Long Term Stress? Afghan Kush Speicial Emergency Medical Precedure. w/pics!

Hello all you advanced growers! i am a legal caregiver in Michigan. i have a lot of experience with growing indoor organic (not 100% organic) meds. recently i bought some straings from Attitudes seed bank. to make a long story short, my femenized Afghan Kush Special seed sprouted, grew a few inches nice and fast, then all of a sudden at the base of the stem it started to turn slightly brown. i knew that the plant would die shortly since i have seen this before. (from too much humidity?)

I cut the seedling at the base of the stem, right above the brown and put it in my ez cloner. i figured that it would just die off after a day or so from the constant soaking of the stem... i was wrong! it rooted! and grew in the cloner... i realize this puts all kinds of un-natural stress on the plant, so my question is...


Should i keep this plant going because she will probably be just fine...or did i stress her beyond repair when i cloned a seedling lol???

thoughts please!... + Rep




Im New To This Site But That Does Not Mean Im A Noobie!!!

thats the smallest clone ive ever seen lol

Its a wrap. give it a go anyway normally they dont produce if traumas are experienced early on

lol yea it is pretty small, since i am legal, i have a plant limit. this Afghan Kush Special is taking up one of my plant spots... it looks like it will live for sure, but is it worth keeping? i have no problem throwing it out. i have close to 30 other award winning strains.

If they dont produce because of trauma early on, then wouldnt it have died in the cloner or stayed dormid? it has grown up and out since being in the cloner... what do u think?

I have damaged tap roots when germinating out of my growing medium, and the plants looked ok for a while, but ended up very stunted, and where others were passing 24", the damaged ones were still under 10" (though they were rather bushy compared to the others...). Since then I germinate a lot more than I plan to grow, and any dmg whatsoever, I just toss them. Also if a plant is just not growing like the rest of the crop, I'll pull it as well. I've gotten to where I start 2-3 times the seeds that I plan to bring to flower, and through removing males and plants that just don't seem to be doing as well as the others, I end up with the number I planned to flower.

I've volunteered at a bonsai nursery for the past 8 years and what you just described is pretty similar to a technique we do to black pine seedlings we sprout in the spring. Once they come up we cut the baby tap root with a razor blade then place them into a sphagnum moss and root them. It makes the taproot heavy pine grow a much more fibrous root system and gets rid of the strong taproot that normally develops, because a taproot is not necessary in container gardening. We have some dynamite trees developing, they might be worth some money in another 8 years. It might not be a bad experiment if someone was limited on height.

Snipping the taproot is a cool technique. I first saw this from Oldtimer1. Here is a link to his bonzai mum / cloning page that has been around for a long time.

http://www.cannabase.com/cl/

I always seem to read over this a couple times a year. Its a little dated, but very informative.

-Redeye78

Guess what! it died lol... i went to pull it out of the cloner and it was laying on its side. i figured i had put it through enough already so i put it out of its misery. thanks for the advice guys, and that bonzi stuff is very interesting! i have been thinking about starting a japanese maple nursery. once i get a few thousand trees going, 20 years later im rich lol! thanks again!