Wow!!Funny you say that on those last cuttings I took ,I cut a couple of the right at a shade leaf and left the shade leaf connected by 2mm of material and even the shade leaf grew healthy roots
Awesome. Are they ready to transplant in 10-12 days?
Lol. No. Just starting to root. I usually let them go 3-4 weeks as I like to have the roots better established before I move them. I usually do 5-10 cuttings in a solo cup, but I take them pretty small.
I've tried a bunch of those and had pretty mixed results against a control I ran concurrently. I started a cloning thread with a bunch of Jadam potions, but in the end I ended up with the process linked in my signature.
Thanks, Azi. I will try to check your thread.
Ahh, ok. They said honey and cinnamon are anti-microbial, so they tend to counteract dampening off, but they have no rooting hormone at all.
I wrote to ask Dude.
Yeah. Emmers said that she stopped using teas, because you cannot measure anything precisely.
Good to know.
I'm very much with you on this. Yes, seeds are a good thing. The more we can be successful at producing our own seed, the better.
It's really a strange dilemma. The seeds and the oil are awesome nutrition, but to get enough, you need acres of hemp plants. Those are typically male/female, or hermie. The pollen is going everywhere for miles.
Good question. I'm not familiar with tomatoes this way, but after some very brief googling, I see that heirloom tomatoes are open pollinated, whereas other ones are self-pollinating. So, I'll guess that you could select for best looking plants and fruits by growing open-pollinated heirlooms and collecting and planting their seeds. They are getting cross-pollinated from other plants in the area.
I'd say that's on the cool side, year round, for cannabis. Which means growing indoors or in a greenhouse that will add some heat. Indicas are more adapted to cold climates. I'd say autos as well, maybe, because the wild ruderalis comes from cold climates.
Open pollinated heirloom tomatoes, I think, yes, if there's pollen coming in from surrounding adapted tomatoes. Otherwise, best to get your hands on some local tomato seeds. Adapting cannabis... much more complicated. For autos, even more complicated. The direct route is to get either regular or feminized photos, grow them out, select the best phenos, and clone. Beyond that, collect pollen from your males and pollinate the females (regular or feminized females). Etc.
I'm saying that sativas are often known for being mold resistant, and the reason is the terpene profiles. Specifically, it looks like terpinolene dominant strains offer the best natural resistance to bud rot. Those strains tend to be high in the "pine terpenes," as opposed to the non-pine terpenes. Another factor is the overall amount of terpenes in the flower, meaning high resin production correlates to fungus/mold resistance. That's what I'm seeing.
I wonder if the seed is available from other sellers. I haven't checked.
You've got such a science experiment going with your mix of inputs that who knows? Like most other things cannabis, start low and go slow.
If your only concern is not killing microbes, feel free to go with locally available synthetic nutes from start to finish. I'm not sure how many synthetics (like the bag above) you can add to an organic grow before you lose the "organic" flavor you seek. Only in veg? Only in flower? 50% in flower? Seems like an unknown to me.
I would start at the 1:60 and see how it reacts. You'll probably have some K in other things you are giving it as well so that's why I say it's a bit of a science experiment as you really have no idea of how much of different inputs you're already giving it.Right. But I was looking for the dose limits.
Methinks I may have found it.
>> "Most of the plant based Jadam extracts are a minimum of 1:25 dilution into water for feeding your plants."
>> "Banana Jadam Tea
3 banana peels,
1 Tablespoon worm castings
1 liter of water
Age three weeks anaerobically.
Directions:
1 L = 34 oz
2 Tbl = 1 oz
3 Tsp = 1Tbl
6 Tsp = 1 oz
so....,
2 Tablespoon/6 tsp/Liter = 1:34 (or 2 Tbl = 1:34)
1 Tablespoon/3 tsp/Liter = 1:68 (or 1 Tbl = 1:68)
So start at 1:68 and then move it toward 1:34??
And then look for signs of K burn??
Umm... I know what K deficiency looks like...
But what does K burn (or toxicity) look like??
And, there's always "reversing," which means put some chemical on the female plant and it will produce male flowers and pollen. This way, you can even get pollen from feminized plants. The resulting seeds will also be feminized. Colloidal silver will work, which isn't necessarily a difficult substance to obtain. You can even make your own colloidal silver, given the right setup. It involves running a DC current through pure silver suspended in distilled water. Some people also swear by colloidal silver taken internally to knock out various pathogens.
You will have to ask yourself "why would the gel be toxic"? So far I have not seen any warning on the label of either a powdered or gel rooting product indicating that it is toxic. Only the usual caution that to wash hands after use is buried at the very end of the label which has to be taken apart to get to that statement.
INDOLE-3-BUTYRIC ACID is toxic. You wouldn't want to leave it on your skin, get it in your eyes, and you definitely wouldn't want to eat the stuff.
Me, too. I do not know too much, and I am trying to learn my way, but I have always been told that feeding the soil is better for the soil, and that it costs more, but that it produces healthier, tastier, more nutritious plants. (But maybe that is wrong??)
