Nice work :thumbsup: great pics, too :thumbsup:
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Nice work :thumbsup: great pics, too :thumbsup:
It IS nice work....I agree with Reaper. Good job bozo. :thumbsup:
now for the hydro growers, something i learned from StinkyAttic, all props to her!
LOL, if i don't get this right, it's me, not what Stinky taught
anyway, if your growing in hydroton, hygromite or river rock, you need to be extra gentle with your roots so put your medium into a tub filled with ph balanced solution (just 4ml ThriveAliveB1 red and a drop of SuperThrive for a gallon of water)(the hydroton in particular needs to be pre-cleaned and pre-soaked before use)
now, put your net pots into the solution, add some medium and then add your roots.
now, gently back-fill into your pot.
pretty simple really
and now for the bake
Hey bozo,
Looking great!
You dropped by my grow a couple weeks ago i think when i'd just taken some cuttings and told me about you're cloner. I took a quick look then but now i'm gonna try and build one myself and have re-read your thread. I'm gonna go looking for supplies this afternoon.
Everything seems pretty straight forward and you've explained everything well but i've just got one question. What level do you have your resevoir filled to? I was thinking an inch or two lower than the bottom of the cutting so that the bubbles mist the stem, is that right?
Oh and another thing, I have much better success when i put my clones in a humidity dome, (the old way just in rooting cubes in a propagator) do you think I should try to build my cloner with one or isn't it needed as they get a constant misting effect to the roots? I've not seen a dome on yours so i assume you dont bother with one. But did you use a dome before and decide you didnt need one on the bubble cloner?
Thanks
Good luck, can't wait to see them flowering ;)
if there's a Lowes near you the bins i use are black and they're called 'Stor-It-All Pro', there are several sizes, my cloner is the smallest one they make.Quote:
Originally Posted by hudson88
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Originally Posted by hudson88
you got it, the solution has to be high enough so the stems get splashed (constantly,lol)
(i use approx 3ml of ThriveAlive B1 Red and 1 drop of Superthrive per gallon, the bin holds 2 gallons)
i do have a dome but haven't had to use it for the new cloner, my cuttings started showing roots in just a few days and by 8 or 9 days, 17 of 18 had roots (i believe i transplanted after 12 days)Quote:
Originally Posted by hudson88
the last 3 are right but the first couple don't belong so here are the right ones
so, look at these, then go to post #83, disregarding the first 2 pics (obviously dirt)
Hey bozo,
I'm in the uk and don't have a lowes around, I found a box just the right size but when I got it home discovered it leaked lol but only after i'd spent about an hour cutting holes out of the lid (jeez that plastic was thick) :mad: It's ok tho I went back and found a better one that cost about $9. (the lid was much thinner and easier to cut :D) Got my pump for $12, line and airstone for $4, net pots $1 for a grand total of $26, not bad eh!
Decided to use net pots and clay pebbles rather than drop the root directly in the res, although I plan to get another lid and try it the other way too, i'm sure it will be better as the stem will be getting sprayed directly, I was just in a bit of a rush to get this done before I go away and I was already going to the hydro shop so got the pots while I was there.
I asked the guy at the hydro store about superthrive but they don't stock it, he recommended some stuff called "FORMULEX" so I hope that does the job.
Yeah that makes sense that you haven't needed the dome as they root so fast, i'll see how they get on i'm sure i can find something suitable pretty quickly should they need a dome.
Thanks for your advice and showing me how easy it is to make your own bubble cloner :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Oh and I plan to put a skirt around the side of it so roots are not exposed to any light.
