New Grow Room Questions & Concerns

i'm 21, one has cancer and cant go upstairs, the other has no reason to go upstairs. Their bedrooms are downstairs.

Hope I didnt come off as rude on that last post.

And you are still the bravest dude I have seen in a while.
keep us updated with pictures it can only help, an im on here all the time an lend myself to help in any way possible

haha no offense taken at all. For sure, i'll keep updating this thread. I still have a LOT to learn, but i'm taking it step by step... next thing is cloning, but that'll be a few weeks. I'm gunna hit the sack, nice talking to you and thanks for all the help.

Here's a newer pic

How long should I wait until I start cloning? Also do you have any tips for cloning... I did a small batch of clones from a mother that I have just to practice, and I failed horribly ... I believe I left too many leaves on the clones. One looks to be doing well, the rest look like shit... Should I wait it out see if more then that one will survive? or should i just toss em?

Did you use rooting hormone, was the tray covered with a DOME and kept at a extreme humidity?

And My Number 1 suggestion for CLONING...

Rapid Rooter Trays!!! They are the shit.

yeah, i used clonex and they are in a dome with super high humidity

So, I'm trying to finish setting up my flower room, but I am having trouble with one issue.

My lights have an intake coming from outside the room, and will be exhausted outside to the attic, and the charcoal filter will also be exhausted to the attic. My question is, would it hurt me if i connected the exhaust from the lights to the charcoal exhaust, (which would allow me to use one fan) ?

heres a rough setup of what the room is going to look like..

No but it will reduce the effectiveness of the blower fan, but would work fine for you!!!

Here's just a quick update of the plants... Next week these 2 will go into flowering and then the clones will go to veg.

Very bushy ladys you have there sir...

Also how is the whole exhaust setup you went with working out?

haven't set it up yet. monday or tuesday

Just read through your thread. Those babys recovered just fine. I'm doing a soil grow but will be getting some clones soon to make sure I've got some females to harvest.
I'm only 28 days in.
I like your set-up, very well put together.

Check out my journal if you like.

not sure if this helps. but i have heard it a few times on this site and others. a little hydrogen peroxide or h2o2 then that can help keep algea in check. also as a rule of thumb i hear that the h2o2 actually increaases oxygen in the water and helps deliver it to the roots while in h2o2 form. so the amount, well these guys that do it (and do it in every feeding just about) do 3% per gallon. but they use like high grade stuff 35%, stuff you get at walmart is like 8-16% ish.

or something like that. i suggest you look it up as they also suggest putting on rotted clones and fresh seedling, some even recomend during germination (not sure if i would do that?). but this may help the health of your clones?

your ladies do look very nice. do you happen to know what type of genes? i mean is it sativa or indica? if i had to guess they look sativa but they breed so many different ways now that they take certain traits from one even though it is primarily the other. but are they primarily sativa?

those clones on the other hand. YIKES!! please tell me what you did as this is a scary thing. like damn man i see your setup and it's all cloning grade. i know you did everything fine that you posted. of course you are feeding plain ph'd water right now? right? see how old are the clones. you may be starting a nutrient buildup in the watter thus giving toxic levels of the vitamins and nutrientst that the plant is not using. you know, plants are kinda like at a buffet dinner, they take what they want and leave what they don't. i can't think of much else that could of gone wrong. maybe you had too many leaves? but it didn't look that different from the amount of leaves on others clones. by the way did you cut the leaves in half on all the clones? just wondering, it seems to be a rule of thumb to cut the leaves after cutting off the mother because it still gives photoprocessing but has less life to support since there is no root system.

l8r

Kudos on the recovery

you know i just took another look, might you be over watering? just wondering. they aren't suppos to get much water, and the water they get some of it goes into humidity so keep that as a factor. i think people say to quick soak them (in a shallow pan) for 2-3 seconds a day or every two days ish. or maybe it is 2 times per 1 day? i don't remember the general rule (as i haven't yet cloned, but am going to here in on my next harvest i will keep one in veg state and clone from her.)

you might want to considering going to the neoprine inserts for cloning as that doesn't require a dome (they fog on the roots underneath the neoprine) and can bring more light for your plant during these fragile stages with no dome over thier heads?

l8r

oh and also, sorry for just chatting away but i am really worried about those clones. as it makes me very afraid of the cloning process. but another thing if you use a cloning box with the neoprine inserts that just hold the pant over water and there is a device inside the box that humidifies the air inside then you don't have to deal with the watering of your clones as they have enough, now you have to check on it but all you do is put like another gallon in and your good for a while.

oh also, and this i can say i have not read but am not sure the effects on freshly cut clones. are the lights running 24? because fresh cuttings may require some night time regen during thier first week or so growing new roots. i mean when a seed germinates it can do it in complete dark so... maybe there is some merit to it, but look it up. heck you know what i am going to look it up too as this is important if i want to start cloning.

l8r

Here's an update... Well we cloned a bunch and decided to veg the 2 sours and 1 purple, i also took a buncha really short clones and just threw them into flower, which is why there are some stretched plants. I also decided to switch to making my room Full Purple, because it's much more tolerant, easier to manage, etc..


The pictures are mostly of the purple and one of the small bud pics is from the stretched sour clone. This is about 2.5 weeks into flowering for the purple and 1.5 weeks for the stretched ones. The white stuff on the plants is drywall :-X because I had to cut an exhaust for the lights after the plants were put in...


Got any suggestions? This is my first grow.

anybody???

looking good