KonaGirl420 1st Grow All By Myself

whats up kona.. just showin some luv.. i need top post some pics of my larry og!! day 23 today!! startin to stack hard now
 
Trichy Bastard said:
Not to seem ignorant, but why is it called "air layering"? It looked like cloning to me, or am I missin somethin?
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Air layering because you are not taking a cutting and putting it into a medium....you are rooting up in the "air" on a branch.

Lets say you can grow 8 plants. So you have 7 plants in flower and one mother. How are you going to take clones off your mother before you harvest and still stay at your 8 plant limit?

When you air layer, you get a head start... if you time your layering right, before you harvest you can have 7 new babies right on the mother plant that don't count as "plants" until you cut and plant them.

Another way to do this....take a branch growing from near the bottom of your plant, bend it down to dirt level...that may take a little time...then scrape a little of the stem and put some root hormone on and put the stem (still attached to the mother plant) under the soil.

The stem will root, no worry about keeping it humid like a cutting. When you are ready to use it...just cut and plant.
 
Thanks for the explanation- I didn't realize the cutting stayed on the plant so now I understand-cool! I figure the air layering only takes a week or two, so how do you deal with doing it in flower? Just let the cuttings re-veg once you transplant them?
 
Trichy Bastard said:
Thanks for the explanation- I didn't realize the cutting stayed on the plant so now I understand-cool! I figure the air layering only takes a week or two, so how do you deal with doing it in flower? Just let the cuttings re-veg once you transplant them?
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I have done it to a mother plant in veg, not a flowering plant...but don't know why you couldn't. The only problem I see, while in bud...you will slow down the plant as it heals and grows roots, but I wouldn't think it would be enough shock to turn the plant morph...and you won't be removing the baby from flower until you chop it off...so it will continue to bloom while rooting. but I would just re-veg it like you would any clone.

This won't speed up your swap though as it takes a good amount of time to re-veg.
 
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