ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
I consider it a personal challenge at this point. So far, I've learned that too wet is bad and so is too many nutes.
Vertical Goodness and Other Batshit Craziness
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ttystikk
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earth worm castings
ttystikk
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Yeah I use those. I might need a fresh batch.
ttystikk
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After months of wondering WTF I was doing wrong, I dumped my old stock solution, replaced it with a freshly mixed batch, made up a fresh res and BOOM! The plants have absolutely exploded in the last several days!
You can see the old leaves with evidence of deficiencies or bad ratios underneath a profusion of new growth - and those old leaves are themselves looking better than they were.
You can see the old leaves with evidence of deficiencies or bad ratios underneath a profusion of new growth - and those old leaves are themselves looking better than they were.
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
Now that plant health is back on track, I need to accelerate the cloning and sexing process and for that I can't keep waiting around for the air layering to take.
Most of the big plants have 4 globes on lower leaves; I'm going to take 3 from each and pop them in my aerocloner in the expectation that they'll finish the process of popping roots faster there, allowing me to get them into a flowering space to determine gender ASAP because I'm starting to run out of vertical space in the nursery!
Most of the big plants have 4 globes on lower leaves; I'm going to take 3 from each and pop them in my aerocloner in the expectation that they'll finish the process of popping roots faster there, allowing me to get them into a flowering space to determine gender ASAP because I'm starting to run out of vertical space in the nursery!
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
How often do people flood their tables? I'm using chow mix for a substrate so I know I can't drown the plants.
I'm using push pin timers with 15 minute increments so each pump runs for 15 minutes a cycle.
The white 3x3 is getting every 4 hours.
The black table with the tall plants is hourly.
I'm using push pin timers with 15 minute increments so each pump runs for 15 minutes a cycle.
The white 3x3 is getting every 4 hours.
The black table with the tall plants is hourly.
last tine i tryed to bubble with a air stone ,i had notimer so 100% fail rot took the bottom off of al of em so i read more seems air stoneruns short time then get air for a couple hrs, then wet again for short time, then repeat , hope my mind remembers right check first ,old skull fails me from time to time!
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
These are ebb n flood tables and the water doesn't need aeration. Flooding and draining drives oxygen into the roots.
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
Because I couldn't afford to wait for my plants to root any longer, I've spent the day cutting the shoots with globes off and putting them in my aerocloner. A mentioned above, I put three from each plant in the cloner and left the fourth one. In a few cases I had less than four, still plenty to see how they do.
When opening up the globes, I found at least 2 out of 28 had roots. If I had left them alone I'm sure they would have been successful in their own. So I'm gonna call that a win! Now I'll play with the variables and optimize.
Meanwhile, nearly all the rest had good calluses and look about ready to set roots. The cloner will finish the job.
I'll be doing it again with the next baker's dozen coming up!
When opening up the globes, I found at least 2 out of 28 had roots. If I had left them alone I'm sure they would have been successful in their own. So I'm gonna call that a win! Now I'll play with the variables and optimize.
Meanwhile, nearly all the rest had good calluses and look about ready to set roots. The cloner will finish the job.
I'll be doing it again with the next baker's dozen coming up!
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
Here's a pic of those formerly air layered branches now chillin' in the cloner. The one in the cup on the left has enough roots to try sticking it in substrate- so I did!
Notice the sizes are all over the place. I still think air layering has real promise and so I'm gonna keep at it. One potential advantage is the size of the new plant; if I can make them that big reliably I can cut a month out of the cutting to cropping cycle!
Notice the sizes are all over the place. I still think air layering has real promise and so I'm gonna keep at it. One potential advantage is the size of the new plant; if I can make them that big reliably I can cut a month out of the cutting to cropping cycle!
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
Using lessons learned, I'm repeating the air layering experiment;
A close look will reveal hormone powder on freshly scraped stems wetted with dip n grow. The globes have Coco mix that's damp but not wet.
Give them a few weeks and we'll see what we have!
The potential for creating much larger rooted cuttings through air layering offers the possibility that I can cut the veg time by a month or longer.
A close look will reveal hormone powder on freshly scraped stems wetted with dip n grow. The globes have Coco mix that's damp but not wet.
Give them a few weeks and we'll see what we have!
The potential for creating much larger rooted cuttings through air layering offers the possibility that I can cut the veg time by a month or longer.
Tvanmunhen
Just some dude
I have not had a single seed of his not pop yet. I really enjoy The smoke ae well hopefully you get some tasty ones.
ttystikk
Nerd Gone Vertical
Thanks for the heads up!
i had no problems with joebuds ,beans sprouting or growing, none have duded out
ttystikk
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They're all feminized too?
i do not remeber any males in that end of the tent, @ the time i had plants from 4 different gromies going ,too many to really pay attention to just 4 plants won't grow that many again ,too many problems with enviroment