Footsteps In Becoming an Expert Grower

[Boo]

It sounds like you’ve got the next year or two of your life all planned out. I hope everything goes as well as you have it anticipated. I prefer to grow much more simple and do everything by hand. I haven’t done much different in the last 24 years of my growing habits And I’m fine with that. I’ll keep an eye out on your grow and follow up on what you’re

 

[Biosystem]

It sounds like you’ve got the next year or two of your life all planned out. I hope everything goes as well as you have it anticipated. I prefer to grow much more simple and do everything by hand. I haven’t done much different in the last 24 years of my growing habits And I’m fine with that. I’ll keep an eye out on your grow and follow up on what you’re

Thanks, man. I'm just hoping the hiccups and errors along the way aren't too egregious. Nothing goes perfectly, so we just have to shoot for excellent.

 

[Biosystem]

Micro clover is really nice for a cover crop but the seeds are a little pricey. I got mine from outsidepride dot com.

I did a couple soil growers with big totes but settled on pots, bags 5 gallon or smaller. I can't grow a tropical sativa in the same container as an indica dominant poly hybrid and keep both of them happy. Plus individual pots make much easier to keep from over watering using the pot weight method.

Seedlings and damp off: I never had a problem using this method. Start with Solo cups with drainage holes, use a seedling mix, moisten well with PH adjusted water, plant your seed and cover with a plastic sandwich bag. Put the Solo cups in a 5 gallon bucket. Get a clamp light with a reflector from home depot. The 5 gallon bucket narrow enough to keep the reflector from sitting on top of the cups. The light warms the top of the soil and plastic bag keep the soil moist enough until they break ground. Check daily and remove the plastic bags as they emerge.

Simple easy cloning: Warming mat, bowl of water larger than a paper plate, styrofoam plate, Aquarium air stone and air pump. Put a bowl of PH adjusted water on the warming mat, drop the air stone in the water, make holes in the plate for the cuttings, get at least 1/2" of the cutting through the bottom of the plate. Float the plate on the bubbling bowl of water. No humidity dome , no nutes or rooting hormones needed. keep the air temps above 70.

That has been the seedling method I've used with best luck so far. I want to get some practice with this method a bit because I will be doing breeding projects later on that will be using many many seedlings, so being able to sprout and manage them in easily moveable, preppable, transplantable pucks like this seemed very useful. I may end up going back to the old methods but if I can nail down this one it'll be easier and better in the long run (for my purposes and growing style/space).

The clone method is interesting, and I'll have to see about running some tests with that. The cloner I have seems to run well, but to your point, I think temperatures are staring to impact it, so a heat mat is a good idea, and I am probably letting too much of the stem stick out from the bottom (2-3" stickout as opposed to 1-1.5").