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").

 

[Biosystem]

WEEK 4 OF FLOWER
Zamaldelica by ACE Seeds

Things are going pretty well. The females are coming along nicely and reacting to the LST with great vigor.

The males are doing okay. The light is proving to be a bit much for them so I moved it up AGAIN.

More fertilizer to be added to the soil soon. Things are going good, y'all. Just checkin' in.

 

[Biosystem]

Odds and ends with cloning Zammies and sprouting Event Horizon. Those totes have a bunch of scraps and such buried at the bottom. Worms have been added, and cover crop seed has been spread to begin fostering more microbial life.

 

[gedLang]

Looking good! A lot of beautiful green. That top plant in the first picture has some crazy clawing going on.

It looks like you are cloning from plants in flower - is that any more difficult than from veg? I have not tried doing that.

 

[Biosystem]

Looking good! A lot of beautiful green. That top plant in the first picture has some crazy clawing going on.

It looks like you are cloning from plants in flower - is that any more difficult than from veg? I have not tried doing that.

Yes, indeedy. Those are the sts reversed plants in a separate tent. I suspect the light is agitating them greatly in there, or perhaps it is the STS. I don't know, I have never selfed a plant before this, nor have I used this tent.

As to flowering clones, I just take them and root them when I prune the suckers that sprout during the flip to flower. I seem to have the same success rate with them as I do in veg. Personally I like veg clones more because you can control the number of branches you have WAY more easily, and the plant doesn't waste a ton of energy throwing bract material on the site where it was flowering before (even if it's in the damn shade).