We were back up to 80F today. I'm thinking the threat of cold is over. Now I just hope I don't get an early flower problem.
Ah I'll ask my electrician buddy, surely he should know. Sounds like your weather is great. It got to the mid 60's here today. Pretty and sunny this morning then overcast this afternoon and about 5:00 pm the bottom fell out of it and it rained like pouring piss out of a boot for about 3 hours. I wish I could go ahead and set my plants out but I wouldn't dare for about three more weeks. I've never started any as early as I started these. I usually am just starting germinating about now. I wanted to get a couple months head start indoors and then set them out. I had visions of monster plants dancing in my head but I can see now that I really goofed. I'm going to have early flower problem for sure I can see already, mine are starting show sex already and they're a still a long ways from being ready to set out. I've learned a valuable lesson this year fo sho!
You must be quiet a ways farther south than I am. My weather is like a yo-yo right now. GOOD GROWING AND GOOD LUCK!!
Same to you man. I'm about to split my grow 3 outdoor and 3 indoor
It's been raining here since about 5 o'clock too. I didn't carry water when I transplanted the three plants this morning because of the promised rain. I'm glad it came, but I have sprouts out in it that might be getting drowned.
Even if you do wind up growing indoors, make some clones and stick them out. I know I'm not going to sling tons of weight per plant, so I'm just planning on more plants. I'm trying for as much genetic variation as possible, so I'll be doing very few clones. But if you are limited on number of seeds, cloning is great.
have never cloned before. I know all you do is cut a branch off the plant but can you get it to live putting it in just water? I don't have all the rooting solution and stuff I've read about that ppl use when cloning. I've grown lots of weed but always from seeds and outdoors I'm not up to date on the scientific aspects of the sport..lol
Last year I used an air bubbler {like you put in a fish tank} in an aluminium baking tray. I had over 60% live without much in the way of climate control. This year I bought a timer, submersible fountain pump, tubing, 3" net cups and a 360 degree sprinkler head to make a 5 gallon bucket cloner. I'm going to practice on tomato plants until I feel like there is a better than even chance I can do it right. And pick up an aloe Vera plant. That is what I used for rooting compound last year. Although I did buy some of the powder stuff this year.
I've been thinking about making a bubbler closer out of a 5 gal bucket and a airstone. Only thing different would be the sprayer head. With the bubbler you would have to use more water for the air stone to bubble the waster up on the plant. Right?
Yes, with the bubbler the stems need to be in the water. I used Styrofoam coffee cups to put the cuttings in. When the roots got big enough, you just break the cup away from the stem. The plastic storage bins work good. Just paint the clear ones so no light gets on the roots.
Do the stems have to be submerged? I was thinking that if the water was just high enough for the bubbler to splash water up on the stem. Put the cutting in a net pot with the bottom cut out like in the video you posted and a collar to hold it in place and let the air stone splash the water up on the stem. Would that work you think ?
The airstone doesn't really cause the water to splash. It just puts more 02 into the water. I guess if you got a big enough air pump it might work. But the $10 kind I got at Walmart makes bubbles, but doesn't do much splashing.
Gottcha!!