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Nicholas Flamel said:
Anyone ever try to graft a cutting to an existing rootball? Probably wouldnt work but i am high so..:cheesygrinsmiley::passitleft:
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I'm sure the stoner thought has occured to more than a few of us. Lol! I'd think that'd work better if you started the graft before you harvested the plant that the root ball was attached to.

You gonna try it? :cheesygrinsmiley:

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TorturedSoul said:
Are you sure it's actually leftover fertilizer and not just empty prills? I've read that the "shells" will take longer to disappear (decompose). IOW, if you try to squash one between your finger and thumb, does it (meaning it's empty)?
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It never occured to me TS. I assumed the intact shells meant they'd not been accessed. I see I'm wrong.

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You can see the ones obviously broken open and emptied.

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I got curious to see what was inside the shells when I added them.

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Ok....... I guess they all got used up. Good. That bothered me. Now I can let that concern go. :battingeyelashes: :green_heart:
 
Gauge Steel said:
Weaselcracker had a plant that had three or four different strains grafted to one root ball. He is a grafting master!
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That's right! I wonder if he's ever gonna enter that plant in the contest? I think it'd be a sure thing for POTM. :laughtwo:
 
SweetSue said:
I'm sure the stoner thought has occured to more than a few of us. Lol! I'd think that'd work better if you started the graft before you harvested the plant that the root ball was attached to.

You gonna try it? :cheesygrinsmiley:

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naaa im not going to try it. I must have been pretty high cuz the roots wouldnt live very long after harvest, Dumb stoner question :grinjoint:. Thanks for responding though sue. I just dont like wasting good root balls i guess lol.
 
Greetings, friends!

A long-winded post with pics and hempy thoughts: NL5 Haze Mist in front (3+ weeks since pistils, she's ought to be done stretching and looks so darn sexxxy to me!). Blueberry on the right (vegged for 7+ weeks, topped twice, and being manipulated in hopes of an even canopy. In flower tent for 3-4 days now). CBD Crew Indica Fem hiding in back (pistils showed beginning of August, vegged for 6+ weeks and topped once (I unintentionally lied about her veg time early in this thread (happens when you write nothing down))).
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CBD Indica fem top cola, I like the way bud snaps look under the leds with the flash on. I'd guess 3+ weeks left for her. Mom's meds!
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NL5 Haze Mist top. Does this extreme lime green new growth speak to a deficiency? Short N, maybe? Funny what I choose to read around here instead of researching... Not "haha" funny, "smdh" funny.
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Blurp snap from above: Two Purple Badlands in back left 12/12 from seed, my first Greenpoint fems after a handful of dudes; CDB Crew Indica fem front left; Blueberry in the middle; NL5 Haze Mist to her right; and a lanky 12/12 from seed Blueberry far right, her unhappy leaves hidden in this shot.
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Purple Bads looking cool under the sun through the shades .
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Popped a Jamaican Dream early last week that will be vegged for 1.5-2 months and topped. Trying to perpetuate!

I'm never going to use 2 or 2.5 liter bottles again after the 4 I have now are done. I much prefer the big folgers cans for stability, volume, and a handle for goodness sakes. Playing with the idea of cutting the bottom off one and fusing it to another to go bigger.

I've fought high heat and low humidity all summer and feel like watering every 2 days hasn't been enough. Many crispy leaves that simply look thirsty. Tried a daily feed on 2 Cackleberry plants and ended up culling them because of root rot. That Canadien air feels closer today, prepping to complain about that instead of the heat now!

Speaking of watering, I've ended up adding a handful of perlite to a few pots after flooding them because of it settling and exposing roots. Anyone else?

A personal note: I'm going to change my Username to Haste Makes Waste as soon as I get another journal going, but plan to keep the "Rusty Shackleford" profile pic. We'll see how long my world class procrastination makes that take!

Lots of super rad stuff happening around here. Keep up the great work, friends!

Peace
 
SweetSue said:
It never occured to me TS. I assumed the intact shells meant they'd not been accessed. I see I'm wrong.
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I just happened to see mention of the shells having more longevity than their contents when I read the Osmocote FAQ a while back. That reminds me, I need to see if I received an email from someone at the company. EDIT: Nope.
 
Hello Hello! I found you! I've been hearing your name a lot! And as I soon plant to be hempy-ing when my seedling comes of size, I'm glad I did. I'll be sitting in the closest avalible chair to the from of the classroom.
 
so I'm in a solo cup now I chose not to do a hempy solo cup but upon transfer time was planning to put her into a 3 gal hempy bucket. Bottom pure perlite and a coco perlite mix there on up... what are the 3 things you wish you had done differently with your hempy after your first grow? And I'm planning a scrog monster should I eventually upgrade to a 5 gallon or perhaps bigger?
 
So figured I'd jus drop these lil guys in here still so far 100% success in hempy growing these 2 r my Devils Carnival by nis and canna

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Themaddabber said:
so I'm in a solo cup now I chose not to do a hempy solo cup but upon transfer time was planning to put her into a 3 gal hempy bucket. Bottom pure perlite and a coco perlite mix there on up... what are the 3 things you wish you had done differently with your hempy after your first grow? And I'm planning a scrog monster should I eventually upgrade to a 5 gallon or perhaps bigger?
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Why mix in the coco? By the time you get into the three gallon size the roots will hit the reservoir in a matter of a day or two and you're off and running. The perlite doesn't wick up efficiently past 12", so that coco may be a good idea to pull the moisture up higher, come to think of it.

