LMAO Cloning For Dummies

LedGuy74 said:
Last 7-10 days or so of harvest I'll start plucking a couple dozen off each day... sometimes more sometimes less just depending but by the last day I want atleast 80% of my fan leaves off. Makes it all go by a lot smoother and I don't really notice any downside to defoliating late flower personally... I like trying things out for myself too though ive found most of what people say you can't do is just bullshit frankly.
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So I'm clear here. You're saying your bullshit is more reliable then the bullshit dished out by "most people"??
 
beez0404 said:
So I'm clear here. You're saying your bullshit is more reliable then the bullshit dished out by "most people"??
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I'm saying I think for myself instead of being a sheep.... nothing wrong with trying things for yourself... many defoliate late flower it's certainty not bullshit. It's just a plant not rocket science... there is no wrong or right way.
 
Meet my two White Widow Fem seed clones. For the past several days I have been hand milking pollen off of a Wonder Woman Reg male clone. The male is in his little cloning room along with his Wonder Woman Reg male clone twin brother. The brother was cut about 10 days after the first one to allow me to pollinate over an extended period of time in case some of the plants weren't far enough along in flowering. What I am doing is pollinating these two clones completely as I suspect at least one of the phenotypes of this cross could be amazing.

I have a couple other strains I am crossing with the Wonder Woman. These will just have the buds on a single branch on the bottom of the plant) carefully painted with the pollen. Then it will be a wait and see game to see if the pollen was viable. I'm expecting a good number of seeds from these two girls even if they are clones.

This first one is pretty much one bud from bottom to top. Tough to see in the photo but if you look close you can see what I mean.

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This seed breeding and cross pollination bring my first growing season to an end. The outside portion of it anyway.
 
Default in plants is definitely one of those things that depends on the person because I believe that the plant can produce more resin at the end of the process if it has more leaves to produce the energy and use the sugar that it has stored over period of time I do not the defoliage into my plants if they feel that they are too bushy they Will start to drop leaves in order to let light in where it needs it Mother Nature I believe Knows Best
 
Hiya. Just a word of caution: google how your strain responds to defol. 1st time i read about it, i went & did it, throwing my girls back into veg. That sucked bananas. Sativas don't like it very much, although indicas seem to have less of a problem with defol, and the extra light seems to do the lower buds good. I just remove fans that are actively shading buds, usually starting at the top, about 2 weeks prior to harvest, and then only a few at a time. If i do it patiently, my girls don't reveg themselves.
 
Great advice

there is so many different ways to train plants I seem to train each strain according to how they grow some will get LST and super cropping other strains I seem to want to bend them some of them I like to tie down but I like plants that train their self grow flat and even talked and for some reason I really do not like defoliaging and Topping

This is just me but I believe that it lowers your yield unless done very early with topping and I never liked defoliageing
 
Imhigh85 said:
Great advice

there is so many different ways to train plants I seem to train each strain according to how they grow some will get LST and super cropping other strains I seem to want to bend them some of them I like to tie down but I like plants that train their self grow flat and even talked and for some reason I really do not like defoliaging and Topping

This is just me but I believe that it lowers your yield unless done very early with topping and I never liked defoliageing
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With my summer grows, i had no problems with topping & occasionally snipping a few leaves here & there- it's a nice, long, bright veg, end October to end of January, even Feb (assuming you got the seeds to sprout mid Sept- mid Oct).
THIS grow, however, opened my eyes. Iamhigh85, i learned from you. Now, i like bowl training for some, plain lst for others, supercropping, even stabbing some of 'em. An already glorious hobby just became even better.
I also learned A LOT about drainage in small containers, why has that never been an issue in a downpour in clay soil?
 
Thank you very much MaryAnna and thank you to everybody else that uses this thread now and in the future

I like sharing knowledge as well as learning new things I'm always trying to figure something new out or improve something old it can be lots of fun to learn how to train different ways especially once you learn that you can train a plant with almost all of these training techniques throughout its life and then there's one that I don't know if I've ever mentioned to people on here it is called Monster cropping this is only done in extreme cases of plants over growing their area grow tent or room but when somebody needs that will get to that

And the only understanding that I have about some plants being in clay pots and some being and regular pots and then again some pots with no drainage some pots with drainage from my understanding it is based on what type of plant you are putting in it what type of environment is going to be in and whether it is going to be inside or outside some plants can actually prefer to have swampy roots where some need to be almost dry hope this helped out a little bit
 
I'm doing monstercropping on my older girls that have already yielded a harvest. As i have it, it's when you chop most of the buds off to reveg a plant, say, one that you want to breed with/take clones, because it's a good strain or it just flipped too early. The growth won't be neat, kinda monsterous (hence the name), and supposedly the bud quality will be less intense. I have some that i chopped for the other thread, and they were GOOOOD. Also mc'd, root trimmed & repotted my 1 polypoid, it flipped way too early (2 weeks of veg, come on, son). Will let you know.
 
Monster cropping is kind of like super cropping instead of crushing a single branch you're going to crush the main stem bending it down words and tying it in place can you can do this a couple times your buds will continue to grow once it heals the little brakes I use this a lot when my plants get too tall and want to reach above my light bending the main stem like super cropping bringing it down I can cut a foot to 6 inches off of my plant every time I do it sometimes these plants can be a little to beastly
 
I took some clones a while back, & stuck them in some cloninators. Just an update:
I forgot about them for about a week, under mom's canopy. Remembered, leaves were still perky & bright. Uncapped the bottles yesterday, put them in a nice sunny spot. I'm in no hurry, i need time to prep the summer beds. So no idea on root development...
 
I took my Black Ops from seedling to 4 weeks old at 4 weeks old it was 15 inches tall I chop the first 5 inches off of the top of the plant like most people would for topping just a lot extra I took all this extra nodes off the leaves the nodes and pushed it into a pile of dirt with some rooting hormone built it a little humidity Dome out of a 2 L bottle cut the bottom of it off and put the plant in a little cup inside the bottom made a couple slits in the top and then slit them over put a piece of clear tape on it sealing it closed left 2 L bottle cap off to let fresh air in constantly today she seems to like it even more I may try to do this with more clones use just the tops for clones
 
So I took cuttings shortly after this thread started...so when do they go from "clone" to being in veg state...been couple months and they're not too big yet but I'm lst training...I've heard of people only vegging for like a week then going to flower...I want to take cuttings again off these cuttings but when is too soon and when is too soon to throw em in flower
 
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