AK47, Blue Dream, Tangerine

I've been LSTing, Super Cropping and topping my plants, well the 3 bigger ones, since they hit the 4th node mark. Plan to do the same to these new clones once they really settle in and grow a couple more inches. Best looking clone is the Iced Grapefruit. Love the coloration and how absolutely tight the leaf clusters are.
 
Traveled out to the Home Depot to get the new Metal Halid bulb. What i would have spent nearly 100.00 for at Urban Grower or some other Hydro Store only cost me 30.00 at the Depot. Granted it took me a moment to find, but i don't think ill be spending stupid amounts of money on over priced products i can get elsewhere anymore. I do plan on keeping U.G. as my nutes distributor though. Home Depot even sells T5 veg lights and fixtures for about 80.00. I've seen the same in grow shops for over 200.00. Depot even carries tents now. What what! lol anyways... The new bulb is fantastic, 400w of blue spectrum heaven. The plants have really perked up, clones as well. I'm still running 4 CFL's in the more red spectrum out on the edges. Doesn't really cast that much red light out but i feel its enough, plus gives me a little more light to see what I'm doing elsewhere in the room.
 
And now for pictures and things...
 

Here are the babies. AK's on the right, everything else on the left. Minus that black pot in the back, that's another Iced Grapefruit Clone.
 

AK trio. Don't know if they are all ladies or not, fingers crossed. Gonna sex next week(please no comments about waiting to sex, i have a plan in mind)
 

Foliage photo of healthy AK leaf
 

That Iced Grapefruit clone from the black pot. Love how close everything is, how tight and sharp the blades look. Very healthy looking pheno.
 

Bending on a AK main stem.
 

Cropping
 

And Cropping...
 

And more cropping hahaha.

 

Also, who knows a good deal about clones? I know "how" to clone and have cloned in the past with good results. What im questioning is the growth rate of clones. It would seem that these were taken partially into flowering, or at the very least 2-4 of them were. Maybe all were, i don;t know to be honest. When i took my last clone, it wasn't in flowering mode and it grew really fast, super branchy and hearty. These on the other hand, are slower than snails crossing tar on a hot day. I am assuming the flowering period is whats slowing the growth. Having to make that switch back to veg. Also, there are really long, and hearty roots on every clone, so im not sure if root development is still priority or what. Thoughts?

 

Looks like i need to get some superthrive. How much does it run? My clones are doing better, i am noticing new growth, but its still slow. The AK's are growing somewhere around 2cm a day. super excited.

 

Ill look into it. Even more so if its that cheap. I have a wonderful little plant store next to my house that sadly doesnt carry shit for nutrients for some reason. Like they have bat guano and worm castings, but nothing like you'd find at a hydro shop. If i can give my clones a little boost, and help them catch up to the AK, im all for it.

 

There's a wally world up the road from my place, but i think ill either go to Urban Grower or Home Depot to get it. I tend not to travel to walmart... something about it just screams go somewhere else. though they do have the cheapest priced socks, thats a given.
 
My clones roots are all in the 6-7 inch range at this point. I think the grower that the clones came from gave them a real over haul.

 

Thats understandable. WalMart turns into Wally World after 12am. Every time i go though its always the ratchet mother with the thong up her back and screaming heathen children. Grinds me. grinds me bad. What kind of cups are you using? if its anything like a beer pong cup, you can actually take a razor and...
 

 
And transplant the whole damn thing without really breaking its form. Less stress on the plant, plus less chance to fuck your roots up. Also, if you leave a little lip like I did(which gets cut off a little later) you can control exactly where your water flow is going.

 

Yeah it would be kind of a pain in the ass to try and cut that like i do with my little plastic and styrofoam cups.I do the same as you though when transplanting from the 3 gal to the 5 gal pots, tip it upside down after kinda working the sides a bit and the whole ball slides right out all easy like.
 
My clones are starting to get that new growth in, but its still super slow. I wont be able to attain the thrive for a little bit longer due to being stupid broke right now. But soon enough. I've been giving all the plants a mix of Bat Guano Tea and CSN17 Veg grow formula. Its the nute line i really trust and is really easy on the plants. Oh and i gave each gal of water 1 tsp of molasses for easy sugar absorption. So they are getting pumped full of nitrogen at this point. The AK's seem to be on a steady incline of vegetation. I notice the over all diameter of the plant increasing a very notable amount each day.
 
Sadly i forgot my camera, so i cant put any new photos up. At the same time though, that's just fine as it will be easier to show development between photos and times.

 

I haven't heard of either of those nute lines. CSN17 has a pretty big selection of nutes to choose from. They are not organic however, but are instead a very lightly synthesized mix of nutes. They mostly smell of mouthwash too, which is nice when you dont want to get hit with rotten fish smell or bat shit.
 
Pics will be up tomorrow evening. 

 

I started off on the All Organic side of the garden. Figured that I wouldn't want anything going into my plants that i wouldn't want myself. Marijuana was supposed to be naturally nuted and cared for.
 
Well I quickly dumped that philosophy on my second grow after having a in depth discussion with my Hydro sellers at Urban Grower. Since they themselves are Marijuana Growers(they just have to be with how we communicate with one another), with a great number of years experience, I thought i could trust the information. And i was right. Botanicare has a huge selection of lightly synthesized nutrients that your plant will honestly love. But it goes so much beyond that as well, Botanicare aslo makes all sorts of set ups for Hydro and Coco/Soil grows.
 
this is just the nutes, but if you type Botanicare into the search, there are literally hundreds of mouth watering products to be had. http://hydrobuilder.com/fertilizer-soil-nutrients.html?manufacturer=227