Here's a couple of pics!
and a quick and easy skirt might be to just spray paint the outside of the bin. (get the kind for model cars, i think it will hold better as it's made to paint plastic)
on another note, i tried rooting clones in net pots with hydroton around the stems and all i got was dead cuttings, i think you will have much better success if you just dangle the stems above the solution so they get splashed constantly by bubbles.
here's a couple of pics of something you can do to make it work
i had more cuttings than would fit into the cloner so i had to improvise, using 2 of my DWC's as cloners, except that the holes were too big. what i did was to cut out the bottoms of some plastic cups, then i got a pool noodle and sliced off some 1 inch thick pieces to use as inserts, the noodle already had a hole running through it so all i had to do was slice it to allow for easy removal of the rooted cutting
Nice job. Looking good.
Yeah I thought it would be better to have the stems dangling but figured it would still be ok in hydroton, thanks for the heads up bozo, I'll have to have a think, maybe if I just put a top with a small hole on the net pots it will work till i've some time to sort it properly or a bit of styrofoam ( i think thats what its called, the white stuff they use for packing), yeah i'm sure i can get that to work, thanks again bozo.
and you can get it in sheets at a home center or a lumber yard or a builders supply. you might even be able to just get some styrofoam or plastic cups that fit in the holes you made in your top, then just cut the bottoms out.Quote:
Originally Posted by hudson88
anyway, good luck, and you're very welcome
and thanks for stopping by Opie
Just read your thread, and I must say nice looking setup. I love your cloner; I was gonna try clonning this time around but I'm about to move soon after harvest and didn't want to try to transport plants. But I'm gonna start right back and I see your cloner comming in very handy. Keep up the good work :thumbsup:
I had just noticed that in the last picture of this quote you have a green cfl bulb. did you receive your $5,000 gift card? thats killer', thought id just point it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by justanotherbozo
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so how are the babies doing? Hope theyre doing well.
Did you get to sex out your plants and start culling the males and bad ones?
stay irie
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Originally Posted by iriebowl
lol, yes and no.
like you, i suffered some set-backs at home which necessitated my chopping most of my babies. my daughter and i haven't been getting along and she found out about my grow and made some threats.
so, rather than risk her doing something out of youthful angst and stupidity, i convinced her i had chopped it all down. (20 years from now i don't want her feeling guilty for ratting her dad out, this way, she can't, and i've since sent her to stay with my son's God-parents for the summer.
what i had at the time was some rooted cuttings, my plants and 6 extra cuttings i'd potted up into dirt that i intended for a friend.
when i decided to chop, i potted the rooted cuttings into a DWC bin and put them into another location along with those i had in dirt
then i chopped the plants, taking multiple cuttings from each (it left me with 6 donor plants)
since then, i flipped the six in dirt (there were 3 of my donors and 1 unlabeled) and found 2 fems, lol, unfortunately, one of them was the un-labeled one so i have one new momma, with 6 cuttings rooting and almost ready to enter the flowering phase, plus, i put cuttings from 2 of the remaining 3 donors in dirt and under 12\12 yesterday, hopefully, i get one more fem (from the other strain)
(actually, i'm pretty certain i will 'cause the un-labeled fem is definately different from the other one)
anyway, i'm hoping the state doesn't decide to take my economic stimulus check like they did my drivers license (for non payment of child support even though the kids have been in my custody for 6 years now) so i can get a new camera and some good seeds.
if not, then, on the first of the month i'm gonna start my flowering log anyway, by then i'll have enough confirmed fems to start production of my SOG, hopefully, i have a workable plan to carry into the future.
LOL, wish me luck dude!
It's not so fun playing executioner to your green children when their secrecy is at stake! Glad you were able to smuggle some of them away from the chopping block. At least they weren't super strains... oh yeah, did you ever narrow your choices down to what you want to order?
I constantly obsess over the ones I want to order and grow... Blueberry and Sensi Star
just took a look at your imaginary garden fuckin hell im amazed look like somethin out of starwars mate ive now realise ive a shitload to learn greattttttttttt pics tho
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Originally Posted by leebud
thanks man, and don't be intimidated.
while i agree there's a shitload to learn, you don't have to wait until you're an expert to get started.
you're luckier than many, myself included, in that you have that haze plant to work with.
