So here we go... I took 9 WW cuttings from my mom plant and am hoping to get a nice little SoG going... I went with soil, as I can not keep my water temps low enough for hydro, especially in summer. Here goes!
Clones after about a week - they were initially in soil, and after taking a bad spill, dropping the tray and scattering them, I decided to move them to rockwool. This was right after moving them, they had already begun to eat themselves pretty good. I flipped the rockwool cubes upside down and trimmed them a little before planting the clones to give the roots a wee bit more room to develop in.
Rooted clones after about 3 weeks - success rate, 9 out of 9! Looks like the spill didn't hurt them one bit! I discarded the one with the least roots as I only have room for 8. It's such an awesome feeling to get up in the morning, check on them, and see they've finally rooted! I left them a few more days in the cubes and humidity dome to let the ones that hadn't rooted yet catch up a little. One thing that I did when taking the clones was scratch the base of the cutting's stem with a knife a little to remove a bit of the green skin before dipping them in the rooting gel. Exposing more of the plant's stem to the hormone seems to have helped.
Then I transplanted them into 6" square pots where I hope to flower them to the end. This was day 1, right after the transplant, I gave them 24hrs under 6500k bulbs to settle in before flipping. I also gave the soil a good flush with tap water to try and remove most of the nutes that it came with as I was afraid it might burn them.
And here we are today, day 8 of flowering, lots of beautiful growth! The ones on the left (particularly far left) seems a little bothered by the fan, but I have no choice as space is very limited. I only fed once so far, plain 24hr tap water with some B1 & Bcuzz root stimulator. I think I'm gonna feed them grow nutes for a few weeks before switching to flower. Next feed will probably see them get 4-500ppm or so, knowing my tap water carries 150ppm.
I'm a little worried the 6" pots might be too small to finish them in and that they might get root bound... I'm not sure how tall they will grow, either... time will tell!
that's it for now!
Clones after about a week - they were initially in soil, and after taking a bad spill, dropping the tray and scattering them, I decided to move them to rockwool. This was right after moving them, they had already begun to eat themselves pretty good. I flipped the rockwool cubes upside down and trimmed them a little before planting the clones to give the roots a wee bit more room to develop in.
Rooted clones after about 3 weeks - success rate, 9 out of 9! Looks like the spill didn't hurt them one bit! I discarded the one with the least roots as I only have room for 8. It's such an awesome feeling to get up in the morning, check on them, and see they've finally rooted! I left them a few more days in the cubes and humidity dome to let the ones that hadn't rooted yet catch up a little. One thing that I did when taking the clones was scratch the base of the cutting's stem with a knife a little to remove a bit of the green skin before dipping them in the rooting gel. Exposing more of the plant's stem to the hormone seems to have helped.
Then I transplanted them into 6" square pots where I hope to flower them to the end. This was day 1, right after the transplant, I gave them 24hrs under 6500k bulbs to settle in before flipping. I also gave the soil a good flush with tap water to try and remove most of the nutes that it came with as I was afraid it might burn them.
And here we are today, day 8 of flowering, lots of beautiful growth! The ones on the left (particularly far left) seems a little bothered by the fan, but I have no choice as space is very limited. I only fed once so far, plain 24hr tap water with some B1 & Bcuzz root stimulator. I think I'm gonna feed them grow nutes for a few weeks before switching to flower. Next feed will probably see them get 4-500ppm or so, knowing my tap water carries 150ppm.
I'm a little worried the 6" pots might be too small to finish them in and that they might get root bound... I'm not sure how tall they will grow, either... time will tell!
that's it for now!
They look nice and healthy though. I hope they stay that way, you must have good tap water.
