Day 8 for the soil clones, Day 7 for the aero clones.

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No roots yet, but they all seem happy.

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Same here.

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Even the 2 smallest ones are doing well.
 
Day 46 for the BK gang.
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Still no genders revealed. The Mutant one is a darker green than the other two.

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Praying to the Sun Gods.

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Here is the sick one. It's recovered well. It's even starting to pray. I'll leave that old yellow leaf as a reminder.

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In another 1-2 days I may be able to squeeze in one more topping for a manifold of 16 tops, providing the nodes don't start to stagger yet.

I like 8 colas, but 16 looks pretty cool.

So far the Gaia Green formula seems to work well. It's not as robust as Rev's mix, but normally by Day 46 I am wrestling with long unruly colas in the veg tent. This is so much nicer😊.

Today is topdressing day for everyone. 20ml of Gaia Power Bloom for each little one, 75ml for the 3 in the flower tent. Just as recommended.

I'm going to try to follow the instructions as per Gaia Green. So far it seems slower, but very balanced and REALLY REALLY easy, but it's the finish line that matters.

We shall see....
 
And on an interesting non-cannabis topic....

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This was that last green onion in the bundle that shrivelled and the tops started going limp and brown. The bulb goes soft and rubbery. You know the one.

I put it into a shot glass of RO water, filled enough to cover the bottom third of the shrivelled bulb. In 3 days it was plump, green, and growing roots, so I planted it.

This is 10 days later. Looks like I will get a free pack of green onion seeds from that top in about 2 months. 😎

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It rooted well.

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This one was just the stub end that gets cut off the bottom of a green onion.

I soaked it for a week until it had lots of roots and a green top started to poke up. You need that green top to provide photosynthesis.

If you use the whole bundle at once, as many do, you can plant all the stubs in a pot together in the shape of a bundle, and harvest the whole bundle, then literally rinse and repeat.

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The roots aren't as full yet, but it needs some more green up top to increase photosynthesis still, before the roots will really take off.

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Same technique for those garlic cloves that start sprouting tops before you can get them eaten.

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I will plant them in the garden later this month when it gets warmer. They won't be as big as the garlic I planted last Fall, but they should still be ready by August. If not, I will leave them for next year.

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And Ginger. If you use organic ginger (no inhibitors applied), when the bulbs start to sprout tips you break off the arm of the bulb and plant it like this.

For ginger I wrap it tightly in a paper towel, dunk it in RO water, and set it in a bowl on the counter. In 2 or 3 days roots start growing out the bottoms of the tips. Thats when you plant it.

Roots in the dirt, tips in the sun. This tub has been planted for a week.

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In 8 weeks it's almost ready to really start growing. It's unfolding its solar panels one at a time. Once a few blades are out, growth accelerates. It drinks a lot. There are 9 plants in here.
 
Day 1 of Flower.

RV1 could stand to fill in a bit more but she's just too lanky. RV2 and Iklwa are both bushy enough to flower. So today is Day 1.

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RV1. Stretched flat she's over 5 feet wide. If I put her in the middle of the tent and strapped her out she would cover the whole 5 x 5 with those long arms.

The only way for her to go now is up so it's flip time.

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Ikky is a beast. She's beyond ready.

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Here's Ikky's mutant arm.

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RV2. The full mutant beast. She is having a robust growth spurt right now, so hopefully that continues into stretch. She's just ready now for flower.

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As she grows taller the mutation flips the direction of the top around. That should be interesting in flower.

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Pretty trippy looking. I should post this in a mushroom forum🤣.

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The other cola.
So many shoots!
 
I started strapping down the manifolded ones today.

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The 2 blue tops in each photo are the clone branches, from the 2nd node just below the manifold. They will come off.

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Same here.

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From underneath. They get cut at the blue lines.

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This is why I leave them. If I cut it at the red line, and everything above the blue line is above ground, the immature nodes are still parallel. Topping it 2 nodes above the blue leaves a nice symmetrical quadline clone. Quite often you can even get a 6-pack.

I likely won't clone these, But I will let them grow for now.
 
Hi I'm Gee and I'm an Organaholic.

I'm glad you finally found The Gee Spot😎

This will be a perpetual room for all to talk, brag, debate, and be proud of your plants in, with the quest for new and better knowledge. So if you got it flaunt it, past or present.

