Makin’ Babies

So, you wanna make lots of babies without messin’ with those weak phenotypes? You know the ones; they create a bunch of herms, mildew easily, or go to seed, and wreck your whole crop. Well first, you gotta pick a few good mothers. I mean the ones with a stout stalk, sturdy thick stems, and leaves as green and alluring as emeralds. These mothers will be your future crop time after time if you treat ‘em right.

So when you have your mothers ready, get yourself set up at a table with the following accoutrements. A comfortable chair, a good light source above you, and a few joints already rolled for when you take a break. You will also need, a pack of brand new, sterilized razor blades (one should last for fifty to one hundred cuttings). Also have before you a sterilized cutting board, clonin’ sauce, also known as root stimulator, and a vase of water. In addition, have your sterilized trays set up with perlite or soil and Oasis clonin’ cubes. Fifty cubes per tray is good. And last but not least, turn your music on so you and the babes can groove with a niceness while workin’ away.

First water the trays and empty cubes with a very light nutrient solution. Flood the tray, then dump out the excess water, leaving the tray, cubes and soil soakin’ wet.

Now go to your mother plant and choose with your keen stony eyes, the branches to cut that will make good plants. Obviously choose ones that are not hurtin’ or deformed in any way. Cut off enough to keep your mother alive and healthy, but cut enough to make plenty of clones in case some don’t make it. Put everything you cut into the vase, so the stems and leaves remain at optimal hydration.

Now to have your medical marijuana clones grow successfully, you must have a steady, and firm stroke to your cut. Choose your branch, individually from the vase. The best clones grow from a branch that has three to five bladed leaves. Holding the stem firmly to the cutting board, take a brand new razor blade and slice firmly, and (this is the key here) at a 45° angle. The more surface area on your cut stem, the more space for roots to grow forth from, and of course the more likely you will one day have a big mature plant on your hands producing mad fat kolas. Now dip the cut end of the piece about one full inch into the clonin’ sauce. Then push ‘er about one half of an inch into the clonin’ cube gently, but with enough force to keep the little newborn from floppin’ over. Brevity and mindfulness make good babies.

Now do this until the whole tray is full. Then water the tray with a lukewarm 68F, (super) mildly fertilized solution. Fill the tray about halfway full with this water, and then put the tray under fluorescent lights. Generally the plants should be about four inches away from the lights. If they are farther away, or if the room is cold, purchase some warming mats to put underneath the cloning trays. Also you can get yourself some little greenhouse lids, plastic domes to go over the clonin’ trays. These keep the babies warm and moist.

Now the clones should be kept at about degrees and humidity. Check on them every twelve hours for the first three days. At times, lift the lids to let them breathe. Also, lift the trays to see if they need water, and if they are light, water gently. I fill the tray with water two times a day for seven days. On days three to five, check for signs of rootin’, you may see little white hairs, about twice the width of dental floss peekin’ up through the holes, or through the bottom or sides of the cubes. Once you see the roots, let them grow a little, a few more days.

When nearly all of the cubes have rooted, and you’ve thrown out the wilty ones that didn’t make it, get your four to six inch pots halfway filled with your organic soil mix. Break off a cube at a time gently; the roots tend to intertwine with one another (by flooding the tray when watering, you can prevent too much of this). Lovingly place the cube into the pot, and then hand fill soil all around. Then water with a warm nutrient solution, compacting the soil just enough, then place on your grow table under H.I.D. lights (high intensity discharge), and there you have it, successful asexual reproduction!

Posted Sunday, December 16th, 2007 | In Growing, Guerilla Speeks, Technique.
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