If I knew it was an auto, I wouldn’t have topped her. Never did autos before (last time I grew they didn’t really exist, at least not mainstream). So I did a bit of research and learned they dont like to be topped or transplanted usually (short grow time). Had I known, I wouldn’t have topped them. Since they were supposedly photoperiods, I wanted branching, not height.
When I noticed flowers on the plants, I figured the cuttings in the mist bed were toast, putting energy towards flowering and not developing roots. But they seem to be doing ok…
Thats another thing I am curious about, cloning with my mist bed. I’ve cloned my ladies in the past aeroponically, and had 90% or better success rates (rapid rooters I always failed with ??? dunno why). I built the intermittent mist beds to propagate other ornamental landscape plants (coleus for starters, but many ornamentals can easily be cloned with intermittent mist), and the system works exceptionally well (I can turn 50 plants into 300 in 2 weeks), but never tried it with the ladies till now (didn’t have the mist beds last time I grew).
So, I know plenty of you clone aeroponically, hydroponically, in rockwool cubes or rapid rooters. Has anybody ever done intermittent mist for a clone bed?
For those that don’t know intermittent mist beds, basically its a 6" deep coarse sand bed with several garden misters on a timer. Timer is cyclical, turning on for 10 seconds every 10 minutes, from 7am-7pm (generallty sunrise to sunset). Finding the timer used to be the hard part because of its short water / cycle time, but now they are pretty popular.
I have a few other ladies that should be photo, just waiting for them to need a trim and then I’m gonna see of those cuttings root (otherwise I’ll just build another DIY aerocloner).