White Rhino ~ Akorn Grow in Coco

Well we've got bits n bobs growing at the mo, but just got some new seeds yesterday, they in a paper towel germinating as i type, hope some to pop through tomorrow, and have decided to do a log, i wanna try and get the best from these seeds, and guess this is the best place for some help and advice. They are Nirvana's White Rhino and TH Seeds Akorn/Snowbud, both packets non feminized.
The set up have is a spare bedroom sectioned off into a veg & a flower room. Veg part is 7' x 5 ', flower part is 8' x 10 '. Temp is both rooms is usually between 76 - 80, humidity is 40-50. Lights are 600HPS, intake fan and extractor with carbon filter.
We transplanted the last babies into coco after germinating in rockwool, after having moved over from biobizz lite, we are feeding them on the remainder of the bibozz nutes we have, before switching them to the coco nutes we have just bought but these new seeds are going right into coco from germinating, and starting with the coco nute from beginnin we hoping for some decent results which could be the kiss of death me saying that but here's hoping!
I'll attach some pics once things have strated to happen in those paper towels, but just wanted to get my growlog up and running, any comment good or bad are most welcome, if we doing something wrong i'd love to know!

Sounds like a plan!
One thing to look out for is the Nirvana White Rhino had some problems recently with herms; Out of a 10-pack I got, there was only ONE female who didn't go fully herm on me... TAKE CLONES!!! label them and save whichever ones the donor mom didn't go herm. F'real. It's a nice strain, and worth growing, very strong and painkilling.

Hey thanks for that Stinky, we been taking clones off all the plants that we have already ( skunk#1, ak48, nlxbb, ppp, hash plant & skunk haze) go in flower room, as we can't really identify fems n males till the obvious shows lol, one thing i did read in soft secrets paper yesterday is that you can takes clones off plants in flower, i've read so many times that you can't, so a bit confused really, as the fems we have in flower of skunk #1, the clones (all fem) we had we have given to a friend who was having probs even gettin seeds to germinate, and short of buying more seeds germinating and goin through whole thing again, is it worth trying to clone, as they are turning out to be really nice plants.

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Originally Posted by Just A Beginner

one thing i did read in soft secrets paper yesterday is that you can takes clones off plants in flower, i've read so many times that you can't,.

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Yup, cloning in flower is totally doable.
Hints:
-Since prepping a mom for flowering involves withholding N, and prepping for cloning ALSO does, guess what! You're prepped either way!
-When a plant is changing its life cycle, it is easier for the cells to turn into other things... like a cell that could divide and produce shoots, or roots, or sex organs?
-Early flower is a time that you may have success cloning. In fact, stupid fucking finicky strains that I have had trouble with in the past, I seem to remember them rooting BETTER taken from a plant in like the 2nd week of 12/12
-Avoid taking cuttings after you get actual bud mass, so up to the 3rd week... the bud can become host to ROT.
-And last, don't ever take the TOP when you are cloning in flower. Take low side branches, or your yield will suffer. If you take the top, you have to do it in veg and then give the plant 2-3 weeks to recover before initiating flowering.
Hope this helps!
BTW the best cloning method that I have used and loved is with rapid-rooters, clonex, and a heat mat. wOOt.

Ohh nice 1!! Can't wait to get in the room later when lights some on and take a couple of cuttings.


Ooops one more thing, 3 white rhino and 4 snowbud have germinated in less 18 hours, i'm a happy lass now !

Upto now we have 8 of each Akorn & White Rhino germinated, gonna get some small pots ready for them and wait for those cute little leaves to pop up !

Not of much but i'm very happy they have germinated so quickly, 18 out of 20 in 36 hours, these are the Akorn (Snowbud) which i'm just about to pot up into some Coco and put them under our clone lamp, which is a 220w Starlight, i think the 2 x 600W HPs in the veg room will frazzle them before they even pop their heads out the soil !

Whatsup man, i hear its best to plant them as soon as the root tip breaks through the shell, also u may wanna keep those roots out of the light, u sound like u know your stuff pretty well tho.

Also, 'i' have 2 white rhino females growing right now, well, i've only seen female preflowers so far, i hope none go hermie :(. Anyways, one is more sativa dominant than the other so i fimmed it and am in the process of tying it down with 2 days left in veg so i hope i don't stress it to hermie. Also the white rhinos seem to sidebranch more than the few other strains i've grown.

POEEECCCEE.

Hey Mr.Green :)
Yeah the roots were only in light 2 mins whilst i took a pic to show Mr Just A Beginner when he came home from work, then i potted them up. I've attached a couple of pics, nothing exciting, out of 20 seeds, we got 18 so really happy about that. I've heard good things about White Rhino, not heard much about Akorn but read good reviews on the net, n it's THC % is quite high so we thought we'd give it a whirl, we also had 10 x AK48 germinate at the same time, so 28 new babies as well as the 40 odd plants and 27 clones, i'm kept quite busy :) I'll post some more pics tomorrow, untill then, happy growing ! :)

Oh yeah, i've always had more success when i leave the roots to go a little longer before i pot up, i've done the 'pot it as the root shows' thing, but they kinda tend to die on me !