The original Headband clone silver gave me forever ago... lol It sat in a small pot for the longest time... This plant pretty much grew itself. It has some foul diesel stank.
Hey guys... I got kinda ill last week and was vomiting all over... So I didn't go back to the grow for 1.5 weeks. No major disasters, but I'm still having a few issues...
Sorry I will flush better next time.
hey bobble, hope u are feeling better.
in regards to the cloning;
cloning has always been my achilles heel. had relative success with rapid rooters and clonex, then i didnt. then i did. then again, i didnt. lol. fucking cloning. then, everything changed about 4 months ago.
i have always been too stubborn/determined/cheap to buy an aero cloner. well, in march i convinced my partner to purchase an EZ-cloner 120. BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100% success rate. clones never turn yellow. 100's of clones in the last 3 months, just to have 3 times as many as i needed so i could cull many and only keep the most vigorous rooters. and of course the 100+ Outy clones i have been rooting in the last month or so.
100% reverse osmosis water, 4-6ppm.
EZ-clone "CLEAR REZ"(1oz per 5 gal) every 7 days
Hormex liquid(1 tsp per gallon) this shit has the all important indole3butryl hormone!
Clonex liquid fert(1 tsp per gal)
the key to my success?
EZ-clone brand Clear Rez. this shit is kinda expensive, but eliminates all bullshit in the reservoir. 3 Tbls every week. i can run the rez for 2 or more runs without changing the water, this shit keeps the Rez DEAD. no stem rot, even at 82 degrees, but i still keep mine @ around 74/76, by keeping my veg room at 71 with a portable AC. 15 min on/15 min off for the sprayers.
when i first got the system, i ran out of the Clear rez sample after the second run. i tried rocking the system without it, stem rot and the brown algae everywhere, so shitty. tried SM-90, smells great, but doesnt cut it. tried bleach, not good enough. ordered a 16oz bottle of CLEAR REZ back in April, solved all my problems.
so dude, spend the 350$ on an EZ 120. PM me if u have any questions. you have those super sick rack rooms, u deserve to have more clones than you have pots for. the root growth is amazing as well. 10 days max and i have roots like they show in an advertisement.
get it bobble!!! you have no idea how much weight is lifted of your shoulders once you have a never-ending supply of clones.
ps. i actually bought my first brick of coco; mixed in 1/4 volume of perlite, gonna try my hand at cloning in 5oz clear Walmart cups, a la DHF. soaked the coco in hormex and clonex liquid. wish me luck!
PEACE and good luck Bobs..............
Red - you may want to try some cups of pure coco for clones also. I find I have better success that way vs coco/perlite mix. All depends on your enviromental condictions though. coco/perlite seems to work better in higher humidity (60% +), while pure coco functions better at lower humidity (>50%) IME clones like to be wet for the first couple days to get over the shock of being cut, then it's best to let them dry and tease with just enough water to stay alive to force roots to seek out more water.
Hey Bobble, cloning is a problem for me too. Been rooting in cups of water lately which is painfully slow and inefficient. Now I'm trying Rapid Rooters and they seem to work pretty decently. It definitely is strain dependent though. I have a Blue Cheese cut that roots incredibly well, even in water cups. Haven't flowered it yet but it should be a good one. Just about to put the first one into flower this weekend.
I've had some problem with my recent batch of clones, as well. I clone in jiffy pucks. I was thinking of doing a sorta hybrid perlite setup where I fill a container with a few inches of perlite, then add water and then place pre-moistened peat pucks on the perlite. That way roots aren't disturbed or damaged as much during planting (because the peat puck provides a layer of protection) but the puck never goes completely dry because the perlite wicks the moisture up to the puck.
What do you think?
Sucks about the cloning dude. I have a real issue till i started doing coco in cups. Clear 7oz plastic cups with holes drilled in the bottom. Coco has about 25% perlite in it, and i hydrate it with like 1/4 strength nutes, and I just make sure I squeeze it out so it isn't sopping wet.
I only put a top on after a day or two if some of them look limp, and that comes off in a few days. I water them with the same nutes when they are dry, which is usually in 5 days.
Hope all works out, that headband looks super dank. I need to get my hand on that one.
Keep it green dude.
aod
That Headband cut was always nice and rugged and durable for me. The couple small disasters I had never fazed her - PM and spider mites, and she hung tough. Neither were infestations by any means, but surrounding plants would be affected, and she'd just keep chuggin' along, clean as a whistle..
Always rooted well for me too. Thanks for keeping her around - now that you've thoroughly outclassed me in the end-result..
If u do coco again I've always had 90-100% success in the little 2-3" black square pots.. the tiny ones... Just wet it once with ro water, or I've used a light dose of liquid karma initially too, that made the yellow process that occurs when they root seems to not appear... N dip n' grow as the dip.. I only bought the easy cuz I'm lazy lol
I've rooted 4 trays under a 2 ft. 4 bulb t5 that was just sitting on milk crates on the floor in my basement... Set it n, forget... As long its relatively cool in your basement come back 12 days later, and you will have roots.... I've done it with, and without the domes.. but I do feel the domes help the first couple days at least... That last batch of 70 though I hit 68, and left the lid on the whole time with vent holes open, and just let it be like I said..
anyway, when i tried the bleach method, i did a drop(out of a dropper i got at the hydro store) of bleach per gallon of water every 5-6 days. thats how Skype instructed m to use the bleach in a EZ clone rez. and the results dont lie. even with the bleach i had huge blooms of red/brown algae/bacteria/whatever/slime after 2 days.
I can't help but post this link that greenmatter posted in my thread.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=219683
Seems that the culprit in these aero-style cloners is bacteria/funk up in the nooks/crannies.. Since I read this thread, I've read other folks who swear by using NON-set-out water (read: chlorinated) in their bucket/aero-cloner deals.
Seems to make a lot of sense to me - and I think the solution proposed in that thread is the commercial/non-stoner-sales-gimmick version of Clear Rez.. (I could be mistaken, but I think so)
I don't see how spending big bucks on what you can build for yourself is a solution to the inherent problems that lie within - that is, funky critters in the nooks/crannies of the pumps/tubing/aero system..
Hope that makes sense, and/or helps.