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sounds perfect! just don't know about the added 2-3 weeks of veg. I only have about
3 1/2 ft. of headroom to play with. another thing, my basement stays about 60 degrees, and i only have a heat mat, so i have been a miserable failure with cloning b/c i can't keep the heat up. any ideas on how i can clone in a cool environment?
Put that heat mat under your prop tray and dome and the temps inside the dome should be slightly higher than ambient.
Another way to cheat is to put your prop tray on a milk crate and put an incandescent light under the crate for bottom heat.
In questionable cloning conditions, fungus becomes a threat, and you should use a cloning solution that contains fungicide. Clonex and Olivia's do NOT. Dip-n-Grow and Rootone DO. Dipngro is better than rootone IMHO but as always, use proper cloning technique and keep your equipment and tray/dome combo CLEAN (Scrubbing Bubbles is a good cleaning agent because it foams and you can see if you missed a sopt).
Limited in height? Train your plants to spread out and lay flat. You can even toss a net over them and then let the buds grow up and through when they form.
Brilliant idea with the incandescent! I was gonna say maybe get a heat lamp for the room since it's only about 2.5'x3.5'. have already lined it in black plastic to keep as much heat in as possible. i'll probably go ahead and take a few clones now, try and get them rooted, that way if i fail again i will be able to cut a lead like you said during flowering.
just took 6 clones, will post pics of them within the next few days.
all 6 clones were looking pathetic as of 7:45a.m. They are all wilted over pretty bad. I have them set up under 2-2ft cfl's with a heat mat under them. it seems to stay fairly humid, and at a temp. of about 75. thought about just dumping the whole cloning idea until i find something that will make it easier for me, like maybe the daisy cloner or something like that, but i'll see what happens with these. seems that all the plants that i took my clones from yesterday shot up an inch or better today, i found that to be pretty strange. though, these are weed's, and you just never know what the hell a weed is going to do!
Too much light!! Those are tube flos, not CFLs btw. You got a dome? Are you misting the inside of the dome twice a day? Read the cloning instructions in my siggy and follow them to the LETTER and you should be okay. That temp is fine. Are you snipping leaves down to 1" to reduce water loss? How many nodes/leaves does each clone have? PICS!!!!
i have followed your advice to the letter. yes i have a dome, yes i'm misting, yes i cut the leaves down to 1" or less. each plant has 2 sets of leaves snipped down like you said. ok, now here is where you got me, how could those 2 footers be too much light?
ok, i have a question! first a statement, then a question. ok, right now i have black plastic covering my plant tray. as stinky said, the plastic will slow cook my roots and turn them slimy. what if i replace the black plastic and covered my tray with straight aluminum foil, would this be as bad or maybe worse than the plastic, or would it be a step up from what i'm doing now?
Whooooo am I losing it or did I just respond to that exact post^^^?
If it's in another thread I should really merge them so the answers are all in one place.
Clones need VERY VERY little light. Light is the fuel that makes them do their metabolic thing, which uses up a lot of water in the process. The point is to give them enough light to just barely function, and do nothing but put out roots. Too much light, and they use up all their available water from in their tissues, and have no roots, so no way to replace it.
Raise the light. A lot!
Girl, I sure love havin' you around! Ok, i figure out a way to keep them from getting a lot of light, what if i raise the 2'ers about 3' above them, enough, too much?