Our Female at Last

Out of several plants we can finally say we got a female, she seems great, just getting tall as shit right now and may have to be moved or tied down so not to outgrow room. May take it outside to shed we have in backyard and hook up the light in there as it gets pitched dark in there and she should finish good in there and the smell is really bad this time around anyway.
ALSO is it true we heard that you can take a large bowl and put in yeast and sugar and hot water and close door to room and give plant one hell of a blast of 0-2 and is good for plant ????

Stacie

dammmm thats a big mofo. lookin good.

it can be done, the complaints i read though is that you cant really measure the amount of co2, its kind of smelly, makes a hell of a mess if it blows up. any extra co2 would help though i guess. its warm water, not hot or you will kill the yeast. google homeade co2, you will find lots of info on it and its more commonly used for fishtanks. some places have detailed instructions on how to build, what kind of yeast, and amounts of sugar/yeast to use.

Darlin', it's CO2. Plants breathe Carbon Dioxide, like we breathe oxygen. How effective it will be depends on the size of your grow area, the temperature of the water and how air tight the grow area is. In my little clone/seedling cabinet (about 6 cubic feet), I use a milk jug with yeast in it. I add a spoonful of sugar a couple times a day. It fizzes right up releasing that good CO2! In a small space, it will work fine.- Granny:hippy:

I do the same thing ... my cabinet has a milk-jug, yeast, and sugar ... I don't know that the small amount of CO2 helps all that much, but it sure doesn't hurt, and costs virtually nothing ... :smokin:

Has anyone ever taken a plant in flower and tried to clone her. This plant is getting better and sweeter everyday and we noticed alot of new shoots on the bottom of plant and thought of clipping them and trying to clone them like that,,, any hints ????

Stacie

Or we thought we let her finish and put her back in veg. stage under like 18 - 6 and let her recover and clone her as this is our first female in many tries ...

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what mix do you use in your milk jug for yeast and sugar to amount of warm water and do u top off water too or just sugar as needed???

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Originally Posted by wildchick

Has anyone ever taken a plant in flower and tried to clone her. This plant is getting better and sweeter everyday and we noticed alot of new shoots on the bottom of plant and thought of clipping them and trying to clone them like that,,, any hints ????

Stacie

Or we thought we let her finish and put her back in veg. stage under like 18 - 6 and let her recover and clone her as this is our first female in many tries ...

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what mix do you use in your milk jug for yeast and sugar to amount of warm water and do u top off water too or just sugar as needed???

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as to the CO2 bottle, I keep it simple ... simple is best ... I took a 1/2 gallon plastic jug, drilled a hole (maybe 1/8" ?) in the cap ... nothing to measure, you're only 'feeding' sugar to yeast (the dying yeast cells create the CO2, as it was explained to me) ... I fill the jug half-way with water, and throw in one package of activated dry yeast, and a couple cups of sugar, after a few days, I add a bit more sugar ... after a couple cycles like that, if it doesn't fizz much when shook, I empty it and start over ... CO2 is heavier than the ambient air, so I sit mine up on top of my lamp hood ... don't know if it helps, (no visible improvement), but it's so cheap, why not ? ...
as to the cloning question, I'm experimenting right now ... I built a bubble-cloner, and it worked so well for me(100% success, so far), just for the hell of it, I took 6 more cuttings from my '6+ weeks-in flowering' Willie Nelson mother ... while my usual cuttings showed roots in 7-8 days with my bubbler, these cuttings are just starting to show roots here in day 14 ... but, they never wilted, or died ... have them in Ready-Rooter plugs at 18 hours of light ... pH'd water with one drop SuperThrive per gallon, and just recently added a very weak dose of nutes to the water ...
I would be very surprised if they grow into anything usable, but it was an experiment just for shits and giggles ... sure looks weird, a 2" tall plant with a cola, vegging :D

You can take cuttings off a flowering plant for the first 2-3 weeks- they'll root up fine.


After six weeks- if ya can keep em alive long enough, they'll strike- but it could take months. Once they strike, it's a straight re-veg. Actually, they'll start re-vegging as they root- one of the reasons it'll take so long.

looks good wildchick!

She looks Great! Good luck:thumbsup: just give her lots of love...

Here she is again, I wish she would start budding up thiker, guess time will tell, we r using micro, grow and bloom at this point and was thinking about getting bud's blood and trying to see if buds would get thicker ?? any suggestions on thicker buds..?? so what you all think at this point ?

Stacie

She has gotten so large she has out grown room and we had to bend her over too as u can see.......

have you thought about blackstrap molasses to thicken them up? cheaper, and though i have never bought a product specifically for that other people say that it is basicly the same idea. this is the first ive tried it(molasses and indoor) and they are near done, they seem to be fatter and more resinous than my previous outdoor attempts. besides it cant hurt.

"have you thought about blackstrap molasses to thicken them up? cheaper"

HOW do you use it and at what mix can anyone tell us we would like to try it

Stacie

there are a few threads around with advice and questions about molasses, in organic and a few other places. one by bluebear 3lbs something is informative. most say 1 tablespoon to a gallon of water, with or without fertilizer. i have been using 2 T spoons about every other watering. disolve with hot water then fill the rest with cool water. its not a fertilizer it just helps the plants pruduce sugars and supports micro organisms in the soil.