Getting cuttings a different way

[Lord-Xanthor]

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I have no clue why on earth I didn't pick that up before I uploaded the pictures. I find it amazing how ones brain interprets pictures, like 3D. Anyway, Sorry about that. Ill get a white light for picture taking. I had taken the pictures and had just uploaded them without actually looking at them first. When I look in the tent, all the combined colors appear white, but when you take a picture, you get that purple hue. Tomorrow Amazon should be sending me a gallon of PH down, so I'll fix the PH issue and order a bright light for picture taking. The PH is only slightly raised, as new leafs are green then start showing symptoms a day or two later. I'm willing to bet that's the cause of half the seedling strains dying upon putting them in soil. Even in Jiffy Tablets. I already lost about 46 seedlings due to not just this PH problem, but also a bad thermostat switch which cooked the seedlings at about 98 degrees Fahrenheit. Amazon's way of apologizing for destroying $500+ in seeds was to give me a $60 gift card and had attempted to overnight a replacement, but ended up shipping me a $150 stroller/car seat combo which they said to keep. I had also found out one of my nosy gossiping neighbors saw it because the next day I was getting endless calls of "When's baby due" Oh, have one last question, for now. I found this picture on the net, and was wondering if this strain is real or just a Photoshop, but if it is real, could someone tell me what it is? My wife loves purple, and since I lost all the purple hulks, if I can identify what this strain is, Ill buy it instead. The leaf is a shade of purple and blue. This photo I can at least say is supposed to look purple too =)

 

[Weasel]

Ha ha. Good story about the baby stroller.
No- that photo is enhanced. There are no cannabis strains that look like that. The main bud looks a bit like Dark Devil Auto by the color. But since that color could be totally fake too- it's meaningless. There are some nice purple strains, but not like that.

 

[Lord-Xanthor]

Figured it looked to good to be true. If it had been real, I would have named it RainBlow, after the gum. Sort of reminds me of the old gumball package. BTW, the other reason I didn't catch the lighting issue in the picture, I happened to also have used Clear Purple Solo cups. They helped me a lot when deciding when it was time to transplant into bigger pots or if any root issues should have happened. I just got the PH down, so making a solution up after I post this. I didn't buy PH up, mostly because my liquid fertilizers tend to raise the PH too, so didn't think I would be using it.
EDIT: I'm going to upload some new pictures shortly. These are seedlings that I had issues with, and still have. I promise they wont be purple this time =) The other plants are looking great now ever since I used the PH down. Ill post pictures of those in another day (not purple either) Was curious about an article I was reading on the main website. I had read part of it before and for several days could not figure out why there was a mention of a mite here and nowhere else called Hosttrevor. There were so many pictures of it, I was worried that it would be one of those things my plants not might get, but would get so kept reading up and only just realized the mite isn't called Hosttrevor, that it was the picture uploader. My setup is completely indoors. Is it still easy to contract Mites or Gnats? And what is the cause of contracting them? My humor would say teach the male and female plants of safe sex >_< but what scares me more of this joke is someone actually answering it lol. Anyway, I'll be back in a bit with new pictures and thanks everyone for your help!

 

[Lord-Xanthor]

