brainalive
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Hey all!
I apologize in advance for not having pictures at hand to post. I know it's always easier to understand what's going on with the pics, I'll post some when I get home tonight.
I've got a single AK-47 mother grown from seed under 24 hour lighting with two small fans on her. The lighting is 4 x 54 watt t8 fluorescent (2 @ 5000k & 2 @ 6500k), and 2 23 watt CFLs in a y-splitter in an aluminum parabolic pendant reflector aimed right at mama.
Being the naive newbie that I am, I wasted my precious seeds learning how to grow plants from seed, of the 16 seeds I bought, only 1 survived, but somehow, the gods smiled on me, and it's most certainly a female! She's been growing since early-mid june (I'm not precisely certain of the date). So she's about two months old, maybe 10 weeks. She's about 18" tall, her stalk at the base is about 1/2", and I've got her in a 1 gallon pot with FFOF. This strikes me as a bit short for her age, even given the AK-47's propensity to be short and shrubby, but I'm not too worried about it. Haven't really been fertilizing her much as she has looked super green and healthy; I believe that twice I used a 1/4 strength solution of some organic fish-fertilizer that I am using on all my plants (I'm growing hot peppers, and some herbs as well).
My plan is to keep mama in vegetative growth for as long as possible, and simply take clones from her, some to flower, and some to turn into more mothers. I'm not going to even take on flowering until I feel super comfortable with cloning, and raising clones to be new mothers.
My question is this: how long should I wait between taking cuttings from mama? I took 3 cuttings on 8/4 (1 has survived... it's a learning process!), and another 2 on 8/12 (they both look good, made some adjustments). She's looking a bit droopy to me right now, and I'm wondering how much I stressed her by taking these 5 cuttings, and whether I should have waited longer between taking the two "batches" of cuttings. Clearly common sense suggests that what I need to do now is simply stop taking any further cuttings until the lady looks nice and robustly healthy again, but I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions on general rules of thumb regarding how long to wait between taking cuttings for clones. Thanks in advance, all!
I apologize in advance for not having pictures at hand to post. I know it's always easier to understand what's going on with the pics, I'll post some when I get home tonight.
I've got a single AK-47 mother grown from seed under 24 hour lighting with two small fans on her. The lighting is 4 x 54 watt t8 fluorescent (2 @ 5000k & 2 @ 6500k), and 2 23 watt CFLs in a y-splitter in an aluminum parabolic pendant reflector aimed right at mama.
Being the naive newbie that I am, I wasted my precious seeds learning how to grow plants from seed, of the 16 seeds I bought, only 1 survived, but somehow, the gods smiled on me, and it's most certainly a female! She's been growing since early-mid june (I'm not precisely certain of the date). So she's about two months old, maybe 10 weeks. She's about 18" tall, her stalk at the base is about 1/2", and I've got her in a 1 gallon pot with FFOF. This strikes me as a bit short for her age, even given the AK-47's propensity to be short and shrubby, but I'm not too worried about it. Haven't really been fertilizing her much as she has looked super green and healthy; I believe that twice I used a 1/4 strength solution of some organic fish-fertilizer that I am using on all my plants (I'm growing hot peppers, and some herbs as well).
My plan is to keep mama in vegetative growth for as long as possible, and simply take clones from her, some to flower, and some to turn into more mothers. I'm not going to even take on flowering until I feel super comfortable with cloning, and raising clones to be new mothers.
My question is this: how long should I wait between taking cuttings from mama? I took 3 cuttings on 8/4 (1 has survived... it's a learning process!), and another 2 on 8/12 (they both look good, made some adjustments). She's looking a bit droopy to me right now, and I'm wondering how much I stressed her by taking these 5 cuttings, and whether I should have waited longer between taking the two "batches" of cuttings. Clearly common sense suggests that what I need to do now is simply stop taking any further cuttings until the lady looks nice and robustly healthy again, but I'm wondering if anybody has any suggestions on general rules of thumb regarding how long to wait between taking cuttings for clones. Thanks in advance, all!