I started some plants for friends this past spring. I had intended to keep a few of the plants for breeding purposes, but that never happened for a variety of reasons.
Anyway…was over at the friends house, took a look at his plants, and he has this beauty of Alien Monkey:
I’m going over this morning with some Widow Maker Auto fem pollen to dust a few buds and hopefully get them to produce some seeds. We’ve got about 6wks left before we get hit with a hard frost, IF we’re lucky, so don’t know if we have enough time left, but I sure hope so.
I’ll be going over there tomorrow and I’ll grab some cuttings, along with pollenating a few buds.
I don’t have my autocloner assembled yet, but I read in some of the cloning threads that cuttings can last for quite a while stored in ziplocks in the fridge.
I’ll see what I can get going on this. I haven’t been growing that long, but they look really unique to me.
Going to give the “California Cups” a try for cloning. I have 4 bricks of coco here, so I’ll go ahead and soak one of those to get a start on things.
Need to get some clear and colored plastic cups, then we should be off to the races
UPDATE*
This morning I put the cuttings in California Cups, hopefully will get a good set of clones. One odd thing I noticed…when I took these cuttings, the buds were bright red, as seen in the photo above. This morning, after 2 days in the fridge, they are pure white. I know the grower didn’t feed this plant any differently than the other 5 that are growing there, so don’t think it’s nute related…
I clipped/trimmed them off when I trimmed up the cuttings for cloning
I may take some more. I’ve never used this cloning method, so may need some more. It must be a function of light. They went from red to white while in the fridge.
