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The Jiffy Challenge
- Thread starter ScrubNinja
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4 grams, I'm going for 1/2 oz, go big and have fun.
Tatz
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WORD !
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HC, can I quote you in my sig ?
Excactly my words !! What de f***, it´s weed !
Have a High Day all of you !
Enjoy life !!!!
WORD !
HC, can I quote you in my sig ? Excactly my words !! What de f***, it´s weed !
Have a High Day all of you !
Enjoy life !!!!
Excactly my words !! What de f***, it´s weed !
Have a High Day all of you !
Enjoy life !!!!
Sure, why not, it's only a plant, it's not a $60 million fighter jet.
You can put the jiffy pellets and clone in what ever grow medium you want to use. Soil, hydroton, coco, perlite, vermiculate. whatever you choose to grow in. You can also put small Grodan cubes into soil or anything else.
You can grow it in any style, SCROG,SOG, LST, SUPER CROP bubblers, aero, soil, ebb/flow.
You can do clones in dirt if you want to. Just keep the environment stable and for clones bottom heat really does help, 24C is perfect.
Why not drop it into the earth and get some real bud? Like 2 kilos instead of 2 grams?
Or at the least use ebb and flow tables so you don't have to water.
I have used Jiffys for 25 years, but after rooting on a wet sand table I always put them in the ground, or at least a very big pot. I am sure you can flower in a jiffy alone but why do it? To me fun is a 2 kilo plant not a 2 gram plant. But if you want real small plants try in-vitro meristem culture, .1 gram is a big flowered one, the calyx's are tiny.
-SamS
Or at the least use ebb and flow tables so you don't have to water.
I have used Jiffys for 25 years, but after rooting on a wet sand table I always put them in the ground, or at least a very big pot. I am sure you can flower in a jiffy alone but why do it? To me fun is a 2 kilo plant not a 2 gram plant. But if you want real small plants try in-vitro meristem culture, .1 gram is a big flowered one, the calyx's are tiny.
-SamS
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Hi Sam. Well for me I can put it like this - Why does someone swim across the French Channel when they could just catch a boat? lol. I have bigger plants in my cab which I've planted into larger pots from jiffies. I'm not sure if you noticed but this thread is in the micro section, so I have nothing to lose by filling up a little gap in the corner of a micro cab.
That in-vitro thing sounds interesting! Cheers
That in-vitro thing sounds interesting! Cheers
lolraymond
Member
For sure! This is purely for the "sport" of growing. Can we call it a sport? Cheerleaders call cheerleading a sport... Anyhow, I think it's a rad idea to see who can get the most out of almost nothing, you know?
I forgot, once my clone grows a tad, it's going to be bushy as a motha', so I'm probably going to LST it. High Country, I'll match your 1/2 ounce.
As you said, go big and have fun. I think that's pretty much what it's about. I'm so exited now. Hahahah.
Lol, guys, it's the 'Clone Wars'...
I forgot, once my clone grows a tad, it's going to be bushy as a motha', so I'm probably going to LST it. High Country, I'll match your 1/2 ounce.
As you said, go big and have fun. I think that's pretty much what it's about. I'm so exited now. Hahahah. Lol, guys, it's the 'Clone Wars'...
gr8fulbud
Member
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Well...since I grew a male bonsai mother (why do you think they call it dope?!?) I'm reduced to two puny girls in flower and eight germinated bagseeds. I've got to keep better records but wtf.
I started the eight in jiffy plugs.
Before I put the plugs in water to expand them I used a utility knife to slice the mesh nets that hold the plugs together. It always looks to me like the young roots are struggling to get through the mesh. After they threw a few roots out I carefully lifted them out of the mesh and put them in 3 oz. cups with my soil mix. Maybe next time I'll skip the plugs and plant them right in the little cups from the start.
I'll let them veg for a week and then pot them into 20oz. Gatorade bottles.
I saw it was micro section, but that does not invalidate what I had to say. I think this might be interesting to anyone that has never done it before. Once you have, what is the use besides curiosity?
As for in-vitro, I have flowered off little tiny meristems about an inch high, you needed several to roll a very skinny dube, the dry cleaned weight was .1-.3 grams a plant, but the smoke exactly the same as from a big plant of the same clone. But besides curiosity, it is a pain to do to get any serious yield, which is what I am more curious about.... Quality and yield is my mantra...
