First E & F, how's it lookin vets?

[stinkyattic]

go into your user cp and under options you can enable reputation and see what comments people have left you. then your square goes from grey to green. Hell, you probably have another square by now.

[basementbotany]

Ahhh, Gotcha! so what exactly does the square mean? going to take new pics right now and update here in about a half an hour.

[basementbotany]

just a quick pic update, pH 5.8, ppm:unknown (and will remain unknown for quite awhile, probably pick that up sometime in flowering) Temp. 72 degrees. Plants drank about 2 gal. of water the past 24 hours.
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[basementbotany]

don't mind that little chica in pic 5 on the bottom right, she's just an expirement, probably won't last much longer.

[basementbotany]

few new pics
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[basementbotany]

probably wait until i flower before i post new pics. thinking about lights out friday night for 24 hrs, then lights on saturday night for 12/12. good/bad idea?

[stinkyattic]

You look like you are ready to flower at any time. Go for it! (you probably already did... )

[basementbotany]

no, haven't flowered yet, need to take some clones first. my humididty dome isn't sufficient enough for clones, it's not air tight all the way around, so it let's too much humididty out. i'm ready and excited to flower, just know it's not exactly the right time yet.

[basementbotany]

stinky, you think i should wait and take clones b4 12/12, or take clones through flowering? don't want to make any mistakes at this point in the game. i have always heard it will not affect the plant to take clones within the first 2 weeks of flowering, but not to mess with them much after that. is this correct, or bad advice?

[stinkyattic]

You should take your clones right away. It is possible to take and root clones up to about the middle of the 3rd week of flower (before significant bud-set) without too much hassle, so if you take them now and they fail, you can do it again...
BUT! Remember that when you top a plant, you should allow it 3 weeks to recover before flowering or yield will suffer. So if you take the clones now, it would be better to wait 2-3 weeks BEFORE initiating 12/12.
If you are taking clones in flower, you should only use branches that you don't care about (remove a whole branch preferably). For example if your plant has 4 growing tips, and you want to take clones, cut off an entire lead and take all the shoots off that for clones, leaving 3 growing tips on the plant.