I use most of this site but I mostly stay in subcools oldschool organic section (a subsection of the organics forum, the first and only subsection atop the organics forum) and the stickys in subcools section has his cloning methods and theres plenty of "how to clone" threads everywhere in the growing sections of this forum, so be proactive and search out what you need. The searches on this site and others arent always easy and take some time to filter through in order to find what you need but thats what you need to do.
Myself personally use rapid rooters to clone with under a couple cfl lights on a 18/6 schedule. I use either a store bought humidity dome or a couple of plastic shoe boxes (subs method) and just make sure to keep the rooters from drying out completely. Once you have clones on hand and rooted, a 6-8 week veg period is going to get you some very good sized plants, with proper training/topping and pruning will equate to awesome yields. I see you have your plans pretty well worked out but once you get through a couple grows with the revs TLO style, think about doing a super soil grow. I dont know of an easier method to get the dankest of dank by just watering plants, no nothing else added aside from some sweetener here and there, however as I said I'll be using compost/aact teas as well but I dont see to much better looking bud from such an easy way of growing. TGA has gotten it down to a science and they do all their growing with supersoil so why not grow their genetics with their growing methods/feeding methods??? Thats my take on it anyhow, but I will also say dont switch up mid grow and finish what you started with the revs methods until you get to the point of not being able to get any better with it and are familiar with what you can get out of your strains, then do some side by sides and see what works better rather than starting one way and mixing it up mid grow. This is the biggest most regrettable mistake I made as I newb grower (which I still am)..... I've done synthetic nutes, semi-organic/natural, organic bottled stuff, organic bottled stuff with compost teas (best herb I've grown so far) and I have cheated myself by changing it up so much without finishing what I started on more than one occasion. Stick with what you start and master it is what I'm getting at I guess. Now I can only see the "just add water" style of growing organic cannabis in my future even though I use compost teas, its nothing like using bottled shit......
What I like to do when growing from seed is to grow my seedlings until that have 7 or 8 nodes (before they start alternating, which means they are sexually mature and are ready for budding) and then take a clone of the top of the plant leaving me 2 to 4 branch sets to work with, that leaves me the top 2 nodes which is 4 branches to turn into my 4 main colas and a few extra sets of branches below those to cut off and make into clones once they get big enough. I will try to remember to get some pics tonight of some of my plants to show you how what this method shapes the plants into. Its similar to what nugbuckets mainlining does but instead of using only the single top node with 2 branches, which works out to a better end product as far as bud size and structure but takes a bit longer than what I do because even though the buds tend to be fairly close in size, mainlining will give you buds that are almost identical when finished but it just takes a bit longer. I will start running my plants using the mainlining method once I get my jars filled and a little bit of a supply going on, as of now I am completely out so I am just trying to get some nugs on hand so I dont wanna slow my girls down anymore than I have.....
Theres a lot to learn but as I said, you are starting with good genetics, a VERY good idea in this "hobby" and it sounds like you have your grow equipment/room worked out and all that. Just keep it organic if you are running in dirt. I personally dont like the revs growing style, but I guess he knows his shit so.... I did however like his article in last months skunk about compost teas, I like that method of feeding better myself but I am using a combination of subcools super soil and compost teas...... I think compost teas should be used with organic soil growing no matter what style of feeding you are doing as long as its organic. Its taken me a long time to finally get it through my thick head that less is more in most cases with organic growing and the bottled shit should be left out aside from liquid fish/squid products like general organics bio marine and maxi-crop fish products are about as much liquid bottled stuff I want in my grow room. Other than that and some organic cal mag (general organics camg+), the only nutrients on my grow room shelves are dry 100% organic amendments along with molasses..... And dont ever forget the worm castings, they are the single best amendment that you can add to your soil I think.
I'm sorry for the excessively long and random rambling session but I have been helped out quite a bit buy the people on this forum and others so I was just trying to pass some things I've learned along my journey so far to anyone I can. One other thing I have to tell you is dont start new threads in order to ask those questions that have been asked a million times, which almost anything you could possibly think of has been asked and answered dozens of times, exhaust the search feature as much as possible before starting a new thread, folks will tend to purposely avoid answering you when thats the situation. Most anything you need to know is here somewhere, it just takes some energy to find it.
Also, another thing about the rev's growing..... he states that you must use reverse osmosis, distilled, or rain water (Anything besides city/tap basically) for use with a living soil (organic soil) growing..... A lot of us have been using aerated tap water for everything we do, watering our plants in organic soil, brewing compost teas etc.... just make sure to aerate it with a air pump and air stone before using it. I hate seeing people have to go buy a reverse osmosis setup for hundreds of dollars for no reason. If you have city water, try it before going and blowing $ on a RO setup.... If you have to..... you have to...... but its not always a necessity and is another expenditure when this stuff already costs a small fortune to get started with a halfway decent setup.
And the last thing I will say that I already have here, stick with quality genetics. I run only TGA/subcool gear and have been for the past several grows and cant see myself running much else for awhile. Theres plenty of people that hate subcool but theres way more that love him and stand behind him and his genetics 200%. But on the flip side of that, theres also plenty of other worthwhile genetics out there, I just try to stick with regular seeds rather than feminized, but I have and will grow fem seeds again at some pont so dont avoid something because of that, just go for the reputable breeders. Aside from TGA I will be ordering from cali connection and I am itching to get my mitts on some real deal jack herer beans from sensi seeds. Theres also quite a few others out there that I havent had time to look into but just research what you buy thats all.
I wish you the best of luck in your upcoming grow and hope to see your results here somewhere.....I'll try and remember to post those pics of my plants later on tonight for you....
Anyway, I've purchased TGA Dairy Queen and Vortex seeds.
