Hey everyone
I hope all is well in your gardens!
Update:
I’ve been really busy in the garden with harvests and shuffling plants around, but I got around to cleaning out my bloom box and I put a MH bulb in there so I could move most of the girls in the propagation box into the larger space as it was getting so crowded! I also did a batch of clones as I got a new rooting gel to test out so I took a couple pics so I’ll post that up.
Quick round of cloning:
The girl I first took clones of was one of 4 Cheese plants I’m planning on flowering out in a month or so.
2 reasons to take clones on this girl - firstly I wanted some more cheese clones to send out to friends, and secondly - by taking off all the lower growth all the energy and growth will be sent to the top growth that’s getting the real light. This girl stretched quite a bit and I did not keep a close eye on her, so I don’t believe those bottom branches would of reached the top canopy. Here she is, the bits circled in red was what i planned on removing.
Next up, the red lines are where I’m snipping - close to the main stem and a nice and clean cut is best.
Alright once I’ve got my selected cut - I trim off the lower leaves to expose more stem to drop her lower into the jiffy pads, so more surface area for roots to develop. The more roots develop, the smoother the initial transplant will go.
This is her after the leg shave.
I then snip the stem at a 45/degree angle - to expose the inner stem to promote root growth once dipped in the rooting gel.
She gets a nice dip in your selected rooting gel / root stimulator. I usually get roots within 10 days, so we’ll see how this round goes with this tester of rooting gel. I’ll keep in mind it’s cold in the evenings now, so rooting generally will take longer.
Once dipped, she’s ready for the pre soacked jiffy puck.
And after a couple snips here and there we got our next batch of clones ready for rooting.
This one was topped early on - I could of snipped her as two clones but I’ll have some fun with this one!
And this is the cheese girl after her haircut. All the plants energy will be sent up to that canopy.
This is how things are looking in my garden now - nothing in bloom, just vegging all these girls out now and figuring out what i’d like to Flower next.
The ‘Bloom Box’ now in veg:
The propagation station:
And these are the 4 girls I’m leaning towards flowering next - all Cheese. I reckon I’ll manage their canopy well, and if I put them in some big ol’ pots I think I’ll fill the bloom box well with them after a months veg. I’ll think about it
Lastly - just for fun - I’ve had this one clone expressing only single leaves, she’s a freak and she doesn’t seem to want to snap out of it, the next few days are looking sunny so I left her outside today and I’ll see what she does the next couple days under sunlight
Alright sweet guys sorry for the long and overdue update, I’ll be back for an update real soon!
Happy growing
peace
These girls were topped - now that the top branches are long enough I pull them down to allow more light penetration lower down the plants. These girls are getting bigger and will need some extra light soon! 
There’s one or two branches down low that won’t make it up top so I’ll snip those off for clones tomorrow. 
