ya.....i took the domes off right.......and like 8 hours later they wilted like crazy ......i guess i'll leave it on but i really do wanna take it off after the 1st week. i got roots at 9 days so yipee....thats better and if i can keep it up i'll go back to 2 weeks instead of 3 weeks between harvests. i use the method old in the way uses almost identical to his wich is almost identical to al's . and i think i agree on the heat mat, but i still use mine just in case. dont know if i will in the dead heat of summer though.....ya know?
anyway just updatin ya .......so, the wilt ......what do you think happened? dried up faster than normal????
I know there is more chemically going on than this, but this is what I think happens in normal person terms.
Turgor is basically the cell being so inflated with water that it causes the cells to push up against eachother causing stiffness in the stem.
Now I don't know if this is how it works, but at some point, the plant seems to "decide" to stop transpiring as much because it lost its source of water from the air. Now it has to keep itself turgid from what it can get from the stem below. Now it doesn't have roots yet but it can still absorb water through the stem, so it does, but stops transpiration to the degree that it comes back to life, and becomes more stiff, even though you no longer have it in a hood.
My clones don't even get a hood anymore, I cut em, plant em, stick em next to my mother plants under the same light even. Few minutes after cutting they get floppy up top....1-2 hours later they are back to normal. 1 or 2 normally don't quite make it as perky and straight as they used to be, but a little training in the first week or two of flowering fixes that easily enough.
I always plan to clone the same day as my cycle day, but sometimes don't get to it until 3-5 days later. They all start to root within 5-7 days (depends on strain, my original strain takes 1 to 2 days longer than the rest, guess which strain was in the aerocloner too), and are just busting by the time the full 14 days comes around, so I have a decent window that is working thusfar. If stuff doesn't clone, then I just throw less, but larger plants in.
The reason they always say that 6hr dark period or whatever, I think has to do with fucking with the daily lifecycle of the plant to make it stop transpiration so that it didn't lose water it already had, and didn't wilt. I think that was suggested in Al's method, but imo, RW is all about the "hug" and how moist it is, and it is very easy to make it to moist, not moist enough, and the second that stem moves ANY, the hole it was in is just not big enough anymore. RR's are just so much more spongy, so I don't bother with a dark period, overcomplicates things. The RR's give the stem plenty of water to recover from the wilt.
