Quote Originally Posted by emilya
Thank you Bigsby! ostgood:

A lot of good information there. Now I see much more clearly how this works and what I need to do. Of course it won't go perfectly, but I can see now that I will be able to do what I want to do. I don't need crazy amounts here, its just me and my brother and we have a relative with MS that will be helped a great deal with our efforts. I can see that if all goes reasonably well, by the end of the first full scrog with 4-6 plants, I will have all I need for many months of this powerful strain.

At that point I just wanted to experiment a bit. I do love White Widow and I will probably keep one going for several grows so I can judge other strains against what I have learned about its growth patterns, but I have many strains I am very curious about and have never smoked... Jack Herer for example... Diesel... Kush... and I plan on trying them out.

I also got a package of 20 free seeds with my last order and as far as I understand these are seeds that growers have given back to the Amsterdam folks as examples of the strains they grew. This is pretty exciting to me... a grab bag of possibly 20 different types of beans! I can not see how this will be anything but very interesting as I work through that bag over the next couple of years. I fully intend to have a collection of Mason jars someday with a connoisseurs collection of tastes and heads that I can enjoy with my closest friends.

Immediate plans:

I am still waiting on my clone dome to show up. Tomorrow is day 49 and a week after my transplant to the 3 gal pot. The top growth is at the perfect point for the FIM. I think I will do that instead of the cloning tomorrow and then wait another week to do the clones when I am all set up and ready for them.

I still have some more reading to do about cloning anyway as I find I still have some questions. Such as, if my lower branches now are long enough that I could take just part of the branch as the clone... is there any advantage in this for the new clone? Is it better to be taller and have to strip leaves off... or is it better to leave half of the branch so that it can split off a couple more branches for cloning on the mother?

The fun thing that I can report as of tonight is the reduction of stress in my current grow. No longer am I looking at it as 4 plants that may or may not survive and all this time and money invested that I may or may not have wasted. Now I know that this is going to work. I may just have one plant left, but she is going to now turn into many more, and that makes me feel good. It's a good place to be in, and I hope that all the new growers out there get a chance to get to this point if they are serious about learning how to garden. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I definitely feel I have reached a milestone. Already the work is going to pay off as my mother now will provide for the future as she gives back the love I gave her.

It is a good day here. I hope yours is going as well! :thumbsup:

Emmie
:twocents: Starting @ Page 31 Marijuana Botany, your cuttings should be from 4-18". You should have at least a couple of nodes on each was what I originally read and always do. but, I like RC Clarke's book (it was his Masters Thesis) to refresh on. And he gives a range of three to six weeks for hardening off.