Can anyone list some quality products to get me started cloning? I've always grown from seeds but I now have two tents going for a perpetual grow and cloning seems to be the way to go cost wise. There are so many prooducts out there I'm not sure what to buy. I'm looking to do like 3 clones at a time.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Great move! Adding a box should save time. I still allow 4 months for my two 6'x6'x2' boxes. Most of this time is given to vegging and budding, I waste no time on super cropping and bigger containers for a quicker turn over.
So this is what I've learned to do to stop killing my plants:
1. "Cuttings"...which is a budding site removed from a plant can be hollow near the center and towards to top. It took me some cutting deaths before I realised this. Ans; you could submerge the cutting to avoid air pocket...or...I put a dab of cloning gel on the exposed end of the cutting ASAP.
2. After finding the right dome from my garden supplies the cuttings grow roots in just under the three week mark. The cuttings go into soil pucks and grows roots after daily misting the dome, the water and cloning powder solution in the base gets refreshed every four days using 5 stage reverse osmasis water in winter and rain barrel in fall and spring.
3. I pot 4 times only. Each potting recieves egg shells and worm castings. I do nont normally have to add fert till budding because I keep compost in bags as well.
4. In three wks the cuttings turn into proper clones with roots and it goes into veg as soon as the root structure is sufficient. Three wks to a month is enough and it budds as soon as there is space. 4 plants in each month ensures a steady supply out. One hybrid Indica and one hybrid Sativa in the 3:1 and lower THC:CBD range.
5. I don't rush the harvest. The plants are normally topped three weeks before budding, (never sooner), so that they recover properly and are the best they can produce. Fert is given as they produce light leaf spotting and discolouration. Budding lights are on at night time. ( As a result, the budding box is a near constant 18-24 degrees Cel. Since the "cuttings, clones and vegging plants are together and run in the day time my circuits never overload. And they are all "Grounded circuits with serge protecters.) *So, although I only manage 4 plants at a time there are always 8 total in the budding room. 4 will finish in one month then the other 4 a month latter. When the first 4 finish...there is always a fresh 4 vegged out and ready to be beautifull medication.
Three LEDs have replaced the xmas tree-light show that was a cluster of CFLs previousely. This caused too much heat and kept me wondering when they would explode and release that harmfull gas. Two 300w and a 210w keep my plants getting more robust, productive and finishing on time. With: less heat, lower humidity and lower risk of bugs, mildew and mold.
My summer garden produces enough lady bugs to keep the bugs down all winter. keeping the benneficial bugs alive will ensure a stable bug free grow. No sprays find there way onto a budding plant unless it's struggling...and then it's all natural "soap/water/hot pepper spray" only.
*Various CBD from MedReleaf is my 3:1 hybrid sativa and RX is my 50/50 hybrid indica. These current girlfriends were females from the start and keep me medicated tilll spring...this is when next summer's 5 plant oudoor, out of province gorilla grow happens.
***I no longer have to pay $8 per gram for mostly "almost unburning meds", "being shorted every bottle" I bought. One LP...(Organisteal) sent me brown, sweat smelling, harsh as fuck ditch weed. All Hellth Canada ACMPR pyramid and prohibition approved of course. (This shamefull LP display and excuse for proper medication is pictured in the white lid on the right. Organisteal thought it was good business to send me a ditch weed that would not burn and only lasted 15 minutes if I could stand the harshness. And in true thief fasion they just kept that money and never once offered a refund nor replacement). This desaster must be fixed! We should all understand by now that the new model for prohibition in this great country is the ACMPR pyramid. Designed to steal from a person a little or a lot at a time. How much you get robbed coralates with how fast that LP shit show wants to get rich. Too bad our leaders are idiots and dictators.
