First time grow KC Brains Skunk #1 & White KC

Took some pictures of the cuttings this morning for you Weedhound as usual uploaded them to the pic gallery. :jointsmile:
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Ive probably made loads of mistakes but I took the cuttings from new growth shots at the bottom of each plant, probably left to much leaf growth on each one. Put them into cups of water labelled for each plant then using another bowl held each in turn under water, made the diagonal cut, dipped them into baby bio's roota liquid & then put it into the rockwool cube. The rockwool is soaked in PH'd water with more water dripped inside the propogater to help raise the humidity. The propogator isn't under direct light at the moment but as I'm looking for root growth rather than plant growth I'm hoping for today anyway the idirect light and the heat of the veg room will do. DIdn't seem to kill them of last night anyway & I am a bit caught out by the timing, will look for some flouro's today.

The only reaction from the plants is they seemed to have taken a serious stretch over night & have now hit the 12 " mark. Really going to have to think about starting flowering. If they can grow to a further 3 times the height my exisitng light probably wouldn't produce decent light at the middle & base of the plants. Unless anyone jumps in with a warning today to say hold off then I am going to switch the timers over tonight.

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Yeehaw those look happy!! They will indeed at LEAST double...more likely triple by the time you are done. Flowering is when you really see some explosive growth.

Your "clone dome' looks good....clones looks happy. :) I'll have to try that cloning thing one day but i'm sure it will be an ugly scene at my house.....slaughtered clones everywhere until I figure it out. ;)

Cheers WH :) thought I might have given them a shock when I saw the stretch in the morning. If I am going to end up large bushes like you have in your log I guess I will need to consider more lights. Will see how it goes once I get them to display the gender.

From what you have said in another log about the slaughter of seedlings ;) a few wilting cuttings would only be a mere bloodbath ;). Seriously you should try it some day the process seems more intimidating than it was in practice & just a few spliffs before the surgery helps steady the shakes & prevent a slasher fest on current babies being grown. :stoned:

If the clones are still looking like that in the dome in a couple of days then I reckon it will have been successful.

Week 5 update the plants have been on 12/12 for 4 days. Still using the 2 part veg nutes as recommended in there instructions. Plants are drinking 5 - 8 ltrs of water every two days from the amount the res level decreases over the same time. Been adding back the same amount with balanced nutes added & ph balanced although the nute PPM on the res seems to still be dropping. They seem pretty hungry so would it be better to make the solution being added heavy in nutes or wuld that run the risk of nute burn before the added solution mixes fully with the res.

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The clones seem to be surviving also although there is not yet any roots showing through the bottom of the rockwool. There is also some yellowing on some of the leaf tips. Any ideas of how to deal with that?

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Wow,those look GREAT! Nice clones too. Your plants have really filled out and look extremely happy. They'll be large bushes in flower all right....good job. :thumbsup:

Thanks WH:jointsmile:

I reckon I will need to add more light but will wait untill I get an idea of how many confirmed females there is.

Do you know what could be causing the yellowing of the leaf tips as it seems to also be happening to the main plants on a couple of fan leaves, there is also a redish purple vaining thas appearing on some of the branches & main stems. There was a PH fluctuation the other day. The nutes PPM dropped quite rapidly from the 679 & is now between 200 -300. If its a deficiency what additives would you recommend.

Since putting them on 12/12 they have been racing each other to the light generally I adjust the chains to a 4" distance during the day & by the next morning the middle plant has grown till the leaves just touch the bulb. This has resulted in some burning on the leaves closest. The tallest plants are 20 " now thats a growth of 8 inches since wednesday.

my plants have not grown that big in 20 days of growth :O they are still pretty small. I wonder what I am doing wrong.

Hi Caduceo

Thats why I was wondering was there a fix for you in that nutes FAQ as when I started my log both of our plants were looking about the same stage, but from your posts somehow your plants have yet to make the full jump into veg phase.

Once I added the very low dose of nutes and got rid of what looked like an N deficiency mine really took of.

Jack could you update my on what nutes you are using, what your ppms are, and all the other cool details?

I know when I went to bloom stage my plants took a big jump and needed some fair increase in their ppms but I also changed over to bloom nutes at the same time. They do alot of growing at this stage so I'm wondering...but I'm not sure because I'm just not familiar with the Vita Link nute....the ph going off can certainly cause an issue.....did the plants have none of that yellowing before that?

If your ppms are dropping then you need more....the plants are eating it....sounds pretty much like what I experienced when going to 12/12.