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what is wrong with these plants
1. 150 watt hps on a 18/6 light cycle 12 inches away from tops
2. my nuts/ferts are at 644 ppm
3. my water level is about 2 gallons with netpots 1 inch submerged
4. water ph is around 6.0
5. these are clones i got from a friend, maybe stress from the drive over???
any help would be great here are some pics to show what they look like
You got air bubbling below pots??
How old are they?
yes air is bubbling below and they are about 12 to 15 day old clones
I honestly don't know much about clones.....do you want to put them in plain ph'd water until they grow roots? I'm honestly not sure.....Sorry I'm not more help. :(
ps....can you define the parameters of "around 6?" Not to be rude but just to make sure we're on the same page.....;)
Why do you think something is wrong with them? They look pretty typical for 15 day clones - to me anyway.
Typically, the clone's mother will be fed only water for the week prior to cutting clones, creating a def (N - I think). This def makes the clone root faster. So, the little bit of red you see is to be expected and you can easily deal with it as you start to feed the plants.
While the clone is struggling to start roots, it needs to eat, so it draws its nutrition from its fan leaves, which die. That's why you have the yellow leaves.
Is there something else that makes you think something is wrong with them?
BTW - I drive clones around all the time. If they are healthy, it doesn't seem to bother them.
PC :smokin:
Howdy Hound. I posted a few pics for you. The clones are cut from the mother plant and then put into ***something*** That something can be a special purpose cube made from bark of some kind, called a rapid rooter, or it can be rockwool or it can be a hydro-rooter with spray or an aero rooter with bubbles or it can be soil or medium.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
Cloning is based on the premise that, if you can keep the cutting alive long enough, it will eventually grow roots. You need to keep a little moisture around the base of the cutting, but a lot of water isn't going to do much good - there's no roots to absorb the water - and in fact too wet can cause rot.
First Pic: If the cutting is kept moist/very humid, it will most likely survive and grow roots. I keep the fresh cutting in a special clone box. It has 3 26w cfl's on a 18/6 cycle, and a small exhaust fan that I seldom use. Inside you can see a tray and dome. The humidity dome is for freshly cut clones, unless they are too big to fit inside. The big ones just go in the box. The plants in the cups were just put in coco yesterday. I'll keep them in this box until they look ready and then I'l put them under the MH's.
I mist the plants in this box 3-4 times or more per day. The temp in the box stays around 89F I alternate mistings between a 1/4 clonex solution and a 1/4 nute solution. The rapid rooters are soaked in a 1/2 clonex solution prior to use. I think rockwool needs an overnight soaking of some special kind.
Next pic. Cuttings taken July 8 - they look healthy but don't have roots yet.
Next Pic: Clones @ 14 days.
Next Pic: Plant at 4 weeks old. This is a White Widow.
I just buried some plants today or I could have shown you some cool root pics. It's really cool how fast the roots grow. One day you'll see a couple tiny roots poking out of the rapid rooter and the next day you'll have a network of roots 2" - 3" long.
PC :smokin:
PC those are beautiful! :thumbsup: Now they don't have the yellow leaves that Sticky's do...
Sticky PC knows much more about cloning than I do so there you go. :)
Sticky - Didn't mean to jack your thread, justy saying high to WeedHound.
If you look at my plants and at your plants, the only difference is mine are a little greener and that's only because I foliar feed my clones. If not for that, they would be eating their fan roots, just like yours are.
PC :thumbsup: