Radogast 2 - Return of the Clones

I don't know.

If you are talking about in the tray under the fabric pots (and in the soil,) that is perlite, a water wicking artificial shaped rock made by machines blowing air into volcanic rock slurry. I bought 16 more cubic feet today. I've been using it for potted plants on the porch too!

If you are talking about the massive amounts of white that were outside my house for 4 MONTHS STRAIGHT this winter, that was FRIGGIN' SNOW. That trauma is too fresh to talk about. It really is too soon!

If you are talking about my foot, you fail to appreciate my New England farmer tan. :)
LMAO hahhahahahha
 
This only my second grow (one of the unintentionally longest grows in history) and I forget why I went for multiple branches last time, but I know I had 7-10 major branches per plant at 15" in hieght when I went into flower. Yield was about 1/4 oz (7gram) per branch..... I forget a lot of things.... With alernating branches, does topping create more branches? Do more major branches equal more yield than a single magnificent cola?

In my experience whether a single cola or multiple the size of the flower is determined by whats feeding the plant. Less food, less growth. It's about knowing what to feed and when. Most would try to correlate higher dosages of N-P-K to being the answer. I would strongly disagree. In my experience in dirt, this is what I have found. The majority of bought soil whether organic or not tends to be void of essential minerals. Where things grow big there is always heavy deposits of volcanic ash and rock dust/minerals and a fuckload of quality worm castings since there are worms in all lush native growth..

I grow in soil that is not tilled because I used to grow in the rainforest. That soil was never tilled and every year my plants got better with no change in training or feedings .... since I only fed water and established a good amount of decomposing coral cod carcasses from the Great barrier reef. All I did was cover the top soil with basic homemade compost and mulch.

The best bud in my opinion comes from veganic grown weed. I don't grow veganic but the best development of terpene and cannabinoid production came from veganic grown bud for me. I've grown aquaponics/hydroponics/soil and even tried those upside down tomato hanging approaches and none came close to growing organic/veganic no till soil bud.

So when I plan on topping a plant, the amount of mineral amendments into my soil are dictated directly by how many tops I intend on having. This includes the frequency of making enzyme and compost teas for feedings and foliar sprays. The rock dust and trace minerals are what feed the microbes which intern feed your plant and help make big bud. It's like a symbiotic electric field of friendship. Granulated is much better than the powdered alternatives and that's because the granulated create more BSA (Bacteria Surface Area) which only increases the size of your microbes colonies and their effectiveness. This teamed up with a good quality compost tea will super charge your plant into producing incredible yields. A thing to note. If you are taking cuts and replanting the decrease in production is dictated by the fading genetics that comes with the cut style of cloning. I say this because some growers I know have claimed it makes their harvest weaker each production and the issue wasn't the soil but the plant. Hence why I encourage those who take their own cuts, to look into the technique of Tissue cell culture cloning. Since it's like starting with the original cut every time :)
 
WOW you know your stuff ! i love it and it is true my last crop i got from a craigslist post and it was a clone from a clone and god knows how many ! but my CandyLand i am going to keep 2 girls and clone . The ones i have i got from a dispensary and what a difference just like the purple Kush we got but , Man i cant wait to be able to pm so many post that is the way this forum is but i like it good ppl Well thanks buddy and talk soon i hope ! Always a New england girl :):thumb:
 
Your plants look great. I like the early veg area and the late veg area. Someday, I hope to have space dedicated to something like that. Really nice.

And a couple of your posts were just LOL. :)
 
WOW you know your stuff ! i love it and it is true my last crop i got from a craigslist post and it was a clone from a clone and god knows how many ! but my CandyLand i am going to keep 2 girls and clone . The ones i have i got from a dispensary and what a difference just like the purple Kush we got but , Man i cant wait to be able to pm so many post that is the way this forum is but i like it good ppl Well thanks buddy and talk soon i hope ! Always a New england girl :):thumb:

Not sure if this was directed at me or not though I just thought I'd extend on what I said about tissue cell culture cloning is that regardless of where you get a cut from performing this technique IMMEDIATELY eliminates any chance of a bad fungal or bacterial outbreak in your garden. I never bring new genetics into my garden by the way of a cut without this process. I just won't risk it. But the over all best win/win factor is that not only will it be clean, it will be better than the cut before... unless of course the cut before it was the original plant... but the likelihood of encountering something like that would require getting it from a breeder etc.
 
I just read a very brief overview of the Tissue Culture cloning tech. That's some crazy mad scientist shit right there. I will have to look deeper into this.

It seems all very mad scientist indeed.. probably why it strikes a chord with me I would say. There are nothing but benefits from this process, it is the top and elite of all cloning methods for Cannabis in my personal opinion. It just helps to keep a clean garden. I grow medicine not bud to just get you high. I truly treat it as an art form that's fallen into the lap of a bloke with a lab coat :) I encourage others to adopt the same approach because I really think the future of gardening is a blossoming art form because of how shallow we have adventured into the understandings of plants and their medium let alone the Cannabis plant.

Cheers :volcano-smiley:
 
I just read a very brief overview of the Tissue Culture cloning tech. That's some crazy mad scientist shit right there. I will have to look deeper into this.

When they make it legal in my state, there will be a dozen tissue culture labs within easy driving distance (Boston is full of hospitals, viral labs and genetics scientists.) Until then, I'll leave the delicate sciencey work until a month I am bored. I'm rarely bored :)
 
When they make it legal in my state, there will be a dozen tissue culture labs within easy driving distance (Boston is full of hospitals, viral labs and genetics scientists.) Until then, I'll leave the delicate sciencey work until a month I am bored. I'm rarely bored :)

It really can appear more time consuming and intimidating when you first look at it. To be honest once you do it once or twice and you have an idea of what you're doing you will find that it becomes soooo much easier and faster and less time consuming in the long run. Once you put that lid on, you wont take it off essentially until you plan on planting it.

On the lab side of things it would be something current labs will add into their repertoire. I'm currently trying to arrange with a local lab to really expand what they offer through somewhat of a partnership. Which they are open to since they have both recreational and medical clients. I practice a technique that can double the potency of the plant which is probably one of the only things I haven't open sourced yet. With them I hope to release some legitimately CBD strong medicinal strains. All bred by myself in my own personal lab through organic processes. No synthetic chemicals are used for any grafting/transfusion etc. Only for cleaning the instruments that are to be used. It really is exciting with the future potential of what can be done at a lab level with cannabis, like cannabinoid isolation. Which to be honest is probably the furthest thing away from an organic process but what that means for critically ill people is making accurate dictated and measured doses by request. I truly believe we will eventually create an endocannbinoid map of how much of what cannabinoid is needed to repair cell mutations or neurological based illnesses. It is not far as far off as some would think either :) :volcano-smiley:

I'll add I often write posts and forget important grammatical edits, so I apologize for those who like me when reading things can't help but edit in their mind. As I have done re-reading my posts of late. That's what happens with large consumption of vapour and late night gardening/journal entry type behaviour. Miss the finer details I guess

Hope you guys enjoyed the rant

Cheers
 
It really can appear more time consuming and intimidating when you first look at it. To be honest once you do it once or twice and you have an idea of what you're doing you will find that it becomes soooo much easier and faster and less time consuming in the long run. Once you put that lid on, you wont take it off essentially until you plan on planting it.

On the lab side of things it would be something current labs will add into their repertoire. I'm currently trying to arrange with a local lab to really expand what they offer through somewhat of a partnership. Which they are open to since they have both recreational and medical clients. I practice a technique that can double the potency of the plant which is probably one of the only things I haven't open sourced yet. With them I hope to release some legitimately CBD strong medicinal strains. All bred by myself in my own personal lab through organic processes. No synthetic chemicals are used for any grafting/transfusion etc. Only for cleaning the instruments that are to be used. It really is exciting with the future potential of what can be done at a lab level with cannabis, like cannabinoid isolation. Which to be honest is probably the furthest thing away from an organic process but what that means for critically ill people is making accurate dictated and measured doses by request. I truly believe we will eventually create an endocannbinoid map of how much of what cannabinoid is needed to repair cell mutations or neurological based illnesses. It is not far as far off as some would think either :) :volcano-smiley:

I'll add I often write posts and forget important grammatical edits, so I apologize for those who like me when reading things can't help but edit in their mind. As I have done re-reading my posts of late. That's what happens with large consumption of vapour and late night gardening/journal entry type behaviour. Miss the finer details I guess

Hope you guys enjoyed the rant

Cheers

I did enjoy the rant, Sir Growlow.

I appreciate your encouragement of clonal (as in actual tissue culture clonal) replication. I'm not so much intimidated by a process, as a lazy guy with a busy life. This is OUTDOOR planting season. I spent the majority of the last 5 days outdoors planting the yard. While I got several life plants and hundreds of seeds in the ground, I'm probably between 50-60% done with my seed planting with several projects put on hold while I attend to the cycles of nature.

I do take time to watch mallards to see if they are nesting and crows to try to anticipate their next move, but all that learning and observing cuts into my free science time. I totally enjoy your participation here and have filed your suggestion away under 'winter fun' activities :)
 
Hope you guys enjoyed the rant

Cheers

Yes indeed, this gardener was very happy to stumble upon that rant. Interesting new topic for me. Make it work Growlow. You certainly have the passion for it.
 
I went looking for high CBD seeds today. Sticker shock! Everything I saw was seven pounds per seed and up.

Is that really the price for high CBD seeds?

I'm not looking for the latest plus ultra strain, just high CBD levels for smoke, vape, and oil.

I figured Cannatonic and Harlequin would be old news and cheaper by now.

It wasn't that long ago they couldn't give it away. Everyone wanted high THC, the higher the better. Then children with seizures started to not have seizures and the price went through the roof. A little sad, if you think about it. It would have been nice if finding out how medicinally beneficial the plants were it would have had an inverse reaction and price would have dropped. One can dream.
 
I went looking for high CBD seeds today. Sticker shock! Everything I saw was seven pounds per seed and up.

Is that really the price for high CBD seeds?

I'm not looking for the latest plus ultra strain, just high CBD levels for smoke, vape, and oil.

I figured Cannatonic and Harlequin would be old news and cheaper by now.

Yeah I think that we are still in the shallow end. As more countries open up research on CBD and its ability on a medical level these CBD genetics are only going to increase in value. I have 100+ seeds of each of the following. Cannatonic #5 whichc, Harequin, AC/DC (Femd since I only had the female cut which I grew from a TCC then treated a single branch with colloidal silver and made her pollinate herself) and Sour Tsunami. The reason for this is not to profit from it. I want to be sure to have more than my fair share of those genetics so that I can grow those seeds out and grow plants take cuts and sell them for next to nothing since in some states it is a crime to give seeds away in the USA. Multiple seed libraries across the united states have been targeted by department of Agriculture stating they are breaking State law. They are also targeting those taking and supplying seeds to those seed libraries. I strongly encourage all of you to sign the petition on saveseedsharing.org. This is one of the most important things for us as citizens to be able to grow our own food. I digress and I think I've ranted once too many times today hehe hope you are all having a blaze and haze day in the best of ways.

Cheers
 
Very much so and very interesting !:goodjob: i want to go back to school to learn more on horticulture . I watch many videos on different CBD 'S i wish they did not shut down the San Fran facility well anyways good luck to you bro :D
 
Yeah I think that we are still in the shallow end. As more countries open up research on CBD and its ability on a medical level these CBD genetics are only going to increase in value. I have 100+ seeds of each of the following. Cannatonic #5 whichc, Harequin, AC/DC (Femd since I only had the female cut which I grew from a TCC then treated a single branch with colloidal silver and made her pollinate herself) and Sour Tsunami. The reason for this is not to profit from it. I want to be sure to have more than my fair share of those genetics so that I can grow those seeds out and grow plants take cuts and sell them for next to nothing since in some states it is a crime to give seeds away in the USA. Multiple seed libraries across the united states have been targeted by department of Agriculture stating they are breaking State law. They are also targeting those taking and supplying seeds to those seed libraries. I strongly encourage all of you to sign the petition on saveseedsharing.org. This is one of the most important things for us as citizens to be able to grow our own food. I digress and I think I've ranted once too many times today hehe hope you are all having a blaze and haze day in the best of ways.

Cheers

The seed seller/seed savers are nice. Today, I was planting "Fat Mama" sunflower seeds from Horizon Herbs (as well as many, many other herbs and flowers.) The label said, if one of your plants grows multiple flowers, please "rogue it out" to preserve the purity of the strain. A seed saver masquerading as a seed seller :)
 
Yeah because they have so many gmo's ! even are meat and chicken is loaded with antibiotics This year i have my own produce and belong to many groups on fb i sign all bills and causes thanks i will sign that petition good night dear friend :D
 
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