The Lab: Perpetual Experimentation

[The Physicist]

All of The Victims were watered this morning. Everything is looking pretty happy so far, Blue Dream just finished week 2 from clone. The Roze is just growing straight up not much outward branching

 

[The Physicist]

It does, certainly for heastash you have more variability in smaller spaces easier to optimize. But for larger grows there has to be a certain optimal point for mass production and max profits

 

[The Physicist]

Going to be topping all the plants that will hits two week mark on Friday and start the first cloning comparison run! This will be done multiple time for various strains comparing one strain or many strains each test.

 

[The Physicist]

Does anyone have any bro-science cloning myths they would like debunked or tested? Let me know! We don’t want to miss trying something new!

 

[Pennywise]

Yes cutting leaves in half.

 

[The Physicist]

I’ve always wanted to try that too! Recently I’ve gotten clones with and without it and seen no difference in starting veg, albeit the surface area difference with less than 7% id say.

Okay that one can be done in this first run i think. Im excited for that one for sure

 

[Pennywise]

I’ve heard people swear by both methods. I don’t cut my leaves personally. I live by the less is more philosophy. The less I screw around with plants the better they are.

 

[The Physicist]

Going to be posting a a review of cloning biology and some history before experimentation. Whats the point in experimenting without the research first!

 

[The Physicist]

I’ve heard people swear by both methods. I don’t cut my leaves personally. I live by the less is more philosophy. The less I screw around with plants the better they are.

Indeed I’ve seen some videos where people require it and some who, like you said, say dont fuck with the plants haha

 

[Pennywise]

Cloning has been a part of horticulture for a long time. Should be lots of papers done on the subject.

 

[The Physicist]

There is! But not a collective review like that large scale production review paper. It dates back to the Romans actually and when people were grafting plants together to hybridize fruits. Absolutely fascinating history in my opinion. I wonder if anyone has attemped to graft cannabis strains together for easier hybridization and no need for seeds?

 

[Pennywise]

@Light Addict and others have grafted cannabis I’m not sure how commercially viable it is with cannabis being an annual.

 

[The Physicist]

Oooo well this is something I definitely want to try out. Would be very interesting to have two or three strains growing on one plant

 

[Pennywise]

Use 420 search, maybe grafting. @Light Addict is the grower.

 

[The Physicist]

Im waaaaay deep down in the rabbit hole on the biology of cloning from auxin regulation to light intensity to carbohydrate and starch usage from photosynthetic regulation... we going real deep

 

[The Physicist]

I think im going to have to get a few more cloning stations for environment control factors. There is way to much to test with one dome.

 

[Pennywise]

Yes it will take a lot of testing given the amount of variability between different lineages and Phenotypes.

 

[The Physicist]

Well strain variation will have less impact than environment and chemistry certainly, I do have a good variety of indicas/hybrids/sativas to test. I do need a pure pure pure sativa though still

 

[Pennywise]

Some strains are notoriously difficult to clone and/or reverse.

 

[The Physicist]

Interesting definitely, but maybe they just need a tweak to their biochemistry to make them easier..?