New Clone Technique

So I wanted to try cloning so I dropped my T5 8 bulb fixture on my largest plant that was just put into flowering. It broke half the bulbs and broke three pretty good sized limbs from the plant.
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I put the broken limbs in some water with some B1 overnight then added some fox ocean the next morning.
That was last Wednesday.

This is how they look now:
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Also the plant seems to be doing good, the lower limbs have room to spread out.

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I just stuck them in the pot, I should have trimmed the bottom I guess.

Also, should I cut off some of the leaves? Or wait for them to die?

Now you gotta seperate them from one another after they root,being planted in that one container. Serious transplant shock!!

Just thought you could just plant the whole,cup in one pot.. But that is a waste of plants.

Ga.

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Originally Posted by GaGrown

Now you gotta seperate them from one another after they root,being planted in that one container. Serious transplant shock!!

Just thought you could just plant the whole,cup in one pot.. But that is a waste of plants.

Ga.

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or just use it for clones and get what you can out of flower. thats some really quick growth, however not a new technique. if Ga was around you would have seperated them in the first place.

Here a way of cloning that I'm doing now. Not alot of grower like to use this method. I think it's very practical! You need no humidity dome or tray. None of those overpriced cloners. Believe me when I say I've tried all of them! Here is a pic of the application. It's called Air layering..:thumbsup:

Ga.

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Originally Posted by GaGrown

Here a way of cloning that I'm doing now. Not alot of grower like to use this method. I think it's very practical! You need no humidity dome or tray. None of those overpriced cloners. Believe me when I say I've tried all of them! Here is a pic of the application. It's called Air layering..:thumbsup:

Ga.

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I just wanted to add that it has roots they just have'nt penetrated the plug,yet.

They penetrated the plug today! Hell Yeah! Cut it and transplanted it. She'll be flowering before ya know it.. This is the preference of procedure, for my needs from now on!

Ga.

I've bought plants in a square thing, what is that, plug?

So you tie them to a stick?

Looks cool, that would place them closer to the light.



My problem now (well coming up) is too many plants! My grow box is getting really crowded and there's no room in the bloom box for much more. So there will be a lot of plants ready to move to the bloom box soon and no where to put them.

I guess I'll turn my grow box into another bloom box. I wish my grow box was an 8 bulb fixture. It's a 4 bulb T5 with a 2 bulb T12 added with plant bulbs in it.

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Let me see if I have this right... Are you asking me if that is a cutting on a stick close to the light?

Ga.

Let me see if I have this right... Are you asking me if that is a cutting on a stick close to the light?

Ga.

The picture looks like a plant tied to a stick to me.

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Originally Posted by tacman7

The picture looks like a plant tied to a stick to me.

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It's acctually a rooter plug wrapped around the stem at a node site and scarred with olivia's cloning gel. It takes root while in veg.. Never being cut from the plant till it roots. Once it's roots show through the plug... You cut it off and transplant. Never stopping it's cycle. It's air layering... Not pot on a stick...lol Thats sure to be a new clone technique. Never tried popcicle style cloning before! Did you see the pic where I cut the stalk?

Ga.

Ok, cool, yea I see where you cut it.

I'm wondering how that would work for cutting back flowering plants...

When my bloom box plants get too big I'm going to have to bend them or net them, neither of which I understand at the moment so have to look into that, or may be removing the top. They've only been in flower a week or so...


Where the branches were broken it looks like it allows the lower leaves to get more light and they seem to have lots of buds... But I don't know.

Where all the light colored leaves, will those be buds?
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You should LST... Low stress training. Start when they are young. Just bending and tying the branches down. Away from the center of the plant. It allows the middle and lower budsites to mature above the once covering canopy. Maybe do a scrog. But you have to start it early as well. One plant will fill a screen up. Ask pushit.. Gotta train it,too. Just moving and somewhat bending,to the sites in the screen above. Once you have it as full as you want. Then flower.


If you were to leave the plant like it is... You will see those lower sites start to fill out and before you know it they have caught-up with the mid side branches...

Ga.

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Originally Posted by GaGrown

They penetrated the plug today! Hell Yeah! Cut it and transplanted it. She'll be flowering before ya know it.. This is the preference of procedure, for my needs from now on!

Ga.

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Nice! I haven't had much success to date with cloning (tried with domes and bubblers to no avail), but this method seems much easier. Is the trick to do it at a node or can you do it anywhere on the plant? About how long does it take to see the roots penetrate the plug? Do you have to use the cloning gel for this to work?

The plants in the flower box will just have to squeeze in there any way they can I guess.

This is the plant I need to start low stress on:
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These are the little clones I was given on Thanksgiving:
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I should probably do something to them as well.

I'll have to read up on the process...

These are the plants from seeds:

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They are staying so low, they're a lot older than the one I need to start low stress on.

Low, wide, and perfectly symmetrical.

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They're taking their time and growing right I guess.

May be this is an older purer strain of indica?