Well I asked cause if you wanna be technical he isn’t on the forum lol
Got delayed on my cloning but will be hitting it hard in the morning.
There are so many different methods and opinions about cloning, much of it conflicting. So I’ve just decided to go with my original plan and hope for good results.
I’ll be trying for ten clones, five from each of my two mature plants. All cuttings will come from the bottom branches this time.
If I have enough room in the dome, I might also experiment with a couple of top branches.
Wish me luck.
I took 6 cuttings from each plant, 5 from the bottom and one from the top. Now I have 12 in the dome with a little PH5.5 water in the tray mixed with 1/8th strength flower nute.
I’m misting at least 3 times a day with plain PH6.5 water.
After 3 days they are all still a healthy green with very little droop.
I’m really hoping that this works out because I’m ready to expand my grow.
I was thinking about putting some of my clones outdoors this Spring and realized that if I put them out too early, with the day right around 12/12, they will begin to flower. Am I wrong???
I was also wondering if it’s too late to top my oldest plants. They are getting pretty big and I’m afraid they’ll outgrow my flower room. I want to move them in two weeks and am not sure if topping again would affect my harvest.
Happy growing!
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I broke one of the main branches on my #1 plant…the biggest, bushiest and healthiest plant of all of them.
Lesson learned…don’t try to bend older branches.
How severe a break? The plant has amazing healing properties, sometimes…is it something you can splint together, maybe start growing again in a week or so?
Kabongster is right here I have seen plants recover from some pretty nasty breaks in a matter of days
I had no idea they could heal like that but it was nasty, splitting down into the main stalk several inches. I cut it off and tied the split together with some cloth. She’s not showing any ill effects from it yet and it happened 18 hours ago.
There were four beautiful long stems growing off of that stalk though. I put those in my dome hoping they’ll clone, at least one anyway.
Thanks for the tip. If I’m ever stupid enough to do that again I’ll play doctor and see what happens.
With luck, all you might see is a little drooping…water as normal, mist the damaged stalk for a few days till the leaves pick up. It won’t grow until some healing occurs, but it isn’t dead yet either.
She seems to be doing well. Leaves started to droop a bit but it was time to water anyway and she perked right up. In fact all five are doing great as well as the 16 cuttings in the dome.
Moved #1 and 2 to the flower room under a 400W HPS light on a 14/10 schedule. I’ll leave them there for a few days and then drop it to 12/12. Both are healthy with numerous branches.
Moved #3,4 and 5 under a 400W MH with 4’ Fluorescents on the front and back sides, about a foot below the MH. All are doing well.
All 16 cuttings seem to be doing great. It’s been 10 days for the oldest ones with no sign of roots yet. All are standing tall and bright green with no droop.
I’ve learned a lot with my first grow but it can’t really be this easy. No burn, no deficiencies and no bugs or blight. Am I just lucky so far?
I expect that flowering is where I’ll start seeing problems so you guys hang close to keep me straight. Don’t want to screw up at this stage of the game.
Taken this morning. My #1 and #2 Girls. Today is the 57th day in Veg and I cut the light back to 14/10. In a few more days I’ll drop back to 12/12. Any recommendations before I put them in Flower?
Also taken this morning, #3, 4 and 5 in the 47th day of Veg. They are under a 400W MH and two fluorescents.
All 16 cuttings from #1 and 2 are still doing well, standing tall, bright green with no droop at all. Still no sign of roots yet.
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so far so good.
in my limited experience, veg’ging is less problematic than blooming, especially near the end of blooming, the timing gets tricky, when to feed or flush, when not to feed or flush etc;
but hey, ive read everywhere on the web, simple is key to success. and it seems to be working for you.
maybe youre just born with GreenThumb? lol
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The Girls are looking gorgeous this morning. No indication of any problems at all…they just keep growing.
I do have to say that the Foxfarm Ocean Forest soil is a great product. I haven’t had to feed them at all since transplanting. The only time I did, it was a 1/2 strength dose, they started showing some stress. I haven’t fed them anything since.
