Champ is flowering along beautifully. I've got a clear/cloudy mix of trichs, percentage depends upon the bud in question. Keeping an eye out for amber to start flush. Harvest will probably be modest, but it smells divine, and I'm very happy with my first hydro effort! Pix to come in a few days.

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Question: I did some pruning about 2 weeks ago of some scraggly stems, to keep them from diverting resources from the more abundant ones. I stuck them in some water, and true to Champ genes, they rooted like crazy. They've been under the same lights, so they are producing teeny little flowers. Is it possible to revert these to veg as clones at this late point?

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Manwithbike: If you've not already discovered, you're more likely to get prompt answers to this type of question by starting a new thread or posting in a newbie question thread, but I'm happy to throw in my 2 cents here!

I prefer to germinate before placing in rockwool, and here's why: You can then place only growing sprouts in rockwool, thereby avoiding wasting space on seeds that weren't viable.

Here's how I germinate:
  • 1 pint of tap water
  • 3 oz of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide
  • 2 mL of bleach
  • seeds
  • paper towel, folded in quarters
  • source of heat (I use an electric heating pad like you'd use for sore muscles)


Put 'em all together, soak seeds for 24 hours. Keep an eye on them - if you see cracked ones, take them out and place them inside the dampened (wet it, wring it out) paper towel. Place paper towel near heat source, put whole schmear in a dark place (I keep mine in a foil-covered Jiffy Propagator). After the 24 hour soak, put all seeds in the paper towel. Check regularly for sprouting. Once you have some white poking out, you either open your propagator a bit and remove the foil, or jump ahead and place the sprout in your rockwool, pointy-seed-end up. Give them gentle (or distant) light while they toughen up.

Good luck!