1st grow - Grandmommy Purple - *Now DWC*

10/30 - 11/5 Week 8 / Clone week 2 Ok, so here we are. All caught up. I say that because up until this point, I have been typing from the future. But it's 11/4 now, so this is the end of what I'm calling week 8 and is the 2nd week for the clones. The clones are sprayed with RO water at least 3 times a light cycle. I didn't change the light schedule to 24/0. Looking back, maybe I should have for the first 5 or so days since there were no roots. I did immediately bump the temps to 80f - 83f and humidity to 80% - 85% for the clones. I did this as soon as I took them. I reduced the light intensity to just under 25%. At the distance they are from the light, this puts me at like 80-100 ppfd or whatever the light reading number we are supposed to look for is. I don't recall the exact unit of measurement for the light; lux, dli, ppfd. This was reduced from 350-400 from before cloning while in veg. Also, I should mention, I don't have a dome. I just cranked up temp and humidity in the tent. I have been backing the humidity off though and currently have it set at 70% humidity and try to keep it around 77 f as the roots grow in. I had the cloning bucket thing raised up off the ground, as the floor is cold. But for ease of heating I put it close to the warm side off the ground. I think this made the water too warm, so I did end up putting the bucket on the floor and also away from the wall. I was messing with the pump a lot too... At first I had the pump on 24/0. Then maybe around 10/30 I changed to 1 minute on 15 minutes off. A few days later I saw first signs of roots. But also the smell that came out of the bucket when I opened the lid was not great... so on 11/1 I built a new cloner from another pump, bucket, tubing, and extra sprayer heads. This way I didn't have to clean anything and I could just wipe the lid down and switch it to the clean bucket. I also took this opportunity to add some nutrients to the water for the first time. Now that there are roots, for some reason I changed the pump to 1 min on and 8 mins off. I'll keep it here until the wind blows in a different direction. One other thing I did, that I'm not super sure about, was cut more of the stem off some of the clones... So like some of these parts of the clone that are in the water spray had to have been going bad because of the smell. So I was squeezing and touching gently looking for mushy parts and well... I cut some pieces off. I lightly rubbed some clonex gel on the ones that got cut. Also the b-52 and part A of the nutrients i use are dark dark brown and have stuff in the liquid, so I attributed a lot of that brown staining to that when I look(both on the stems and the foam). But some of the stems themselves were brown. It was hard to see. Plus the clonex gel is purple and that stained the stems as well. Either way, there is still some funk smell in there a few days after the clean water and all that... But roots are very prominent on 4 and are growing in on the other 4. So as long as I get the 4 and they are healthy I don't care. Although, I do not want them in here much longer. I am thinking about 11/6 for the transfer into their own systems, if the roots are long enough. Part of me wants to cut off the stem that doesn't have roots on them. For now, I will just leave them be. Something I figured out, and I'm not sure why this didn't occur to me earlier, but the Cal Mag xtra and Part A of sensi grow are basically the same, just the cal mag xtra is a little stronger. SO, if I use both I need to up the part B by the same ratio. So here is the first time I did something about it. I put in 3 ml of Part A and 3 ml of cal mag xtra. This would equate to 6 ml of Part B if Part A and the cal mag xtra are the same. Otherwise, historically, I would have done 3:3:3 which would have been wrong and not enough part B. Man I'm looking forward to this next stage, basically veg again lol. But this time, I'll actually put them in flower. Update 11/5: lol ok so.... full disclosure I messed up, but not that bad. I had a few mess ups before but this one could have been bad. To make a long story short, I turned the timer off and didn't make sure to check it when I turned it back on so the cloner wasn't running for 6 or so hours. I woke up from a nap and almost didn't even check the plants but I'm trying to manage the PH more closely. Good thing I checked. The plants were all droopy and I felt bad. Good thing I also have an air stone in the bucket with the pump for the spray nozzles. but the water lever is not that high so it wasn't really doing much to help, but at least it was something. I didn't take any pictures because I was ashamed lololol Also, I did it. I cut the bottom off a stem that was looking weird and not growing roots. I thought it was going to be mushier after I cut it off, but it wasn't. I couldn't help myself. I probably shouldn't mess with it like that.