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SKAGITMAGIC
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The reason you don't dip or pre-treat the clones is because the cloner will just wash it off.
Sir Stonedalot said:I have 2 2ft flourscent bulbs is that enough for lighting for the clones or too much? Also how far away should the lights be from the babies?
CowboyBudsky said:Floras and CFL's keep 2" to 3" from top of plants. Your lights should be ok for awhile,,but 5000 Lumens psf of grow area is what is recommended. Less will work,, but only for so long. Lots of fresh air moving around in the grow area will help your babies grow strong and no mold.
I do not recomend them being 2-3 inches but more like 6-8 inches from the tops, clones do not need much light at all. Also do not put a fan on them either, they will be very fragile till the get a good root system started
BuddyLuv said:Your totally missing the point I made... Believe whatever you want buddy, I am not saying I am a Clone King I am just stating facts. I could give two craps about your cabinet grow. I am only saying do not make it anymore difficult then it has to be. I bet you are the type that checks his grow ten times a day and swears "U" grow the best bud in town. The guys has an easy cloner not a DWC cloner, so unless you have some knowledge or experience with aeroponics I suggest you take your opinion and shove it straight up your ***.
...oh and let me quess your 40,000 lumens outperforms my 540,000
I bet you are the type that checks his grow ten times a day and swears "U" grow the best bud in
BuddyLuv said:sorry man had a bad few days. I was just saying that the guy is obviously doing this for the first time. He does not need to anything fancy until he gets a few successful clones under his belt. Adding fans or more lights will just add to his soon to be coming frustration of a first successful grow.
...oh and I run 8 600w lumateks w/ eye hortilux bulbs 85,000 lumens times 8 equals 680,000 my bad. And my electric bill is only 120 bucks a month, during the winter.
SKAGITMAGIC said:mr. budsky i'm putting in a cloning station in a big closet, maybe you could give me a little advise, I been reading the thread and I'm putting a fan on the clones, I've only seen a buds homemade clone box and there so beautiful and healthy and he has a lot of air movement, I am putting the botanicare 25 on the floor hopeing it does run a little cooler, at 78 room temp the solution was almost 12 degrees warmer than recommended, anyway ive got 3 four foot florescents, the closet is 26 inches deep five feet wide and 8 ft tall,, I cut 3/4 inch plywood shelves and the florescents are now on the bottom of the bottom shelf and i've got almost 6 feet above it, so I went to town yesterday and got a 400 watt lumatec digital for the upper 6 feet. I figure you guys have meesed around enough with this stuff to tell me if this is feasable and will work, The same befor mentioned friend gave me four clones that I rootbounded horibly under a 185 lummen bulb before i went and got a lumatec 600 dual for the main room, The plants have now been put in bigger buckets and i've been doctoring them but all there problems transferred to the clones I took, there looking better, but that was the only stock I had to choose from,I'm giving the weakest away to the medical clinic in seattle that helped me get started, oh they will be fine in a couple of weeks, I put the clones in miracle grow, I had a couple bags of it out in the shed, this is my first soiless grow and we saturated it the day before with this AB fertilizer and put the clones straight under the 600 watt MH I'm keeping a calender of events and that was 1 week ago, there starting to flourish,I only put 9 in big pots because i just germied 10 white widow feminized seeds and I really dont think the main room will hold more than 20, washington says we can have 30 plants, but i wanna do some outdoor, thats what i can do is grow good bud outside,but i gotta get this indoor stuff down to a easy routine, something that works,i'm kinda pressed for time, and need to get this perfected for the mrs. or i'd just try and glean it slowly and learn by my own mistakes, that way you really learn it, i pretty much know the basics and grew indoors in 77 78 and once before that in 65 and 66, i'm a old guy with a young heart thats been smokin weed for awhile, i love the ****, but we're both retired now and can't just keep buying it, I guess I choose you to ask for help cause I thought you gave good advise, and seemed to know his ****,and i ain't got time for to many mistakes,I put everything I'm doing in a album it's backwards of course, the guy that gave me the clones doesn't have a puter or even a phone or i'd be buggin him, He grows decent weed but everything he does is just so jerryrigged, anyway i put everything i'm doing and kinda a explanation why i think it should be that way in a album mostly for the mrs., after looking around in here i'm just trippin at whats going on, so much info so many strains,feminized seeds!!! I been workin and fishing and all this cannibus community stuff has evolved without me even having a clue,the websites selling seeds and stuff i can hardly believe,anyway i plan to put these 4 foot tuity fruities above the cloner in the closet under the new 400, could you please look this over and point out the flaws etc. you'll see how badly the leaves turned, my bad
SKAGITMAGIC said:What exactly I'm doing as you can see when a guy asks for advise he gets three different answers and I don't want to get to confused,I really want the cloneing box to work right the first time. My little white widows just poped and I raised em up closer to the light about 3 inches like you said, I did have em about 6 inches away, anyway I read what you were doing and saw you do florescents so figured you'd be the one to tell me correctly about growing under them, I definely aint taken nothing from buddie love but tube lights seemed to be your thing.i didn't have a fan on the starts from seeds and I just shitcanned the cloneing expeiriment, I really shouln't have even started them because I'm waiting on the white widow starts, I put a few pictures in a album for the wife to keep,I've had hep c for about 40 years and it's really starting to do its thing, I wanna have a few successfull grows is what I'm about and totally open for any critizing,If I'm screwing up somewhere I'd like someone to tell me to save the time wasted, first question i need answered is how many cubic feet a minute fan to keep it around 80ish with a 400 watt lumatec in a 26 inches deep by 5 feet wide and just under 6 feet tall, its ajacent to a bigger grow room amd stays about 80 outside the closet door, I really don't want to install a inadeqate fan, they seemed to jump in price so quick, from a 20 dollar 50cfm to a 40 70 cfm to a 140 cfm for about a buck a cube.
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