Katsu on Cloning
1. Take your cutting from a healthy looking branch that isn't very "woody" - green and flexible cuts seem to do the best. 2. Use a STERILE razor to make a diagonal cut in the stem and lightly shave the outer layer off of the bottom inch, then dip in a rooting powder or gel like clonex. 3. This is the biggie - whatever medium you are using, make sure it is BARELY damp with distilled or RO water. If your medium is too wet it will take forever to...
DIY Vertical Garden
VERTICAL GARDEN FOR VEG: For more years than I care to admit, I’ve been growing my clones, seedlings, and small veging plants on the floor of a tent or the floor of my grow room. Not only is it hard on the knees and a pain in the ass, it’s messy and takes up a bunch of space. After looking at the sick-ass vertical gardens that the big light companies display at BizCon and the various cannabis conventions, I decided to take a crack at a DIY...
Male Isolation Chamber
Here are the DIY plans for the MALE ISOLATION CHAMBER posted by Logic from THCFarmer: "This iss a little tutorial on how to grow your males right next to your females.It's a box that isolates the male and filters all the air that moves through the box so that no pollen escapes.I built my first one of these about 4 years ago and posted it at OG.This will be the third box I've constructed.They are fairly simple to construct and if you purchase...
Tissue Culture Propagation
Greetings! I hope your garden is green and your jars are full. I have been doing quite a bit of research on tissue culture propagation over the last few months and I am pretty sure this is the way of the future for maintaining clones over long periods of time. If you're not familiar with TCP, it is basically a way to rid a clone of bugs, disease/viruses, and "rejuvenate" it in a sterile sugar-based medium, create hundreds of clones in a very...
DIY Aerocloner
There are many different ways to clone your plants, but aerocloners may be the fastest. You can buy them easily enough but for those of you that enjoy DIY or that don't want to spring for the extra cash, I've lifted some plans to build your own for a fraction of the price. Many thanks to KingRalph from ICMag for putting this together. The rest of this issue are the step-by-step plans to build your own. Thanks for reading, and I hope you...
Transplanting
A smooth transplant is a beautiful experience for a plant. The plastic walls limiting its root growth are graciously replaced with more soil, and the roots will quickly expand to new territories, promoting a burst of new growth! With a proper transplant, there is no such thing as “transplant shock” at all, rather it is quite the opposite, your plant will immediately become happy and grow faster than before, even overnight! When to transplant?...
Cannabis Sex Reversal Using Silver Thiosulphate (STS)
Photo compliments of @massmedicalstrains2.0 A lot of people have requested information about reversing the sex of a female plant to produce male pollen. The text from this post was pulled from the forums - Fet gets credit for much of the research and a kind (and currently unknown member) assembled it as it appears below. The following is a safe, inexpensive, and successful method for reversing the sex of female cannabis plants. Individual plant...
Matt Riot’s Advanced Seed Germination Tutorial
My special guest this issue is Matt Riot, who has kindly offered to share his Advanced Seed Germination Tutorials with you good folks. Not everyone is going to want to follow these instructions, but for rare, expensive, or older beans this information is top level stuff. Matt is the owner of Riot Seeds "The 1st and Only Punk Fucking Rock Seed Company". Matt has been in the game for a long time and works with some fine genetics - you can find...
Breeding Males – Advanced Selection Tip
There is a trick…more like a technique, that can help in any breeding project. This information was passed to me (and others) by someone well known to the breeding community, and we were asked not to share it. However if any of you have read the ‘My Best’ thread, you know I am on my way out the door and am passing my best old school genetics around so the ‘new generation’ of breeders and smokers can beneift…as well as my old stoner friends lol....