Clones - Fertilizer or Not???

After taking cuttings for cloning should I use any fertilizers or is water enough for them?

Any advice will be appreciated

no food once you get them into there medium you can give them some diluted food you need your roots to grow and search out for it

the75bag said:

no food once you get them into there medium you can give them some diluted food you need your roots to grow and search out for it

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Thank you for the quick response. Can you recommend any type of food? I read in a book I have that they like lots of Phosphorous. Is this correct??

I always take one pinch of flowering ferts and mix it up in a gallon of water and feed my clones after a week or so... I said a PINCH. Good luck

CLOSETGROWTH said:

I always take one pinch of flowering ferts and mix it up in a gallon of water and feed my clones after a week or so... I said a PINCH. Good luck

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Awesome, thanks for the info. I have 6 plants, 2 each of 3 different strains. I want to choose one of each to mother from. The were germinated 6.5 weeks ago from Fem seeds. Pretty sure all three will be girls. Hopefully. Check it out, tell me what you think.

I am also wondering if it would be possible to take them form seedling directly to a 12/12 cycle? Any thoughts?

rlourens said:

Awesome, thanks for the info. I have 6 plants, 2 each of 3 different strains. I want to choose one of each to mother from. The were germinated 6.5 weeks ago from Fem seeds. Pretty sure all three will be girls. Hopefully. Check it out, tell me what you think.

I am also wondering if it would be possible to take them form seedling directly to a 12/12 cycle? Any thoughts?

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Here is my babies, or should I say soon to be mamas

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/296557-first-tent-grow-comments-advice.html

just tap water.. you want them to pop roots! trust me on this as I LOVE to experiment with nutrients

12/12 is pointless imo, even if you start at 12/12 it will be 3-4+ weeks till its vegged long enough and gotten big enough for it to mature and show pre-flowers and then start flowering. if you use 24/0 for example it will mature and show prflowers in veg at about 3-5 weeks in, and be alot bigger, and they will go from veg mode to flower mode much quicker when you do change the lights to 12/12 since its sexually mature and all ready to get down to it right away.

I am also wondering if it would be possible to take them form seedling directly to a 12/12 cycle? Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]


IMHO, You should let a seedling mature before flowering. I always have much better plants after the fresh strain cycled a few times... as in grown out a few times, or cloned.

CLOSETGROWTH said:

I am also wondering if it would be possible to take them form seedling directly to a 12/12 cycle? Any thoughts?

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IMHO, You should let a seedling mature before flowering. I always have much better plants after the fresh strain cycled a few times... as in grown out a few times, or cloned.[/QUOTE]

Cool, then I will rather veg long enough to mature. Thanks for the info