Growing on a budget of $0.00

[beef74]

If I could make a suggest- grab some pete pellets-cheap, and convenient-thats what I use for clones, just letem suck up the water-I'd grab a small bottle of super-thrive, and rooting powder- this can be picked up at any nursery-scrape a little on one side of the cutting stem-dip it in the bottle of rooting powder-stem first-press her in the soaked peet pellet, and sit back.Clones are absolutely invaluable to us.peace

[the image reaper]

avoid Superthrive, that highly over-rated garbage kills young seedlings :wtf: ... it does help rooting, helpful in cloning, but only use 1-2 DROPS per gallon ... I'd avoid it altogether ... also, peat is too acidic for cannabis, it will get you by, but is not the medium of choice ... I recommend RapidRooter plugs for your cloning/seedstarting needs ... and, cloning gel sticks to the stem better than the powder ... I used the powder for years, it works OK, too ... I wonder if anyone caught the title to this thread, of a 'zero budget' ... I assume everyone sees now, there ain't no such thing as 'free', maybe that's why pot costs so much ... good growing :thumbsup:

[Italiano715]

avoid Superthrive, that highly over-rated garbage kills young seedlings :wtf: ... it does help rooting, helpful in cloning, but only use 1-2 DROPS per gallon ... I'd avoid it altogether ... also, peat is too acidic for cannabis, it will get you by, but is not the medium of choice ... I recommend RapidRooter plugs for your cloning/seedstarting needs ... and, cloning gel sticks to the stem better than the powder ... I used the powder for years, it works OK, too ... I wonder if anyone caught the title to this thread, of a 'zero budget' ... I assume everyone sees now, there ain't no such thing as 'free', maybe that's why pot costs so much ... good growing :thumbsup:

so no go on the superthrive? I haven't used it yet this grow, but I was thinking about using some only every few waterings just to help the roots....

:sorry1: for the thread jack

[ForgetClassC]

its all good, the more people in here the better, more good advice for me.

[ForgetClassC]

Here's some new pictures.

We started a cloning chamber, just a little 15w UVB t5 tube with another 13w daylight CFL. The clones are in sphagnum peat pellets with a gentle coating of rooting hormone.

My plant that is shown is now only 21 days old.....I'm so proud of (hopefully) her......

-C

[ForgetClassC]

Got some new pics with our new HPS light. ITs crazy how we found it, yard sale.........yeah I know, weird. We weren't even going to the yard sale, my buddy is a redelivery boy and on his route one day we passed a yard sale, I saw a sign "FLOOD LIGHT FOR SALE". We joked about it, haha we could get a grow light dude, drove by it slowly and saw it was an HPS light. $30. Not as powerful as I would want, its only a 50w, but it definitely helps. Heres the pix of my other crippled weird awesome super growth plant. ITs shitty but you can see the bushy-ness. I trimmed the bottom leaves off and the stem is about a 1/4" thick, I like it.

[ForgetClassC]

Here's an update.......



-C

[Italiano715]

Looking pretty good! Bit droopy, but doesn't look to be anything to worry about! Happy Growing! :thumbsup:

[ForgetClassC]

Here's some more updates from last night. Yesterday's pix were from Monday.

Yeah, I couldn't tell if anything was up with it. I had been in Chicago last week so I had my buddy take care of it. It seemed to completely double over the week. I only water it 1-2 times a week, but I give it a generous amount and every 2 weeks I git it some nutes. I've never heard of anyone doing it but so far it has worked for me. I take 1/2 cup of Ironite(12-10-10) into 3 cups of water. swish it around and strain it. The plant seems to like it and it hasn't burned it so I will continue.I was to transplant it but I need to find a way to do so that isn't too big. I think I'm going to flower it in a week or 2...

-C

[ForgetClassC]

purchasing my flowering bulbs today...... hope she likes them....