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July 13: late start clones will be unforced to see what happens. The days are long here until the fall and then the hours and light intensity drop quickly. Likely won’t produce much but let’s see what happens.
July 18: under shade cloth all week.
Lost a couple of these but planting the clones from the CloneKing into soil in 3 gallon bags and placed directly outside has worked nicely. This location is far enough North that there are enough light hours for the clones to grow without immediately starting to flower. This is tougher to do further south, but here at 53 N it works fine.
Aug 5: five plants will be “phyto-forced” using a 730 nm far red light for a few seconds at dusk, and a control group of four clones will remain unforced. First night of far red light went well. Plants look very trippy when illuminated.
Aug 6: power out briefly at dusk so missed second night of forcing.
Aug 7: using far red light starting at time of “Civil Twilight” as listed on timeanddate.com for Edmonton which is about 10:00 pm now.
Oct 17: ideally these would get a few more weeks or moved indoors, but I’ll just harvest them in two days on the last nice day before we get freezing temps. These were just a timing experiment to see how they’d do in the available time.
Oct 18: have been watering with 25 C water in late morning once the sun is up for the day. The idea being to warm the soil while there is direct sun to promote flowering at this late stage.
Oct 22: forecast improved so still going for a few more days.
Oct 23: harvested 8 Bubble OG and one Hash Bud clone for total 850 g. Bubble OG was not ready but weather turns cold soon. HB was nearly ripe. 850 g wet from nine clones.
Nice easy to clone plant. These were experiments in cloning technique and timing and it more or less worked. The buds ideally would get another two weeks but the season is done now.
These clones were started late, kept in small 3 gallon bags, and were not light deprived to start flowering. These were ‘phyto-forced’ using a far red (730 nm) light at dusk to initiate and promote flowering. They had about eight weeks of flowering but likely needed about 10 weeks.
It was an experiment to see how they’d do and it was better than I thought it would be due to the great fall weather. These eight clones were not as mature as the single Hash Bud clone which was also slightly bigger.
This was an experiment in cloning technique and timing. Kept in small 3 gallon bag and not light deprived to force flowering. Was ‘phyto-forced’ using far red light (730 nm) at dusk which seems to work as claimed to initiate and promote flowering.
@Ezzjaybruh, force flowering is light deprivation meaning 12 h darkness for 2-3 weeks to start flowering. Unforced means leaving it to flower naturally. That doesn’t work very well this far North. I used that term to distinguish from the other clone diaries which were all light deprived. Cheers.
@GrowingGrannie, thanks. I’m sure these won’t finish in time, but I wanted to see how it would go. The main hash bud plant these are taken from is doing great. Cheers.
Northern_Ent
