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**DrBuds Bonsai Mum's- How To for You**

DrBudGreengenes

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blynx said:
How do you feed these bonsai mums?
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Blynx....I feed them with a watering can.........lol

They get the same mix as everybody else.....and then plain water for 2 watering's B4 I take cuts....and a good feeding after.
Schultz 10-15-10 and Fish Emulsion and I found a BIG container of 10-52-10 Bloom Booster in Storage....so they will eat that in the mix over the Summer :rasta:
 
exploziv

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best thread with bonsai moms and clones pics i've seen!
Nice cloning skills. good luck! :wave:
 
Smoking Gun

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Thanks for putting such a nice thread. I have always enjoyed keeping minitaure plants around, and this is a really good guide. Also bonsai is a perfect way to keep all those special males around without taking up too much space.
 
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mg00c

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hey dr bud lookin nice. I'm hopefully gonna have a similar operation as you. I made a carbon copy of your smaller flowering chamber from grasscity. I have 6 in flowering right now that are about 23 days old so ill hopefully get 1 or 2 good mums from them. where do you get your fish emulsion from? I've been looking all over for it but can't seem to find it. Is there a substitute you could recommend if i can't get my hands on some fish emulsion.

thanks,
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Anghellic

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Man Dr. Great threads, I''m hoping to use some of the same techniques for my future moms. When space is tight these are too perfect.


Lou, quit being a nuisance, we all want to have fun here, shhhhhhhh.......


Again Dr, keep it up, really showing off the power of cfl's.
 
blackone

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I see you take pretty small clones and your cuts don't have a node at the bottom. Obviously this increases clone productivity from a mother - especially doing without the lower node makes it much easier to find good clones on even a small mother that still leaves some shooting tips down below so the mom can continue growing.
How succesful are you with such small clones versus larger ones? I've been having trouble getting smaller clones to root properly.
 
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blackone said:
I see you take pretty small clones and your cuts don't have a node at the bottom. Obviously this increases clone productivity from a mother - especially doing without the lower node makes it much easier to find good clones on even a small mother that still leaves some shooting tips down below so the mom can continue growing.
How succesful are you with such small clones versus larger ones? I've been having trouble getting smaller clones to root properly.
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ditto :joint:
 
DrBudGreengenes

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blackone said:
I see you take pretty small clones and your cuts don't have a node at the bottom. Obviously this increases clone productivity from a mother - especially doing without the lower node makes it much easier to find good clones on even a small mother that still leaves some shooting tips down below so the mom can continue growing.
How succesful are you with such small clones versus larger ones? I've been having trouble getting smaller clones to root properly.
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It works very well .......99% success
Even with 1 week old seedlings.....by the time they R 3 weeks old I have 3 of each seed ....one seedling and two clones of it....I have rooted 1/4"s cuts like this.
The success rate drops after you go below 1"....at 1/2-1/4"...it's about 75%

Sour Creek x Casey Jones...cloned at 1 week old...








an example of a plant that was Cloned at 1 week (she is 3 weeks old in this pic)....her cuts are the lil' ones you see later



72 cut all taken at 1" with NO node at the bottom....only an angle cut


Geisha cuts all under 1"


These are the cuts from a 1 week old Sour Creek x Casey Jones.
you get two cuts from each seedling done this way....the top one is on the left and was 1/2" tall.....the one on the right was the second one and only 1/4" tall at time of cut(this is an EXTREME example....don't to this with the only beans you have...unless your cloning success rate is VERY high)




 
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tkayone

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wow soooooooo much information.
thank you dr.bud
ill be rereading a few times to really understand it properly.

makes me wanna take some clones of my new seedlings that just popped incase there females ill have more plants to work with this way ;)
 
messn'n'gommin'

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Hey Doc, how often do you have to repot? Do you find that you have to do so less often with less light and/or nutes/ferts? It looks like you have your mom's in a 4" pot, no? Is that max for you or do you go with bigger pots in time? As I plan on using only one or two 23w CFL's, do you feel that using less light would help to slow done the growth process or do you think it all goes to the size of the pot? My apologies for all these Q's at once, but I am about to put my PC mom/clone cab together and I am just so unsure of bonsai that I am hesitant to do anything.

Namaste, mess
 
DrBudGreengenes

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Well these seeds were a real PITA to sprout for most who tried....and when I got them to sprout.

Blynx was kinda disturbed by how I Whacked of their heads at 1 week...so here are some pics to put yur' mind at ease Bro

"Sour Creek X Casey Jones" at one week...arent they cute... :canabis:



After a run in with DrBud......



Don't worry about me....I'll be OK in a week or so...


****One week Later****








The Untopped one....


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