I will likely post grows in here as we science things but I will likely do other journals on the individual grows after a new or interesting topic is worth trying.

Talk about YOUR style of grow freely here, its not just about organics, thats just my thing.

I use Living Organic Soil with spikes and layers and right now SIPS, SWICKS, and anything sub-irrigated has caught my attention, so thats what I am working on at the moment.

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Here is a solo cup with a yarn wick hanging into an ice cream pail of RO water. The seeds were germinated in the cup.

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13 days after popping in the soil these are the roots. They aren't what I typically see. Normally its more fuzzy myco infested roots like the one by my thumb and this technique has feeder roots by the surface but as you can see there are water roots circling the bottom where the wick comes in.

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After uppotting to the 10gal the plants grew fairly well up top but nothing spectacular, just healthy.

The roots however burst through the bottom of the smart pot 15 days after transplanting and the pot is 15" tall so thats kind of cool. The roots poking out were big fuzzy myco infested feeder roots so it is looking good.

These are the plants at day 28 above ground, 15 days after transplant. They ( i started 2 seeds thinking it wasn't going to germinate....WRONG!) have been topped above the 3rd node to start the manifolding. They are regular seeds so hopefully I get a female.

I will eventually cut clones and try cloning straight into a 10gal pot. So far I have avoided my regular veg uppot to 1.66gals.

The light green color is my new led strip light, they are actually a very healthy normal green color.

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It all begins here in the worm farm.

I am travelling but on Thursday I will be home and will take photos of the bottom of the pot and the pad. The full setup. Its buried at the back of the veg tent so I couldn't get pictures.

Hopefully the pad will be root infested by then.

Its nice to not have to worry about watering👍

So stop on by, hang out, and tell us what you got going on.

That's freaking cool 😎 I'll have to check the other stuff you have listed on here. And what you sent me. Probably the same though. No watering but what else would I do when everything else is done to 😔🤔 more research lol seriously interesting. Thank you ✌️🤘rock on I like this kind of stuff.

Thanks
Coneal49
 
I started strapping down the manifolded ones today.

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The 2 blue tops in each photo are the clone branches, from the 2nd node just below the manifold. They will come off.

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Same here.

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From underneath. They get cut at the blue lines.

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This is why I leave them. If I cut it at the red line, and everything above the blue line is above ground, the immature nodes are still parallel. Topping it 2 nodes above the blue leaves a nice symmetrical quadline clone. Quite often you can even get a 6-pack.

I likely won't clone these, But I will let them grow for now.

Wow I can't wait until your ladies get bigger ( listen to me not even my grow ) lol 😂 very cool indeed.
 
Day 8 for the aero clones.
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Still looking great.

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The one with the arrow....

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This one....

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Has 2 roots today. At Day 8 is pretty good, so RV1 seems to like aero cloning👍.


Day 9 for the soil clones.
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I can't see ant roots poking out any holes in the solo cup yet, bit they all went light green in the growing tips, which quite often indicates roots are starting.

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Hopefully in the next few days we will see some.
 
Day 48 since sprout.
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The 1st BK from the manifold gang to show sex is a male.
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So it got chopped.

It had a brix of 15👍, and an averagely fuzzy calcium line. (average by my standards, it's a great calcium line)

So on that finding, The Answer potting soil combined with Gaia Green a 50/50 mix of Gaia Green 4-4-4 and 2-8-4 at 3 combined tbsp per gallon of soil and only one topdressing of 1.25 tbsp and we get a high brix environment😊.

Next soil experiment will be to use The Answer Soil as a base for a batch of Rev's blend.

My TMSC's in the flower tent are running this soil too, so we will get to see how it flowers as well.

So far, so good. 🤞

So it's a good day so far. The Worms get a boy to play with, and I get roots and brix and a positive health check on the calcium front🙏.

Normally I try for at least a brix of 17 before flipping, and in another 10-ish days when these would get flipped if they were going to get flowered, the brix would be up another couple points. Also, we have a low pressure system bringing rain and snow currently, so that will have brix lowered a couple points right now too.

This soil isn't as vigorous as Rev's mix, but it sure is balanced and healthy, with great carbon content.

I have to say, I'm very impressed so far with it. I really had my doubts but I'm always OK with being proven wrong😊
 
TMSC Day 4 of Flower.

