Well after a shitty 3 weeks I have decided to cut my losses because of bugs, fungus and shitty rockwool...LOL. I works for some but not us noobs for crying out loud. I have decided to scrap all my clones I picked up as I am not sure what they have. So I am starting from seeds to see if I can get this thing working.
So... was wondering if there is anyone out there who is using this system that can get me started from seed? Mostly looking to turn these seeds into momma's and then clone from there.
GanjaAl,
Started off trying to use rockwool and I also failed. I was hoping my clones would root in a few days however that did not happen. I did get roots, 3 weeks later. I bought an aeroponic cloner (Ezcloner) Using clean clones I took from my mothers, cloning gel, I had roots after about 10 days. The one thing I liked about this method was the ablility to check on the progress everyday. The down side was keeping the water temps cool. We can then take the rooted clones, install them into a Grodan cube that has a 1.5 hole in the center. fill the hole with your clone and loose rockwool. Now we let our clones go until roots come through the cube. You are ready to go. We started our seeds this way. We soaked our beans for two days. Then installed them in a doomed starter tray in rockwool using only tap water. We then put them into 1 gallon pots of Canna CoCo. and grow out our moms.
Grow your seeds using a rapid rooter type medium and grow your moms first. Plant in soil or coco. Do your homework on this part. This way you only have to take care of these few moms first. You screw up with your cuttings for your UC system you can go back to your healthy moms and start over. Here is where the first part of your magic is going to happen.
Follow Jacks advice with this EZ Cloner and nutes with a cycle timer and your will do great. Then transplant from your EZ cloner directly into the UC system using hydroton in your UC system. You can eliminate the need for rockwool crap then. Your roots will dip right into the UC sytem and start eating.
Thanks guys. Yea what happend is that I had gotten clones from some collectives and they were shitty. Bugs and disease ridden. Also just found a fungus knat and I know for a fact my room was spotless. So it had to have come from somewhere other than my room. So I scapped everything and will be whiping down the room tomorrow with bleach every other day for atleas a week. Never again... I will never take clones from anyone. All seeds from now on baby. Then if I fuck up... I have no one to blame but myself. Just need to figure out what the best medium to use is... I thought about coco but I hate bugs... I hate them with the everything in my being. So I have decided to momma in hydroton and do a small four pot system for mommas and keep the ppm low or I may just do a dutch system of 50/50 perlite and hydroton as that is what I have on hand and water every three hours. Still doing my homework on that.
Thanks brother... kinda like the pic below???? Also was wondering... until the roots reach the bottom of the bucket, I would top feed right? How often using 50/50 hydroton-perlite?
Thanks brother... kinda like the pic below???? Also was wondering... until the roots reach the bottom of the bucket, I would top feed right? How often using 50/50 hydroton-perlite?
No cubes for me brother. I just got rid of some clones in cubes and never again lol. To many chances of funk and one got green ick on it for seting out for one day until I could transplant it. To many variables. I have decided to go with the Rapid rooters. They seem a neutral and are treated against funk.
Nice root porn and am glad the cubes work for you.