Originally Posted by SnowWhite

yep, great stuff VV....I'll enjoy following along.

I'm v jealous of your tri-meter btw. Bluelab stuff is the shit! Money well spent dude. I purchased a cheap tri-meter from china off eBay. Shouldn't of bothered. It's total shite man! Never seen such wackey readings. I will invest in some blue lab meters when/if I ever go hydro. I'll probably go for the Bluelab EC and PH truncheons though instead of the tri meter.

Did I mention.....excellent grow!!!

Originally Posted by VictorVIcious

Welcome William, and props for your calm respones, we know it is an education process. I really like that 'harshing my mellow', I may have to use that one.
Some one asked what males are good for. They are good for practice and demo's. Since we don't care about the results we can get comfortable with the cloning process and increase our chances of success when it counts, kinda like batting practice, I understand the pro's still do that, work on keeping the basics sharp. So here goes, pruning and cloning practice, get it right in practice and you will get it right in life.
Here are the details of this plant, its 18" tall. The pencil is 6" to the eraser, I love it when a plan comes together. 1/3 of 18...uhh ok. We remove the fan leaves from the bottom 1/3 and then the branches. I place them in water with a small amount of Dark Energy, mostly humic acids and a little Super Thrive. We removed 10 viable branches from this plant. Here are the supplies I use for clones, this time around. The bottle on the right with the funny shape is a gel I use, may not be necessary. The Rapid Rooters are my preferred medium for this step, they are an all natural product, and a packet of Clonex, enough to do the 50 plugs come in this particular package. Costs a little more to purchase this way, and I don't like have a new tray every time, not very enviromentally friendly, especially from some one selling Natural Products, its $22.95 or a little less than $.50/ plant. I will split the tray of fifty, I don't feel comfortable working with them that close together. And I havent decided about the propagation dome yet, Al says they are not necessary.
The alcohol goes on these four things, your one edge razor blade, your wooden or plastic cutting block, your cloning gel container and your hands. This is why you want to be 'ready to clone, everything in place and remove it from the area when its no longer necessary. If you sanitize your hands and handle a buch of stuff... Let these items air dry. For practice I will use these Rockwool cubes. I did not overwater them. For instruction on cloning using rockwool check Al B Fuct's cloning tutorial. Here its just practice.
Ok batter up, here is a branch, and we cut the leaves off flush with the stem, make our angle cut below that and place it in our cloning gel, at least an inch deep. Put it in our plug, don't jam it to the bottom. We want to make sure our cubes are making contact with the stem. Mist them and place them in your clone..whatever.
Please any of the experienced growers that se anything I should do different. let me know I still have at least three plants to practice with. VV

Originally Posted by VictorVIcious

Well, gotta go do those taxes, they are 'harshing my mellow'. VV

Originally Posted by MstrWilliam

In the (missing) spirit of the IRS, I wonder if royalties should be claimed!

Originally Posted by VictorVIcious

And you would only claim the royalties if I paid them and that would harsh my mellow. VV

Originally Posted by HazyEyes

VV i just made my own clones about 5 days ago pretty much the same way i used clonex aswell and added a little bit of organic micronutes to the pelites they are in and am still misting them twice a day but so far i have seen no root development and leafs are starting to turn yellow and die (bottomleafs) but tops are still green, should i have not have seen roots yet or maybe give them a few more weeks.