I’m trying to google some Robin stew recipes for you…but coming up dry so far!
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Tomato stew just add Robins.
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You know what Bob back in the day when I had my airgun business, I had customers all over the country and world. One of my customers in Alabama, called Robins…Southern Dove. Claimed they taste just like Dove. They are of course protected, but I have no idea why, all they do is shit on cars, dig up your garden and eat worms which are also good for the garden. And there are a bazillion of them.
Marty
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LOL, one man’s blessing is another man’s scrouge!!!
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When cooking your soil with earth dust, do you need to keep a certain temp?
Will too hot or too cold stop it from cooking?
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Yes sure it will, it’s fungi and bacteria that you are growing in those pots. It’s not ultra critical, just keep it between 50 and 80 and you’ll be fine. I “cooked” mine in the basement while it was still winter and it was a average temp of around 55 degrees, I don’t heat my basement. And it is walk out with zero insulation so it stays pretty cool. But that is good for my grow tent because it sucks in cool air and keeps the exhaust fan from running most of the time, just on my minimum setting of 1. I have the programmable AC infinity exhaust fan with the bluetooth controller.
The cooler the temp the longer it will take, if you keep it 70-80 it will cook faster. Moist not wet and put the pots in a plastic bag so it keeps the moisture even. I cooked mine 5 weeks, there was a white coating of fungi all over the surface. HTH
Marty
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Another question for all you cloners out there. @happilyretired @PreyBird1 @wow_arizona @ @bow4buck @Slym3r and anyone eles
So you cut your clone off, how long does it normally take to root then stabilize and grow to say 6-8" tall and ready to be transplanted ? I see a lot of you taking them while the plant is in flower, is that because of them getting too big before your room is ready for the next grow? Thanks to all who inpart your wisdom. Just wanna do my first cloning right.
Thanks all
Marty
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I’m not sure about how tall, I usually make my cutting about 5 to 6 inches tall and let the roots get about 8 to 12 inches long. To get them that long it takes between 14 to 21 days in my turbokloner. I was wondering if your going to use your cloner or do solo cup cloning.
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It depends on many factors but usually after cutting and dipping it takes 10 - 14 days to root well enough to transplant - I do not have a cloner machine and do it manually - the cloner machines can be faster.
I took a cutting of a plant in flower to clone and reveg because I didn’t have a clone of her to grow this summer and wanted to after I saw how she was growing.
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I’ve only got a really simple bucket cloner, have to agree on about 14 days to transplant. If they aren’t reveg, probably around another 10 days to see them start to take off.
Edit: 14 days…
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Thanks Nacho ! I am just using a seedling tray with a dome and the small little seedling starter pots that go with it and filling them with two blocks of rockwool. I thought about firing up the cloner but everyone seems to do fine with a simple method I thought why bother. The cutting I have now seems to be doing fine, I was on hand and knees in the back of the tent clipping bottom leaves and mis-snipped and boom branch gone lol. So I figured I might as well try and clone it, just did the tip and threw the rest away, (shouldn’t have). learned that with my first question lol.
Thanks for the info
Marty
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Great everyone !! So it sounds like if I take them after the first week of flip, and before they go into full flower mode, they should be just about right by the time of a 8 week flowering cycle?
Thanks Bow
Thans Raven
Thanks Nacho
Marty
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I like to take cuts in week 3 of flower and monstercropping them.
Heres one revegging. Dont mind the old burnt leaves.
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I have read that cloning a revegged cut will yield better node spacing and denser buds on the clone plant - have you evidenced this in your experience?
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Also interested in that. If true, that means bigger denser buds and less stick lol. Maybe I’ll wait till week two of flower, they usally are showing pretty well by then.
Marty
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Just read this on the 420 site.
3. Pros of monster cropping
- Monster Cropping improves yields
Revegetated plants will grow more, bushier and with more side branches, this will result in more flowering sites and consequently more buds.
- Continuous harvests without having to keep mother plants
Because you are taking the cuttings from flowering plants, there’s no need to keep a mother plant in the vegetative stage to take cuttings from, you can flower all your plants and decide if you want to take cuttings in the first weeks of flowering.
- Great way to prepare plants for other training techniques
It is recommended to combine monster cropping with plant training techniques such as Scrog, tying down branches, or even topping or fimming, this will allow the buds to develop properly and grow super dense.
Marty
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I tell ya…this organic grow is fustrating the shit outta me. Put that boost on and watered yesterday and all the plants went to yellow growing tips again when I opened the tent around 10 this morning. The lights come on at 8am and it is now close to 2 pm. They have greened up a little, I have the moisture under control now, 1.5 quarts per 10 gal pot every day then third day nothing, then back to 1.5 again. It is keeping it pretty consistently moist top to bottom. They aren’t sick or anything like that…I just don’t like pale green to yellow growing tips.
On a positive note…outside garden is beginning to give me treats.
Gonna hit the inside grow with some Fox farms organic Bloom booster and some Chicken soup again.
Marty
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I’ll shoot a pic today. Today will be day 5 in the turbo cloner. @cooperm is the clone king.
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LOL, Marty
Here’s a link to the top strains in 1977 according to high times Mag
LOL, It probably wasn’t any better in 68-69!
Plus our dime bags probably weren’t ‘top shelf’
So now I hope you can forgive me for thinking all we were smoking was leaves!!!
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Do you know what those pictures are missing Bob… seeds… Everyone of those buds would’ve been at least half seeds back in the 60s and 70s. It would probably also be very flat and squished from being pressed into bricks…
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