After my first grow it was simple - pay more attention to the proper use of the nutrients. It still took me a run or two, but once you figure out the nutrients and you give them adequate light to your expectations it's just a matter of getting the watering schedules down.

This is what makes the Osmo Plus grow so attractive. Only Cal/Mg and water. Can't get much simpler than that, can you? :laughtwo:

I started a clone in a cup without the drain hole today. After the perlite-filled glass to soak in aloe & water I emptied the water out into a measuring cup and then put 1/2 cup back in. I can't see why that wouldn't work. I eventually cut the cup down and put that drain hole in though, to make refreshing the reservoir every week easier to do.

Growing a monster will likely require more root space. The five-gallon sounds about right.
 
Awesome! Yeah I did a lot of reading and even the og hempy thread he said 1:4 ratio vermaculite to perlite. I liked the idea but after I had a long chat with a worker at a local hydro store, I decided to go coco. He said he had a friend in Colorado that does hempy with pure coco up top, and swears by it. Even sells the dudes product for coco (a natural mix of healthy bacteria and organisms that for symyotic relationships in coco yada yada. However, That requires a lot less watering and I wanted to be more actively engaged this first time around. Not to mention you don't refresh the bottom with fresh oxygenated water as ofter.... ANYWAYS lol I read around and noticed a lot of people doing perlite coco mix above the res. So I opted for nice 5050 mix that I feel should be harder to over water and or underwater with the added wicking power of coco. :exasperated breath: lol
 
Hey sue I was just wondering with my clones tht have a lot of roots wen I put them in to the hempy cup shud I maybe start those with bigger cups then my 20 oz foam cups I'm using?? Also just wondering because I think my 100% success rate well for clones anyway is about to drop my first 3 clones I did 2 of the 3 r yellowing pretty bad I hit them all with my ipm tht had neam oil in it since they had spider mites but now the 2 r looking pretty yellow n idk if they will make it or not also do u notice if they do better under lower light till they are established fully cuz my seedlings And one clone are under my t8s and that clone is still green but others arent and the other clones are under my 600w led and next to my 1200w cob lights but I dnt think the cobs r hitting them so just wondering what ur thoughts where any help wud be greatly appreciated:thanks: and :Namaste:
 
I'm certainly no pro. But I've always heard humidity and temp are most important. Too much light encourages photosynthesis and since there are no roots it can be counter productive. I almost always notice clones under florescent lights of one form or another, and not too much. Again as the clones need to spend their energy producing roots instead of trying to convert energy from the light...
 
Themaddabber said:
I'm certainly no pro. But I've always heard humidity and temp are most important. Too much light encourages photosynthesis and since there are no roots it can be counter productive. I almost always notice clones under florescent lights of one form or another, and not too much. Again as the clones need to spend their energy producing roots instead of trying to convert energy from the light...
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I agree 100%. Jones, I always introduce my clones to the big lights at about 24" away, moving them a little closer every day until I'm at 18". Then I pretty much leave them there and let them grow to the light. You have to protect the leaves because they're still actively growing the primary root ball.

I sometimes take a full week to make the jump to 18" from the light.
 
Thanx guys I put them all under my t8s and rearranged my newborn veg area alil bit better still needs a few finishing touches but yea I was wondering is it safe to do an ipm on clones that have jus been put into the perlite for a week or less?? Also with clones that started out with a bigger root system b4 they went into the perlite will those need to be waterd more often u think n possibly be uppoted sooner or jus plain start in a bigger pot size?? :thanks: every1 for all the help n :Namaste:
 
Here are some of my roots from my latest clones so if they r this big wen they go into there pots shud I use more then a 20oz to start these or jus water more often?? Sry for all the questions just trying to figure out why my clones are lookn so yellow but wen I put them in soil they dnt idk y I hope its just the light n now they r under the t8s will do better but I wanna get me info on this without having to lose any clones if I dnt gotta lol so if I can learn from u guys instead of always from my failures haha tht wud be great :thanks: every1 n have a great day :Namaste:

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Blazinjones said:
Here are some of my roots from my latest clones so if they r this big wen they go into there pots shud I use more then a 20oz to start these or jus water more often?? Sry for all the questions just trying to figure out why my clones are lookn so yellow but wen I put them in soil they dnt idk y I hope its just the light n now they r under the t8s will do better but I wanna get me info on this without having to lose any clones if I dnt gotta lol so if I can learn from u guys instead of always from my failures haha tht wud be great :thanks: every1 n have a great day :Namaste:

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I use the solo cup hempies to grow roots Jones. :laughtwo: You already have them established. Lol! Get those clones into something bigger than a 20 oz cup. Your T8s shouldn't be causing any problems. I can get right down on top of my plants with a T8 and they won't bother the leaves unless you're near the ballast. They're too cool to burn. But you may be too close for the limited number of leaves to root.

Are you adding CalMag to the water? With soil you have additional buffers perlite doesn't offer and CalMag additions are standard practice.

The yellowing of clones, IMO, is most often due to asking the plant to process more light than the roots can handle. Other than that you're typically looking at a nutrient imbalance.

I need to encourage you to start using my produce bag method and stop butchering the leaves of your clones. This may be one reason mine thrive. The leaves are always intact.

Also, next clone attempt make the stems shorter. You have so many nodes on that stem it's gonna challenge you to control vertical growth. How do you keep them under control once they start producing more growth? Most of us try to keep the structure low and controlled.
 
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