scrubdog 9 Report post Posted May 30, 2013 I'm looking for a bit of advice here.... anybody... My huge Mango thai female broke in half and may or may not make it.... and I may or may not get any seed from it... So... I'm thinking of taking some cuttings and cloning it. I've done this heaps of times in a hot house and in a big indoor setup but I have nothing set up these days and no hothouse. My question is this... how much light do I need to root some clones? Can I use an ordinary household light bulb or do I need a fluorescent at least... or even a proper HPS or Metal Halide??? Just to root a couple of clones?? I may not get around to it but I was thinking to use a heat pad and pumice or vermiculite or something like that? Is there a better and faster way? I have a lot of visitors who have no idea that I grow weed so I need some sort of really small, simple and stealthy setup? scrubdog Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robogro 2,460 Report post Posted May 30, 2013 My question is this... how much light do I need to root some clones? Can I use an ordinary household light bulb or do I need a fluorescent at least... or even a proper HPS or Metal Halide??? Just to root a couple of clones?? yes sir, a couple of cfl lights will work fine and take as many cuttings as you have space as some might not make it. Heat pads help but will dry out the medium faster, best to have the area temp in a constant warmth. A small box (cardboard or plastic) and small cuttings will do and wrap the stems in a wet towel maybe during transport. nice recovery on the broken plant top, 50/50 on recovery, my las4t plant, that snapped like that, died on the broken part great to see pot in snow 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
barney 4,929 Report post Posted May 30, 2013 That is very cool stuff Scrubdog! It makes me want to grow outdoors. If you have been doing it for 30 years you are an old timer . You must enjoy being out in the bush. You take the loses that mother nature hands you and you just keep going. thanks for sharing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scrubdog 9 Report post Posted May 31, 2013 That is very cool stuff Scrubdog! It makes me want to grow outdoors. If you have been doing it for 30 years you are an old timer . You must enjoy being out in the bush. You take the loses that mother nature hands you and you just keep going. thanks for sharing. Thankyou sir. I was a bushman long before I was a grower. I love the outdoors and nature and wilderness and I love plants. I don't just grow weed. I grow flowers and veggies. But yes... I try to work with nature... rather than fighting to control it. I grow a bit for the deer and a bit for the bugs and a bit for the weather... and hope they all leave a bit for me. That's the theory anyway. I use no fences or cages around plants (just too obvious from the air where I live). Yes I have been growing a long time and done some huge outdoor crops simply to get the numbers needed to pick breeding plants. Having said that though I felt like a complete novice this season and made a lot of rookie mistakes through lack of time to plan properly and lack of knowledge regarding local terrain and conditions. Every year I learn new stuff and whenever I start to get a bit arrogant and think I'm an expert then Mother Nature comes along and king hits me from behind. scrubdog Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scrubdog 9 Report post Posted May 31, 2013 yes sir, a couple of cfl lights will work fine and take as many cuttings as you have space as some might not make it. Heat pads help but will dry out the medium faster, best to have the area temp in a constant warmth. A small box (cardboard or plastic) and small cuttings will do and wrap the stems in a wet towel maybe during transport. nice recovery on the broken plant top, 50/50 on recovery, my las4t plant, that snapped like that, died on the broken part great to see pot in snow Thanx Robo. I'm going to take cuttings tomorrow all going well. I hope the plant is still alive though I should be able to get cuttings off the bottom half anyway. I remembered you doing it to your huge Thai plant and that gave me the idea. Man I was reading your thread and you sure do grow a mix of varieties every season. I like to do the same so I don't build up a tolerance to one strain but I don't grow as many different strains as you. You're an inspiration to me Robo so keep up the good work. scrubdog 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doush 1 Report post Posted June 1, 2013 Thanks saxo... Its amazing how those plants are still alive after that snow good luck next season Scrubdog ill stop by to see how you go if you make another report in 2014... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scrubdog 9 Report post Posted June 1, 2013 nice recovery on the broken plant top, 50/50 on recovery, my las4t plant, that snapped like that, died on the broken part great to see pot in snow You were quite right Robo... most of that top half died but some of it survived. The plant seemed to decide how much it could still get nutrients to and dumped the other branches. All the plants are going into that weird semi-veg state they go into when the season is over. Not budding anymore but not proper vegging either. It's almost a hibernation mode and I've over wintered sativas and run the same plant in the spring many times before at friendlier latitudes. You end up with a monstrous bush that has hundreds of bud sites. However that was much milder winter temps with only light frosts. I'm pretty certain the cold will kill these plants but I'll run them to they die anyway. It's pouring with rain as I write and forecast to last a week at least then more snow. The whole point of this extreme grow is to get some seed so i'm hanging in there trying to ripen some. All those plants were especially selected as parent seed plants and it was a pure seed crop with two huge Thai males dropping pollen all summer but I have so far not harvested a single ripe seed from any of the girls and there is at least seven big Thai (including a RoboThai) female plants in that little planting and three Neville Haze. Neville Haze growing in the snow... So anyway.... most of my sativas started flowering too late.... like just as winter started they pre-flowered!!! The ones that did flower on time (RoboThai was one that started on time but just took forever to finish and never really finished properly) got bowled over by mould which I wasn't expecting. The whole reason I grow pure landrace sativas is because they're meant to be mould resistant and I've never had Thai go mouldy on me before. I lost over 50 big Thai plants to mould this year though so it's war from now on between me and the mould. Grrr scrubdog Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scrubdog 9 Report post Posted June 16, 2013 Well I took a bunch of clones but I may have left it too late. The plants were nearly dead... it is midwinter here. The leaves were are all floppy and had blight. Still I have some cuts in a cupboard, on a heat pad... under a 25watt fluoro bulb. See what happens... scrubdog Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scrubdog 9 Report post Posted July 28, 2013 Hi ho hi ho it's off to work we go... I cloned the big Thai female and now have six healthy clones. So I get to play with her all over again. See if I can do a better job this time. Objectives: 1 get no mould 2 actually flower properly this time 3 get some seeds off it (using males yet to be decided) It's still midwinter here so I have them on minimum life support until the weather improves. scrubdog Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
