Lukes next grow...

[Luke Skywalker]

Okay, here's some update shots for ya. As you know, vicki has been culled, but her clones should live on. They're short, stumpy, and are less than ideal... but hopefully one or two of them will be vigorous enough to continue the line, and I may well clone during veg this time....

 

Here's some pics of the clones, bear in mind these shots were taken soon after they were placed into the growroom, and were a little water starved at the time. They're a little more perky now.

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Looking a little sad this one.. but sometimes it's the sad ones which eventually make you very, very happy. And squinty eyed... ::

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Okay, here's the next one... You can see I've trimmed the leaves, this is to cut down on the water demands that the little shoot will make on itself. The less leaf surface there is, the less transpiration will occur in the little clone. You don't need to remove much, just enough so that there is no huge leaves sucking the water out of the clone before it has a chance to start.

 

Mind you, some growers will never do this, I find it can be the difference for my cuttings, but hey, everyone has their own little methods.

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Another clone.

 

I'd be doing these in the aquamiser actually, rather than in the "traditional" (ha, never thought I'd call growool cubes traditional) method with a humidicrib. But I have the seedlings, as well as a couple clones in there at the moment, so no can do..... Maybe next time.

[Luke Skywalker]

Okay, another clone... Once again not taking the high temps and low humidity of it's early environment well... It's looking a bit better now tho. I'm used to seeing clones wilt and then stand up straighter than soldiers in a couple days, so I'm not too worried yet.

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Here's the next one, this ones probably the best of the bunch.

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Only one more after this one.

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Okay, here's the last bw clone. I'll keep you updated on their progress too.

 

I'm thinking of bonsaing a couple of clones as mother plants under flouros....

 

Next up, the seedlings!

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Okay, shall we look in on the seedlings? Heh heh...

 

Here's and overall shot of the aquamiser in action, with a couple of extra pots off the unit, which are swapped around with another one daily, so as to keep them moist.

 

The unit is fed water through the 2.25l bottle, coated in white tape, to a small float valve in the center of the aquamiser via 4mm polypiping. The higher the temps, the more evaporation there is, but generally the bottle lasts a couple days. If there is a fan blowing across the water, this also decreases the amount of time between refils. I'm considering attaching it to the large feeder res I have sitting idle whilst these seedlings develop, but I may be transplanting them out soonish anyway so it may be a moot point.

 

Here's that shot.

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Okay, and here's a shot through the door to the right....