PPP, or is it? Grow #2

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!

 

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

 

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

 

Clone update:

all still alive in the mister:


though one of the small stem'd clones (bad to clone anything below 5mm) isn't doing so hot,, here's one of its fan leafs:

not sure what thats a sign of, but its not good!

Here's the top of the mutant "sexed clone" that i tossed in the mister:



My rock wool clones are nice and healthy, but all of them have good stem diam.



Its not going to make the cover of a mag. but its my 2nd grow and i dont care about apearance, just performance




so far so good... making it past the 2 day hurdle is a good sign in my past clone attempts. we'll see if they make it this time or not

 

had to cut a few tops off the skiny plant as they had grown PAST the light.. ( cut 3 10" sections off)

I dont think i can wait for my clones, I need to

A) do some SERIOUS cut back pruning

B) start flower now, as two plants are already using half the total vertical space in my room

anyone have an opinion on those two routes?

 

Here's some today pix..

about 5ft tall and 4ft across at the widest point for this plant




This one grows verticaly so fast that i've had to chop it in half once, and today i cut 3 12" sections off the tallest stalks



Here's the clone off the 1st one that told me it was a female.. its not that big yet, but its got mass potential..


the mutant clone has some crazy growth paterns, check this out!





and my clones are looking "ok" more black spots of badness



heres the worst of it:


rockwool clones dont look much worse than when i first tossed em in.

 

yeah, i was thinking start flower now and as soon as the clones are rooted ( assuming they survive) move them into the room and do a lil SOG with what ever light i can find.. heh

 

if they do im going to try out a lil SOG op with these new net pots i picked up..




sure they are only 3" but i shouldnt need much more with a SOG op right?



I posted in the sick plant area and someone thought i have some fungi issues in my cloner.. so i got some fungicide and im sprayin the whole area down!

 

so before i flipped to flowering i did a quick room clean up and some "color" photo's of the plants

Sexed clone:



Mom:



Skinnything:






and, oh no, whats this on the mom!?




DOH!
well I had rescued a couple of rose plants from my woman, that later had a nasty case of spider mites (damn walmart flowers) so apparently they had been hanging out in the room and JUST started to get a foot hold on my big plant


well.. I have the answer for that!


I used about the whole bottle on the 3 plants.. that big one is hard to spray down because its so bushy

hopefuly i caught this problem early enough!

 

ahh that blows!, but im getting more, so once a day just soak em down with it for a week or so?

what a PITA.. see if i ever take other lesser plants in for charity care ever again!

 

I already sexed the skinnyone, its a girl (back when my cloner was working). so we'll see what i ge out of it.. haha!

I expect it will have some heavy sativa charactoristics.. light fluffy buds with a heady high (yay!) i think PPP is a pretty heavy sativa mix isnt it?

those boobs belong to my garden assistant

 

i fucking hate spider mites!