caregiverken said:

:D Leafy as fuck and I suck at trimming. If I was better at it, I probably wouldn't hate it so much..
I trim for a half hour,,and take a half hour break...lol

Gotta pace myself ya know...;)

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summitoker said:

Here you go, copied and pasted from icmag.....this is for using the powdered pool shock(chlorine)

If you think cloning is easy and doesn't take any effort at all, and you can't understand why anyone would have any problems. Congratulations, I envy you. This thread is not for you. Please move on.

I know exactly how you feel. Cloning can be one of the most aggravating parts of gardening. For so many people they have such an easy time with cloning. I have read stories over and over about how some people just take a pair of rusty scissors, make a cut, and just stick a cutting in some random medium. Then have roots in a few days. While I am so happy for them, it drives me crazy!

If you are like me and have researched just about every forum, forum thread, article, etc to learn the secret combination that could solve my cloning problem, you will notice some very interesting patterns.

One of those in particular is that there are many people who have been cloning successfully for years and years, and then they move to a new location and can't clone for the life of them.

I have heard many people attribute this to some "mystery of cloning", dumb luck, bad luck, etc. This has never sat well with me because in theory, if all elements are the same, the result should be the same. Which lead me to the belief that there must be a missing link in cloning that is not obvious, and is causing SOME people to fail miserably, and or just take a very long time to get clones to root.

Not by a discovery of my own, but some random thread I found recently, I believe (for some of us, this is not inclusive) that link may have been found. WATER

I know the idea of quality water is not new to cloning. Just about every manual, article, forum post, etc talks about it. Though there is a particular aspect that I have not seen discussed until recently. CHLORINE levels in the WATER. Or calcium hypochlorite/soduim hypochlorite.

Interesting enough, this really isn't a new discovery. Cities, Agricultural Industries, and other businesses have been using CHLORINE for over 200 years as a safe way to sterilize water. So in fact, the very water that you have coming out of your faucet, may contain a low level of CHLORINE. At low levels it is considered safe and used on a very large scale. Even biologists and the agricultural industry believe that plants actually require chlorine (low levels) as a key element and helps them thrive.

So, getting to the point finally, we all live in different places. Each one with different water sources. Some on city water (with varying water treatment techniques) and others with well water. I would safely bet that the mass majority of us are using city water and that city water contains chlorine. Personally, I have well water and not city water.

So recently I experimented with adding calcium hypochlorite (shock chlorine) to my well water for my clones. I also ran clones without any chlorine added. Everything else being the same. Guess what. I got roots in 6 days with the chlorinated clones. It was an ah ha! moment!

So the thread that I read that lead me to this point was written by this person who tried a relatively new product on the market made by EZ-Clone called "Clear-Res". Clear-RES is used by adding 5ml (of clear-res) per gallon of water and re-added every 3 days in the same amount. This product is relatively new, but if you search around you will find that the people who use it have pure success. So anyway, this person checked out the ingredients of Clear-Res and discovered that it was simply Chlorine water in a bottle. 16oz of chlorine water for $20. Two and two together, an experiment was done to discover how much pool chlorine would be needed to reproduce the same strength found in Clear-Res. Using a non-ph buffered pool shock (or pure calcium-hypoclorite) that you can commonly find at most hardware stores and walmart, the formula was discovered.

Here it is:

Basically, this pool shock comes in powered form.
1 gram of this powdered chlorine should be mixed into 1 gallon of water, to make what is almost an exact replacement for a bottle of Clear-Res.
Then, once you have this bottle of chlorine water, you would use 1 liquid oz per 5 gallons of water. Repeat every 3 days.

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putembk said:

Wish I was trimming today. Five weeks out and running low.

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caregiverken said:

i have a few that are a least five weeks out still..
This one got confused when I shut off the supplemental lights
But it worked out nicely...
I have stuff in all stages of flower, so I will trimming pretty steady for a good couple months

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Seamaiden said:

Wow, what a pain in the ASS finding sodium hypochlorite or calcium hypochlorite has been! I finally found the sodium hypochlorite, in liquid form, not granular, it's a 10% solution so I'm not really sure how much I should be using.

Everything else I found called 'pool shock' was a long name I can't remember. Tria-somehing was in there.

So much for shopping local. Good Christ.

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Aligee said:

This the one you want Seamaiden local hardware store or walmart should carry itView attachment 340288 View attachment 340290

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putembk said:

Fall in Colorado is my favorite time of year. Great sleeping weather and the days warm slowly to a perfect comfortable day. Tourists are mostly gone from the hills and the locals have it to themselves before the lifts start running.
Great shot Sky.

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caregiverken said:

fucking manzanita!! :woot: I want some! My wife and I both love fucking Manzanita! ...lol
Grows everywhere just up the road a bit but not at our place.

You know people big pay money for those branches right?

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