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Originally Posted by DrGreenFinger  Al B,
I don't know where to get at you, but I want to ask you about breeding G-13 seeds. |
I'm not the guy to ask about breeding. I sprout beans and propagate by cuttings. I let others do the breeding work.
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Originally Posted by Sponge Ass No Pants is your clone tray fed manually or on a timer and roughly how much how often, |
Please read the entire thread. Your questions all are answered in the discussion, but I'll cover them here out of courtesy.
I water clones by hand. Each cube is watered by dipping only a corner of the cube into a bucket of a watering solution made from 10L tapwater, 10ml 50% grade H2O2 and pH corrected to 5.8. I water cubes 2x/day at 12h intervals.
The trick is to keep cubes damp, never wet. A 40mm cube weighs 5g dry and 20-25g when properly just damp and not wet. Saturating cubes drives all air out of them. Oxygen is necessary for the formation of root nodes on stems and also to prevent opportunistic anaerobic pathogen problems, which can cause stem tips to rot. Overwet cubes will cause slow rooting if not the death of the cutting. Get it right and you will have roots out of the bottom of the cubes in as little as 5-7 days.
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also how tall do your mothers get (from the bottom of the stem) before they're replaced? cheers pal
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The height of a mum on retirement is kinda hard to say as I am always cutting them back and really quite severely. I retire them when they are no longer vigorous or have signs of having picked up some gnats in the rootmass.
Before cuttings and after. Mums recover this entire mass of veg material in 14 days. They're about 500-600mm tall before cuttings, perhaps 225-300mm after.
After a number of passes of cuttings, despite repeated severe pruning back, the woody mainstem of a mum gets so long that there's not enough vertical room in the mum area for them to veg through 2 more weeks without the new material getting up into the light. I do retire mums that get too tall in this way. I always have at least 2 replacement mums being vegged up at any given time. I prune those back as needed, without necessarily using the clippings for clones. Usually takes about 3 weeks and at least a couple passes of maintenance pruning to get a new mum into shape to deliver cuttings in the style I need them.
With a flood system beneath them, the mum area needs about 1900-2100mm (~6.5'-7') vertical height from the floor to allow sufficient lamp-leaf spacing.