The Joy Of Growing - SweetSue Goes Perpetual

They both clone well and are worth a second run. :thumb:
 
Graytail said:
They both clone well and are worth a second run. :thumb:
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Good to hear. Now I just need to figure out what to do. :laughtwo: Well, I do have all this time, don't I? :battingeyelashes:
 
Ok, it's four o'clock in the morning, once again. Should I just accept it and be done with it? Maybe. Let me get to bed. Tomorrow's going to be a long string of joyful chores to kick this grow tent up a couple notches. Oops! Woke myself up there. :laughtwo: Matters not. To bed!

Goodnight. :Love:
 
How to Clone a Cannabis Plant

SweetSue said:
Now I just need to figure out what to do. :laughtwo:
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MysterySeeds said:
Cloning is easy. Here is what I did:

Materials Needed


  • Sharp scissors.
  • Shot glass
  • Solo cups
  • Razor blade
  • Rapid Rooters, Jiffy pellets, or Rockwool
  • Small bag of Perlite
  • Clonex Rooting Gel, Miracle Grow Fast Root, or a similar rooting compound
  • Bottle of distilled water

Instructions


  1. Choose several lower branches from which to take clones. The stems should be 3mm or larger and the leaves should look healthy.
  2. Use scissors to cut the stem at a 45-degree angle about 4-6" from the top leaves. Trim off any lower leaves and nip the tips off of the upper leaves. This will encourage the clone to focus it's energy into making roots instead of growing leaves.
  3. Put the clones into a Solo cup filled with 2" of distilled water.
  4. Place the clones under the canopy of the mother to soak for 24-hours.
  5. To make rooting cups, fill each Solo cup with 1" of perlite, place a Rapid Rooter in the cup, add perlite to fill in the gaps around the Rapid Rooter, and then add 1/4 cup of distilled water.
  6. After the clones have soaked for 24-hours, filled a shot glass half full with rooting compound and pour a little rooting compound into the hole of each Rapid Rooter.
  7. Dip the razor blade in rooting compound and then lightly scrape the bottom 1.5" of each clone stem.
  8. Dip the clones in rooting compound, then place each clone into a Rapid Rooter.
  9. Lightly water each clone.
  10. Place the clones 1-2' under a low-intensity light and wait for roots.

Roots normally start appearing 1-3 weeks after cutting the clones. It's really just a waiting game at this point. Try to keep the temperature between 65-80'F and the relative humidity over 50%. If the leaves start to look dry, spray the top and bottom of the leaves with distilled water several times daily. If the rapid rooters start to dry out, add 1/4 cup of water. You can leave the clones in these cups for a month or more before transplanting them into soil or a hydroponics system.

My setup and clones:

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After placing the clones in the Rapid Rootes with Clonex.
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14-days after placing the clone in a Rapid Rooter.
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Most of the clones have rooted, but I'll keep them in the rooting cups for another week or so until I'm ready to transplant them into soil.
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Oh, and your welcome! (Cue Nick Burns, your company's computer guy theme) :smokin2:
 
Re: How to Clone a Cannabis Plant

I walked right into that one didn't I MysterySeeds? :laughtwo:

Thank you. :battingeyelashes: :Love:
 
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Seeds are soaking in a mild dilution of kelp and water, cups are filled with the appropriate soils and settled in to SWICK until they're nice and moist.

The LOS seedling soil is a mix of 3 parts modified CC mix (lightened to half-strength original blend) to 1 part perlite.

My method for filling cups is to fill 2/3 full, plop cup onto the other hand to settle (you could do this by plopping onto a solid surface as well - I find it easier to work right over the tote of soil), fill to mounding and gently firm down to level the top. You want the soil without big air pockets, but by no means compressed too tightly. We're growing new roots here and we want it loose enough for that to happen. I guess it's an instinctive feel, at least it is with me.

Wow! That really is a lot of new babies to start at once, isn't it? How exciting! :laughtwo:

Now we wait a couple hours. Time for some breakfast. Mmmmmmm, coffee.
 
As always, you got it going on girl!
You're gonna be drowning in ganja in a few short months my friend. Yes....I am jealous!!
 
UncleCannabis said:
As always, you got it going on girl!
You're gonna be drowning in ganja in a few short months my friend. Yes....I am jealous!!
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Kind of the way I'm jealous of Ziggy. :laughtwo: I'm so excited about watching this happen the way I had intended, before the death spiral. The sense of relief, of moving forward, is somewhat heady. I've been singing and dancing through the apartment as the coffee brews.

Is there anything , aside from the smell of our plants blooming of course, that smells better than fresh ground coffee beans? I don't think so. :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
SweetSue said:
Kind of the way I'm jealous of Ziggy. :laughtwo: I'm so excited about watching this happen the way I had intended, before the death spiral. The sense of relief, of moving forward, is somewhat heady. I've been singing and dancing through the apartment as the coffee brews.

Is there anything , aside from the smell of our plants blooming of course, that smells better than fresh ground coffee beans? I don't think so. :cheesygrinsmiley:
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6AM brew coffee, add thick crema, light joint, sip, feel morning sun on my face and watch a couple squirrels run around our pine tree.

