First Grow From Clone

[Slevinkal]

Since my clones have now been moved from a DWC/Dome into soil its time to start a new thread for em. I mostly no longer consider them my first grow even though my first grow has yet to be harvested.

Since I've already potted these girls this is the quick run-down of the past two weeks or so. I started by selecting the stems I wanted to take as clones and clipped half of each fan leave off from the selected area. I waited 5 days for the leaves to heal a bit then clipped the clones, went strait into water for another diagonal cut, then a quick dip into root stim and into the DWC they went.

The clones spent 16 days in a DYI'er DWC and under a dome for 4 days. During this time I went 12/12 with my other plants and one that I cloned proved male. He was cut and the clones pulled. The plant the other clones came from showed pistols so they were potted into strait Fox Farms Ocean Forest, no additional mix, and then the first watering was using the water from the DWC res.

The clones have now been in soil for 24 hours and act like theyre lovin it so far. Since new growth was showing and I plan on using a scrogg for these girls in the future I went ahead and topped each. I will continue to top each again and again, trunk and stem, until they get a nice bushy flat canopy then they will be trained into scrogg for two weeks before 12/12. I'm not sure how long I will let them veg yet, atleast until the older plants are harvested, it kinda depends on the space in my veg drawer and how fast they produce the canopy I'm looking to get.


Pics from the beginning

The dome
Day 2
Day10
Day 10 roots

Slevinkal Reviewed by Slevinkal on 11-06-2010. First Grow From Clone Since my clones have now been moved from a DWC/Dome into soil its time to start a new thread for em. I mostly no longer consider them my first grow even though my first grow has yet to be harvested. Since I've already potted these girls this is the quick run-down of the past two weeks or so. I started by selecting the stems I wanted to take as clones and clipped half of each fan leave off from the selected area. I waited 5 days for the leaves to heal a bit then clipped the clones, went Rating: 5

[Slevinkal]

Day 16 Roots
A1 (24 hours in soil)
A2 (24 hours in soil)
Drawer system
The male roots

[Slevinkal]

Everybody feel free to chime in with any questions or comments.

I guess I'm on the right track here.

[canniwhatsis]

If you've already topped, it's kinda mute,... but bend the main stalk off to the side and tie it down to train,... just doing this will induce accelerated growth in the branches, and bending the branches out to the side has the same effect. This is LST or Low Stress Training.

Topping is very stressful and slows new growth while the plant figures out what to do, over topping will create a canopy with too much vegetation in the center, and loose low quality buds when flowered, unless you prune out unwanted new growth.

My current SCROG was never topped, just trained. I'm going to start working some new girls for this here soon,.... well 2 weeks ago!

[Slevinkal]

Ok

Then despite the initial top already done Im going to trim these girls the same way I trimmed the fans on The Beast. Doing so really made the stems come out and try to get even with the top while the top was the only part that did not grow rapidly. However, when the side stems did reach the cut top it all started to grow at the same rate together.

You yourself said it would be perfect for scrogg.

When the sides did even with the top is when I was going to top again. After that, as soon as the second top showed more growth I was gonna move into its scrogg zone and let it go for a coupe weeks before flower.

[canniwhatsis]

Males grow differently than females!

A girl that grows like that would be amazing!

But, Understand that MJ is a wind pollenated plant.

So Males want to grow as many branches as they can and all those branches want to stretch for the sky.

Then they can throw lots of flowers out there, way up high and spread all over, for the wind to spread to the females.


I was hesitant to sex that plant in your first pix because it's really hard to tell at that stage,....

I in my heart knew it was male, but couldn't be certain. Maybe if we were 1700 miles closer I could have looked first hand and been able to say, but that's not the case.


You've topped your girls, nothing wrong with that,.....


Are they under those t-8's 18/6? :wtf:

What I see in the pic will require more light within the month.

[weeddaddy50]

:thumbsup:

[Slevinkal]

Are they under those t-8's 18/6? :wtf:

The clones? Yes. They were all under one CFL that was 12-15" away for the 16 days they were in the DWC, I stuck them under the T8's when I potted them into soil. Is this a problem?

And, I see your point on the male vs female growth patterns, it makes sense.

:thumbsup:

Thank you

[Slevinkal]

Derail for a min...

A girl that grows like that would be amazing!

I got two girls that are close

Now remember, all my plants were not the same age. They were all planted at diff times and trimmed at diff times to. I would trim a bit on one and see how it reacted before trimming another and so on so I kinda got a lot of variables running loose here.

The best lookin plant is The Beast (the male) I recently cut. I started triming him first as the test then moved to A. A is the larger of the two fems and IDK if its lack of turning with only one sidelight close but one side is growing faster than the other, which is unlike B but B was in the center so it received equal side light. C is odd cause it was so short and stumpy that I forced it to stretch before triming the fans to produce the canopy I want.

At one time The Beast (male) looked like C (female) does now. And, A would have the canopy I wanted if not for the shorter stem reach on one side. I dont think that would be a scrogg issue anyhow though.

If C does grow like B did, and I think it will. The stems will all reach up and about time they become level with the top is when the topped section will start growing again. This should make for a nice canopy even though I wont scrogg these now. I think its too late for that.

Back to the clones now Its still very early on but they seem to love the soil :rastasmoke:

[canniwhatsis]

Looks good on all fronts, I'm tuned in to both :jointsmile: