Quote Originally Posted by PharmaCan
Home.Grower - It is common to deprive the mother plant of any nutrients for one week before cutting clones. This puts the plant into a nitrogen deficiency which promotes faster root growth in the clones. While the cutting has to no roots, and therefore no means of nutrient uptake, it is senseless to feed it via the rockwool. Foliar feeding is counterproductive at this point because you want to force the plant to grow roots so that it can eat. If you are foliar feeding it won't be as hungry so won't root as fast. Meanwhile, the cutting neads nutrition from somewhere so it is "eating" its leaves.

If those were my clones, I would trim the leaves and cut of all the brown parts and a lot of the yellow parts. For trimming the yellow, you mainly are just trying to cut down on unneeded weight that the cutting must support - and your cuttings look nicer and healthier so it does some good things as far as your attitude is concerned too.

Nice looking growroom!!!! :thumbsup:

PC :smokin:
Hello PharmaCan and thanks for commenting here. I appreciate you shared knowledge with regard to starving mother plants. I'm not sure if this is what my supplier intended. But I shall assume it is as the clones were very much lacking.

I have been foliar feeding with Voodoo Juice. It doesn't actually prescribe the user to foliar spray the product onto the plants. Instead I shall apply this only to the cubes. But it neither is a rooting hormone like Hygrozyme. I think I'll stop using voodoo juice and apply a mild dose of hygrozyme to the cubes over the coming day or two.

I have also trimmed most of the leaves back as you've suggested.

thanks for commenting here and I hope you stay tuned in to assist where I might be going wrong.