LMAO Cloning For Dummies

907skunk said:
O and I know most people know the strain their growing and the flower period but what if you knew none of that and needed to know when to start flushing? What would you look for to say hey I need to start flushing ...if that makes sense
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Hiya, bud. What do you have access to ito magnifying equipment? Microscope, jeweller's loupe, granny's magnifying glass? (I just have the last one, no probs). Cell camera's zoom?
I know you dunno the strain, how long have they been flowering? What are the little hairs doing - pushing out white, or mostly starting to curl? Just use what you have to get an idea of where you are ito grow. I grow sativa, and if i go more than 30% amber, i go paralatic & useless, so 50% seems like a lot of amber to have before flush...idk about other people, but that's how it hits me.
 
I have jewellers loupe...60x and 30x...started flower on July 18....hairs are shooting straight and white...
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Like I say I'm not worried about feeling stone ...I want relaxed
 
Ok. So this is what i'm seeing:
1. If you noticed the first flowers on 18/07, then these girls could have been flowering for 6-7 weeks. If you flipped them on 18/07, then it's 4 weeks.
2. The tops are coming along very nicely, lovely frost, hairs changing colour. The lower buds are just starting to fill in. When mine look like this, i still have about a month left, so 3 weeks before a 2 week flush.
3. I see long, thin leaves, so i'm thinking there's a bit of sativa in this genetic mix, generally, they have a longer flowering period.
Am i helping at all?
 
Yep thanx...seen first signs of flowers around July 28...roughly ...when she was young the leaves were fat like indica ...started thinning not long before I put her in flower...here a pic of her at about a month from seed
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This one is up for harvest in about 4 weeks:
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This one 6 weeks:
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(If you want to compare)
The first time you grow a strain, there are a lot of questions, even if you are an experienced grower. The only reason i have any idea of the time frame, is because i know these plants.
 
That's what I'm saying! Use the mother plant as your sort of guinea pig so you'll know EXACTLY what to expect from the clones. So if it takes mom exactly 9 weeks to have the crystals exactly how you want them. Then you'll know without a doubt that the clones (within a couple days) will finish in 9 weeks. So knowing this you can start your flush at the perfect time to coincide with your buds reaching perfection.
 
Your room sounds like it is doing good would like to hear all of what you have done to it so far and see if there's anything that you can do to make it better or more accurate
 
When you start checking your trichomes and you see that some are starting to turn Amber this is when you want to start to do your flush I have actually flushed a plant for 3 weeks just because it needed to go a little longer for the crystals to get to the point that I wanted them to be at it seems to be more and more common for people to be looking for more and more Amber inside their buds versus the clear to cloudy crystals
 
With unknown strain it is best to start checking the crystals in between 10 and 12 weeks this way if you see that it needs longer you can let it run longer or you see that it is done you can take it down then quit checking it earlier makes you want to pull it quicker as you start to watch them mature this can be a problem if you think it is done give it another week these are a few things that I go by
 
If you Journal they're flowering the entire time and then you run the plant again this will normally help you increase your yield every time because you know what to look for you know what you used and maybe you can push it a little bit harder these are things that you might want to look at just trying to help out a little bit I don't feel so good right now
 
You need to start feeding those plants more all they are our sticks a few leaves and some small buds at the moment I know you better than this LOL you make that plant fat
 
My room is a ghetto room...nothing major I promise...have a tower oscillating fan...4" intake fan at bottom...dual fan that you're supposed to use in windows at the top of the room...inside painted flat white...my single 150w hps light hanging in the middle on rope ratchets
 
Just go up a little bit more on your regular nutrient by not much a quarter to a half a milliliter of each an see if she likes that try not to increase the water she seem to be doing okay when you were giving her small amounts it looks to me like she's using all the nutrients that you have been giving her and that she can take some more if you have any questions you can always text me or message me on here
 
Sounds to me like the only thing that you need to add now is a oscillating fan so it can act like the actual wind outside and continually change direction blowing the plants around this can help your room and help your plant at the same time
 
She is used to the lower amount of nutrients now and you can take it up a little bit and it will not bother her yo actually improve what you are already seeing and by that I mean resin production smell and higher rate of growth because she's actually using it all I hope this stuff helps
 
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