Perpetual garden advice: DWC to soil? Or clone out as is?

midnitetoak

midnitetoak

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Looking for some advice on what to do next: I currently have 2 phenos almost ready for harvest. I plan to trim the bud & preserve them as mother plants in a separate veg area that does not yet exist for the purpose of establishing a perpetual grow. They are in a single res DWC but I want to transplant to soil and clone them out. Has anyone converted a DWC plant to a soil grow & if so what should I be concerned about? Would it be better to simply clone them out in the existing DWC & then replace the mothers with "one of their kids" after they have taken root?
 
midnitetoak

midnitetoak

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On my own
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cheeba soulja

cheeba soulja

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If I read that right you want to try to convert a finished flowering plant back to vedge but you want to take it out of dwc and into soil?i know people from the past that have successfully made plants go back to vedge from a finished flowering plant but there's high chance they might die.depends on how "finished" the plant is I would say.transplanting mediums would really be too much stress for the plant to handle at that time period.its not like your going to a bigger pot with the same soil you are totally changing its medium and messing with its light cycle at the same time.IMO for all the time and energy you will spend on a gamble I would just source new clones
 
midnitetoak

midnitetoak

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Maybe you are right but these girls have been vegged & revegged 3 x already.... They are not just gonna die when I put them back to veg but the roots are starting to show their age.... think I'm gonna just leave them in the DWC for now & try to clone them out after harvest but in the meantime I'll start a couple new moms from seed in soil with a different strain... I really wanted to preserve the strains I have & set up a perpetual grow but I realize its going to take longer & be more effort than it's worth to bother doing. Eventually I want to have 2 moms vegging in dirt pots along with the clones & a multiple site DWC setup ready for flowering cycle.
 
midnitetoak

midnitetoak

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cheeba soulja said:
If I read that right you want to try to convert a finished flowering plant back to vedge but you want to take it out of dwc and into soil?i know people from the past that have successfully made plants go back to vedge from a finished flowering plant but there's high chance they might die.depends on how "finished" the plant is I would say.transplanting mediums would really be too much stress for the plant to handle at that time period.its not like your going to a bigger pot with the same soil you are totally changing its medium and messing with its light cycle at the same time.IMO for all the time and energy you will spend on a gamble I would just source new clones
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In any case thanks for your input cheeba; sometimes doing the right thing is harder than it looks- u r right maybe I should just start over again from jump street here we grow again
 
ganjaman87

ganjaman87

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ganjaman87

ganjaman87

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Yo bro use this technique right here its SUPER EASY and works EVERY TIME trust me.....im guessing you could even plant them in soil or whatever you want to do with them once they root since they're in rockwool
 
ganjaman87

ganjaman87

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I would forget about mother plants, and just take clones from clones bro. I get a harvest every 3-4 weeks with this method in DWC....Just flower your plants and take clones after about a week of flower or if they already have anough side branches you could just clone em before you flower them and then after about a week the clones should root and then veg them for about 2 or 3 more weeks and then put em in flower...rinse and repeat
 
JohnDee

JohnDee

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mnt,
I think it could be done. Cut back foliage and roots severely...and water and feed very gently possibly in lower light. I've revegged a lot but not while transitioning media. Good luck...
JD
 
Hydroburn

Hydroburn

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take clones of each plant in veg and then flower/dry/cure the originals and decide which one is the keeper... then make the clone a mother and put her in your head stash room.
 
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