how's the "experimenting" coming along?
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how's the "experimenting" coming along?
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and thanks for asking. things have been progressing nicely, my new cloner is working like a dream, i wish i had had it a month and a half ago, i'd have some buds half way to harvest by now, LOL.
it's been 1 week since i built the cloner and put it into service. i took 18 cuttings from 3 plants, 6 cuttings each, then i cut the parents down, of the 18 cuttings, 15 have rooted very well, the other 3 don't look so good, 1 definately is a no-go, the other 2 might root still.
anyway, i now have rooted clones from almost all my original plants so, this weekend i think, i will begin flowering clones from each and sexing them, once that's done, i can select 2 vigorous mommas and begin filling my Sea Of Green, 4 clones a week.
heres a couple pics of the roots in the cloner, kinda fuzzy but still easy to see
bozo,
peace, love, dope
Looking good in there :)
it's nice to know i'm not invisible.
i actually started posting so i could get some feedback, so i wouldn't feel so alone and isolated. it's really nice having someone actually looking. thanks man
bozo,
peace, love, dope
If you want to know if you are invisible look at the number of views to your post......are you there? (just kidding....:D) i'm always surprised when someone will post on one of my threads seemingly out of the blue only to discover they've been reading and following along the whole time.....people often won't say anything unless they want to point something BAD out to you....so less posts can be a good thing.
Ps....want a friend?......be a friend.......;)
PSS...EXCELLENT roots on those cuttings by the way....top job! :thumbsup:
No way invisible, i am always reading your posts but i dont always have time to reply, got to look after my own garden only two weeks to go. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by justanotherbozo
thanks to everyone that is following along silently.Quote:
Originally Posted by Weedhound
Weedhound, thanks for the encouragement and i've already been on the end of a poison pen or two. i know i have a knack for pissing people off, i've been told i'm a little arrogant, that's why i chose my name, to help me remain humble.
oh, and i try to be a friend to everyone, especially the other newbies like me, i just get a little testy when i see people asking questions that are so simple that you KNOW they haven't bothered to read ANYTHING.
anyway, thanks and i love my new cloner !!! i start flowering for sex this weekend!! i can't wait!
bozo,
peace, love, dope
thanks man, i appreciate your feedback. i guess, because this is all still so new to me, i need all the encouragement i can get. LOL, i guess i need someone to hold my hand a little, kinda like a kid looking for approval from all the BIG people!Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenthing
bozo,
peace, love, dope
good work on the cloner. I made a bubbler cloner before but I guess my water temps are to high here to get roots. I only ended up with one rooting, and its now in my DWC bucket slowly growing.
and since you always give me comments in my thread, the least I can do is return the favor. although I am another silent type I dont mind encouraging others every once in a while. Keep it up
btw, maybe it wasn't the temp that kept them from rooting. what were you using for a solution? myself, i'm using 10ml of ThriveAlive red and 2 drops of Superthrive in 2 gallons of water. also, if your temps are too high, try freezing some water in 16oz plastic bottles, then just put them in your res, you can even leave them open to defrost and blend into the res.Quote:
Originally Posted by iriebowl
anyway, thanks again for the feedback
bozo,
peace, love, dope
heheh, hopefully chilling the water for rooting clones won't be needed, the water temp is supposed to be a tiny bit warm until roots have started to come out.
Careful with too much warmth though, it'll up the chances of mold greatly. I just bought a little heater for my cloner that automatically keeps the water at 78, which is just perfect for a cloner reservoir. Don't forget there are also aquarium chillers. Try to keep the clones and the reservoir between 76 and 80 for best results.
I thought I needed the temps to be 68-70 degrees?? My water now is at 76 and is never higher than 80. I dont have any mold/mildew or fungus growing, but every once in a while the roots brown a lil. Using 3 tsp. grow big to every gallon of water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
gonna try the frozen bottle trick and hope it works out.
stay irie
Opie's right....clones you want a little higher then larger plants with water temp.
Opie...did you buy that little heater at Foster and Smith? I use those automatic ones for my aquarium and love them. :thumbsup:
Bozo i like the dip and grow for a rooting thing that Stinky talks about and i've definitely had the best luck with that.
Opie mentioned something about the rooting "gels" sort of sealing out the moisture in the cut end and I think so too. The dip and grow is water based and soaks right into your cutting. You may want to try it for your clones.
thank you all for your encouragement and comments, criticisms too.
the truth is Weed, i'm not using ANY rooting hormones although i have a jar of Rootech gel that i used when i was rooting in rockwool starter cubes.
and i know it's too soon to tell yet but the new cloner i built has been doing awesome, got 17 of 18 rooted with the first run! cloner has a 2 gal res into which i put 10ml of ThriveAlive red and 2 drops of Superthrive. i also got some Hygrozyme (thanks for the tip Opie) and i'm adding about 2ml of that too.
i'd welcome any advice on the Hygrozyme and it's usage.
it looks like i'll finally be able to start to flower for sex within a week.
could use some advice regarding strains and seedbanks, i want to spend some of my 'economic stimulus' money on some quality genetics for my next grow. i figure it's poetic that the federal gov will be financing my meds for the future. LOL
anyway, i'm rambling so, toke amongst yourselves
bozo,
peace, love, dope
Man.....I think the cloner and the babies look great..its not what they are made of but how they work.....right? ...thanks a lot for stopping by.....everything looks great...
Killa12345
the key is to understand the principles, then you just apply the principles using whatever raw materials come to hand. LOL, ghetto engineering.Quote:
Originally Posted by killa12345
i think i'm at that place where i understand well enough to be dangerous, LOL
anyway, i hope to begin flowering for sex within the week so look for some pics of my DIY air scrubber as soon as i get a door set in place (lol, gonna use cardboard and velcro)
bozo,
peace, love, dope
Velcro! yeah that's the stuff I always forget about. I just gotta remember it for when I can get around to building a little stealth cardboard growbox.
and holy crap I never noticed Opie's signature until just now!
well, i'm almost at that day when i can begin sexing my plants and i can't wait. i now have 6 with multiple clones and 4 more in the process of root development (lol, i hope)
here are some pics of my new lights (lol, i bought them a month ago, just now installing them cause i didn't need them. i bought them to flower with).
i figure, with 8x40watts (6x2700K and 2x6500K) that gives me 320watts over 2 bins, i hope that will do the job, lol
check out the price of those fixtures! i got them at a local discount builders supply that sells a lot of close-outs and over-stocks.
that's 2 fixtures for less than $10.00 plus 8 splitters that i think i paid $1.50 each at Walmart!
that breaks down to approx. $11.00 per fixture. way cheaper than adding clamp lights, one at a time and for anywhere from $5.00 to $10.00 each. the clamp lights i already have (i have 6) i'll use for mommas and supplimental side lighting.
anyway, toke amongst yourselves
bozo,
peace, love, dope
I could never find those fixtures locally and at that price I would have bought a ton of them. Cover the entire ceiling of my cab with those fixtures and just run cfls instead of HPS. As long as you got 50+watts per square foot to flower you will be all good, but I like to use 60+watts for cfls.
Good luck with the sexing, hope you get all girls.
any new plant pics?
stay irie
and here's a few more pics for ya, although i must say, until i start flowering (hopefully within a week), there won't be much new to show.
anyway, the pics
1) if you look close, in the back you can see some of the remaining donor plants (they've since been chopped to make room), if you look really close, you can see how badly neglegted they look (i killed 7 donors with my neglect)
in front on top of the beer box is my cloner (17 of 18 rooted in the first run, i wish i had built one sooner) and to the left is one of the regular bins being used as a cloner (fortunately, they seem to be working ok).
2) another shot of the cloner with some of the rooted clones removed and transplanted
3) my new airpump, dual diaphragm, supposed to have enough power to aerate 16 water farms.
pics 3, 4 and 5 also show that all the donors are gone now. they also show how i'm planning to position things for flowering which will become more apparent within the next week, hopefully
anyway, toke amongst yourselves
bozo,
peace, love, dope
to admit that, if LEO wants ya, a disclaimer aint gonna save ya
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Originally Posted by GreenDestiny
anyway, toke amongst yourselves
bozo,
peace, love, dope
Nice photo's all is looking good, but the proof in the pudding so good luck man.;)
and you're right, the proof is in the pudding.
