Hi guys, been a while.

I just ended up running a testrun with the amazon while I perfected a way to effectivelly clone into 5 inch pots.
This was the reason I ended up not going very serious with this run in the end. I ended up just saving one white widow plant and that one will be harvested tomorrow or the day after.

The way to go clone wise, after trying some different ways, is mediumless aeroponics.
I now use an aeroponic 20 plant cloner and it's da shit. It is extremelly effective, has a dome with variable opening and is very compact and quiet.
I tried to use it for cloning in coco, in RW and in dirt plugs but mediumless is best.

One problem I noticed though. Plants are extremelly sensitive for pH during the rooting days. MUCH more so that later on. Also the machine needs everyday setting of pH since water evaporates quite fast in an aeroponic system and saltlevels in the remaining water quickly changes the pH. With pH outside of 5.2-6.2 roots grow fine. Outside of that it seems to stop directly.
That might be good to know for someone, sure was for me when I noticed it. pH meter is a must for this kind of cloning.

Now, I was contacted by another grower not too far away that is about to start up and we ended up changing some clones so now I have K2 as well.
Looks like I'm gonna flower 3 K2's together with 13 White Widow in the run I am setting up for now but final numbers is not set yet.

I will clone all 3 K2's because they all 3 come from different plants. That will make it possible for me to choose which one will mother my K2's in the future a bit later when I know more about the genetics in them and how they grow and put on buds.

I'm gonna use this Log for the upcoming grow as is it really the first serious grow in the amazon system.
I have learned a lot from running this testrun of which a few things are really important.

Cannabis wants it's roots cool. As soon as the temperature goes above 19 deg Celsius they start going brown and shut down from rot. To keep the temperature this low with a black plastic system and a 600W light above is very hard and it took me weeks to solve. I have a fan designated to take cold fresh air from the intake of the tent straight down into the reservoir now and that has solved it, in the summer I'm gonna have to come up with something better though I think. I also bought a big sheet of mylar that will be glued all over the top of the system prior to the start of this grow.

The other lesson I've learned is that pH is much more important and needs constant attention. Basically it needs to be set every other day or so. It's easilly done though so no problems.

So, wish me luck.
I am quite sure I wont disappoint you this time. I have done my homework and real life testing now and this should work out really nicelly.

Pics to come.

Puffzter