Can you post a pic of the bubblecloner tank, with the air pump running? I want to see how your bubbles look.
Thanks:rastasmoke:
Sorry to hear about the destruction you had to do.:(
hi guy, heres a link that covers the cloner from beginning to endQuote:
Originally Posted by McDanger
cheap easy diy cloner
update?...
whiskeytango
updatE dude?
Alight bozo, I need some info. You have been pretty much the inspiration of my grow boxes so far, but now I too want to move to hydro. Can you just list the things(no matter how unimportant) you used to produce this box of grow? That would be awesome, thanks.
-C
lol, you're not gonna like my answer my friend but the answers you want areQuote:
Originally Posted by ForgetClassC
already here, that's what the thread is, a detailed account of my sojourn into
hydro.
so if you read through the thread from the beginning, you'll see everything i
did, everything i did it with and where i got everything to do it to and with.
lol, keep in mind that i'm very definitely NOT a hydro expert, hell, i'm no expert
of any kind. plus, i'm not growing in hydro any more since i discovered the
awesome work being done by DrBudGreenGenes, his approach was and is
perfect for me.
anyway, i liked the DWC method very much and, if i had more room, i'd almost
certainly go back to it, at least periodically.
also, sadly, i didn't really document the end very carefully. actually, once i made
the decision to go back into the dirt i got so focused on creating a reliable
SOG, i kinda just let the hydro just finish.
hang on and i'll see if i can find some pics of some of the buddage.
i see i really did kinda leave things hangin'. sorry about that.
anyway, here are some pics of the buds i've been growing since my last update.
keep in mind also that i'm back in dirt now so most of these buds were grown in
dirt and under nothing but CFL's, although i did pick up a pair of 150watt HPS's
and i've replaced one of my CFL fixtures with one of the 150's just 'cause i had
it, lol.
anywho, lol.
1) in this shot you can see i'm still in the DWC's. i loved the growth they give.
2) back in the dirt and with one 150 installed.
3) 6 clones about a week in, note the one in back that stretched.
4) Legends High End (the top of that one that stretched)
5) Road Kill Skunk
heyyy bozo, just noticed that there is a link under ur pic to ur grow LOL, :rastasmoke:.
anywayz i know this is an old thread, tho i read it and its great, iv been inspired in many ways from u, and im going to build a cloner next month as i dont really need it now, n more importantly cant afford it :D. lol.
same time after reading the sog harvest every 2 weeks that i sent u the link to a couple of times, {its around 170 pages n it tooook a longgggg time lool}, and as well after reading the sog thread u posted to me a couple of days ago, iv made my mind up on the plan n now im just waiting for my papaya/wonderwoman/white widow to arrive and im gona start.
ill keep u updated along the way n hopefully ill have better luck next.
great grow, n i found alot of info in there that my brain needed :D.
thx alot :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by dickdasterdly66
you're more than welcome man, that's what it's all about!
anyway, before you build the bubbler, especially as you're on a budget, you
should take a look at this, it works really well and it's cheap as hell.
World class cloner new at walmart - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums
damn i wish, im in the uk tho so no wallmart shmallmart :(.
thats why i thought ur one is pretty good and since uv explained it i thought it wouldnt be that hard, im only on a budget till the end of the month lol, then i should be kool :D. lol..
i dont understand why we dont have wallmart here in the uk yet... mmmm,.:stoned:
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Originally Posted by dickdasterdly66
well, you might be able to find one of these at a department store but that
bubbler only costs about $25.00 USD to build so it's pretty cheap too, and
it also works really well.
good luck!
ill have a look if i can find one somewhere,
n btw i forgot to ask, since uv grow papaya b4, do u recomend i do it as my main sog or wonder woman since they both have almost the same time???
thx
i think your experiment worked very well. I have always grown in soil but i am going to chang that now. Have some purple kush seeds that im going to try in a set up like you have. Ill post pics when i start.