Raising Jock Horror Clones

[DutchDude]

New grow - new thread. More so for my own documentation, because in comparison to my first grow, there don't seem to be too many cheerleaders here anymore

Anyway, here it goes! I'll start by using the AeroGarden (awesome!), then graduate the clones to the 4x2x5 grow tent in Pamelina Autopots with an automatic watering system. See my last grow for more details on all of that.

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[DutchDude]

Took 4 clones on July 20th. Dipped them in Clonex rooting gel, and Hormex rooting power, cut some empty AeroGarden plugs length-wise, then covered them with misted cups. I have been misting them once a day, and they are still perky 3 days later. They are under a 19/5 light cycle.

I cut the bottom out of a storage box, and place it over the AeroGarden - move on, nothing to see here folks!

 

[DutchDude]

Got me some roots! I sprayed them daily, and on the fourth day I put the edge of the cup on the rim, in order to let in some ventilation. On the 29th of July, one of the clones is showing the first roots, and I took it's dome away completely.

 

[DutchDude]

August 3rd, the roots are really growing on two of the four cuttings. No sign of roots on the other two, so they were terminated.

The roots are easily 12" long now, so theoretically I could put them in a pot. But, I am not going to. I was so impressed by the AeroGarden the first time around that I will keep, and train them, right in there for another 6 weeks. Let the flowering plants are at the end of week 4, and will be harvested at the end of week 10.

The clones were deliberately taken at the end of week 2 of flower and is called Monster Cropping. "The premise is that after the flowering clone reverts back to the vegetative state, the resulting plant will grow extremely bushy. They will form tons of nodes and side branches. Lots of side branches mean lots of buds exposed to direct light. High yields are the direct consequence of homogeneous light distribution to a high number of buds."

Anyway, here are the clones, two weeks after cutting:

 

[DutchDude]

August 15th: The clones are growing to fast! Nice and bushy! Probably because of the clones being taken during the flower stage. I thought that they would take a bit longer to recover, and switch back to veg, but it looks like they are way happy. I don't think that I mentioned this before, but I topped each plant once on 8/8. These pictures are from 8/12, three weeks after taking the cuttings. These are AFTER taking 6-8 of the largest leaves off each plant!

 

[DutchDude]

August 20th: They are very bushy, and between 8" and 10" tall. I probably should have done another round of topping last week, but I plan to do some more topping and cleaning off large leaves later tonight. Those bottom leaves are looking soft, and droopy, but the new growth looks awesome. I am really getting to a dilemma. I don't know if I can keep them under this box for another 4 weeks! That is what the current flowering plants need to finish, and make room for the next generation.

 

[DutchDude]

August 27th: Even more bushy and dense after week 5 of the cutting. This is ridiculously simple. It tells you when to add water, and when to add a cap of their nutrients. I just follow it, and lift the box once per day for fresh air.

 

[DutchDude]

September 3rd: The cuttings are 6 weeks old now, only growing horizontally. They have stopped growing vertically because I have not raised the light . These are by far the healthiest clones that I have had - with the least amount of effort. Perhaps that tells you something about me. . .

 

[DutchDude]

September 10th: The cuttings are 7 weeks old, and I guess will be transferred to the big pots this Sunday after the big plants are cut down. I will put them into flowering immediately, and take cuttings again after three weeks. Does this now qualify now as perpetual growing?

 

[DutchDude]

September 17th: The cuttings from the cloner have found a newly sanitized home, now that their parents have moved on to the drying closet. Yes, I bend over some of the taller shoots on the left one. The pictures look a bit purple because the lights have not been on very long at this point.

Left one:

Right one:

 

[DutchDude]

October 1st: It looks like we have flowers! It is always good to see that plants listen to my forced light cycle, right?

Come on - this is beautiful, right?

 

[DutchDude]

October 15th: Nice progress on the flowers. The water container take 5 gallons per week, pretty easy

 

[DutchDude]

October 30th: Still looking great! This is after the 6th of the 12/12 flip, so another month to go? Probably time to trim off some of the larger leaves, and the bottom.

 

[LEDXpert]

Could you scrog that whole area bend everything out to fill in for so there's nodes in the whole rectangle?

 

[DutchDude]

Could you scrog that whole area bend everything out to fill in for so there's nodes in the whole rectangle?

Not a bad idea at all - they are a bit compacted in there, aren't they? That would give them a bit more light per node.

 

[LEDXpert]

Yeah. Might be too late now

 

[DutchDude]

Nov 10th update. Week 8 of flower. I did put up two 2'x2' motorcycle helmet nettings. Seems to work alright.

 

[DutchDude]

Nov 18th. When cleaning up the plants, I took away a lesson for the next grow. Don't cheap out on that extra bag of perlite! It is much easier to manage the plant when the top of the media is even with the top of the pot. Especially since I took these cuttings from when the plants were already in flower. This resulted in a much more dense and short plant than either growing them from seed, or taking the cuttings while in vegetative state.

So, I was going to be done with this strain for a bit, and try something else from seed - until my wife protested, and wanted another harvest of Jock Horror. Well. . . they are in week 8 - and I have NO idea if they will still root, and re-veg. But, I will give it a try honey . So, I took 6 cuttings from the bottom part of the left plant, put them in the AeroGarden, and we will see.

BTW - this is an update picture from today. Lesson to be learned? If plant don't have roots, don't forget to mist them at least once a day!!! With the Thanksgiving days, I don't recall if I forgot them one, or two days. . . But they are weeds right? They will bounce back

 

[DutchDude]

Nov 25th. After 9 or 10 weeks of flower (do I count from pistels appearing, or from start of 12/12???). Anyway, I am calling her done. I disconnected their water supply, and turned the lights off. Wednesday I will cut them down.

Left plant:

Right plant:

Frosty

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

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