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[Colby Rohrig]

Should i plant it in its final container ? Or stick it in the dwc cloner i made first ?

 

[MochaBud]

Welcome Colby

Should i plant it in its final container ? Or stick it in the dwc cloner i made first ?

Depends, what does "IT" looks like...hopefully not Stephen Kings "IT"

 

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[Colby Rohrig]

Yah i went ahead and stuck the bean in the rockwool cube and am i to under stand the seedling dosent go in the system untill the roots reach the water ?

 

[Colby Rohrig]

I soaked the cube with a 1/5 strength gh flora nova ... This is what im supposed to do yah ?

 

[startergrow]

Is that the world's biggest rockwool cube?

I usually give the seed a 24 hour soak in water and then in a paper towel until the root comes out of the seed.

Once the small root appears I put it in a 2" cube of rockwool. I like to keep the rockwool damp by fitting it one of the slots of a homemade cloner, kind of like the real one you have there.

When the seedling has sprouted and roots have broken out from the bottom of the rockwool I remove it from the cube to the final net and bucket with those clay balls. Until the roots really grow I keep the bucket water high and watch the seedling, pouring a little water on it once and awhile until the roots hit the water.

Not sure your situation exactly but I'd get the seed in a small rockwool cube. The rockwool can get too wet and kill the seed so watch it and keep it damp and let it dry a little if it's soaked.

Once you see a sprout and some leaves and some roots poking out of the cube you know it's on its way and can be put in you DWC.

Personally I wouldn't use any nutrients until the first two starter leaves are gone and there is some real leaves.

 

[Colby Rohrig]

Is that the world's biggest rockwool cube?

I usually give the seed a 24 hour soak in water and then in a paper towel until the root comes out of the seed.

Once the small root appears I put it in a 2" cube of rockwool. I like to keep the rockwool damp by fitting it one of the slots of a homemade cloner, kind of like the real one you have there.

When the seedling has sprouted and roots have broken out from the bottom of the rockwool I remove it from the cube to the final net and bucket with those clay balls. Until the roots really grow I keep the bucket water high and watch the seedling, pouring a little water on it once and awhile until the roots hit the water.

Not sure your situation exactly but I'd get the seed in a small rockwool cube. The rockwool can get too wet and kill the seed so watch it and keep it damp and let it dry a little if it's soaked.

Once you see a sprout and some leaves and some roots poking out of the cube you know it's on its way and can be put in you DWC.

Personally I wouldn't use any nutrients until the first two starter leaves are gone and there is some real leaves.

Hey my "real"cloner i made my self i just attacked a lil rubermaid container with a 2" 1/8" hole saw and made the notch for the airline by using the side of a 1/4" drill bit and melted the plastic with a small torch and pressed down to ges a good fit and seal cost was like 30 bucks for everything nice big disk airstone too and the w"worlds biggest cube is for a 12" net pot lol.and i literaly put like 3or 4 drops of gh flora nova in 2 l bottled water and a smidge of root hormone basicaly the residue on the underside of the cap

 

[Enjoil]

You don’t need the bucket with that cube, put it on a gro-slab... well that’s what I would do. And do your dwc with known killer female clones.... then you know what to expect... or have an idea anyways.

 

[Colby Rohrig]

Hey my "real"cloner i made my self i just attacked a lil rubermaid container with a 2" 1/8" hole saw and made the notch for the airline by using the side of a 1/4" drill bit and melted the plastic with a small torch and pressed down to ges a good fit and seal cost was like 30 bucks for everything nice big disk airstone too and the w"worlds biggest cube is for a 12" net pot lol.and i literaly put like 3or 4 drops of gh flora nova in 2 l bottled water and a smidge of root hormone basicaly the residue on the underside of the cap

I also got a small pond pump that comes with these 2 diff sprayer heads for diff effect for water feature in a pond do you know what im talking about ? The up side down cone shape spray or an arching stream im assuming from the look of it but i wanna put that in my cloner or build a rail with sprayers

You don’t need the bucket with that cube, put it on a gro-slab... well that’s what I would do. And do your dwc with known killer female clones.... then you know what to expect... or have an idea anyways.

Ima gave to google grow slab

 

[Colby Rohrig]

Hey my "real"cloner i made my self i just attacked a lil rubermaid container with a 2" 1/8" hole saw and made the notch for the airline by using the side of a 1/4" drill bit and melted the plastic with a small torch and pressed down to ges a good fit and seal cost was like 30 bucks for everything nice big disk airstone too and the w"worlds biggest cube is for a 12" net pot lol.and i literaly put like 3or 4 drops of gh flora nova in 2 l bottled water and a smidge of root hormone basicaly the residue on the underside of the cap

I also got a small pond pump that comes with these 2 diff sprayer heads for diff effect for water feature in a pond do you know what im talking about ? The up side down cone shape spray or an arching stream im assuming from the look of it but i wanna put that in my cloner or build a rail with sprayers

 

[Colby Rohrig]

Should i plant it in its final container ? Or stick it in the dwc cloner i made first ?

 

[Enjoil]

I like cloning in coco. I’m lazy bro. I just dip, stick, spray, and wait ten days for roots to grow then transplant.

 

[Enjoil]

Isn’t it a seedling? Why you putting it in a ez-cloner?

 

[Enjoil]

You for real got some time to get the slab... it’s going to take a minute to fill that big cube with roots. I say do both dwc and rock wool. You can use the same solution and see what you like better. You need more beans? I got a few if you are desperate for good genetics...

 

[bluter]

Yah i went ahead and stuck the bean in the rockwool cube and am i to under stand the seedling dosent go in the system untill the roots reach the water ?

way too large a cube for that. seeding direct in to a cube that large is a good recipe for damping off. rockwool is literally a 70's - 80's tech. as mentioned before it has gone from a dwc media to a slab or direct injection approach.

in the 80's i would go from a smaller cube to germinate, direct in to hydroton pebbles for dwc. ( or lava rock in real early grows ) stem rot could be an issue with the bigger cubes, so i only did two grows with them as the main media.

 

[Colby Rohrig]

K ill ditch the big cube tks im trying to avoid stufflike that obv

 

[Colby Rohrig]

For the hydroton. Do i use a neoprene collar still ?

 

[bluter]

if you are doing dwc you can get smaller cubes to germinate with, then just transplant the cube in to hydroton. the hydroton rests in a basket.

 

[Colby Rohrig]

Allrighty so just to confirm nuthing but hydroton and the little cube i germinate in ?

 

[bluter]

that little system you have in the first pic you posted is just for starting clones. it won't finish a plant.

Allrighty so just to confirm nuthing but hydroton and the little cube i germinate in ?

yes. from there in to the larger dwc bucket you posted.