Aussie Growers Thread

Hydro4life

Hydro4life

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DustyDuke said:
It’s the only dribble I could come up with lol. We all make this place awesome no state individual. My Mrs is from Two Rocks, WA. I’ve been to Wa like 8 time it’s an awesome place
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Totally agree, beauty is in the eye of the beholder dusty! It is what you make of it I say :cool:
 
2easy

2easy

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PURPLEB3RRYKUSH said:
PGR has nothing to do with how much he sells. Probs has warehouses full of plants to be moving 100 pound a week.
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My mate was moving $50 000 worth of weed a week. He in jail now but id you are selling that much your sellimg pgr shit. Unfortunately it is true. He had to deal with the asians. Literally the only people who could keep up with his demand
 
OzyM8

OzyM8

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jungle666 said:
Can you

Can you tell us what your cloning process is and your strike rate, cheers jim
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I’ll try and explain it all best I can:

Mother plant, is usually trained to a lollipop with as many cut sites as I can get per plant ( lots of topping and training) they’re in coco. I’ll start prepping the Mum 48 hours before taking cuts by ph adjusted RO h2o only feeds, and spray with clonex solution at 2x lights outs.

Prep the blocks: about a 1 hour soak in RO h20 adjusted to 5.5 ph. Release the soak water by firm shakes without damaging or squeezing the blocks. Place blocks in new soak bucket of RO h20 with 4ml per litre of Canna Rizotonic ph’d to 5.8-6, soak for 30 mins. Release soak solution as above until block is just moist. Place blocks on humidity dome floor.

Prep a jug with RO h20 ph adjusted to 5.8-6ph, this is to place cuts in asap after taking, within a few seconds. This stops air in the stem.

Place an amount of clonex gel in a shot glass.

I use disposable scalpels, and a hobby cutting board, everything is clean as and wiped down with ISO, and I’ll wear powder free disposable gloves.

I prep the cut site first on the Mum by eying the cut, and removing the lower fans that will be on the cut and halving the upper fans with clean fiskas. I make cuts to include 3min-4 nodes, so I take more than this off the Mum (scapel) and straight into in jug, stem submerged. I repeat unit I’ve got 5-6 cuts in the jug.

Then I take a cut out and quickly make my final cut on the board at 45degree angle either 6ish mm under a node (this node has no leaf or stem off it, or straight through the middle of a node if I can get 2 nodes in the block, if the stem is woody i’ll Use the scalpel on an angle and very lightly scrape, and into the clonex gel. Repeat.

Then I’ll place the cuts into the blocks, pushing in gently until firmly in. Spray foliage with ph6 RO h20

I like the humidity dome at 27C inside, and spray clones twice a day, mornings and night alternating with a Rizo solution and h20, and the inside of the dome cover with h20. I keep the dome lid vents closed for 3-4 days. Then start opening by 1/4-1/2 each day after that, then place lid on angle to start acclimating. I keep an eye on the moisture on the bottom of the blocks, if they start to get too dry I’ll spray them with Rizo solution, you don’t want them wet or you’ll get stem rot. Dome lid normally comes off by about day 10. Sometimes I have roots out by then or day 14. Depends on strain.

I use T5’s for cloning. On 24/7. Don’t use a fan on your cuts, will dry them out quickly.

Get 100% strike rate most times. Even when monster cropping to week 4.

Any Q’s let me know. Hope I’ve explained it well enough and haven’t left any thing out
 
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Rewerb

Rewerb

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reza92 said:
ok wet dry cycle is pretty much wet the coco to saturation and let it dry until it’s lite but doesn’t look dry. If it looks dry (light brown) it’s too dry and roots won’t be able to really grow in it very well.

as I said, get familiar with the weight of a saturated pot (too the point it can’t hold any more water in the coco) and a completely dry pot. The ideal spot to keep it is somewhere in the middle fluctuating either side of the middle without hitting the extreme on each end.
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@Time233 I'll second that, having experienced a single day of under-watering in coco & the plants frazzled in very short order.

Are you able to sub-irrigate those post of yours (ie. water from the bottom, rather than the top)? If you can do it, try that. Capilliary action will draw water up through the medium. When the top of the medium is showing "juuuuust" damp, it's time to stop & let the pots drain-off. You'll need to experiment a bit with how much it takes for your own scenario.

This will make the roots go searching for water, so you'll get a greater root-mass. Healthy roots=healthy plants.
 
TheGreenPriest

TheGreenPriest

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Finally got the alu 2020 t-slot and bits to put my 600w qb veg light together.
The standard kit from kingbrite has the heatsinks side by side but I wanted them spread out a bit.

My first LED light, fucken things are bright.
Should make a decent veg light for 4x4 tray.

I'm considering remote mounting the ballast though.
Anybody do that?
What's the deal with grounding?

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Rewerb

Rewerb

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OzyM8 said:
1. I’ll start prepping the Mum 48 hours before taking cuts by ph adjusted RO h2o only feeds, and spray with clonex solution at 2x lights outs.

2. Then I take a cut out and quickly make my final cut on the board at 45degree angle either 6ish mm under a node (this node has no leaf or stem off it, or straight through the middle of a node if I can get 2 nodes in the block, if the stem is woody i’ll Use the scalpel on an angle and very lightly scrape, and into the clonex gel. Repeat.

3. Then start opening by 1/4-1/2 each day after that, then place lid on angle to start acclimating.

4. I keep an eye on the moisture on the bottom of the blocks, if they start to get too dry I’ll spray them with Rizo solution, you don’t want them wet or you’ll get stem rot. Dome lid normally comes off by about day 10. Sometimes I have roots out by then or day 14. Depends on strain.
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Nice write-up mate! Got a few questions for you (which I've numbered above).

1. Clonex solution - Dilution rate? Are you spraying the entire plant with this?

2. I "think" I've got this. You're potentially getting two nodes into a block (ie. more rooting potential) & scraping the stem in-between them?

3. Opening by 1/4-1/2 of what? A linear measurement, or the entire aperture?

4. Are you keeping an eye on the moisture of the block, or the cuts themselves? You're spraying the bottoms of the blocks & not the cuts?

I'm against using rockwool (personal preference). I assume this would all be similarly relevant to jiffy pellets &/or straight into solo cups with coco?
 
Venus55

Venus55

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So tbh when everyone’s ranting and raving about lights I just skim through and don’t pay much attention as I’m more than happy with my trusty old hps bulbs. But Mars have just got me up on Insta. What’s the go with them are they shit? They want to give me a free set up tho so I’m thinking fuck why not...?
 
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