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I shut down the LED panels and took pictures with a normal flash, so any purple are the plants that are still in purple solo cups. I wish I had taken pictures yesterday of the seedlings because today the symptoms on several of them I wanted to show were completely gone. Most of what you see in these pictures was a PH issue. I got the digital pen which I calibrated and tested several times before running actual tests which actually caused me to have to toss two gallons of vitamin water and start from scratch. After I calibrated the tester, I went into the garage to grab two gallons of distilled water so I could make up enough to last a while for my two gallon sprayer. I followed the instructions on the first test, and used PH down sparingly as it stated yet kept getting the most strangest of high readings, then extremely low then high and was wondering what on earth was going on. How can my tester break in just a few moments? Or was there something wrong with the water itself? Looked at the tester and discovered why I was getting strange readings. The cap was on. Turned out while I was in the garage, my wife stepped into the kitchen to grab a Pepsi saw the tester and figured it was a Sharpie so recapped it and left before I got back. I redo the test and find the PH so low, I dumped everything and started over again. This time I got a PH reading of 6.2. I also had a bottle of water that showed a reading of 6.8 and tested it on one plant and checked the runoff 10 minutes later which showed a PH rating of 7.0. Which happens to be the water I had been using for three weeks. I then basically sprayed each plant enough to almost overflow each runoff tray and used my shop Vac to clear out the trays. I did a quick spray again on all plants, except the seedlings which I used the 6.2 to keep the pellets moist and the plants I tested the runoff and got readings averaging 6.4 to 6.6. Next day they all looked vastly improved and only two seedlings looked a little sick. The ones I wanted to show which are a light green in the picture, their stems yesterday had looked brown and ready to keel over. Today they are green and no brown visible. I was almost sure those two might have had root rot. Which reminds me, I need to find some root rot preventative that's good on soil plants. I use a small amount of peroxide right now, but from what I been reading up, I should be using something else but so far what I see is for hydroponics. Anyway, here are the non purple pictures =) Ill retake them in a few days to show (Hopefully) improvements. The pictures below are of Girl Scout Cookie, Pineapple Kush, Big Bud, Mango, Neville Haze, THC Bomb, & TH Snow. Not all in this order. I am going to move this to my other post later. Problem with using my phone instead of pc I didnt realize I put all this in wrong post. Easier to copy paste later. Also on a side note I been running my lights 24/7

 

[Lord-Xanthor]

Decided to try something else as my idea above I can't try until I get additional room. I was cleaning up my GSC plant and cut 4 big fan leafs at the bottom of the plant that was already covered by the foliage above. Its not like the branches they say to use, but the stems were pretty sturdy. What I did was to soak 4 jiffy pellets in a 6.5 PH solution that also contained very little fertilizer FloraNova 7-4-10. What I mean by little, I took a teaspoon from my one and a half gallon sprayer and added it to the 6.5 ph solution which was about 3 cups of water. Two cups put in small tray for 4 jiffy pellets to use, and the remaining cup added to a hand sprayer. Took the 4 fan leaf cuttings, dipped 1 inch of stem into CloneX, then put each one into one of the four jiffy pellets and pushed the peat together to make a snug seal. I then mist sprayed all 4 leafs then put the small tray they were in and used a large clear zip lock bag to put the tray in and left it on top of one of my LED light panels which stay warm, and never hot. Temperature reading I get from them is 78 degrees.

 

[Lord-Xanthor]

That actually just happened with one of my Big Bid Auto Fem plants. This week my autos took over my grow tent so making adjustments so they don't grow into the lights and discovered one of them that had a long branch that was resting in one of my Neville Haze plants took root so I now know the above will definitely work.

 

[Lord-Xanthor]

I definitely had a PH issue which following the instructions I bought a meter and a gallon of both PH up and Down. It also stated to toss it if I went down too much or up too much as it would break the meter if I mixed both solutions? I also discovered I can store the calibration liquid at least two weeks instead of tossing it after use. Was surprised the unit stayed calibrated after 3 weeks. After I fixed the PH issue, the plants took a week and a half to recuperate, then 5 days ago went into a massive growth spurt and the autos took over the tent where I made a post elsewhere about working the issue out without hurting the other plants as I keep having to raise the lights to prevent them from growing into them and if I bend them which would fix that issue, I would have another where they would grow into the other plants and wasn't sure if they would damage them. As the shed got delayed a month, I'm looking into another tent that hopefully can be expanded like adding sections onto them so I wont be wasting money on something that would end up only being used less than a month.

 

[Lord-Xanthor]

As of today, the single leaf stems are failing which I had a feeling they would, but the multi branch ones have taken. I left the bags open and just mist them 4 times a day, and when I took each one out to clip off any foliage that was going bad, accidentally yanked one out of the peat pellet and saw all the tiny hair roots that had started so carefully reinserted it and pushed the peat against the stem to make a snug fit, then left them under the grow led grow lights that are now set to be on 18 hours and off 6. All the leafs are wilting, but from what I see of the roots that started, I have a feeling they will most likely perk up in a few more days. I also misted them with a very small amount of Flora Nova water solution to help in growth today.