Homegrown Seedless Fruit

[pepsychola]

I have finally sexed my plants after four days on 12/12 lighting but now I have reverted lighting back to 18 on and 6 off after eliminating all males. I am left with two females. One I want to harvest eventually and the other I want to take ten cuttings of and keep as a mother plant. Here is what I want to do. Currently above the plant I am using a custom made fixture using 8 daytime cfl's putting out 216 watts (10,000 Lumens, 5000K) plus a small tube fluro 20 watt plant light from GE on the bottom. I would like to clone from the mother plant 10 plants. I am allowed 12 medically in the state of MI. The mother plant will always be vegetative but I need about twelve cuttings from it. The plant is very healthy currently and seems able to support that many cuttings. The question is: can I use these cuttings in an aeroponic system? I also want to use HPS lighting instead of fluoro. I was thinking of aquiring the Alchemy 12 system and a nice 600 watt hps grow light to do the work. Here is where I currently stand. Take a look at my pictures. Please give me some advice.

pepsychola Reviewed by pepsychola on 01-06-2010. Homegrown Seedless Fruit I have finally sexed my plants after four days on 12/12 lighting but now I have reverted lighting back to 18 on and 6 off after eliminating all males. I am left with two females. One I want to harvest eventually and the other I want to take ten cuttings of and keep as a mother plant. Here is what I want to do. Currently above the plant I am using a custom made fixture using 8 daytime cfl's putting out 216 watts (10,000 Lumens, 5000K) plus a small tube fluro 20 watt plant light from GE on the Rating: 5

[jtsik330]

Are you using a fan with your setup? i ask because of how skinny your stems look?

[the image reaper]

you are showing some 'stretch' there, if temperatures allow, try moving the light slightly closer to the plant ... also, above post was good advice, ALWAYS have an oscillating fan in the cabinet, and run it 24/7 ... the constant air circulation will strengthen the stems and branches, lessen the chance of moisture accumulating, and causing mold ... and, it annoys insects ... happy gardening :thumbsup:

[pepsychola]

I do have a plant and the light is about to get replaced. Currently I am using eight 27 watt daytime cfl's. I jerry rigged seven y-connectors to run eight lights out of one fixture. I know it's rediculous but it works great. I am getting at least 10,000 lumens though I just bought a new fixture with new lights. I thought about HPS but the heat would be too much in the closet. I purchased a 432 watt eight t5 bulb fixture. It comes with both veg lights and flowering lights and it doesn't put out as much heat as HPS. What I want to know is should I clone these since they're females? A lot of the nodes look great but how do I know when to clone? I don't want to flower them. I just did it temporarily to know the sex of the plants. Should I clone then wait for the clones and then flower?

[pepsychola]

Actually this image is outdated. I will post some new ones. I gave it lots of water and some nutes. It's a lot more lush now. Almost over night there was new vegetative growth. You will see them soon. The plant to the left got damaged a little. Some fan leaves were cut off. My light fixture fell one one of my plants. Luckily it was a male but it fell on this a little too. It does however look much better after the nutes and watering.

[pepsychola]

Here is a new picture. I placed the fan right next to the plants. It doesn't oscilate though. It blows the plants directly; partly because of what the first guy said. I think they're having a problem with the forced air but they sure have multiplied since I started watering a lot more. How do I deal with them? Are they going to kill my plant? I also lowered the lights and took out the empty pots to have better placement of my girls next to the light. And here are the pix look at before up top and after on this post.