Indie Grower's First Ever Grow In Closet: White Widow Auto In Regular Garden Soil, 50W LED Bulb, Advice Always Appreciated

[Emilya Green]

to follow up a bit, when you cut your branch, before putting in the cloner, cut the end at a 45° angle and then slit that trunk a couple of mm from the end. Then take your knife and gently scrape the first layer of outer skin of that trunk, just on one side, for an inch or so from that bottom slit.
Then cut each leaf (except the very top growth tip) right in half. This will stop transpiration and the need to have roots. The bubble cloner is good about providing humidity to keep the cuttings alive, but I also mist them down twice a day, but I do not cover it in a humidity dome. You should be able to see some good explanatory pictures in my DIY thread.

 

[Indie Grower]

to follow up a bit, when you cut your branch, before putting in the cloner, cut the end at a 45° angle and then slit that trunk a couple of mm from the end. Then take your knife and gently scrape the first layer of outer skin of that trunk, just on one side, for an inch or so from that bottom slit.
Then cut each leaf (except the very top growth tip) right in half. This will stop transpiration and the need to have roots. The bubble cloner is good about providing humidity to keep the cuttings alive, but I also mist them down twice a day, but I do not cover it in a humidity dome. You should be able to see some good explanatory pictures in my DIY thread.

I hope this will not stress the main plant.

 

[Emilya Green]

no more than what it picks up from you as you stress about the plant... have you ever seen the experiment where a plant on a lie detector can be seen reacting to a researcher who simply thinks about burning the plant?

 

[Indie Grower]

So today after long, I took my growing lady out and prepped her for a photoshoot. Little I know about photography but she's looking incredibly beautiful in these photos.

 

[Indie Grower]

This lady has been doing well, buds are small right now in comparison with regular grows, but I am sure she's working hard to swell them bigger. Also have noticed that she drinks her water too slowly as her pot feels quite heavy and it's been over a week since I fed her last. But she looks happy and have a constant growth.

The project DIY cloner is in process! My mom has lost 2 of her Tupperware boxes to this project and now she stares me with anger whenever I am around her stuff. But I won't kill the curious in me and will work on it tomorrow. In the meantime, I am thinking of putting one clone in the coco-soil mix, I have seen people getting success. Also the internet is flooded with thoughts over cloning an auto and how tough it is to put the plant back to veg as this clone will follow its seed to harvest timeline and it is in flowering right now. Little knowledge over this subject will be appreciated, to clone or not to clone is secondary but I really want to understand it.

@Emilya @AngryBird @Orlando Scout

P.S. Mine is an auto

 

[Emilya Green]

You can't clone an auto because the clone is actually the same age as the mother. As soon as the clone developed roots, even at 3 inches of height, it would immediately go into flower.

 

[Orlando Scout]

I completely agree with @Emilya

 

[AngryBird]

Same here.
No auto cloning.

 

[Indie Grower]

You can't clone an auto because the clone is actually the same age as the mother. As soon as the clone developed roots, even at 3 inches of height, it would immediately go into flower.

I thought so! I will be ordering seeds then. I believe Bliss will take at least a month more to mature and I want to be ready with a plant when I harvest her.

 

[Indie Grower]

Bliss has been flowering since a month and close to 30-35% of her pistils have turned brown and orange. Little knowledge over when to harvest will be appreciated!

Also anything I can do to help her to grow bigger, denser and frostier buds at this stage. People have been recommending to add sugar or flushing the plant little before harvesting and many other stuff.

And @Emilya Congratulations!

 

[Emilya Green]

Bliss has been flowering since a month and close to 30-35% of her pistils have turned brown and orange. Little knowledge over when to harvest will be appreciated!

Also anything I can do to help her to grow bigger, denser and frostier buds at this stage. People have been recommending to add sugar or flushing the plant little before harvesting and many other stuff.

And @Emilya Congratulations!

The pistils turn colors... that is what flowers do to attract bugs that can pollinate them. The color of the pistils means very little as to the ripeness of the bud and you can be pretty well assured that as long as you have white pistils on top of the buds, they are still in full flower and not ready for harvest. The true indicator is the trichomes, and the people who know will advise you to wait to harvest when 5-20% of the trichomes go from clear, to cloudy and finally to amber in color. Flushing is done to remove salt from the soil that is a result of all the nutes you are giving. I find that a flush is important right at the point the buds do their final swell, at approximately 2 weeks before harvest. This allows the roots to uptake the maximum amount of water, giving fuel for the doubling of the weight of those buds in that last 2 weeks, a period known as budswell. At this stage, the 3 weeks before budswell is the time to really push the plants hard, giving maximum recommended nutes and as much water as they can take. Many people add molasses to their watering regime at this point, adding fuel for the microlife, sugars for the plant and some added magnesium. I have found a distinct taste difference in the end product if this molasses and nutes are not given in that last 2 weeks. If you have done everything right to this point, the plant has all it needs to finish out, and you really want the plant to start cannibalize itself toward the end, using up everything it has stored and putting its all into finishing out those buds. Some people will say that final flush is not necessary and that the practices that I describe do not change the amount of nutes left in the bud at the end, but my connoisseur palate says otherwise. Since there is so much competing info out there, with people arguing over the points discussed in this message, it is going to be up to you to experiment to see what you personally think. Everyone must develop their own growing style. Question everything, test what you can. - Wee'zard

 

[Emilya Green]

And @Emilya Congratulations!

I am confused... did I win something?

 

[Mikesem420]

Terpinator!

 

[Indie Grower]

I am confused... did I win something?

You won a legal status!

 

[Emilya Green]

You won a legal status!

ahh... yes we did! It's sort of hard to tell just yet... none of the paperwork is available yet to be able to sign up for any of the programs. It will start getting sorted out starting in June, and they expect the first sales to happen by the end of the year. There are still a lot of problems left to get sorted, but we are getting there!

 

[Indie Grower]

Terpinator!

I really wanted to use it but unfortunately the product is not available here in my local market. I will have to order it from outside and they take ages to deliver.

 

[Mikesem420]

That's a bummer maybe amazon? good luck I'm trying to find the secret sauce myself I think terpinator and rock resinator are the 2 big ones but there sooo many different things you can do with soil to grow some fire..

So far the terpinator is working good from what I see in my own grow the rock resinator is a little more expensive but supposedly gives great results but I havent used it yet so idkk.

 

[AngryBird]

Problem is that when you live in an illegal country or a Country far away, there is not always a delivery to that country or customs confiscate it.

 

[Indie Grower]

Problem is that when you live in an illegal country or a Country far away, there is not always a delivery to that country or customs confiscate it.

That's true! But soon I am shifting from here to a country where things are legal.

 

[Indie Grower]

Well, she's showing some exciting progress! Not just she's frosting and thickening her buds, also she has started developing buds on stunted grow tips! I was planning to clone them and I am glad I didn't.

Well, now I see a lot of infected fan leaves which are half green and half burnt and are looking awful. Should I remove them or let them fall on their own?