What? Me have a plan?

I am finally getting the lighting worked out. As a sneak peek a pair of 100W watters on the heatsink. I am going to try just 100W when I start, just tapped the aluminum for a pair in case I go that way. The air will be drawn through the heatsink and ducted out the grow space. I am just cobbling things together, I like the idea of water cooled, if I get serious I might go that way. There are four heatsinks, I cut up a heatsink from a 25kW spead drive that was toast.

I screwed up the last bunch, wasn't paying enough attention to them. Then I noticed the cuttings had mold on them. Maybe a little less moisture this time. I am also trying a coco and perlite mix. I have a 15W 5000k Led light on them rather than just diffused daylight. Two from my plant two weeks into flower, three from one in veg.



The one in flower. I got the one of the cobs running at 50W, the heat sink could use some airflow, I have it getting an occasional blast from my oscillating fan and it keeps cool enough. I have the power supply with the components mounted and partly wired. The added light will not come soon enough. Hopefully nothing else takes my attention this weekend.

Oops.



I was cleaning up some of the excess growth and the lights went out. Let's hope the end to a bad day.

Picked up some cubes and am trying to clone the branch I accidentally snapped off. Probably a waste of time but won't hurt any. Bought a proper tray finally.

Nothing earth shattering, but they are still alive.

On the cloning front, the coco was doing well, the first one is going into a coco/perlite hempy bucket. Washed the coco, soaked in cal/mag treated water, pH a little down so thought to add a little powdered dolomite lime around 6.0 pH now.



I am thinking doing another in DWC and an airstone to get the roots growing down to the reservoir.

Well this is cool. Just when I thought the branch from the plant I had in flower was never going to root I find this this morning.



What also makes it interesting is that the bud sites have trichomes. I was wondering if the branch would just soak up water and maybe the trichomes mature enough to harvest. Mind you, I have had the light on a 18/6 cycle not 12/12 so it might not have. I haven't read anything about a clone taken this far along in flower, who knows what will happen now.

Just did a lot of reading, seems this is called monster cropping. I think I may have to increase my grow area.

Now for the 'Newbie asking "Are they done yet?" pictures.







I looked at the trichomes and they still seem clear.

Managed to find some time to read up (look at pictures) when plants are ready, a way to go yet.

So out of the 16 that I cloned 10 made it.

Not sure what happened to the above picture, I will have to look into it. The other plants are still growing and looking better than my Charley Brown Xmas tree looking CBD strain, well at least I have the clones to get it right the next time. Hope to see if it will do me some good.



Walking by it, nice citrus smell.

I just added whatever lights I had on hand and figured the plants will sort it out. The flowers just continue getting more plump. These three do not want to give up, I want to do the lights and ventilation properly then get my other plants in.



Waiting patiently outside.

Seems the shorter days are having an effect. Anyone know how cold it can go down to without hurting my babies?

We had a hard frost last night so I brought them in.

Thought I should add a post I gave to another thread.


I have a number of cuttings from one plant that I experimented with. I tried coco and perlite, straight perlite, coco, DWC with an air stone. They were outside and the air pump fried because of the rain. It did get me some roots to the solution and since then all I do is change out the solution every two weeks. The others are Hempy buckets with a hole two inches up. The pop bottle coco/perlite, perlite, are smaller than the other two which is natural considering the limited root area.

The coco/perlite on the left may be a touch more full than the bucket but then again the cuttings are different. They all got General Hydroponics MaxiGro in veg and MaxiBloom in flower. The perlite one lost a branch due to an accident and I taped up the split which you can see at its trunk. I only fed the non-bucket ones once a day. I would guess that they all would be bigger if I had the bucket aerated more and the medium grows fed throughout the day. Just because I have the coco to reuse my next grows will be in it otherwise the bucket might be something I would try again.

That is it, pretty much freezing or below weather in the daytime so I brought them all down into my grow closet. It is a good thing they were not any bigger I would have had to expand. After this round. I just shoved any light I had in there temporarily. I have to get off my ass and finish the lighting and ventilation I had planned. In my defense I was suppose to do some welding on a trailer frame today since it is the last warmer day, other people with priorities greater than mine. Just checked, chance of flurries tonight and tomorrow. This is going to be a long winter.

It has been a learning experience. My first four plants maybe an ounce from each. Not really dense buds. Still curing them but I did a small sampling and the thc/cbd strain does a decent job without too much of a buzz. Still have to try the buzzy strain.

I had removed leaves, a little trim, and some bubble bags, what should I do with them? Not much material but enough to try it out. Found the 1 gallon bags are small, did things different than I have seen. The material was in the freezer, pot and ice also, figured why not chill the pot because I had room. Water chilled in the fridge. Let's mix it up.



There is a course bag to catch the leaves but the bags as so small they do not hold much, I used some window screen to catch the big stuff.



Basically poured it through the filter bags, what was left not caught in the bags.



Then take each bag out and see what it caught, from the right the larger mesh size to smaller on the left. I was feeling some disappointment once I flipped over the finer size. Not much to show for my efforts.



But then the next bag was a surprise, a fair amount of mud, the finer size the same.



Scraping it off the bags, the number is the mesh sise.



Darn it, pretty much looks like hash from my ill begotten youth. Not a lot but the feed stock was not the greatest in quality or quantity.



I will have to try it some time.

Anybody know what these guys were?

Should not have freaked out and threw the infected plants out. Really having a heck of a time trying to clone the ones in flower. Found some of the above bugs on another plant in my grow area that was separate from the one above. Also spider mites. I gave them a spray of canola oil, dish soap and water. We will see how they are tomorrow. Darn it. The plants seemed to be coming along nicely.

May sound silly but I vacuumed the plant leaves yesterday. One had bugs like I never did anything, the rest had some not too bad. Tring the canola oil again and see where it goes. I just want to keep them at bay for a while.