Am I the only one feeling the urge to stage-dive & crowdsurf? 
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Seriously, looks like you could take a nap on that canopy.
@Grapefruitroop looking perfect there, well done!
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Thanks guys!
It seems yesterday when the broadmites were there making me cry!!
This time profiting of the cold weather i avoided any nuclear treatment in veg, only two application of spinosad…im tryng now to wait a week and then introduce some predators mites just in case…
In the sackets they came , they have food for about a month…and then in absence of other pray or pollen they die…
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this is a great read mate. thanks
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Thats a Sour Gorilla Kush clone selected from No Border Seeds…smells like a sour tangie floor cleaner!!! It stretches a bit but is a producer!
Groupshot front SD, middle MangoKush in the back Sour Gorillas
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SSup!
Its time to propagate the magic…
I finally decided to build a clone machine…not from scratch but buyn parts…
Choose to team with microbes instead of bleach…
Added about 2 % of fresh, filtered, ACT and few drops of Superthrive to bottled spring water ph 8.5
Decided to dont bother with ph’in the res cause i knew it will raise and the idea of adjusting it every 12 hrs made a non sensetome…
Temps in the cooler range…about 75…and a 6 stone airpump.
All Sour Gorilla
Wow…a side for a couple AC failure it has been a seriously set and forget…and in 9 days
Mean while also some pheno huntin goin on with some cross i made Cake Crashermale and SD female…
And some Blue Sherbert Widow , Tropicana Cookies and Kosher Tangie made by a friend o mine
A bit streched but they look fine…cant wait to put togheter a mom room for a better setup…
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I thought for sure you’d have nastiness in the res but 
na-na na-NAH! 
Nice job.
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Well…dont forget the beginners luck!
There was slime, all around the manifold, the pump and a lot around the stones…but the cuts (for the first time compared to peat) were very perky and healty…
I like to think that the good ACT made his job creating balance…i wanted also to add a tinyamount of LAB to lower the ph and add bacillus but then backed for fear of fuckin up somethin that was already workin good…
As far as fungi…sometimes after transplanting rooted clones in soil their old leaves gets some yellow round shaped blotches …brown in the center…it looks like some nasty fungal infection but the cut, even if it looks bad for few days, after it will grow out just fine, super healty…im immaginin that is some sort of root damage that shows up on very old leaves and sometimes on new growth…ill post some pics later
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Your cloner looks great! I have been messing around with this on and off for the past while wanting to make a cheap self-contained one that I can move the whole unit can be shuffled around as well as a more in situ one like you have built-in my nursery/veg area. I have been finding that getting high enough pressure or a combination of air and water to make most mist heads work is not as easy as I thought! I see that you went with hard pipe inside the tub, looks like 1/4" mist nozzles and an air manifold but curious what style and output of pump did you end up with? Maybe a quick rundown of the parts would really help me out if you don’t mind! Garden is looking spectacular, I will most certainly be stopping in regularly. Cheers!
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Thanks! 
Ok so here is the story…I stumbled upon a particulary cheap 120 sites cloner called X-Tream Nutriculture i think is from uk…Looks very nice but i found some pretty well explained bad rewievs about the very fragile manifold and the pump that was not powerful enough…(wtf right?!)
So i went the route of reinventing the wheel and i bought the tank and the cover with the holes for plugs…they are fine.
As far as the pump i shoot very high knowing a very important thing that most cheap nowadays chinese pump they just lie about their effective G/h ( or maybe the math is based on a free flow without any resistance…) and knowing that worst case scenario i could put a regulator…so
The pump is Boyu 4000liter x hour 75w
It has a kind of pressure regulator that really made not much difference as far as misting…
I ran it on low…was not a mist but a very fine gentle rain all over…
The manifold i decided to not glue it toghether in all the parts but leaving some with no glue so i could unmount and flush to clean it…i think that some of the pressure of the pump may be lost by the prosssible leaks around those unglued junctions…givin me luckly a perfect “mist” !?! donno…
The manifold is rectangular shaped with a pipe in the middle like most of em…and the nozzles are 180° for the perimetral and 360° for the middle ones…
When i finished transplanting those cuts ( 100% success wow) i start clean with soap the tank i noticed that 4 nozzle total were completely stuckd by some residual glue…
The bad mistake i did was not waiting enough that the glue was dry before testing the manifold… 
I suspect they clogged few hours after starting the machine…I run the machine for a total of 8 days…
I have some idea on why i got such a good result but i really would like to run it again same exact condition to see if is true before start to bla bla bla hahahah
But i think that keeping the misting on the lower side…like i did 15min on and 30 off or 15on and 45off is sure important to dont drawn em…i think that what you want is an no light ambient with an RH of 90% humidity to make roots go crazy…not lots of oxigenated water…
Also i wanted to put the air pump cause that pump puts out 60liter of air per minute!!
Hailea 32w air compressor its powerful, it raises the humidity of to the sweet spot plus keep the water oxigenated to give hard time to bad fungi, it was connected to 6 airstones…but whatever…lets see next run…
Also i think that dont stick the cut too much inside the collar helps to prevent rot…If just the 5-10% of the lenght of the cut is in the wet zone… 
Ill add some pics of the manifold and stuff later! 
Damn i wish i didnt ditch that super dooper SD mom super fuelly…impossible to clone to see if would had make it here 
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I run the pump in my cloner for just 5 minutes every hour, the stems are always wet, it helps keep the water temperature a bit lower.
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Hey that’s great, we use what we have. I think you made the right choices, if it’s working that is a success in my books!
Yes please do send out some pics on this, I have not finalized my manifold or really anything but I am on like v3-4 of misting array/manifold and v2 with the bins, still not there as far as I am concerned mostly due to not having a pump that will cut the mustard. I was originally looking at doing sorta what you did using jiffy pellet tray on top, still might for my more permanent one but I drilled holes in the tray for my mobile/self-contained unit, threw 2" hydro baskets in with neoprene inserts (rapid rooter style). Working away on this today see if I can get close to where I need to be. Likely going to buy a purpose-built pump/regulator and have it power multiple units as I can’t justify the spend for just a small cloner ATM.
Thanks for your insights, I look forward to hearing/seeing more when you have the chance.
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And here there is that weird damage that sometimes pops after transplanting but then it grows fine
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I know nothing about cloners but could that be light damaged wet leaves ? Burned ?
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I had this weird phenomenon also with rooted cuts in peat pellets…The damage is on the old leaves so it could be a light thing…the leaf maybe not ready for that intensity…!? or maybe just some root damage during the transplant… 
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