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Registered: 06/21/17 Posts: 518 Last seen: 10 days, 11 hours
Re: First time grow seems to be going great! Had to ditch the grow box and use my bathroom [Re: bittnerkd] #830671 - 12/26/17 03:46 PM (6 years, 3 months ago)
Clones should be taken while the mother plant is still in veg. The longer you flower the lower the odds of getting good clones in fact I've had strains all sativa that have flowered while still at 18-6.
Cloning cannabis is easy: Step one take the cuttings off the mother at the end of the 18 hour light cycle. The cutting should have at least five nodes on it cut off the lowest one or two nodes braches and leafs. Its a good ideal to cut the clone again right before you put it in water other wise a air bubble will form. Check in one hour and recut any clones that are wilting. Let sit for six hours in total darkness with the stem and cut nodes submerged in water to allow the stem to form a soft tissue block where you cut it.
Note clone under weak lights like fluorescents or low power led lights 40 to 80 watts.
Step two coat stem and cut nodes with rooting hormone and place in your rooting medium rockwool cubes work great. Place in a humidification tent and spray with water twice on the first day then once a day for the next three days then spray only if they start wilting. On the tenth day remove the tent and start a 1/2 strength feeding regiment and in one to two weeks they are ready for HID lights.
BTW 50% humidity in veg and for the first four to five weeks of flowering the last few weeks lower the humidity to about 40% supposedly this increases its potency.
Registered: 10/06/16 Posts: 344 Last seen: 3 years, 9 months
Re: First time grow seems to be going great! Had to ditch the grow box and use my bathroom [Re: Rider420] #831098 - 01/20/18 05:59 AM (6 years, 2 months ago)
5 nodes!! What u crazy?? U read whatever tek u regurged wrong, the mother plant ur taking clones maybe. Infact we strip clones of all but its apical meristem aka node. Perhaps read 5 inches?
Anyhoo ya taking clones of flowering plants can be problimatic however if can sneak a few off that havent pushed out pistils or hairs near the bottom of tge plant it can help the success.
Basically once flower is initiated u need to keep clones alive till they reveg at which point they can start to grow roots. So double or triples the time to actually root although all strains are little different. The sooner u attempt clone the better and lowest bracnhes less far along in flower. But as its ur first time trying may be bit hard.
Biggest things besides having high humidity is not to have tottaly wet rockwool. Moist but not heavy with water. And try keep things sterile.
Registered: 10/06/16 Posts: 344 Last seen: 3 years, 9 months
Re: First time grow seems to be going great! Had to ditch the grow box and use my bathroom [Re: Theman] #831099 - 01/20/18 06:03 AM (6 years, 2 months ago)
Also and dont follow that 1-2 weeks or spray exactly 1 time first 3 days lol. As that is based on ideal conditions. Only feed omce have established roots ie can see them out the rockeool. Do not spread rooting hormone up and down all nodes of ur plant.. anyway just dont listen to riders post and read rooti g tek posted in on the growery mainsite.