Mixed Bag

[Ckbrew]

Week 7, day 3



Pulled up a bit tighter on the bondage and trimmed the last of the primary fan leaves, watching the grass grow...

[Ckbrew]

Week 7, day 5


Everyone is happy and vegging along nicely. Clone #4 grew roots and was put in it's pot, ran out of 3 gallon, so I used a 5. I wanted to run an experiment of 3 G vs 5 G, so here I go, side by side with clones from the same mother. The rest have been getting their stems bound and pulled until the main shoots reach the outer ring where they will be secured permanently. They do like getting pulled hard...


But I sent this one just a little to hard...

The RP-1 mother had the end of one of the main shoots break off after the restraint was moved out to the end. When I found it, just hanging on by a thread. Should have put some crush on the stem, I thought it was young and flexible enough to not need it. That was last night. I taped it up and the end of the branch still looks normal and healthy. So onward, continuing with the grow and the restraints.

[Ckbrew]

Week 7, day 6



Just watching the grass grow. They had a water flushing 2 days ago, and nutrient feeding yesterday. Nothing for them today, time to dry out a bit. Added bug traps, clean so far.

Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile...

[Ckbrew]

That is strawberry cough. It has always been that color. I drifted the pH down, then up, no change. The yellow goes away as the leaves age. All the rest are getting the same and are happy. Genetics. I will stay the course. I don't see it as an issue.

[Ckbrew]

Week 8, day 1



Everyone is just vegging along. All manifolds are complete except for clones, no bugs in traps, and I took the plunge and added worm castings to each pot. Can't wait to see what that does for the grow. One more week to flip, hard to believe. The two larger clones are destined for seed production, I don't think I will manifold them. One will be forced with colloidal silver to be a male, the pollen collected, and then used to pollinate the other. This rabbit hole never ends...

[Gingerbeard]

Subbing to keep track of your poop.

[Ckbrew]

ok... now who's jealous?

[Gingerbeard]

PPppfffttt...

[Ckbrew]

Week 8, day 3



Did some light defoliation, everyone is happy.

[Ckbrew]

Week 8, day 5



Still happy and vegging along. They get a little bigger every day... Flip in 2 days or wait?, decisions to make, I think I will have a vape and think about it.

[Ckbrew]

Week 9, day 1



The plants & I had a talk and decided that 1 more week of veg was in order. I did a defoliation and am getting ready to harvest more clones.

[Ckbrew]

They are clones off RP-1, left middle plant.

[BU2B]

Holy Moly that is gonna be a FULL tent in a few weeks. I try to clone, even done it a few times, but I admire folks who have the 'cloning gene'.

[Ckbrew]

I'm planing on it being full... got it covered

[Ckbrew]

Week 9, day 4

This extra week of veg is starting to wear on me. So much to do...



Time for another defoliation. They look a little like they have been beaten on...




But that is ok, Look what else I did. Wait, I've been working so hard that I think I'm seeing double...

[Ckbrew]

My cloning method is unconventional, so far it has worked for me. It is a variation on the clone in cup of water method.

https://www.growweedeasy.com/how-to-...-of-water-easy

For each clone, 2 solo cups, one clear with holes in the bottom, and one red on the outside. I put them together, add 3/4 full of coco/perlite, tamp down, add week 3 nute solution with additional calmag and the juice from a hunk of aloe leaf, flood the coco for 5 minutes, remove inner cup and drain the water, punch a hole in the coco, prep the clone with a fresh cut, scrape on the stem, dip in clonex, then plant in hole, pack coco, add nute solution to bottom cup enough to flood the inner cup (think miniature flood n drain), then put them under the light, plastic baggie cut into a sheet on top in the beginning. When roots are visible through the inner cup, transplant into final pot with out delay. By flooding the cutting in the coco it is like being submerged in water. As they get older, i will remove the outer cup and drain, let sit, then refill. Gradually increasing the drain time. They usually show roots within 12-16 days. When I grow the manifold using BU2B 's PPP method , I will remove anything that I will not need in the final plant as soon as possible. My shoots are never 7 inches long, more like 2-5. What you see in the pix I did today. I have found that if they survive the next 2-3 days with out wilting to death, they will be ready to transplant in a few weeks.

The johnson method would be measuring the with of the stem...

[Gingerbeard]

Is it Johnson or Johnston?

[Ckbrew]

Week 8, day 5



Still vegging, 2 more days to flip. They have already recovered from the beating they took yesterday.



The new batch of clones. If they all survive most will be given away, don't have room for all these.

[Ckbrew]

Week 8, day 6


Vegging along, recovered from the defoliation, ready to flip!

[Ckbrew]

Week 8, day 6


Moving day, The seed clones have been moved out, This tent is getting flipped tonight.



Seed clones in the veg tent.





New batch of clones, they will be moved in a few days also.

[Ckbrew]

Week 1 Bloom, day 1



The plants have been flipped to bloom, the transformation begins. I really like this part, things can change so quickly.


The seed clones have their own place for now.



And the next round warming up, they haven't wilted, and still look viable.

[Ckbrew]

Week 1 bloom, day 3



They are getting ready, I can see small pre-flowers.



The clones are still hanging in there. Some are starting to show new growth.



The seed clones are humming right along. One more week and the male to be will be flipped and soaked in silver.