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A while ago I ordered brainstorm seeds (haze x northern lights #5) and I've had some serious germination problems for reason I can't quite figure out. I had no problem producing a taproot by using my usual methods (in darkness soaking in a cup of water then to a dvd case layered with wet napkins) however my real issue was actually having the seeds pop from the dirt. After I had planted them for days nothing happened and I became concerned. I'd like to point out I've done this before with about 90 percent germination almost always. I tried helping them by moving some of the top soil out of the way and things like that but it didn't help much. Only 2 of the 7 seeds that had been planted popped healthy seedlings (which are just beginning their 3 fingered leaves). The other couple that did eventually sprout all had extremely minimal growth, most like stunted too. By the way the temperature has been maintained at 84 degrees 24/7.I've pretty much lost all hope for the other seeds and only have 2 healthy seedlings and one seed.
I was planning to have 10 plants this summer which means including the one seed and the seedlings i would need to have 7 clones, which is about 3 per each of the seedlings I have already. How do you know when a plant is ready to be cloned? Is there a specific height or structure thats necessary for proper cloning?
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Actually I usually get good germination rates with my brainstorms. i literally toss them into a rapd roooter (hole already there) and they genrally germ about 95 % of the time.
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Ive founed the brainstorm to germ pretty easily; perhaps yours got a bit dried out during the transitition..
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without more info on your soil and 'whats in it', it will be difficult to pinpoint your cause for problems.
on an experience note-
ive always and still germ in paper and transition to soil.
i've had 75-95% success.
i recently had some pop that also didnt emerge from the soil.
the seedling may have touched something of an organic nature that was too acidic or even a small piece of trace nutrient that was too potent for the new growth to withstand. likely scenario to explain why a few didnt rise above the soil.
as to when to clone, i've had good success with that also recently.
i would say between 8 and 12 nodes, depending on how healthy your plants are.
keep your plants in veg as long as you can.
i take the lowest shoots as clones when i repot into a larger pot.
i start in 16 oz solo cups,
transistion to 1 gal pots. (take clones, when they are long enough)
when i move to flower or soon therafter,
final transition to 4 gal buckets. (take clones)
i have also taken some longer tops (tips) and rooted them as clones.
this was done to slow the plant and bush it out more before moving to flower.
also sometimes my flower room is too crowded and i am stuck waiting for something to finish, so i have to delay, but, this has presented new opportunities to clone from the top and bottom.
the added benefit here is that the plants really take off and perform even better when i do finally move them to flower and i get all those clones in the process.
hope this helps.:pimp:
