I tried to transplant some of my clones into a potting soil/foxfarm mix after they had rooted.
I've never had good luck cloning my plants ,they root but wilt from lack of water.
I use rooting gel..generic brand maybe that's the issue,i've talked to other growers about this issue and a couple ideas they said were either 1) stress from lights after transplant 2) packing the roots to tight when placing in soil.
I think I should start a hydro-system for my clones easier on the roots
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Green Thumb
Since we live in a 1 bedroom apartment on the ground floor, in the middle of San Diego, we have very limited space to grow our marijuana.
But where there’s a will there’s a way.
We have our cloning growing area, which is a small indoor outdoor plastic coated greenhouse we brought from online K-Mart cost about $35. Covered this growing cage with reflective paper left over from the flowering tent, cost about $10
We ended up getting rid of the tall front clones, as you can see they are ready for 12 hours flowing cycle, but the plants in our “flowering room” were still 3 weeks from harvest.
The clones behind are shorter, and were on an upturned terracotta planter to get them closer to the light, they are now our second crop. the lower light cost about $45 from a hydroponics shop, I’m pretty sure it was called a T5 light, the higher light in front came from home depot, and cost about $25. Bits and pieces $100
The whole cloning set-up was placed on a set of drawer, so they were the right height for me to stand and check clones as they grew.
Total cost of our cloning room… $215.
Small Cannabis Flowering room.
Now for our flowering room, this is a homemade job, which I don’t suggest you make. Better to buy a growing tent from and a grow light and ballast ebay… but anyway.
The dimensions are about 5 foot wide, 3 feet deep, and almost 6 feet high, it holds 5 full grown marijuana plants, that were all topped and stems bent so they wouldn’t grow too tall. It was placed on a dressing table, since again I wasn’t able to bend to plants so they needed to be at standing height.
The frame was built from PVC drainage pipes,
4 x 5 foot for the front and back widths,
4 x 6 foot for upward sides
4 x 4 foot pipes for front to back sides.
and about 13 corner and T PVC joints. Got that at home depot for something like $35 for all, they cut pipes to length which was helpful.
There is plywood sides upto about half the height to make the room stable.
Covered on 3 sides with Mylar I think it’s called, It’s strong reflective paper aluminum I think. price $25 on Ebay
The light and ballast was $165.67 from Ebay. 400 watts.
Outside covered in black gardening polyurethane, brought from
home depot for $25 for about 10 yards. That black plastic kept the growing room dark for the 6 extra hours the clone lights were on.
Pots were reusable felt pots which cost $3 each.
Total cost of our marijuana grow room for 5 plants.
Fan for air circulation, was one we already had.
5 teenage clones $30 each
Potting mix, 3 x $16 organic mix
Plant food about $120
extra bits and pieces $100
Oh, in the last 3 or 4 weeks of flowering we had to use our air filter, even when the lights were turned off, the smell in the room was very much like skunk and cat pee mixed
And the red square closeup.
we tied a piece of measured string to the light with a bolt tied to the bottom, this shows us at a glance if the light needed to be raised. There was only about a foot that light could get higher before the ceiling, but it was good at the early stages of growth.
This string was also a wonderful way of seeing exactly how much the marijuana plants had grown overnight.
On the right is one of the plants we grew. details below it .And below is on of 2 headband plants on harvest day.
End result from our 5 plants, that only ever grew between 24 and 30 inches high from soil level??
We got an average of over 2 ozs from each of the 5 plants when dried and cured.
The grow room, plants, soil etc ended up costing about $740 for the first grow,whoops I forgot about extra power, the extra power for the grow lights was about $50 more a month, so add $150 for power. So near enough to $900.
And a whole lot of fun and learning new things, and heaps of photos . When you think 1 oz costs between $250-450 here in San Diego for the strains we grew, if we could afford t
o buy it by the ounce at a time , we still saved ourselves some money. Since we usually buy no more than an 1/8 of an oz at a time average $90 it would have cost $14,400 for what we grew. So how come I feel so poor I wonder lol…
The second grow was much less, since most of what we have is reusable and the plant food is left over. We grew our own replacement clones from the first plants were given a couple of baby clones by the person we brought the first clones off.
This second grow will cost about $30 for extra plant food, $32 for new potting mix, $150 for lights, so probably $250-$300 for the second grow.
clones growing "room" actual space to grow, about 4 high under the lights x 5 width x 3 feet front to back
We have our cloning growing area, which is a small indoor outdoor plastic coated greenhouse we brought from online K-Mart cost about $35. Covered this growing cage with reflective paper left over from the flowering tent, cost about $10
We ended up getting rid of the tall front clones, as you can see they are ready for 12 hours flowing cycle, but the plants in our “flowering room” were still 3 weeks from harvest.
The clones behind are shorter, and were on an upturned terracotta planter to get them closer to the light, they are now our second crop. the lower light cost about $45 from a hydroponics shop, I’m pretty sure it was called a T5 light, the higher light in front came from home depot, and cost about $25. Bits and pieces $100
The whole cloning set-up was placed on a set of drawer, so they were the right height for me to stand and check clones as they grew.
Total cost of our cloning room… $215.
Our small flowering room, grew 5 plants to maturity, area outlined in red shown in next photo
Now for our flowering room, this is a homemade job, which I don’t suggest you make. Better to buy a growing tent from and a grow light and ballast ebay… but anyway.
The dimensions are about 5 foot wide, 3 feet deep, and almost 6 feet high, it holds 5 full grown marijuana plants, that were all topped and stems bent so they wouldn’t grow too tall. It was placed on a dressing table, since again I wasn’t able to bend to plants so they needed to be at standing height.
string measuring the height flowering light had to stay away from plants
4 x 5 foot for the front and back widths,
4 x 6 foot for upward sides
4 x 4 foot pipes for front to back sides.
and about 13 corner and T PVC joints. Got that at home depot for something like $35 for all, they cut pipes to length which was helpful.
There is plywood sides upto about half the height to make the room stable.
Covered on 3 sides with Mylar I think it’s called, It’s strong reflective paper aluminum I think. price $25 on Ebay
bolt holding down measuring string for marijuana crop
Outside covered in black gardening polyurethane, brought from
home depot for $25 for about 10 yards. That black plastic kept the growing room dark for the 6 extra hours the clone lights were on.
Pots were reusable felt pots which cost $3 each.
Total cost of our marijuana grow room for 5 plants.
Fan for air circulation, was one we already had.
pruning blueberry hogsbreath plant, about 4 weeks before harvest they ended up growing about 26" high, and about 28" wide.
Headband cannabis variety on harvest day
Plant food about $120
extra bits and pieces $100
Oh, in the last 3 or 4 weeks of flowering we had to use our air filter, even when the lights were turned off, the smell in the room was very much like skunk and cat pee mixed
And the red square closeup.
we tied a piece of measured string to the light with a bolt tied to the bottom, this shows us at a glance if the light needed to be raised. There was only about a foot that light could get higher before the ceiling, but it was good at the early stages of growth.
Headband Trimmed Buds
On the right is one of the plants we grew. details below it .And below is on of 2 headband plants on harvest day.
End result from our 5 plants, that only ever grew between 24 and 30 inches high from soil level??
We got an average of over 2 ozs from each of the 5 plants when dried and cured.
The grow room, plants, soil etc ended up costing about $740 for the first grow,whoops I forgot about extra power, the extra power for the grow lights was about $50 more a month, so add $150 for power. So near enough to $900.
blueberry hogs breath dried
. When you think 1 oz costs between $250-450 here in San Diego for the strains we grew, if we could afford to buy it by the ounce at a time , we still saved ourselves some money. Since we usually buy no more than an 1/8 of an oz at a time average $90 it would have cost $14,400 for what we grew. So how come I feel so poor I wonder lol…
The second grow was much less, since most of what we have is reusable and the plant food is left over. We grew our own replacement clones from the first plants were given a couple of baby clones by the person we brought the first clones off.
This second grow will cost about $30 for extra plant food, $32 for new potting mix, $150 for lights, so probably $250-$300 for the second grow.
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