I am taking clones from my flowering Acid Dough near the end of week 3. This is a form of Monster Cropping.
I will begin week 1 day 1 as the day clones are cut not rooted.
When I cut the clones I want fast rooters as these will be revegged for several weeks unless they get to unruly so I will be looking for growth that originates near the base (if I planned to flower right away I would take clones that originated near the top of the plant). I have a jar of nute solution to put the fresh cuttings in. The rock wool has soaked in the nute solution for a day.
Everyone does their clones a little different. I cut the clones at a 45 degree angle about 2" below the first node put the cutting in nute jar right away and let them soak for at least 20-30 min. I shake off the excess water and coat the bottom inch in rooting gel and then in rooting powder. I then place the cutting in the rock wool. I put the fresh cuttings in the dark for the first 2 days spraying the leaves with tap water once or twice a day. From there they will sit under a humidity dome with a 300w led 36-48" above until roots begin to grow.
8/5 After two days in the dark they don't look any worse for wear. The temperature outside the box was 72 and inside was a nice cool 69 caused by evaporative cooling off the small puddles in the box. Today I put them under the 300w (eq) LED in trays (wife's baking dishes with a dome I made with clear plastic and a dollar store basket with the bottom cut out. I put a temp/hygrometer under one of the domes. I will check the readings in a few hours.
I have never cloned during flower supposedly their new leaves will not look like a MJ plants until several sets (nodes) are grown and they should branch like mad for a few weeks! But we will see.
Well checked on them after 3h and the temperature is a wonderful 75. However, the humidity is not wonderful at 90 so I removed the domes and will check back in a few hours.
8/6 removed the lower leaves. Temperature is a little higher without the dome but the humidity is much better. Rock Wool was drying out so I added about 80ml to the bottom of each dish. I added to the dish not the blocks to encourage the clones to seek out the water.
8/8 day 5 I see some new growth on most of the cuttings. I suspect we have roots. They should start poking out of the rock wool over the next couple of days if I get their DWC set up I will transfer them.
@Tazard1, To be honest I'm not to familiar with DWC practices. I know that my roots don't look like that when I clone in hydro by they don't look unhealthy. I'm not really the guy for Hydro root advice to be honest. Looks good in my opinion but like I said I'm not familiar with how they really should look so I'm really just an admirer in this situation :D
8/21 all 7 have roots so I got rid of the scrawniest one. I only plan to keep 2 of the 6 remaining but want to make sure I get the best two and the other 4 cost nothing extra since they are in a single DWC. I will also be making a new 2 pot DWC for flowering. My plan is to take 6 clones from the two I keep at the end of 3rd week flower (just like these 7 were) and flower them 3-4 weeks after cutting so I can have a 6-7 week perpetual harvest of 2 plants. Hopefully they will yield 6oz each. Then my wife and I can stop paying for it. 😊😁🎊🎉🍾😉
@Newbie_uk, oh my gosh is it ever tasty. This is my second round with Acid Dough. The first was three plants and I also have another grow with two plants behind this one! It has a sweet and sour flavor kinda like a pineapple candy. I love it!
Class m8 :) :) never realised how many different ways there are to grow, and so many added nutrients, Fs I wouldn't know we're to start, probably just as well I can't have an indoor grow lol amazing to look at, plenty of bullets forming, gonna follow this 1 as well..happy growing m8 :) :)
@@Tryhard, I think it’s my favorite so I wanna get a little stockpile before I start getting multiple strains. I have one more pair of these monster clones about 5-7 weeks from harvest.
@BigDaddyK, what do I need? Next grow was going to be three two Plant DWC’s in the big tent. I was going to run Big Plant Science in one, House and Garden in another so may as well put Canna in third lol. My understanding is that the House and Garden guru used to work for Canna. I could just be confused
@Tazard1,ok for next grow is there any way you can just try some canna nutrients ? I can give you perfect ppm s , the plants look like they are overwatered , which is impossible in DWC lol , if I wanted to experiment , I'd buy some cheap mineral water and use that , 250 - 500 ppm of nutrients is easily enough to grow .no more .
@biggreens420, I will be documenting the progress so others can do this too! However if you collect pollen from plant "A" and pollinate plant "A" to get seeds you should NOT use the resulting feminized plants to get more seeds. If however you take a clone from plant "A" and you pollinate it with the pollen you collected from plant "A" then you can use those babies to make more seeds! You can also cross breed using the same rule.
I think cloning is super fun...I have sucsessfully cloned my clones with a 95% success on roots so far...I like seeing what your up to always because we have a lot of the same ideas,concepts and determination...each grow is a learning experience and I pick up as much knowledge from you as I do doing it hands on...thanks for your documentation and sharing of knowledge...much respect!!!!!!!
@Sillyasswhitedude, Thanks. I learned a lot from reading diaries. I always look for an existing diary when I do a new strain. Your diaries are also very well detailed and I enjoy seeing your updates.