aero grow GForce strain

this drip and flow system i made out of
3- 2 liter pop bottles
preilite gravel
2 large tubs from garage
some hose
fittings
and a 15.00 pump from lowes
total cost to me less than 25.00

Im using this for my mothers bought 5 fem gforce seeds only 2 sprouted

any way these ladies were planted Mar 16 i started 3 seeds one in each pod one sprouted other 2 did not, then i took the last remaining 2 seeds and sprouted them in a paper towel one of those seeds took. Next time i do seeds ill sprout stricktly in paper towel but these will be mothers i have a cloning chamber that i use for sog

Nuets

fox Farm
started out plain H20 2 weeks
2 wk res change 4 gal plain h20 2 gall 1/4 strength nuets
3 wk dropped ph to 6.5 with rice vineger ( plants went nuts loved it )
4 wks res change, 3 gal plain h20 3 gal 1/2 strength nuets (ph'd to 6.5)
5 wks had to add 1 gal full strength nuets pluss cha ching . Plants are starting to gobble up the water, temp is 79-81 deg F added bigger fan to booth. Changed light cycle to 18-4 from 24 h
6 wks had to add 2 gal full strength nuets pluss cha ching, after this add res is up to full strength nuets.

made a cloner to take clones from have 2 in the cloner which is home made aero mister tub here are some updates.
tub has needed a lot of h20 in the last few days plants are taking off like mad even a little sign of nuet burn on a few bottom leaves so i added phd 6.0 h20 plus 1/4 tsp open seasame

correction from week 6 i did not add cha ching it was open sesame

Cloner pics
cuttings: GForce 2 taken from the larger plan from previous post cut on April 29 first attempt worried about water temp lights helped alot with the black plastic there is a lot of air moving through tent may have to use flower chamber to clone

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Clone updates, 5/5/2010 both plants are showing signs of roots the one closest in the above post is def getting roots, second one is just pimpling

Mother plants updates: secondary sprouts ready to cut stems about 10 inches took 4 cuttings and put them in my aerogarden to experiment and see if i get roots, i did not use root tone gel this time i used ph 6.0 dist water and 3 tsp of KLM root tone, the guy at the hydro shop said try that instead of gel. the stems are wraped in white gauze that i presoaked in the solution then wrang out real good.
Aerogarden setting, I have the aero garden set on power grow 24/7 setting for strawberries. I then have pump plug ran to timer for 15 min water every 2 hours the same setting in my other aero pots all run on 1 timer. Pics in the next post

Im calling this my micro grow cloner lol lets see if they root, they were about 10" total stems are pretty flexable using the aerogarden.

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inside the dome

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inside the dome

wow that did not work so well lets try again

yeah they died experient 2 take new cuts no padding changed to round neopreme disks same theroy as the aero cloner placed stems to get water 15 min every 2 hours water has cloning agent.

updates May 13
mothers 6 weeks old
clones 2 weeks and ready to transplant

roots on clones

May18 Mother plant 9 weeks old, clones 3 weeks old new set of clones are a week old and not doing well i think i killed them in the aerogarden we will see i will give them a few more days clones shown below are doing fine but my aero head in the new tub stoped spraying so i added 4 more heads and now shes given plenty of water.

3 weeks old

new aero tub for flowering put clones in tub last week so one week in new tub had to add 4 more heads note dont use the small pump use larger pressure pump you have to use a liner in the tub to stop leaks but worth it. Notice the changes i made from last time i added a vent spout for the drain adds oxygen to water and i put drain on opposite end of fill for better circulation in res

Notice I use 6" neopreme inserts in the baskets the baskets i cut the netting away for better water saturation and no tangle with roots.

Correction to earlier post, I posted in my second to last update that plants were 6 weeks they were 8 in those shots i loose track to many bong hits lol