God willing and the creek don't rise, i'll be makin' some puddin' come this time next week. LOL
bozo,
peace, love, dope
Hope its nice sticky pudding. :thumbsup:
:S5: if only my baby's were from a better gene pool!
bozo,
peace, love, dope
[quote=justanotherbozo]:S5: if only my baby's were from a better gene pool!
Time will tell how good they are give them a lot of C & A and they will reward you.;)
I've probably asked this several times but what strain are they? :stoned:
sadly, thier lineage is unknown, just 2 different strains of bagbeans
Well their lineage doesn't matter as long as they're there for you at the end..;)
and it isn't a total unknown, my first grow was with one of these strains and it was better than what i've been buying.
i have to say that i really enjoyed growing it too.
thanks for stopping in and giving me some feedback WH, i really appreciate it!
just a question....how often do you change out the water?? or how long do the nutrients actually last in the water?? we actually have the same setup. we only have 4 plants with 2 60watt and 1 40watt.
I love watching the CFL grows.
Good luck to ya on your harvest, I can't wait to see how you do.
I read about a guy who's using some of the really big CFLs - have you thought of that for your grow?
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Originally Posted by italian04
you should check the FAQ's and thread's in the hydroponics section, and check with ClosetDWC, his name alone should tell you he know's about these set-ups.
the thing with me is, even though things have been going really well, everything i'm doing is for the first time, i really am a newbie myself.
with my limited experience, i would suggest you change your res at a minimum of every 2 weeks. obviously, the more often you change your res, the more nutes you will go through but, by doing so you reduce your risk for problems. nutrient lock-out in particular is something that can be prevented in large part by regularly changing your res.
good luck with your own grow, you should start a log for people to view, then, if you have problems, people can more readily help you.
that being said, bake on
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Originally Posted by iamgrowerman
i'm using smaller CFL's (mostly 40 watters) partly because they're so much easier to find, they're way cheaper than the big ones and, maybe more importantly, the smaller bulbs allow much more flexibility when it comes to tweaking your light spectrums.
for example, a 200 watt, 6500Kelvin bulb will never be anything but 200 watts of 6500K light. on the other hand, 5 x 40 watt bulbs can be split between spectrums so you can add some reds as well.
anyway, that's my reasoning, whether it makes an appreciable difference in yield remains to be seen. lol
so, toke amongst your selves
That's a really good point. I'll have to remember to point that out to him the next time he's bragging about how big and bright his lights are.
You say you use 40w CFLs - I'm assuming you mean 40w actual, with a 100+ equivalency? A 26-27w CFL is supposed to be a 100w equivalent, so I'd guess a 40w would be about 150w equivalent?
Has anyone done any kind of comparison between the lumen output of, say, 5 100w equivalent CFLs versus one 500w equivalent? Does one option make more heat than the other?
I'm tempted to try a little side-by-side but there's no point in reinventing the wheel if someone else already has. (Or spending a bunch of money on it.)
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Originally Posted by iamgrowerman
that's all bullshit, look at the actuall wattages when you buy, and some bulbs don't specify the spectrums, if you can't tell, leave them in the store.
and yeah, the 40's are equal to 150's, really though, forget that bullshit, it's just marketing hype.
another thing for you to consider is that, in truth, CFL's will produce more heat than an HID, watt for watt, the difference is that with HID's, all the heat comes from one source only, with CFL's there are many sources so the heat is spread out more.
what would be cool to test is a comparison between 10x40watt CFL's against 1x400watt HPS. the results of that test would really have some value.
anyway, toke amongst yourselves
so far, my new bubble cloner has worked like a dream. in my first run i got 17 rooted clones out of 18 cuttings, yipee! LOL (and all starting showing roots within 8 days!)
anyway, now i have to transplant my rooted cuttings and i thought i'd take some pics to document and post for the other newbies.
first i potted some in dirt for a friend which is pretty simple, just be gentle.
so, bake on (after you pot your clones)
like i said, potting into dirt is pretty simple, just be gentle and remember not to leave too much space between the level of the dirt and the rim of your pots, you don't want a lot of dead, stagnant air pooling around the base of your plants.
the pots are from my first grow (2 liter coke bottles, not big enough for mommas but fine for clones that only resided in them for 10 weeks and 15 of them fit into one of my underbed bins {post #1, pic #2})