or increase it since there is more material between the nute water and the roots?

today the leaves of the topp are staying pretty sturdy and not wilting too much and the lid is still containing moisture so i guess it will work, when should i move the top into soil?


im guessing eventually somebody will post on my thread besides me, but if you guys dont, i dont mind talking to myself :0

hey , lmao Ok you should set the light to 18/6. The top you have will take anywhere from 7-21 days or so to sprout roots. Once you have good roots you can transplant it to soil. i would go easy on the nutes at first. Give the little darling time to grow. and recover.

good luck to you~

Is a good idea you may need to cut some of the big leaves in half though

thanks for the input guys!!! i thought i was gettin ignored haha, but what would cutting the larger leafs help with? im guessing it would help the root system catch up with the amount of foliage there is up top?....and if i wasnt to stoned when i read that article-when the roots and the foliage are the same size, they both grow faster?

Take them away to put more energy into new growth rather
than than sustaining them. Leave a couple leaf sets though.

I don't usually cut them in half...I guess that has the same
effect...

but, in contrast, doesnt the plant require leaf material to take in energy from photosenthisis(sp?) so if i cut to much away(if i decide to hack away any) it could cause the plant to take that much longer to have the amount of energy needed to regenerate the root system right?