Blueberyy/Belladonna/Sweet Tooth Log

[slayer34ny]

Well it started out great......first three plants I checked, 2 BB and 1 BD, were all confirmed beautiful ladies. The other BD and 3 BB show only signs of pending nutsacks. Since the others showed so early (2nd 12 hour day) I figure these 4 to be males. But I will wait and see. Both ST show little or no sign of anything yet, but it is pretty early.

A question....If I dare attempt to clone the females I got, I obviouslly have to re-veg them first. But for how long do I veg before I clone?????? And if i do attempt it, does the roll-back affect the plant (OG Mom) in any negative way???? (Besides the added few weeks to the grow time)

[slayer34ny]

Well I am a little disappointed. 5 males...only 3 females. And on top of that I lost a strain.....both Sweet Tooth's were males. So I am left w/ 1 Belladonna and 2 Blueberry's. Guess i cant be too bitter, all the plants look great! I got some major stage/shoot development.

A few updated pics. The first is of all 5 males. The second is of one of the male BB, I really wanted this one to turn out female....so beautiful. The last two are of the BB growth. I counted 12 stages at only 11" high .

A few questions.
1) I have been led to believe I have to re-veg these females for about a week before I take any cuttings. Is this true?

2) Will there be any adverse affects, besides added time, to the original females I take the clones from by switching light so much? I have heard BB is a unstable strain.

3) Is aeroponic cloning the way to go. Have had NO success w/ soil and powder root toner. Any inexpensive, effective ideas would be greatly appreciated.

[Halcyon420]

Progressing nicely there man.

Been 4 years since I last had a grow on - are the females the ones with tendrils growing out? :stoned:

[smpaz420]

i am on my first grow, so i am not an expert. I took some cuttings from my girls when they started to show, this was a few weeks ago. One of them had a nice root growing out the other day, and the other is still looking good, just no roots showing yet (these are in humidity dome). I took a few more from other plants that were behind in the flowering process, i put those in an bubble cloner in rapid rooters. I like the bubble cloner alot better, they have not wilted a bit in 24 hours and they dont have a dome on either. I bought all the supplies at walmart for less than 30 bucks total. good luck and nice plants you have there.

[slayer34ny]

The first three pics are of females Halcyon420. Those are lil white pestils you see. The other pics are males, but they really dont show anything recognizable yet. But they look like lil balls, some tend too "hang" out a bit than others....some cluster at nodes.

I snapped a pic of one of the males. I havent killed em' yet. I am considering letting them mature, and collecting some pollen.

Another question.

I am planning on bagging it and cutting it once the male matures, and shaking it to release the pollen. I was then going to carefully scrape any pollen from the bag. Then I was going to store it in small glass jar (possablly in fridge or freezer???) till my females are 3-4 weeks into flowering, then I will paint brush some pollen on bottom flowers. ANY BETTER IDEAS????

[jimm1432]

wait for the balls to mature then put paper underneath them when they pop collect it up in a plastic baggie and put in the freezer will last 6-12 months.

or make pollen hash :rastasmoke:

[slayer34ny]

OK....first, thanks to all for the help and suggestions. I went to my local Grow Store and bought a few items and got some much needed re-assurance...lol. Got an 80 unit tray and basin($8). A dome ($5). Some plugs of grow medium (looks like peat, forgot to ask) ($12) and some cloning gel ($13). I was told if I screw this up I would be the only person yet NOT to succeed with this method. We will see I am going to start tonight or tommarow and will post some finished pics of my work.

Here are a few pics of what I got. (The Tiger Bloom for later ) and a pic of the ladies I am going to clone, before I shred em'.

[jchap]

ooh belladonna(beautiful lady)

i've her she can be pretty phyco active (trippy)

cute cat

[jchap]

wait for the balls to mature then put paper underneath them when they pop collect it up in a plastic baggie and put in the freezer will last 6-12 months.

or make pollen hash :rastasmoke:

you cant smoke pollen, i think you mean pollem(not made from pollen)

[slayer34ny]

I took all of my cutting from the bottom 2-3 shoots of all the plants (2BB, 1BD). I got about 70 cuttings. I used every plug in the bag, and the tray is quite full. I took sections of about 2 leaf sets, cut at a 45 deg angle w/ a sharp blade. Removed the bottom set of leaves and dipped them into the clone gel. After that I inserted the about 3/4 of the way into the plugs. I now have the tray under the dome and under my 400w lamp with the original mothers.

Posting some finished pics of the cuttings, and the moms after the work was done. Ill post and keep thread updated with there progress.