PPP, or is it? Grow #2

[Nibbles87]

like many other i just read through ur whole grows, and im insaly impressed.
gl on this grow!! looks even tastyer then the last mama

[mordgrow]

I was all set to do another installment of "how i clone" butttt. my camera battery was dead.

oh well, cut 6 clones, all of them are around 7"-8" tall with at least 5mm diam stems. i dipped them in rooting powder, knocked off the extra and put them in my mist cloner with a weak nute mix (400PPM), some super thrive and a PH of 6.4. I then misted the dipped cutings with "regular" PH water ( 8.5 or so) and the leafs, I figure (at least for the cut area) the higher PH water creates a paste from the rooting powder, so they will gradualy get down to the 6.4 PH that the clone solution is. (depending on how long they stay in the cloner, i may leave this solution the same (short term) or strengthen it to around 700 PPM and 5.5 PH)

the mom is going nuts.. PPP is a strong grower under the right conditions. If i hadn't needed clones right now, i would have had to cut her back anyway.. haha

I'll take some pictures when i do my "hour later" check (a good rule of thumb)

[mordgrow]

Here's the freak plants (yes there's actualy two) very sativa strain from my PPP seed group, i kept it cause it looks so weird




Here's mom! after i took some cuttings (guess which side? haha)




Here's a clone from mom, sexed (thats how i figured out she was a she) and growing well




Here's my cuttings, a lil droopy, but they'll perk back up (big cuttings do this at first in my mister espeicaly with the rooting "past" restricting the water intake at first)

[mordgrow]

a big lesson i've learned is not to panic with clones, they can be very dramatic when cut this big, wilting over like they are giving up on you etc... just set them in the right conditions and they'll come around.


here mine are about 12 hours later. Hopefuly i see some nice 3-4" root systems in about 10 days, ready for the buble buckets and the big light

here's what the cloner set up looks like :

two fountain misters in the top rubbermaid 11 gal container with side snap locking lid ( i wish i had 20 more of these!! cant find them anymore) alum. tape all over the lid, 6 holes cut for 3" baskets, 2 fountain foggers in the resivore (filled nearly to the top, giving just enough room for the foggers to float around in their little floaty thingys) and a light nute mixed with 5.8-6.0 ph water.

I cut them, put them in, and check back in 10 days, no other attention needed (though i do poke my head in and see how everythings growing every once in while)

the water level slowly goes down as fog is used by the plants giving the roots more room to hang suspended in nute-rich fog... they freakin love it!



Here's a picture of mom

crazy thick bush.. seems like i usualy get this kind of growth out of my set up


here's the exception:

this thing is rocketing up, its doubled its hight in about 4 days.. freaking bambo hybrid or some shit!

so im hooking one of em down (there's two in this bubler)

and the clone that told me the sex of mom (re: sexed clone) its growing amazingly fast as well.


all with about 20-30 min attention per day in the flower room, and one trip every 10-20 days to my cloner..

[DierWolf]

I've grown many of PPP's but none have looked like that at all, looks like a white strain to me...

OH HI GUYS !! POOF!!

[DonLuigi]

Been keeping a good eye on this since your last grow. Hope it produces similar delicious results

[IslandMon]

Damn, was that a corrado that just blurred through this thread! - Hi Dier!

[DierWolf]

LOL yeah

[willydog]

Looking great as always Mordgrow! Are you still smoking from your last batch?

[mordgrow]

definatly still stocked from the last go i let it run real long though, so it puts you on your ass hard!

I guess 1 grow under my belt isnt enough to be hiccup free, so..

the bad:

I've lost 2 sets of clones so far, its really setting me back, and i've continued to veg the 3 plants above while these losses are happening. (ive a nother set of clones that are slowly dieing as I post this in my cloner)

and my camera seems to be going out on me. only takes blury pictures .. grrr..

Here's the mother for my next grow ( if i can ever get some clones rooted!)
I'd say she's getting close to 5 feet tall from the ground up (not the bucket up)


this next plant was growing verticaly so fast, that while i was playing around in my room i snapped it in half .. heh oops! lucky it snapped right at a growth node, so it was basicaly a strange form of topping doing great now that its not sooooo tall and skinny.


This thing is like a freak of nature.. its the clone that i sexed off "big momma" (yeah shows how long ive been trying to get a 2nd set to grow!) its got really strange leaf paterns,, 3 blades that grow so tight together it looks like one.. and now a bunch of 1 bladed leafs..



It would be awsome if this was a strain i could reproduce, it looks very un-pot like.. great for outdoors
but i think its just stress




anyway.. im going to scrub this run of clones, break everything down, and start a new batch when i'm sure i have as many elements under control as possible.

[mordgrow]

well, i let my clones go a few more days, even though i knew it was a lost cause..

hopefuly i have corrected the issue and i'll get back to my "magical clone machine" status..

kinda sucks cause i've never had an issue, just toss em in and i have nice roots 10 days later

oh well.

the misters arent doing so hot after months of constant use...



Given the mister another go.. hope this batch turns out!



Rockwool clones too? WHY NOT! i havent really cloned this way before... hope it works out.



I'm not a gambler, but understand odds...so with 18 clones cut, and i only need 4 of them to live.. well if this doesnt work im gonna scrap the whole set up and build a cloner like Rump. has (already have the parts)


this is mom after about 25 tops were cut off


here's the skinny plant



and i chopped the head off the freak to clone it.. why not eh?
here it is after surgery:


i was using a knife for most this, hacked my finger up prety good too, ouch! back to sissors for me!

[ThatNetworkGuy]

Damn, I cant wait to see that crazy mother plant go into flower with the rest of your grow! Its going to put of so much dank!

Nice grow, cya round.

[mordgrow]

yeah, my only concern is that its a huge light hog..

im going to stuff it in the corner and see how it does with minimal light..

Im thinking of turning this into an "experiment grow" just do a bunch of different things and see how it all turns out... hehe

[gonejah17]

loved the last thread - inspired a lot of us - enjoying this one - GL

I missed it, y are you flowering the mom???

[mordgrow]

cuz its too F'n big! haha, i'll turn one of the 18 clones into a new mom under floro's and keep it more managed