whocares100
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Aloe? like the plant? I have never heard of it...for cloning...i'll go search
It does but you will need to find 200x aloe powder shit works wonders. Another great aditive along with aloei hear aloe powder concentrate works great for clones and feeding as well
Thanks, Sky. I also believe that environmental problems have been leading to my problems, mostly heat/humidity and too much ambient light around my clones (I have my two Stinkbuddy cloners in my small tent, thinking that I could shield my veg lighting from them). The last house we were at I had the cloner nearly by itself in the basement, keeping the rez temps low and avoiding excess light. Yeah, I learned long ago that clones almost need no light to root, I only suspend 1 X 13w CFL above 45 clones, on 18/6. I also bought some H202, although its not the 50% stuff that most seem to recommend, my grow shop only had the 29%. I plan on trying to run that in the rez if I still get problems. A loss of 120 clones is terrible man, sorry to hear about that... when you say that your PE were 'unhealthy' at 5', was that because your cuttings were coming from a plant that was too mature to take clones off of (e.g. the stems were woody and too developed?) or was their a systemic health problem with them?My first cuttings I took from my previous 3 Pineapple Express moms were between 6-8." I had took about 100 cuttings and only about 8 of them didn't root if I remember correctly. I only used neoprene collars,non ph tap water and I experienced with the cloning gel that came with with the 120 site ez cloner but besides that I just used tap water or clonex clone solution.
Clones don't need much light so try just using one or two t5 bulbs to reduce your heat and humidity. Im going to only use one t5 bulb wich is 2 ft long to cover the length of my 120 site ez cloner next time I clone. I killed all of my previous clones due to bad temps in the bathroom where I was cloning and it also had to do with two unhealthy pineapple express moms in dwc wich were over 5' high. I won't slip again.
When I clone again I will clone in a temp controlled environment between 70-75 Fahrenheit with a humidity of 50-65%. I won't be losing 120 clones again and half assing it. I have (6) purple wreck beans coming and I'm going to put them all in there own 5 gallon dwc bucket and hopefully in a month or so I should be able to take about 20 cuttings from each. To me dwc tend to grow pretty fast. Good luck pra and keep us posted.
Thanks, Nizza. I bought the 40mm (1.5") grodan cubes, with a tray, drain tray and humidity dome yesterday. I already had the heat tray, although it has no settings other than 'on' so I think I will run a towel between the tray and the mat to be safe. The mat states that its suppose to raise the rooting area temps by '10-20*' above ambient temp.take ~5-6" cuts in rockwool 1x1 cubes and clonex gel with a temp mat w/ sensor set @ 75 . i open twice a day air it out and give it a few sprays
Actually my moms were in 5 gallon dwc buckets. There were times when I was so busy I would let the nutrient water level get really low sometimes. The ph of the dwc buckets would be out of range plus where I had them the humidity was too high in the tent leaves were falling off and wiltering away. It was all my fault.Thanks, Sky. I also believe that environmental problems have been leading to my problems, mostly heat/humidity and too much ambient light around my clones (I have my two Stinkbuddy cloners in my small tent, thinking that I could shield my veg lighting from them). The last house we were at I had the cloner nearly by itself in the basement, keeping the rez temps low and avoiding excess light. Yeah, I learned long ago that clones almost need no light to root, I only suspend 1 X 13w CFL above 45 clones, on 18/6. I also bought some H202, although its not the 50% stuff that most seem to recommend, my grow shop only had the 29%. I plan on trying to run that in the rez if I still get problems. A loss of 120 clones is terrible man, sorry to hear about that... when you say that your PE were 'unhealthy' at 5', was that because your cuttings were coming from a plant that was too mature to take clones off of (e.g. the stems were woody and too developed?) or was their a systemic health problem with them?
I spray all my veg plants once a wk with Ferti-Lome "Fruit Tree Spray" it's neem based. It keeps the mites away and the plants seem to love it.The other question I have for WOH - do you guys (and gals) have a standardized maintenance schedule for mite prevention?
I have had to battle mites twice in the past 6 months and I had beat them back again with a combination of Dr. Doom foggers, NPS strips, mighty-wash and SNS-17 rosemary oil, with neem as a backup. I have been thinking about investing in some Floramite and periodically using it on my moms to protect against future problems. Any thoughts from WOH on a long-term mite prevention-maintenance schedule?
Hard to tell you what may be wrong under the HPS light conditions as they are orange under that light. But within the last couple weeks it's hard to fix any problems that may arise, this is the time you just have to ride the wave to finish. Damn good looking scrog for sure, you are going to have a nice harvest.Day 60 of 65 veneno still no amber pistils and still no scope ether it should be here any day now, does this look like a late flowering cal mag deficiency to you guys?