Wow, only left for a day and many posts. These might have been answered but I already clicked on the multi-quote buttons so here goes. And I feel like "talking."
The silicate (from the Potassium Silicate solution) deposits into the tissues surrounding the xylem structures of the plant. Usually with strength comes brittleness so I think he is asking if when flexing the stems, do they have a higher tendency to break instead of bend.
Yeah, what he said. Not that you've pushed enough that they're structuraly equal to branches on a dead tree, but somewhat less flexibility - enough so that the training that you might have otherwise done in a day or two now takes three or four, say. I'm pretty sure I noticed that years back (it's hazy) and that I boosted
(I forget, lol) to compensate; something in the flowering nutrients that I was giving them more than I normally would have in vegetative. But that was in scrogs that got a lot of training.
hey i was wondering if anyone has clone a clone and had no problems? Ive heard you will get genetic drift and the clone from a clone will not be as good or potent as the mom. any one have experience with this?
You can get genetic drift. It's not a simple case of yes/no. And even if you do... It's like flying in a small twin-engine plane over a farmer's 'stead and he's firing at you with his rifle because you're annoying his cows. His probability of missing per shot is fairly high. And even if he hits your plane, you're probably still going to make it to the airport. But give him enough shots and you might notice a degradation in the plane's performance. And there's always that remote chance that he'll get lucky and hit the most important component (in that case, the pilot's head). You can clone a clone of a clone of a clone. Whatever. It's not likely that you'll notice any detrimental affects from one generation to the next - but it is possible - but if you keep an early generation alive and take a cutting from it & compare it with IDK, the 17th generation, you would be more likely to see enough differences to tell the difference. If you don't mind keeping a mother alive for several years then do so. If it's not feasible to do that then keep cloning clones and stretch one into a temporary mother now and then to slow the generations from occuring. And it probably wouldn't hurt to self the plant, allow the seeds to fully mature, then dry them and throw them into cold storage to provide yourself an additional option.
we have an industrial strength ozone gen. in there
You keep a productive O3-generator IN your grow-room? The only true industrial model I ever used was in the workplace environment and it had so many warnings... I'm pretty sure that it caused some of the equipment in the room where we had it set up to use in the work deteriorated faster than its age alone would have accounted for. And the times I played with home-built models I found that they seemed to be 3x or more worse. So I ended up venting into another space and running the O3-generator there. I did not wish to take a chance on degrading trichomes (well... the terpines were my main concern, but...) and/or rubber hoses and such.
do you have any idea how i can tell if my already flowered plant that im re-vegging is actually back to 100% veg mode?
Her chest flattens out and she stops running slow enough so that the boys can catch her?
The plant should stop throwing out single-fingered leaves and go back to producing normal ones of however many fingers you originally saw (strain-dependent). Although some plants/strains might evidence the "unileaves" in small measure afterwards, IDK why. But even with those you'd have normal leaf-growth in the main when the plant is "100%" back to vegetative phase.
yes, me, over and over, and all ive gotten is more potent but one old time grower said that is because the plant is more mature? ...but some things ive read say just the opposite, but not my luck so far, im very happy with it, but some strains will just quit after a while...i got 4x's only out of my cal. oj, but part of that was my fault..i used to keep one plant only, and kept it alive for 5 yrs that way...it was still in great health and looking good last time i saw it....lavendar
The maturity argument holds weight for the first additional generation if you took your original cuttings when the mother was still immature, but after that... IDK. Getting to know your strain, the phenotype you're growing, and even the particular (set of) plant(s) can take a few grows and will often produce a more satisfactorily harvest either in potency or yield. So can having slightly better environmental circumstances.
And there's no law that says that generational drift HAS TO be a bad thing - after all, mutants and sports played a big part in the evolution of species. It's just generally far more
likely to be bad.
96F right now in the room.
root rot is what has me worried not heat stress.
Keep enough DO in the root-zone (I'm still convinced that O2 has higher availability to plants when dissolved in a liquid than when fed directly to the roots as a gas, personally) and the bad microbial and near-microbial life out of the reservoir (etc.) and you'll find that the roots won't rot in conditions that will support life. Only thing is, the higher your reservoir temperatures get the less O2 will remain dissolved in the solution. The solution for your solution is supersaturation, of course. That will keep the roots healthy enough that they should even survive occasional O2-deprivation episodes due to power failures.