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Here's the Gang.

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And from the other side.

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The Mutant Towers are so shaggy. Crazy.

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They are all stretching now.

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Here's Ikky with The Mutant standing behind.

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RV1, she's gonna be tall. Her stretch is real.

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She's going up so fast.

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I dissected the male rootball. It filled in pretty well. This was 18 days since uppot. The orange bucket is a 2gal bucket.

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The Gaia soil mix is super friendly on the roots. Massive clusters of feeder roots.

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Seeing this makes me very excited for the TMSC Gals. They are in this same soil. They just get different topdressing. If they have 7gal bags of roots like this, flower will be a really nice ride.
 
And on an interesting non-cannabis topic....

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This was that last green onion in the bundle that shrivelled and the tops started going limp and brown. The bulb goes soft and rubbery. You know the one.

I put it into a shot glass of RO water, filled enough to cover the bottom third of the shrivelled bulb. In 3 days it was plump, green, and growing roots, so I planted it.

This is 10 days later. Looks like I will get a free pack of green onion seeds from that top in about 2 months. 😎

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It rooted well.

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This one was just the stub end that gets cut off the bottom of a green onion.

I soaked it for a week until it had lots of roots and a green top started to poke up. You need that green top to provide photosynthesis.

If you use the whole bundle at once, as many do, you can plant all the stubs in a pot together in the shape of a bundle, and harvest the whole bundle, then literally rinse and repeat.

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The roots aren't as full yet, but it needs some more green up top to increase photosynthesis still, before the roots will really take off.

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Same technique for those garlic cloves that start sprouting tops before you can get them eaten.

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I will plant them in the garden later this month when it gets warmer. They won't be as big as the garlic I planted last Fall, but they should still be ready by August. If not, I will leave them for next year.

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And Ginger. If you use organic ginger (no inhibitors applied), when the bulbs start to sprout tips you break off the arm of the bulb and plant it like this.

For ginger I wrap it tightly in a paper towel, dunk it in RO water, and set it in a bowl on the counter. In 2 or 3 days roots start growing out the bottoms of the tips. Thats when you plant it.

Roots in the dirt, tips in the sun. This tub has been planted for a week.

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In 8 weeks it's almost ready to really start growing. It's unfolding its solar panels one at a time. Once a few blades are out, growth accelerates. It drinks a lot. There are 9 plants in here.
My onions outside started growing again in February it was so warm here!! 😎✌️
 
My onions outside started growing again in February it was so warm here!! 😎✌️
I bury my gardens in leaves every Autumn. When I peeled off the leaf cover last week I had a few onion volunteers about 6" tall.

The garlic wintered really well. Really really well. It's up 16" tall already. I let the biggest garlic plant go to seed last year. I have hundreds of garlic babies everywhere. 😊
 
TMSC - Day 6 of Flower.
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The canopy is filling in nicely. I removed a few more branches that didn't make it to the light. Leaf tucking begins.

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The two remaining BK's still haven't revealed sex and it's Day 49.

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The manifolds are shaping in well.

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And on Day 20 since uppotting the roots have filled in to the bottom.😎.

If any of these two are females, I'm going to clip off the clone branches, switch to flower topdressing, and toss them into the flower tent.

Well wedge them in actually, but lets see how deep into flower Gaia Green can take 1.66gal pots before a rescue is needed.

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The aero clones are all popping roots now.

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These 3 are a day ahead.

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This one finally has a little root nub popping today. You can't see it in the picture, but it's there.

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That's this one. The snallest cut.
 
Day 52 for the BK Manifold pair.

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Still no gender showing on these two.

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They are very stress free in the Gaia Green soil. This one has staggered nodes now so 8 tops is all we get.

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This one still had parallel nodes so it got manifolded to 16 today. If it's a female I will let it grow out a bit more before it hits the flower tent. Flowering 16 colas in a 1.66 gal pot won't be easy, but it will test how well this soil mix is. It's definitely good enough for veg in a small pot.
 
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Day 12 for the soil clones and still no sign of roots.

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Day 11 for the KloneKing clones.

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All 4 weed clones are rooting fast now. Figgy... well... theres still time...

It appears that RVDV1 is partial to aero cloning, which is my preferred method too.

Now what to do with 4 clones for the next 9 weeks until the flower tent is empty?
 
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