Light cycles

[Tunkers]

Yeah that leaf thing is a bit wierd.

Strange that it grew under there without light?

[Ford Fairlane]

There be light leaks in my cloner too....

[chained]

As long as they are standing and green there is hope for cuts.

 

This is an old pic and can't remember exact age, but by development i think probably about 1.5 weeks... checkout the leaves that popped up in the rootzone! Under 24w cfl 24/0

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Crazy, does light get into the root/res area?

 

This is the morning of day 5, these are experiments/prune clones on 18:6.  I have no real purpose for them but I find it difficult to just throw cuttings away.  Now I WANT to try to get aquatic leaves!

 

 

Edited December 13, 2017 by chained

[ooodog]

As long as they are standing and green there is hope for cuts.

 

This is an old pic and can't remember exact age, but by development i think probably about 1.5 weeks... checkout the leaves that popped up in the rootzone! Under 24w cfl 24/0

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As someone who is new to gardening(of any type) it looks quite weird that you have roots growing from a branch...

 

 

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[Tunkers]

There be light leaks in my cloner too....

Never have issues in the res? I'm starting to think light isn't too much of an issue compared to lack of dissolved oxygen and high temperature in a reservoir.

[Ford Fairlane]

Yes light would definitely get into the res. My plugs are pieces of yellow pool noodle which I think would be translucent. And there are some gaps around the noodle. And depending on which esky i use for the res there may be gaps around the lid.

 

There have been no slime issues or anything like that. But I only use it for 2 weeks so maybe not enough time for it to grow. It does get pretty warm, but I feel this aides root development. I have no research to back this up, just an untested theory. It is such a simple system.

[Ford Fairlane]

Crazy, does light get into the root/res area?

This is the morning of day 5, these are experiments/prune clones on 18:6.  I have no real purpose for them but I find it difficult to just throw cuttings away.  Now I WANT to try to get aquatic leaves!

 

Those cuts are looking nice and healthy chained. I know what you mean, it breaks my heart every time I throw a bunch of prune waste away, let alone when I throw rooted clones or plants. But that's the way it has to go sometimes unfortunatly.

 

I had to look twice when I first saw those leaves, I hadn't seen it before and not since either. I ended up using that cut but pulled the leaves off before planting, they seemed pretty healthy though.

[chained]

Those cuts are looking nice and healthy chained. I know what you mean, it breaks my heart every time I throw a bunch of prune waste away, let alone when I throw rooted clones or plants. But that's the way it has to go sometimes unfortunatly.

 

I had to look twice when I first saw those leaves, I hadn't seen it before and not since either. I ended up using that cut but pulled the leaves off before planting, they seemed pretty healthy though.

 

 

Thanks Ford, I think I'm starting to dial in my aeroponic water these days - no freak water veg' growth tho! Very interesting. 

 

Before I realized you were in an esky, I thought that perhaps the white container may have been allowing enough light to pass through, but that's clearly not the case in an esky.  Do you think there might be a specific hole that, given the right placement of your esky under your lights, there is essentially a beam of light that just happened to strike that cut in that spot?  I always believed that light would hurt roots and stunt its growth

 

I agree about the warmer water, at first I used to try to cool it and had less success.  Now that I let it stay between 25 and 28 degrees I get rootballs formed by day two or three. 

 

May I ask what you put in you res water, do you add nutrients and rooting hormones?

 

 

 

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Heaps of light gets in there. Not sure about a specific beam that helped those leaves along.

 

The res just gets a little spoon of great white myco and the cuts get a dip in clonex gel or aloe vera. Water is not pH'd so most likely around 7-7.5

[Tunkers]

Heaps of light gets in there. Not sure about a specific beam that helped those leaves along.

 

The res just gets a little spoon of great white myco and the cuts get a dip in clonex gel or aloe vera. Water is not pH'd so most likely around 7-7.5

Whatever you're doing works that's for sure fordy.

 

I'm loving the fuzz on these new seedlings [emoji4]