I love this cut of red hot cookies. It flowers fast, it’s frostier than anything else around, great terpene profile, and it eats very well.
is this a keeper? i have grown this thing twice and will harvest a third in a month or so. I just can’t tell if i need to spend the time/money to not lose this.
i think it was running out of room in the pot, but it put out well. lots of colas. i have a clone going and a few guys in town took cuts and are running it now. the first batch was highly coveted.
Why wouldn’t you keep it? Sounds like you, and others also, really dig it. At least keep it around until something knocks it out of its slot. Nice looking grow too!
It has nice chunky nuggs… Do you enjoy smoking it? If you enjoy the smoke, definitely keep it until you find something you like better. If not… there are lots of fish in the sea
actually i took it as reveg, then took a bunch of clones. only issue. it doesn’t clone easy. i have a top end aero cloner and only about 25% of the clones took. it gets really woody and you have to wait for the wood to rot a little. i tried scraping the bark off, but i never got roots there. i don’t have problems with other strains…done about 10 different strains so far and just this one is hard to clone.
it may require me to get a 5th tent and a 5th light…that’s why lol. i had this idea that i would pass it around and let everyone else stable it for me, then get a clone back from them which was the requisite for giving them the clone in the first place.
I had that woody growth issue with some heirloom OG’s until I lowered their PPFD’s and PPM’s… I have some plants that get really woody if I start them with more than 400 ppfd and 650 ppm max… I have found that when I lower the light and nutrient levels, those plants don’t get woody and start to grow like normal plants then they can be cloned much easier. Once the plants start to grow quickly l, then I can raise the light levels but still need to keep the nutrient levels around 650ppm or they go woody. My observations have been validated and have helped others better dial in their heirloom cuts too! You might want to give it a try? It can’t hurt, and may help you with your cloning issue
I agree with @herojuana.tom . With the lower light levels and feed, most plants will get a bit stretched and that newer growth is going to be the best cloning materiel with less tough stems.
Also, have you just tried clonex and moistened peat, coco or rockwool? The cuts might take differently to that materiel vs the aero cloner. Also might stay healthier longer while waiting to root.
some of the best “elite cuts” are really difficult to root, just fyi.
A keeper is just that though, anything you want to keep. It doesn’t have to be some amazing perfect plant that checks every box. It just needs to be something you wanna keep around and smoke all the time. I always took clones but didn’t actually keep anything until I found a plant I wanted to run repeatedly. And then I did so until I found a plant that produced similar but better/stronger effects to take its place. Now I have a few different keepers. Its up to you. She sure sounds like she’s a keeper if you’ve already ran her a couple times
i used clonex (solution and gel), but haven’t personally used other mediums. my first set of clones i took 18 cuts and only 2 of the 3 RHC didn’t root. it’s was pretty successful. i think my bro put a clone of the cut i gave him into a some peat this weekend. he probably doesn’t have the woodiness issue though since his setup is pretty low fi. i’ll check on him.
I have a strain that suffers from slow rooting and getting woody quick (lol) I double up or more when I take cuts. If I want two, I’ll take four or five. Waiting till a small branch is extra long where you have to shave a node or two off the bottom seems to help too. My 2c. And a gallon or two of litfa. Enough for two weeks anyway
If taki g a few extra snips sounds like too much, maybe it’s not really a keeper for you, ends justifying means and all. Sounds like a keeper though, and cloning is a speed bump, not a stop sign
i took about 12 cuts…i got 2 and eventually a last one came through about 3.5 weeks in the cloner. the last one even had the slime, but it didn’t care. roots came out. i may have had better success if i had waited past 3 weeks on the others. most cuttings are rooted day 12 in the cloner.
Sometimes you don’t like the girls you love, but yeah that’s a pretty bad clone rate. Put one in a glass of water on the windowsill. Put one in dirt. She might act better if you get interested in what she likes
enjoy, brother !
