thanks for the replies, I took a total of 16 clones, 4 from each WW, its my first time cloning, so not sure how they will turn out, they wilted for a bit, some have picked up, some still look wilted, will be making one of the DIY bubble cloners when I have enough cash to get another pump, as that does seem the way to go. When the clones have picked up I will take 1 from each WW and flower it, this should tell me which of my plants are female. Bin the males and keep the strongest WW for a mother, the rest gets flowered. I have not cloned the mazar as its not a strain I want to keep as a mother at the moment, so both of those will go into flower fairly soon, and if one or either of them turn out to be male they get the chop.
I plan to run 2 mother plants, one WW and one mandala satori, the seeds for the satori are finally on sale again so just need the money situation to ease up a bit so I can order them.
I have also put my last 4 WW and last 2 MIS seeds into germ, I don't really want any spare seeds hanging around as I shouldn't need them as I am cloning, and a friend has recently lost his entire crop including his mother's after he had to pull his plants due to a home inspection from the local authoroties, and has lost everything, and doesn't have any seeds, he is putting his flower and veg rooms back together at the moment, so I am growing these seeds so he has something ready to go in there right away.
Need to find a decent pump at the moment, my flower and veg room are actually in our bedroom (VERY VERY small apartment, only 2 rooms + bathroom and kitchen) so noise is of course an issue, I like the look of those piston type air pumps with the manifolds, but not sure how loud they are, think I have found a decent pump on ebay though, as I plan only to have 4 or at the most 6 plants in flower at the same time, but I think 4 should be enough to supply us till the next harvest is ready, here is a link, see what u think, I run 5 gallon DWC, if this pump will power 4 - 6 buckets with ease and generate a good amount of water movement it will probably be the one I have and its suppsoed to be very quiet
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(change the XX to tt of course)
Of course if I end up with 4 female WW and 16 female WW clones thats gonan be a little more than I can handle, but again with my friend losing all his crop I am sure I can find them a good home!
Using Formulex nutes at the moment, about 60% strength on the main plants, they seem to like it, I top up the buckets with just PH balanced water, and change the water every 5 - 7 days with 60% nutes, they are due for a change later today, so may try putting them on 70%.and see how they like it, they took a bit of a battering with the cloning, have recovered well, so I think they can take a small increase, the beauty with DWC is that if they don't its easy to go back to 60% without needing to flush!
The battery on the camera died before I could take any pictures of the clones, and to top it all i forgot to put the damned thing on charge, I have now, so when its done I will take some photo's when I do the water change later and post them, I think a fwe of them will die, they have not recovered, but there are a few that have perked back up, if I get 1 clone from each plant I will be happy, its my first time cloning, so didn't actually expect any of them to survive, I am not by nature a green fingered type of person, so it always amazes me that any of my plants actually live!
Well time to head off into town and see if the local hydro store has got my new buckets in yet, the roots on the MIS are lookign really good,adn I need to get them into buckets ASAP!
catch ya later!