Jack Herer & Panama Red In Doc's Hi Brix

[calicanna143]

haha....I just realize i got your journal mixed up with someone else. Sorry about that.

Also sorry to hear about all those mishaps. Maybe burn some Sage about the place?

LOL, or sacrifice a goat or switch to feng shui, my room is close to a creek so maybe the energy is wrong and washing away. On the bright side I only have one male out of the bunch..

 

[Doc Bud]

I take clones from lower branches with good growth. The razor wouldn't cut through so I had to use very sharp trimming scissors which I've done before no issues. I dip in clonex gel and stick in rapid rooters which were presoaked. Everything is in a humidity dome and sprayed once with destress 1/4 strength. Then lightly misted with RO water twice a day.they are under a 100 watt CFL. I've even stuck clones in a jiffy peet pod in the past and always had roots

FWIW, I never mist the clones with RO. Just a DeStress misting if I'm in a hurry. Mostly just leave 'em alone after one spray.

What's different about your cloning method now compared to the past?

 

[Graytail]

How's the humidity? Low RH absolutely destroys my cuttings. They jus' don' root, y'know?

 

[Doc Bud]

How's the humidity? Low RH absolutely destroys my cuttings. They jus' don' root, y'know?

He's misting twice daily. I don't think it's low humidity.

I'm curious if his method has changed.

 

[calicanna143]

There's a very little bit of dew on the dome, they wilt if I don't mist, they're on a heating pad set to 78 and I keep a tiny amount of water in the tray for evaporation. I havnt done anything different except the stems are like bark

 

[Doc Bud]

There's a very little bit of dew on the dome, they wilt if I don't mist, they're on a heating pad set to 78 and I keep a tiny amount of water in the tray for evaporation. I havnt done anything different except the stems are like bark

Those are the way your stems should be!

I use one of the rectangular cloning trays with plastic humidity dome. Fits Rapid Rooters/Root Riot cubes.

I put water in the bottom so it is just below the level of the cubes. No daily spray, but I top off the water when it evaporates. No problems.

I do not do a twice daily misting. What's the rH in the room? It must be real low if they need misting twice daily. Mine fogs up and stays that way.

 

[calicanna143]

Humidity is low, summers I have better evap and dew inside. Here's some pics, I've already culled some and took off growth on these. I do have dew on the inside, just not much. Hopefully these will survive

 

[calicanna143]

 

[Doc Bud]

OK....cut off all the leaves but the very top. They'll root up. I cut mine way back, leave just the apical meristem and half of first fan below that.

 

[calicanna143]

Humidity is 68 inside dome just put monitor there

 

[TheGreenYeti]

I take clones from lower branches with good growth. The razor wouldn't cut through so I had to use very sharp trimming scissors which I've done before no issues. I dip in clonex gel and stick in rapid rooters which were presoaked. Everything is in a humidity dome and sprayed once with destress 1/4 strength. Then lightly misted with RO water twice a day.they are under a 100 watt CFL. I've even stuck clones in a jiffy peet pod in the past and always had roots

Yeah woody branches can be an issue at times. I spray with the diluted destress every day while rooting clones. I rarely ever lose any and if I do it is usually because there is not enough moisture in my clone tray. Even when I used my E-z cloner I had decent success using the destress daily.

I must say i agree with Doc on cutting them back. I leave what Doc suggested and it works out well. Any time I leave a good amount of foliage on my cuts they never make it.

 

[Doc Bud]

Humidity is 68 inside dome just put monitor there

You want the humidty about 90.....

 

[calicanna143]

Yeah woody branches can be an issue at times. I spray with the diluted destress every day while rooting clones. I rarely ever lose any and if I do it is usually because there is not enough moisture in my clone tray. Even when I used my E-z cloner I had decent success using the destress daily.

Thanks, I'll do destress more, wasn't sure if I could daily, I cut more leafs off, I usually leave a lot on but I've always rooted after 5 to 7 days so never had issue, I've also never had such strong stems either. Thanks for the info

 

[calicanna143]

You want the humidty about 90.....

I'll turn heat mat up a bit and see if I can get a bit more evap

 

[Graytail]

Heheh, I just checked a RH/Temp table to see what my RH might be inside this time of year.

Outside it's -17 F and 60% RH right now.
Inside it's 70 F, so you heat that air up and you get ... 3 percent RH.

3 percent.

 

[calicanna143]

Heheh, I just checked a RH/Temp table to see what my RH might be inside this time of year.

Outside it's -17 F and 60% RH right now.
Inside it's 70 F, so you heat that air up and you get ... 3 percent RH.

3 percent.

I'm glad I'm not dealing with your humidity, I'm at 30 RH outside and in, and I had to buy a whole house humidifier for a 5x5 tent. Not sure how you do it

 

[Graytail]

I can get it up to the 30% range, but I have to vent heat so I vent the humidity with it, and I can only go so low with the fan. A/C for the grow room would solve that but it's just a 4x4 and that's not sensible. I could try a second huey, but I'm just running a bunch of fill-in plants for the heart of the winter so I don't care that much. They don't look very pretty but the produce is acceptable even for a snob like myself.

 

[Doc Bud]

Keep water in the bottom of that tray at all times and make sure it seals up good, and it should have near 90% on humidity. You may have to add water daily.

 

[calicanna143]

I can get it up to the 30% range, but I have to vent heat so I vent the humidity with it, and I can only go so low with the fan. A/C for the grow room would solve that but it's just a 4x4 and not that's not sensible. I could try a second huey, but I'm just running a bunch of fill-in plants for the heart of the winter so I don't care that much. They don't look very pretty but the produce is acceptable even for a snob like myself.

Its funny, 20 years ago when I used to grow, I never even considered humidity and even heat or ac, always fans. My stuff came out great, before we had these nice fancy nutrients I used fertilizer for African violets. Then I take a 15 year break and come back to this, what a culture shock. Its like I'm starting from the beginning again and having to learn from the beginning. Very humbling..

 

[calicanna143]

Keep water in the bottom of that tray at all times and make sure it seals up good, and it should have near 90% on humidity. You may have to add water daily.

That's part of the problem, my tray never sealed up good, especially when I have my heat mat probe in it