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I have a friend (growing about 5 years now) and he starts 24/0 and works his way slowly throughout the grow to 4/20. think every 1.5 weeks he shortens the day a bit. he gets pretty damn good results but as stated above work with your skillset (he has his masters in Horticulture)

I'd be scared shitless to experiment like that lol. Takes a gut full of courage for me to use a 10% bleach mix to clean my room lol. I'm allways mixin it up then takin a puff..... Then paranoia...... Did i put bleach in or not??? How much went in. Second geussing myself and mixing a fresh one haha. I swear one of these days I'm gonna install cctv, just to keep track of myself!

Hello Al,

May question is on the 14th day of the cycle you are cutting clones from the mamas, moving the newly rooted clones to the flowering room, and harvesting to make room for the new clones. Also you would have the last harvest drying for 2 week which is about right to process.. So that's 3 if not 4 things needed to be done on that 14th day.. Can you give some insight on how you deal with this process. I am sure you have this dialed..

Thanks Al,

Originally Posted by painkillerman

just my 2 cents but u grow ur own moms n ur clonrs will b e strong i dont lik releying on clubs/friends to many give out clones from unhealthu stock ie PM, this simple mistake i was in a time crunch i did same thing as u and trust the grower of clones as my last grow i had to use sulfur tried all remides this worked best due to no rh spikes(folair spray cures)this sulfur saves my buds but cost me 50 pounds of hash making sweet leaf and pounds of product i had it but i cant smoke it tastes like hydralic fuild smells nasty so if any has better cure for PM ive tried rh 30 ,25'temps i cant go any higher in

light intesity,milk

sprays baking soda sprays im tring UV light with great sucess with killing PM as i run sealed rooms with uv lighing on all intakes to make sure no molds,fungi,viruses can get to my babies and i helped to breach my defences STUPID MISTAKE but i hear round these parts pk ,danby are PM spyies waiting to get ur babies under thier control this reson alone its worth urt ime to grow mom stock if u cant ie no room make deal with buddy he helps u u help him works for all iam waiting for my snow slyder PM resistent now only 3 weeks old/joker collection old school afgani crossed northern #1 heavy larthgenic/narcotic stone avge sog 20-25 grams per pole highest 33 grams sog method

How did that comma get in there?

Originally Posted by Bigz2277

I have a friend (growing about 5 years now) and he starts 24/0 and works his way slowly throughout the grow to 4/20. think every 1.5 weeks he shortens the day a bit. he gets pretty damn good results but as stated above work with your skillset (he has his masters in Horticulture)

This method will result in tall plants, which will not perform well under artificial lighting. Any buds more than about 600mm from the lamp will be fluffy, leafy & will be a pain to manicure for little yield. Also, this tapered lighting schedule cannot be used in a continuous harvest SoG plan such as mine.

In SoG, where clones are immediately put into 12/12 light, plants will grow in a tapering vegetative habit for the 1st 3-4 weeks, when they will shift into full flowering habit. Vegetative growth under 12/12 will halt when the plants are about 400-500mm tall roundabout the end of week 4- and the end result is stalks of tight, dense buds that are easy to manicure.

I really don't understand why people insist upon complicating things.

Originally Posted by BluCross

Hello Al,

May question is on the 14th day of the cycle you are cutting clones from the mamas, moving the newly rooted clones to the flowering room, and harvesting to make room for the new clones. Also you would have the last harvest drying for 2 week which is about right to process.. So that's 3 if not 4 things needed to be done on that 14th day.. Can you give some insight on how you deal with this process. I am sure you have this dialed..

Thanks Al,

You're quite right- I'm busier than a one-legged asskicker every 2 weeks. However, the drying only takes 3 days in my bud dryer.

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See detail here.

Cutting a batch of clones takes only about an hour. Packing a set of pots with media takes about the same. Pots have to be washed with a 10% bleach plus a few drops of dish soap solution before re-use, but if you have about a tray's worth of spare pots, the pot-washing task can be deferred until time is less precious. However, clearing space for the new batch of clones is a bit of a challenge.

I often have to put some plants from tray 4 on the floor in the flowering room to clear space to bring in the new batch. After that, it's go-go-go on manicuring to get them into the dryer quickly before mould has a chance to get at them. It's important to keep plants pending harvest in the controlled conditions in the flowering room, where there's a dehumidifier & plenty of ventilation available to keep the outbound plants in good shape until they can be manicured.

I've long considered using some sort of manicuring/trimming machine to speed up the tedious & much hated manicuring task, which I should be doing right now as a matter of fact... but I don't like leaving any leaf at all on my buds, which is always the result from any of these machines.

Al great info, what should I use to periodically clean my cool tubes, I find that windex leaves a residue, so I just use a microfiber cloth. Also, what about cleaning the adjust-a-wing itself? Thanks sir!

Originally Posted by Rick Ratlin

Al great info, what should I use to periodically clean my cool tubes, I find that windex leaves a residue, so I just use a microfiber cloth. Also, what about cleaning the adjust-a-wing itself? Thanks sir!

I do OK cleaning mine with Windex & paper towels. A microfibre cloth (as for eyeglasses) will do ok, I spoze, works for eyeglasses!

The reflective surfaces of the AAW are on the underside, so they won't pick up appreciable amounts of dust etc. but windex & paper towels will do should you feel the urge to clean them.

Originally Posted by mountainboy

Hi Al, I know its mostly strain dependent, but I was wondering if you might have any ideas on how to keep my plants at a finished height of 2ft. I thought maybe by keeping air temps cooler ,but no big swings in temps between lights on and off, or maybe reducing N in the nute mix until they finish stretching. I dont want to just start with smaller clones as I worry that would reduce yield. My start height for clones now is 8''. But would like to start with even larger ones.
O.K. for real last question(for now)lol. I have no heat issues at all with my a/c 1000w light, so is 1ft. from canopy to close?
On a separate issue, I was the guy with the duckfoot, I looked all over for info on growing indoors with the stuff and came up empty,just wondering if you might have come across anything?
Thanks again for your help Al. As always thanks in advance and looking forward to your response.

sorry AL , I just wanted to repost this, in hopes you might see it.