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I begin this study by extending a thank you in the direction of Mr. Shanti of Baba, your work is appreciated. Also, an honorable mention goes to Cptn for contributing to my experiences as well.
Instead of adding more posts to this thread, I will simply update this first post with new photos as they are taken. I will also make notes of what updates are made (and when) to keep everyone on the same page.
The Setups
I am currently running a two-room, semi-perpetual harvest system with my bedroom closet as the Mother/Clone nursery and the spare-bathroom shower as the bloom area. The original plan was to run an Ebb & Flow table under my 400w High Pressure Sodium lamp, but menacing vibrations prevented this feet from being accomplished in any sort of reasonable manner. A 50-gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck -filled only to 30-gallons- acted as the reservoir, and a flat, translucent Rubbermaid tote with dimensions of around 2’x2’ and 8" deep for the flood tray. A 396gph water-pump connected to a garden hose was used to flood the table and a 3/4" PVC pipe to drain it. I ran the system every 2 hours for 2 minutes; after the first night of running the bloom system, the reservoir had been emptied by half. Around 15-gallons of water disappeared or evaporated or was slurped to nothingness by a pack of rabid mutant weasels -whatever the case may be, it was gone. Naturally, the required amount of nutrients to refill the tank to the 30-gallon capacity every other day was too great; I simply couldn’t afford it, let alone be bothered with the task of emptying that massive Goddamn tank. I switched promptly to the Hempy Bucket and now use about 1-gallon of water every 2 days…what a difference. I couldn’t say what the culprit was –or is, nor do I care at this juncture as things are working out perfectly and I’ll just continue with my current techniques. Vegetative growth takes place in an area lit by a series of CFLs and 2’-fluorescent lamps spanning over a few containers using soil (Fox Farm Ocean Forest/Perlite mixture) and a 10-gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck Deep Water Culter system. Eleven 3” holes were drilled into the lid along with two ¼” holes for the air-line hoses but at the moment, I am only using one. I make the pots myself from plastic cups I "acquire" from work.
The Procedures
In the beginning there was only one, a Mexican Sativa from a ‘good’ bag of schwag. When I finally got my MKS delivery, I popped 3 of them promptly –too promptly, in fact. I didn’t have the correct soil and instead used a sub-par brand that I’m too embarrassed to even mention; suffice to say that the 3 seedlings were stunted and I decided to drop 3 more, giving birth to the A-Line (stunted) and B-Line; in any case I got a 3/3 germination rate for both drops.
After all 6 plants reached a suitable height for topping I took one cut of each plant and rooted them in rockwool cubes. I dipped each cutting into -and watered with a mild solution of- Earth Juice Rootstock; roots popped out within 10 days. I transplanted each rockwool cube into a plastic net pot (described above) with Hydroton clay pellets as the medium of choice. After a few weeks, the plants were transplanted into 1-gallon plastic grow-bags and set inside some containers for structural support, the medium is 3-parts Perlite and 1-part Vermiculite –the classic Hempy Bucket.
For vegetative growth I use General Hydroponics Micro at 5mL/gallon and Bloom at 10mL/gallon –low light Lucas Formula, and for bloom I bump it up to 8mL/gallon of Micro and 16mL/gallon of Bloom –high light Lucas Formula; both are working perfectly.
In the Beginning...
Photographs have been updated. (9-10-11)
Photographs have been reorganized to shorten overall thread length. (9-12-11)
Photographs fro weeks 2 and 3 were added. (9-18-11)
I received my shipment around 15 days after sending it out, this photo was taken almost immediately.
On to the true test.
Week One
This next photograph is a collage showing a simple, no-brain method to cloning. My wife is somewhat of a gardener in her own right and when she takes cuttings of our porch plants she just sits them in a glass of water until roots show. Well, I had an excess of cuttings from my Mexican Sativa and decided that instead of throwing them away, I'd just try to root them this way. The MexiSat pictured in the flowering room as my control was propagated in this manner.
Thank you for your patience. I hope you all enjoy.
NOTICE: UPDATES WILL BE MADE PERIODICALLY AND POINTED OUT WITH RED TEXT.
