Donkey Dick and VT local IBL Indoor/Outdoor 2008

[stinkyattic]

SEXUAL MATURITY!!! Oh yay.
So now, with side growth really taking off, and the first of the plants showing alternating nodes, it is time to 'CLONE FOR SEX'.

Here's some pics!
1- The girls before their haircuts
2- The girls lined up in order of vigor. What I've done is roughly arrange them from most pathetic to most brilliant.
3- A pair of BOG BlueMoonRocks who are along for the ride
4- The same pair of BMRs, showing topped vs. untopped growth patterns. The untopped one was a mistake; I meant to do them all at the same time but it's good to show anyway.
5- Now I get a bunch of tags together labelled 'DD 1- 11' that I will attach to plants with the '1' tag going on the lamest one and the '11' tag going on the most vigorous. This way, when I finally get them sexed, I will take the highest-number male and a couple of the highest-number females for my parent plants. It's fuzzy, but the little circle on each tag means that the plant has not yet been sexed, and when I do learn sex, I'll add the appropriate symbol.

[stinkyattic]

Shown is a plant that I consider ready to clone.
1- Getting the hormone ready. Dip-N-Grow is fungicidal, and even mixed in this nasty ass test tube it roXors
2- The new growth on a plant that has been topped. This is where we take the cuts.
3- The pair of new shoots, including a node, slit right down the middle to make 2 clones... you only run into this situation in a young plant that has only recently gone alternating, and then, only when you are taking the whole top for clones.
4- They quickly go sit in the test tube of hormone
5- Meanwhile, while they are soaking up the juice, you take your rapidrooter and plunge the xacto blade deep into the bottom of it. The hole they come from the factory with is way too big for cannabis, and to avoid direct air contact with the cut part of the stem, and good contact with the medium, a simple slit works better. Then, you can use the RR free-standing with good air flow around the base, meaning faster rooting with less chance of rot.

[stinkyattic]

1- The clone as it looks in the RR
2- The clone with the leaves cut down to less than 1" each to minimize water loss through transpiration
3- What's left of the donor
4- Closeup of cut site showing hollow stem- this is a place for disease to enter and we must stabilize it somehow
5- Solution, cut a bit of a plastic toothpick to make a plug

[stinkyattic]

1- Moms after their haircuts- a couple I considered to be too small to clone, but they are the low-number ones anyway and will be put into flower without backing up a mother to save since I don't consider them good examples of the strain.
2- The clones in their tray. They will get misted with wilt-pruf and a wet dome will go over them. That's it. The next time I will touch them is 3 days later when I will mist them with SMC leaf wash (to avoid fungal infection) and re-wet the inside of the dome
3- Stuff that's rooting in the corner lol.. magical stacking prop domes!! There's enough ambient light in the room to let them do their thing, even stacked, as long as I pull them away from the wall.

[dylan]

Humm, very intresting toothpick solution. I'll have to try that one of these days. Along with the cuting of the leaves down to 1".

Your always so helpfull.

[stinkyattic]

Thank you!
The reason the leaves get chopped is to reduce both surface area from which they can lose moisture, reduce rate of photosynthesis to slow down the whole metabolism while they go through the shock of being cut from the plant (the way patients with very severe injuries or illnesses are sometimes put into a chemically-induced coma to increase their chance of survival), and reduce weight dragging them down- they won't actually wilt nearly as easily.

[KL4D4]

In post #49... I was wondering exactly what that lighter says upon it

Do you (word I can't make out) want a pink lighter

[stinkyattic]

"Think about it... do you REALLY want a pink lighter?"
This to prevent lighter theft. It backfires though... I recently found the other one that said "It's for smokin' not for stealin' " between the cushions on my buddy's sofa... and I KNOW I didn't leave it there! lol

[snowdawg]

looking good...

:noel:

[ProGroWannabe]

Nice documentation on this one stinky, as usual.

"You must spread reputation around before giving it to stinkyattic again."