I decided to hold off on Flowering for a couple more weeks so that all five plants could go in at the same time. One of them was getting much taller than the others and I decided she would outgrow my flowering room before harvest, so I topped her again, Hope that wasn’t a mistake.
Checked my cuttings this morning, day 15 for most of them, and found two of them showing pretty white roots. If my calculations are right, these clones should be ready to go into flowering in about a month.
If my clones continue to work out, I’m hoping for a harvest every month. I have enough space for two flowering rooms.
Now I need to figure out when to transplant the clones into soil. Time for more research.
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not only not a mistake but, im pretty sure that is the exact reason someone ever did that in the first place. and then SURPRISE!! 2 tops!!
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I now have five clones rooted in the dome. Now I’m curious to see how many of the 16 cuttings will be successful.
I’ll transplant in a day or two and get them into Veg.
The plan now is to put my first five girls into flower in two weeks and take a few cuttings from each. This first batch of clones should be well established by then and I’ll put them in Veg. The second batch will follow several weeks later.
I’ll have one room for Veg and two for Flower.
I can see where this can turn into a seven day a week job but I’m loving it.
Thanks for your help and encouragement guys.
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From 16 cuttings I ended up with 16 rooted clones following Donaldj’s advice. I’ve planted 8 of them in soil so far and they are doing great. The others need a little more root on them.
Now what am I going to do with this many plants? I have four times the number of plants that I started with and still haven’t taken cuttings from plants #3, 4 and 5 yet. I put all five of my big Girls in the Flower room but haven’t gone to 12/12 yet, so I need to get those cuttings soon.
**QUESTION:**If I take some of these clones, after they start showing new growth, and put them straight into Flower, will they continue to grow? They’re all about 8" tall now and I want them to be about 24" when I harvest.
I want to top some of them to get two branches that I’ll train (LST), the others will stay natural. Just an experiment for comparison.
I expect to have about 30 plants going by the end of next week.
They will continue to grow but you really do want roots established and some good fan leaves when they start flower they are important to feed bud growth if you have Myko or great white your roots will be booming within a week or 2 in your pots. Make sure to take 2-3 cuttings from each plant and mark them well you may find when you flip lights 1 or 2 plants have better genetics than the others 
saving those genes will result in best yeilds
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Thanks…I can always depend on you.
Are you going to help me smoke all of this?
lmao I just harvested 2 ladies yesterday that took me 5 hr’s to trim I am a fussy grader so only compact nice nugs get hung my guess is 5 oz made my grade about 3-4 oz hit my oil collection 1 more big lady coming out this week and have 5 plants starting flush. I suspect that by the end of march will have more than enough smoke on hand to last me summer, need to shut down so I can sanitize and rebuild grow room. Thanks for the offer though one thing to keep in mind with clones they are free so if you get too many very easy to cull some and if 1 plant is far better than all others she’ll be only one you want more of.
As for my summer shut down I will be running just a tent for mothers a couple in soil remainder in hydro to avoid power fluctuation my AC runs during summer which keeps my power use at about the same level with simply my flower room shut down
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It’s been about eleven weeks since I planted five seeds in soil. A few days ago those five ladies went into the Flower room.
From those five, I also have fifteen clones in Veg and another fifteen in the dome that look like they’ll take root.
I’m trying out different things to see what works well for me. The five ladies are under 400W Sodium and will be getting fed Tigerbloom about every ten days or so. Ten of the clones are under 400W MH and the other five are under 250W Grow/Flower LED. They don’t get fed anything because they don’t seem to need it in the Foxfarm soil.
My understanding is that once they’re under LEDs, they have to stay there.
With all of these clones I’ll have to either expand my operation or get rid of some…they’re all doing so well though.
I have no experience with Flowering but will be giving them a hard look every time I bring them out to water/feed/flush.
I’m really liking my new hobby. My wife is starting to look at recipes for oil, butter and edibles.
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