Sorry for the delay but I had a ton going on with the Holidays and work related issues but now I'm back!!!
Anyways as you can see I was able to get a Denny's breakfast to-go plate and make a humidity dome for a few clone cuttings. I made 7 cuts in all. I used no rooting hormone and originally had the clones in cups of water with plastic over the top and stuck the stems in the water on top of those. I think it kind of worked but it was too much work for me trying to re-fill the water and what not so i decided to simply use the Denny's container, fill it with soil and hope for the best.
The clones were taken off flowering plants about 3 days in so might not have been flowering at all. I am attempting to have the clones taken off a 12/12 plants simply continue to grow in the flowering cycle with the 12/12 lights as you can see.
The plants continued to grow in water even though they had no roots. I even got fan leaves to grow. I started over with the same cuttings as if I was making a fresh cut. I cut off the fan leaves and side growth, clipped the leaves and stuck them in the soil. I have heard this will work but the root growth will take longer, but really my big plants will take a few weeks to complete anyways so I am hoping to simply have good roots when my first batch is finished and be able to transplant into a finishing pot continuing the flowering without have every really stopped it. The babies are standing firm so let's see what happens.
Now to the ladies.
They are a couple 3 weeks into flowering. The growth and the branching is great. I am looking at at least 4 tops on each plant and maybe up to 8 on the strongest plant.
They have all started to produce the immature pistils as you can see in the pics. I just woke up one morning a couple days ago and BAM!!!! to my surprise the start of budding. I have heard that when cuttings are taken from a mature flowering plant that the next flowering time may end up being shorter than typical. I have seen where peoples plants show no signs until the last two weeks in some cases and especially with plants like OG Kush so I was not expecting much for a while. Now I am so excited I am just looking to see what happens next.
Any insight and advice is appreciated.
I have learned a ton even up to this point that you can not learn simply by research.
At the end I will share some ideas that I am going to implement next time to make my grow even better hopefully.
Enjoy!! One last note: With the lights I currently have and looking at my space I could probably grow 6 plants with 3 or 4 weeks of veg without much concern. Hopefully by the time I'm finished there will be more hopping on the T-5 bandwagon.
exciting... post some pics hombre!
I think something important is the distance between the light source and the plants as compared to something like HPS because of the heat. The thing is that HPS when raised will cover a larger area which is very true but with my tubes all my plants are 100% covered at 1-2" away and soaking up everything with no heat stress at all. I am getting virtually the highest efficiency possible for the most part from my lights which makes them great to meet the needs that I have now. Let's see how this all turns out. Again I'll get some pics up when I find my camera.