-SamS
Then this is right up your alley Sam. This whole thread is about quality and yield, catch is, you can only use a jiffy cup. LOL
Well sure mate, but it doesn't invalidate mine either. If it helps us come to an understanding, and to answer your question; there is no real point - there, I said it Just something to kill time with, and I haven't done it before. Surely it's not too strange? I mean, there's a shotglass challenge, a beer cup challenge, a square foot challenge. You can't think all these people haven't realised they would get bigger yields from bigger pots, bigger rooms etc? It's just crazy shit we do on the internet. Certainly a bad idea in some ways - why get busted for a crummy little jiffy plant when you could get busted for a huge one with more or less the same consequences. So I can understand people being confused I guess.
Is the in-vitro similar to tissue culture? I had a ginger plant in a test tube from a tissue culture lab and it sounds similar. It looked like a mature plant except it was maybe an inch high. Do you have any pics? Feel free to post 'em.
Lol, lokes. Would be fantastic if you did enter, Sam. Thanks for reading, all.
Just something to kill time with, and I haven't done it before. Surely it's not too strange? I mean, there's a shotglass challenge, a beer cup challenge, a square foot challenge. You can't think all these people haven't realised they would get bigger yields from bigger pots, bigger rooms etc? It's just crazy shit we do on the internet. Certainly a bad idea in some ways - why get busted for a crummy little jiffy plant when you could get busted for a huge one with more or less the same consequences. So I can understand people being confused I guess.Is the in-vitro similar to tissue culture? I had a ginger plant in a test tube from a tissue culture lab and it sounds similar. It looked like a mature plant except it was maybe an inch high. Do you have any pics? Feel free to post 'em.
Lol, lokes. Would be fantastic if you did enter, Sam. Thanks for reading, all.
Green Smoke
Member
Everyone reading this knows that what you say is true. But, this is about growing small, it's not an approved method for growing, it's for fun. It's a game. And for those who use micro cabinets, it's good fun. The biggest bud on the smallest plant grown this way. Yield wise it's useless, but fun wise, it's da bomb. I'm in, but it's down the road, after cab modifications.
If I was after yield I would put the clone into the hydroton in my SOG. Now the poor little thing is sitting in a glass with no drainage on top of the hydroton in the middle of a SOG..
Makes no sense at all doesn't it. Doing all the wrong things, no drainage, confined root space and exposed roots. Just have a bit of fun and see what happens.
I might start a thread on gradually increasing nutrient levels until the nute burn explodes the plant. How long would it survive at EC 6.0? Why would I do that, the plant will not survive or will it?
It's easy to clone, just something to do with a spare one instead of culling it.
We all might learn something along the way.
Makes no sense at all doesn't it. Doing all the wrong things, no drainage, confined root space and exposed roots. Just have a bit of fun and see what happens.
I might start a thread on gradually increasing nutrient levels until the nute burn explodes the plant. How long would it survive at EC 6.0? Why would I do that, the plant will not survive or will it?
It's easy to clone, just something to do with a spare one instead of culling it.
We all might learn something along the way.
lolraymond
Member
Heck yeah! That sounds like a good experiment! I'd follow that thread, faaaa shooooo.
10 days in and The Jiffy Challenge contender is still alive in its glass in a stubby holder home.
It is now being fed bloom nutes from the res in the SOG at 1.7 EC.
Some of the bottom leaves are fading a bit but it seems to be happy and throwing out white pistils.
The roots are a bit messy, pics to follow.
It is now being fed bloom nutes from the res in the SOG at 1.7 EC.
Some of the bottom leaves are fading a bit but it seems to be happy and throwing out white pistils.
The roots are a bit messy, pics to follow.
lolraymond
Member
Dammnn, lookin' good man! Holy crap! That things heallthhyyy. I can't wait to get a clone from my friend. He owes me too. Haha.
christoph'sbud
Member
ive gotten some jiffy pellets because i want to participate very badly, but unfortunately, i cant start any new plants, if i do, it will be a church clone from my next grow in my new cab(which is yet too be build, and is in the planning stage) if anyone wants to help out with some ideas hit up my thread(in my sig) ive got two EWS AF currently vegging in both my mini cabs.
your plant is looking healthy indeed high country, i think scrubs should post some pics on your plant!
peace for now,
christoph.
your plant is looking healthy indeed high country, i think scrubs should post some pics on your plant!
peace for now,
christoph.
Looking killer, HC. Mine will be lucky to make it, haha.
