The Hexapus's Garden

Hey mate, I don't think everything is looking that bad at all really, I know I say this all the time but it's true when you have perspectives like mine :)

Talking of which could I beg a little of your time in regards to a snapped Apical stem please? I've just made a post on my journal as it's been a bit of a SNAFU day in my garden lol, I understand if you're busy, but damn I'd be trying to bundle you into that helicopter already to get you into my garden helping out if I could get away with that (read that as kidnap :rofl: ).
 
Weaselcracker said:
It's drain to waste Tead. I have a drainhole in the floor and it just runs out. Timer is set to water three times a day.
The system is a little weird right now in that I have a few different mediums and different size plants. My timer minimum on-off cycle is one minute. It suits the perlite pots and hempies (sort of) ok but not the coco pots- though it's all a matter of balancing the plant/pot size as well of course- so they can get the right amount of water in one minute from that 1/4" hose. It would be nice if all the little flow control valves on the hexapus worked- but they seem too finicky to be practical so I just leave the lines wide open. I heard your idea about hose clamps - but haven't seen any that small. There are a bunch of other watering variables including pot height from the floor (gravity). Next time around I'll find a better balance with it and the ol jackleg will be limping along better.
The Cheese certainly took everything I could throw at it in the past. I still think it's a tough one - hopefully works out for you.
Conradino has a strain going which he has mentioned a few times as being incredibly heat resistant. I think Bapple is growing it too. I'll dig that info up for you when I get a chance.
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Just a thought... You can purchase 1/4" ball valves that work real well. Instead of using 1 min, try using 3 minutes and choke each pot back accordingly. A half dozen valves shouldn't set you back much at all.
 
Ultra Dog is not a commercial strain. Seeds are circulating among us here exclusively. ATM it's in F2 form. And yes it's very heat resistant with parents both grown in SoCal by my buddy lembatoast.
 
Thanks Conradino. I suspected that.
Spitz, thanks I'll check that out. I'm not sure what sort of valves are in there now but they are not... good.
 
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The sinister Hexapus, nursing her brood of six young girls. She feeds them three times a day now, with her life giving fluids. The plants grow to serve her elusive master. She lives to serve the plants, and to serve her master.
And the master lives to serve the plants... Rumors persist in the Green Hole that the master actually has no clue what he is actually doing, or why.
It's strange situation. A closed loop of frantic plant support, growroom maintenance, and general confusion. Is there hope for understanding to be reached in this journal?
No, there is not.
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~MALAWI~

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A Malawi I've had in veg awaiting space. She's a nice plant. I'd love to see her grow wild and free, but unfortunately I've got limited space, and limited time. I don't get to be wild and free, and so neither does she. It makes me sad, but into the scrog she goes. She's a little big for too it but I'll squash the poor thing in there. Maybe I'll let her grow out the sides a little and then cut the screen off after she's done (trying to) stretch.
I'm sorry!

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I stick the screen in top and jam the support shafts into the pot.

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About one minute later... I just pulled the obvious longest limbs through the screen, crudely. No point getting too fussy here. They'll sort themselves out. In another couple days I'll take a second look, and continue to rearrange things over the next few weeks.
Note to self-
Don't forget this time to cut some clones
Don't forget this time to make a note of when you put her in to flowering.
 
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Photos, what a lovely surprise. Drop by anytime mate, if you live through that plant contest.
 
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Hey it's pigeon English.

Something that always makes me smile, when I have to flip the power switch off in the 'clone area', as I often do for reasons too boring to explain. When I flip it back on- my ph/ppm meter comes on, blinks a couple times, then this screen pops up for a couple seconds before it goes into normal 'on' displays again. To whatever programmer at BlueLab did this...:high-five:



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To my eye the hex girls and the cheese look more perky tonight, and have a little sparkle. Happy to be off the acid diet for a bit I think.

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The Golden Tiger is kind of a funny thing, with no real top bud. I dragged her into the veg room for a photo.
 
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These are my perlite cuttings. I put four cuttings in the one litre pot yesterday as an experiment. The solo cup ones are still 'alive' but leaves are browning and crisping up a lot. I'm not sure why. When I clone in rockwool/coco the leaves do yellow and die over time, but this is a different color. Tead, is this what yours do?
 
nope. They might catch some mold on occasion... but that's how it works when your average humidity is so high. Dry crispy leaves say "put a dome on me" in my world. Of course, if you dome the dried leaves you'll meet my buddy mold... so be sure to trim off any actually dead leaf areas.
Already got a dome on them? Well... then I'd close the vent and see how they do.
Got a dome and a closed vent already? hmmmm.... let's go drinkin!
 
Weaselcracker said:
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These are my perlite cuttings. I put four cuttings in the one litre pot yesterday as an experiment. The solo cup ones are still 'alive' but leaves are browning and crisping up a lot. I'm not sure why. When I clone in rockwool/coco the leaves do yellow and die over time, but this is a different color. Tead, is this what yours do?
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When I don't put a dome Over the cuttings, they dry out, too. Before they root, moisture is just leaving the cuttings through the stomata on the leaves, and nothing coming in. So, if you cap each cutting with the top of a soda bottle, this will hold in the moisture until they do ROOT.

You can use a plastic bag to cover the four in the pot.

EDIT: Oh, I see Tead answered you already. Yes, def trim off the crispy leaves before doming. You want only healthy tissue under the dome.
 
So this spun me off to do a bunch of reading on the subject. While I get clones going OK, I really have less than a complete understanding.

It appears the general consensus is humidity constantly over 80% and temp is the lower 70s. Humidity domes are optional if you spritz them a few times a day, but doing both is bad juju. Many cut the length of the leaves down to about 1/2 their original length in order to limit water transpiration from the plant.

Just sharing some takeaways from some quick reading. Off to do more digging.
 
Your friend mold? My old friend has really been getting around...
Ok - well you guys may be right. Mainly because it has been unusually dry and hot here lately - so that would fit. Still it's a little confusing to me.

?- My cuttings are not wilting. They're perky and hydrated. What more do they need? The browning seems like a deficiency-but it's a little different then the usual nutrient deficiencies I see in cuttings as they await roots.
- I've never needed a dome before, and domes usually cause me mold trouble.
- If I stick a cut plant/flower in a vase or jar of water it doesn't get crispy leaves. Cuttings don't do this in rockwool (maybe intaking more through the stem than with fluffy perlite)


Questions are never ending though ... My best option is to try a dome and experiment. Next week. I'm busy again. Thanks for the help guys.

Putting a Thai Stick into flowering. Second thoughts about putting myself through this again- but it's there- clogging up the veg room, it ain't going to get any smaller, and I don't have the heart to kill it- so here goes. I tied it down roughly to the pot with pipe cleaners.
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