[Al B. Fuct]

Originally Posted by Dewave

I do sterilize my scrissors b4 cutting and root zone moisture in an aeroponic cloner, hmmm dunno about that, lol.

Swap the scrissors for a fresh scalpel blade.

As far as root length, I have good reason for wanting such long ones, in my style of grow I bottom feed so the longer the root the better, all I really need is 6-8 inches, but being longer they are contact with fresh nutes immediately. If they are 3-4 footers I just curl them at the bottom of the coco. In this type of grow it actually works very well, I have tried shorter roots which tend to lead to a long wait b4 the show a growth spurt or an exceptance into their new environment.

The main problem with excessively long roots is that they can be very easy to damage. Roots will regen if broken but it stunts the plant while it is regenerating them.

However, my point is that you can take clones from a new plant just put into flower usally up to 14 days, during it's stretch that will provide a good clone. Any later and you could get stunted growth or a hermie.

I think I'd probably confine that to 7 days max. I've put plants in to flower and had to take them back out to use them as mums. Even 5 days on 12/12 will put the plant far enough into flowering mode that it will display odd, mixed veg/flower habit for some weeks after being put back under 24/0 lighting.

Just to test it out, I have one now that has hermied on me and I am trying dutch masters reverse just to see if it works. I am watching it closely.

Don't chug Sarian brandy while waiting. Once a hermie, it's unusual to see a reversion to proper habit.

One thing that I found is that perpetual grows get boring very quickly, lol. Love the output but dam the repetition. You never mentioned that, lol. Thats why I am playing around with clones and other strains now.

hahahahha, too right. I actually do make note of the boring-as-batshit environment in a copy of the thread I run on RIU (which is massively busy with more than 1000 reads/week).

Again thanx for sharing your success, I don't clone or grow like you, but your method is easily adaptable to others. And I think that is the key. +K

Sure, there's lots of little hints and kinks to be taken from this, even if you don't SoG.

I don't know whether it speaks to my persistence or foolishness, but I have tried most every method over a lot of years. I've arrived on a perpetual output SoG op cos it distributes the workload in the (much hated) harvesting task while still producing large and often.

PS. He called you Alan, rofl

Been called worse.