I begin this study by extending a thank you in the direction of Mr. Shanti of Baba, your work is appreciated. Also, an honorable mention goes to Cptn for contributing to my experiences as well.
Instead of adding more posts to this thread, I will simply update this first post with new photos as they are taken. I will also make notes of what updates are made (and when) to keep everyone on the same page.
The Setups
I am currently running a two-room, semi-perpetual harvest system with my bedroom closet as the Mother/Clone nursery and the spare-bathroom shower as the bloom area. The original plan was to run an Ebb & Flow table under my 400w High Pressure Sodium lamp, but menacing vibrations prevented this feet from being accomplished in any sort of reasonable manner. A 50-gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck -filled only to 30-gallons- acted as the reservoir, and a flat, translucent Rubbermaid tote with dimensions of around 2’x2’ and 8" deep for the flood tray. A 396gph water-pump connected to a garden hose was used to flood the table and a 3/4" PVC pipe to drain it. I ran the system every 2 hours for 2 minutes; after the first night of running the bloom system, the reservoir had been emptied by half. Around 15-gallons of water disappeared or evaporated or was slurped to nothingness by a pack of rabid mutant weasels -whatever the case may be, it was gone. Naturally, the required amount of nutrients to refill the tank to the 30-gallon capacity every other day was too great; I simply couldn’t afford it, let alone be bothered with the task of emptying that massive Goddamn tank. I switched promptly to the Hempy Bucket and now use about 1-gallon of water every 2 days…what a difference. I couldn’t say what the culprit was –or is, nor do I care at this juncture as things are working out perfectly and I’ll just continue with my current techniques. Vegetative growth takes place in an area lit by a series of CFLs and 2’-fluorescent lamps spanning over a few containers using soil (Fox Farm Ocean Forest/Perlite mixture) and a 10-gallon Rubbermaid Roughneck Deep Water Culter system. Eleven 3” holes were drilled into the lid along with two ¼” holes for the air-line hoses but at the moment, I am only using one. I make the pots myself from plastic cups I "acquire" from work.
The Procedures
In the beginning there was only one, a Mexican Sativa from a ‘good’ bag of schwag. When I finally got my MKS delivery, I popped 3 of them promptly –too promptly, in fact. I didn’t have the correct soil and instead used a sub-par brand that I’m too embarrassed to even mention; suffice to say that the 3 seedlings were stunted and I decided to drop 3 more, giving birth to the A-Line (stunted) and B-Line; in any case I got a 3/3 germination rate for both drops.
After all 6 plants reached a suitable height for topping I took one cut of each plant and rooted them in rockwool cubes. I dipped each cutting into -and watered with a mild solution of- Earth Juice Rootstock; roots popped out within 10 days. I transplanted each rockwool cube into a plastic net pot (described above) with Hydroton clay pellets as the medium of choice. After a few weeks, the plants were transplanted into 1-gallon plastic grow-bags and set inside some containers for structural support, the medium is 3-parts Perlite and 1-part Vermiculite –the classic Hempy Bucket.
For vegetative growth I use General Hydroponics Micro at 5mL/gallon and Bloom at 10mL/gallon –low light Lucas Formula, and for bloom I bump it up to 8mL/gallon of Micro and 16mL/gallon of Bloom –high light Lucas Formula; both are working perfectly.
In the Beginning...
Photographs have been updated. (9-10-11)
Photographs have been reorganized to shorten overall thread length. (9-12-11)
Photographs fro weeks 2 and 3 were added. (9-18-11)
I received my shipment around 15 days after sending it out, this photo was taken almost immediately.
On to the true test.
Week One
This next photograph is a collage showing a simple, no-brain method to cloning. My wife is somewhat of a gardener in her own right and when she takes cuttings of our porch plants she just sits them in a glass of water until roots show. Well, I had an excess of cuttings from my Mexican Sativa and decided that instead of throwing them away, I'd just try to root them this way. The MexiSat pictured in the flowering room as my control was propagated in this manner.
Thank you for your patience. I hope you all enjoy.
NOTICE: UPDATES WILL BE MADE PERIODICALLY AND POINTED OUT WITH RED TEXT.
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