Hey HYDRO people: How do you DO THIS??!

so say you got your flowering spot and that takes 8 weeks.

what do you do with your mothers during those 8 weeks? what about all the clone you have cut? do they just sit in the light for 2 months? wouldn't that make them all whispy and stretchy?

Can you do a SOG lollipop grow after 2 months of vegging under T5s???

ediit....nvm.

you need a seperate VEG and FLOWER room.

2 rooms clone 2 weeks be for your plants come down.

dadio161 said:

you need a seperate VEG and FLOWER room.

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thats not my question. wonderng what happens to the clones during the 8 weeks it has to wait... can I just keep them veged under FL for those weeks?

your clones are not gonna wait for you. They want to grow. You don't start your new clones until two weeks before you need them.

You need to set up two rooms, one for flower and one for veg. I just set up my veg room (still work in progress). Anyway I got got 6 clones that's been in veg for 5 weeks in a bubble cloner under 4 6500k CFL's. I took the clones two weeks into flower and I'm getting ready to move one into a separate 3 gallon dwc bucket within a cpl of days to veg throughout my next flower period and another will go into the flower room within 2 weeks and another is going out side (along with 2 others I put out a week ago) sometime this week. The smallest one will probably get pitched because I don't have room for it. Anyway what I'm trying to say is that you can keep clones alive and well for 8 weeks if you have to. 1st pic is day 1 and the 2nd is 5 weeks and the 3rd is the roots after 4 weeks.

Hope this helps you out.

Dropastone said:

You need to set up two rooms, one for flower and one for veg. I just set up my veg room (still work in progress). Anyway I got got 6 clones that's been in veg for 5 weeks in a bubble cloner under 4 6500k CFL's. I took the clones two weeks into flower and I'm getting ready to move one into a separate 3 gallon dwc bucket within a cpl of days to veg throughout my next flower period and another will go into the flower room within 2 weeks and another is going out side (along with 2 others I put out a week ago) sometime this week. The smallest one will probably get pitched because I don't have room for it. Anyway what I'm trying to say is that you can keep clones alive and well for 8 weeks if you have to. 1st pic is day 1 and the 2nd is 5 weeks and the 3rd is the roots after 4 weeks.

Hope this helps you out.

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thanks. i see people are saying 2 weeks before i need them. I'm going to directly flower these clones. So, wouldn't it be much better to just VEG them for the 8 weeks while I wait? wouldn't that yield more? even if I only veg them at much lower watts (like 60 for the clones compared to 600/1000 for the flowering) ?

It boils down to taking clones from your vegging plants a few weeks before your flowering plants will be finished. Just throw away the temporary mothers and take enough clones to have temporary mothers for your next round. This is what I do. Because I have no full-time mother plant I can use my veg room for the first week or two of flowering, which is f'ing awesome! If you can engineer your "Cycle Calendar" to do this, you only spend 4 weeks of vegging (from cutting) and you harvest every 6 weeks. You have to be good at cloning for this to work and have a 3rd grow area just for rooting the clones. You need to build a cycle calendar if you want to perpetually grow. You basically take the number of days of flowering and subtract the number of days it takes a cutting to root and veg to the desired height, this equals the day you need to take clones for the next round. Since I can sell my clones, I basically grow as much as I can up until the cloning date and wipe the veg area of everything. Sometimes it's a heartbreak to chop down all those beautiful plants.

Here's what I basically do. Let's use one plant as an example. As it grows from seed - to seedling - to full veg, I'll take one clone and begin flowering the fully vegged plant. In the meantime, I have 8-9 weeks to root the clone, veg it, and get it ready for the next cycle into the flowering room. You could do this continuously with just one or multiple clones. It's pretty sweet.