MangueBeat
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Hello growers! My English is bad so please forgive me for any typos or wrong terms, so please correct me if necessary.
I recently pruned a Super Lemon Haze and decided to do something with the apical bud. I buried the little bit of stem I had (approximately 1cm) and basically made a mini-clone, a kind of micropropagation but in a more "roots" way, without anything sterilized, without glass jars or anything like that, without a dome, without gel or rooting powder or anything like that, using collected rainwater, really hardcore way. This is one of those things that we do just for the pleasure of the experience, and it has been nice to follow the development of this little thing, which I believe is one of, if not the smallest, Cannabis cuttings in the world! Today marks 24 days since I put the lil cutting in a mixture of old soil from a small pot that was standing still with a little sand. The apical bud is still alive and developing slowly but progressively. I'm sharing with you the photos from the first day until now, and I'll update the post regardless of whether the experiment fails or not.
It all started when I ripped off the head of the SLH, notice that there is basically no stem:
I cleaned the larger leaves and left only the apical/terminal bud:
Note the size on the day of planting, this is day 1:
Day 1
I honestly thought she would wither away overnight, but she stayed alive... and on the third day she looked like this:
Day 3
I used a spray bottle to moisten the soil, and every day I sprayed it at least 2 or 3 times lightly with the spray bottle, keeping it in the first few days with only low light inside the house under a simple kitchen light.
On day 4 I took some more photos, with a 4x zoom:
Day 4
I took this photo on the 7th, on this day I sprayed the plant and the soil with well diluted FAA (fish amino acid), I used the Bic lighter to have a scale of size, the bud is really small, and its strength in staying alive is remarkable!
Day 7
Until the 9th there wasn't much news, but if you compare it to the 1st, you can see that something is changing around here:
Day 9
Below are photos from the 11th and 12th day, which was when I began to notice some development of both the central bud and the tiny lateral leaves:
Day 11
Day 12
And we continue...
I recently pruned a Super Lemon Haze and decided to do something with the apical bud. I buried the little bit of stem I had (approximately 1cm) and basically made a mini-clone, a kind of micropropagation but in a more "roots" way, without anything sterilized, without glass jars or anything like that, without a dome, without gel or rooting powder or anything like that, using collected rainwater, really hardcore way. This is one of those things that we do just for the pleasure of the experience, and it has been nice to follow the development of this little thing, which I believe is one of, if not the smallest, Cannabis cuttings in the world! Today marks 24 days since I put the lil cutting in a mixture of old soil from a small pot that was standing still with a little sand. The apical bud is still alive and developing slowly but progressively. I'm sharing with you the photos from the first day until now, and I'll update the post regardless of whether the experiment fails or not.
It all started when I ripped off the head of the SLH, notice that there is basically no stem:
I cleaned the larger leaves and left only the apical/terminal bud:
Note the size on the day of planting, this is day 1:
Day 1
I honestly thought she would wither away overnight, but she stayed alive... and on the third day she looked like this:
Day 3
I used a spray bottle to moisten the soil, and every day I sprayed it at least 2 or 3 times lightly with the spray bottle, keeping it in the first few days with only low light inside the house under a simple kitchen light.
On day 4 I took some more photos, with a 4x zoom:
Day 4
I took this photo on the 7th, on this day I sprayed the plant and the soil with well diluted FAA (fish amino acid), I used the Bic lighter to have a scale of size, the bud is really small, and its strength in staying alive is remarkable!
Day 7
Until the 9th there wasn't much news, but if you compare it to the 1st, you can see that something is changing around here:
Day 9
Below are photos from the 11th and 12th day, which was when I began to notice some development of both the central bud and the tiny lateral leaves:
Day 11
Day 12
And we continue...
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will continue to watch a wonderful thread
