My Perpetual Zero-Veg Op

Do you still have the chronics going? Do you prefer that smoke over the WR?

One of my Chronic plants is insane. The nodes are sooooo tight I can hardly believe it. I hope it looks good. If the clone I have comes out good I'm going to make a bunch of mother plants out of it.

I've got a tray full of chronics going right now. Cold temps in my basement has really slowed things down, so they are just getting some flowers even though they've been in 12/12 since Feb. 14. Likewise, the previous tray still has some plants in it going on 10 1/2 weeks and they look like they have a week left. It got so cold downstairs at night I think they basically went dormant in the middle of flowering and then when temps rose a little another flush of white pistils appeared and that's where we are at now. I'm kind of twisted up now about when to cut them. Fortunately, I don't have another batch ready to go yet, so I can wait.

The WR is definitely stronger than the Chronic and a great producer as well. The taste isn't as sweet though.

I guess I haven't updated this in a while. I try to get some pix up later.

I think the cold is part of why my auto grow went pretty bad. I think that might be why I'm growing kinda slow right now too.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the next couple months of optimal conditions until the spider mites come back. I need to build some partitions in my basement so I can heat where I'm growing. Right now I have 2000 sq ft to heat in a stone basement so I just thought I'd soldier through. Next winter will be different. I would guess my harvest is down about 25% or so. No biggie, my quality is still high.

Do you go through the whole picking a mother pheno proccess, or do you just run a bunch of different phenos of the same strain? I want to get more moms going, but don't know which one to pick at this point.

You really need huge moms, and lots of them to take that big of clones that often huh?

I just run with whatever I get. The Chronic is very uniform in my experience and so is White Russian.

I allowed my moms to get too tall. I'm sure I can get them to be very productive with the right size cuttings and still be less than 3 feet tall. Mother management is important.

shnkrmn said:

Mother management is important.

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A pain in the arse is what it is. I just had to get rid of a huge mp because I took so many cuttings of her. All the branches ended up being too thin for clones, so I've had to start again.

Maybe you could try the Bushmaster product to prevent moms from getting too tall. There's a whole debate going on in the other thread, but people that have tried it report that it really does work.

shnkrmn said:

I just run with whatever I get. The Chronic is very uniform in my experience and so is White Russian.

I allowed my moms to get too tall. I'm sure I can get them to be very productive with the right size cuttings and still be less than 3 feet tall. Mother management is important.

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You have helped me a lot just so you know. I appreciate it. I think I will take a couple clones from the one chronic I think is going to be a beast, and a couple from my blue cheeses. God damn. I need a time machine haha.

Are you still vegging your clones for a while before flowering? If so, how long?

Just 3 or 4 days. The chronics that are flowering now had a tough time rooting up (cold temps) so when I put them into flower at first they were super floppy and I kept putting them back in veg where they could hang out in the shade of the mother forest. I'm certain it was the temps that made them so slow. They are budding up now though and I think they'll be great.

So each one of your mom plants are from different seeds? Or you just randomly picked a female, and cloned her into many mothers? Sorry if I'm being redundant, just curious. I know some people say having different phenos of the same strain can be "hard" to feed correctly.

yup, my current moms are all from seed. They've been around since last summer. old a wrinkly. I've got a few new moms coming up, but until they are large enough to give me all the cuts I need, I have to keep the old ones going. So my next mother herd will be from clone. But I'm cracking a bunch of seeds soon, germing all the freebies I've gotten in the ast year from attitude and waiting on some other beans to show up as well.

So you're going to do a bunch of different strains on one table?

just vegging. I have a big table so there's room. I'll clone the tops and see what I like but they will have to flower bunched in with whatever I'm running on the bloom side and take their chances. If I put something into production, then it gets its own table.


I've got:

LA Woman
A train
Gigabud
Sweet Haze

I have so many different kinds of seeds I'm thinking about throwing some outside this summer. Clone whatever comes out looking kick ass. Something is bound to be bomb.

whats up bro dig i get all the pumps and rez and set 4 of these up only to find out only 3 can fit in there and i dont have enough head roolm ive only got 4 ft from floor to lights and the 30 gal rez is stealin like 2ft thats including the flood table leaving me 2ft before i hit the lights the only plus about this whole thing is that i stole the 400 outta my veg cab and stuck it in with the 600 inside of my 4x4 so 1k watts from 2 lights in a 4x4 space how can i deal with the height problem by the way using one of the rubbermaide tuff totes

How old are your mother plants?

okay figured it out got smaller totes ya im gonna start out my blue mystics and see how it turs out their in coco gonna water once a day and see how that works

im blown away how much more your clones produce over the from-seed counterparts. thats amazing. Ive always worked from a seedling crop...starting to re-think that...