Coffee and weed go together extremely well. Add some bacon jam and a few toast points and you could upset the balance of the world.

But it's about time I took my daily routine back to the Yerba Mate, in the gourd, with the silver bombadilla. Seriously, check out the Mate/Weed combo sometime.
 
Doc Bud said:
6AM brew coffee, add thick crema, light joint, sip, feel morning sun on my face and watch a couple squirrels run around our pine tree.

Coffee and weed go together extremely well. Add some bacon jam and a few toast points and you could upset the balance of the world.

But it's about time I took my daily routine back to the Yerba Mate, in the gourd, with the silver bombadilla. Seriously, check out the Mate/Weed combo sometime.
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I had never heard of Yerba Mate Doc. Next time I place an order with Amazon I'll order some. I'm wondering if my coffee shop carries it? They specialize in exotic teas. I'll check tomorrow. It's Sunday, so of course they're closed. Once I get some I'll let you know what I think.

Thanks. Always enjoy trying something new.

Hey Doc, this time, and from this point on, I've got at least one big pot (7 gallon minimum) with HB Kit soil running, just the way you intended the Kit be used. Redeeming myself now. You've been a saint. Thank you for everything.
 
SweetSue said:
Is there anything , aside from the smell of our plants blooming of course, that smells better than fresh ground coffee beans? I don't think so. :cheesygrinsmiley:
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Bacon would definitely be up there in the top 3.
 
Daily Update: Perpetual Tent - Week 10

WooHoo!!! Planting Day!!! :laughtwo: :slide: :Love:

What a rush! I've waited a long time for this. So rewarding to finally get seeds in the soil again, and all the more sweet in knowing this one won't be accompanied with some crazy health challenge from hell! Whew!!!

On to the fun. Into the garden. This is going to be a short and sweet visit today. I'm ready to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee with my reward buzz. (Still haven't stopped to indulge. :straightface: )

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Auto Destroyer (Day 61) I looked close today and decided that tomorrow she gets her first CAT drench. She's starting to fade faster now, so maybe we can slow that down just a bit and buy some more time.

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African Buzz (Day 60) Pistil change is just beginning, but she's still pumping out new pistils, so doing well. Nice solid buds being built here. I'm pleased. You know, I've decided I'm pleased with all of them. I've decided that it's not such a bad thing that this cycle demonstrated how everything can go wrong, and if you keep trying to get the Kit dialed as much as possible, even in total crisis mode, you will still be rewarded with unbelievably delicious buds. I know they're going to be good. There's no reason to expect otherwise, is there?

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Auto Jock Horror x Auto Amnesia (Day 59) We have some major bud swelling going on here. We also have some serious, and I mean serious tip burning on almost every leaf.

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One of my long-term goals is to learn to keep this from happening with the tiny pots. I understand that figuring out the balance in these tiny plots of soil is a severe challenge, but I also feel confident that it can be done.

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Cheese Candy (Day 61) She's just purring away in the corner, packing the blossoms on.

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Environmental monitoring shows everything is well balanced.

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Planted cups in the Perpetual Tent. The back tray is the Kit group, the front is LOS.

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Newly planted cups in the Tiny Closet. I'm still laughing with joy over planting Carnival. :laughtwo: When I started dreaming about this strain I honestly thought I was at least another year away from this moment. I couldn't be more excited if I tried. :yahoo:

I planted three Afghanis. They're regular seeds, which means you never know. I figure if they all turn out to be female (dare I hope?) I can stick the extras on the SWICK trays.

The lights are on an 18/6 schedule.

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It's time for that charge to get out there and spread some joy. I'm riding on something of a natural high right now. Planting always does that for me. So I'm going to catch that buzz I keep tempting myself with, do my Callanetics session to burn off some of this energy and then hit the river trail to the labyrinth. I've become quite addicted to the labyrinth. I'm never ready to be finished and walking onto the property gets my whole body and consciousness humming away. I find myself wondering if there's an energy field emanating from labyrinths, or if one imbues energy into it by returning day after day. :hmmmm:

So have a wonderful conclusion to your weekend. Stop for a moment. Look around you. Who's closest that could use a good hug? Go for it! I've discovered how precious those hugs are. I'm in serious hug deficit here. Gonna have to change that ASAP.

Hey, this was fun. Let's do it again next month. :laughtwo:

:Namaste:


Hahaha! The playlist just went to James Taylor's "Shower The People You Love With Love". Sweet. How appropriate. I love you guys. You knew that didn't you? Yeah, I thought so. :battingeyelashes:
 
MedFarmer said:
You got that cupboard turned around quickly SweetSue :bravo:
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Thank you MedFarmer. :Love: I can't wait to have it busy on both levels. Such a relief.
 
ClosedCircuit said:
Man that African Buzz is REALLY swelling up!
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Yes it is CC. She's amazing, for such a little thing. She's 100% Sativa. :slide: My introduction to Sativas, so she can just keep packing it on.
 
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