by Max
The Perpetual Harvest article was very good. You can also grow generation to generation by taking clones and still harvest every seventy days.
This method allows you to start several seeds of a single strain, then select the best one to keep growing going forward. You can grow multiple strains with the best plant from each. Buying seeds is a rare event when one phenotype can keep producing for years.
Clones are taken shortly before the veg plants go into flower. Take two or three clones from each plant and pick the best of each strain to keep.
Cloning reduces cost, improves quality and allows more variety. And you know exactly what you will get every time.
Stay elevated and keep on gardening! ~Max
March 20
1) The perpetual garden a few weeks before harvest.
2) Wedding Cake ready to harvest.
3) Can you spot the Wedding Cake?
April 8
Here’s a Continuous Garden update, about half way through the cycle.
The two veg plants in the large pots are Cheese from seed. The rest are from clones. The veg plants will all be cloned before going into flower.
The plants in flower are all from clones.
Plants are staggered in and out of the flower room to spread out the harvest and limit trimming to two plants every second day. We prefer trimming fresh, not dried.
This garden supports two medical consumers, both with permits from the Canadian federal government. Plant counts are always within limits.
Wishing you high elevations,
Max
That was a great article on growing hermie seeds. My experience has been mixed.
Generally, if a plant produces one or two seeds, these are keepers. If a plant produces many seeds, throw out the seeds (and the plant).
It’s best to start from feminized seeds in original breeder packs. However, I currently have one Hash Plant phenotype which was started from a found seed and it is better than the original.
But the last time I used hermie seeds, one of the two plants ended up full of seeds. Since I clone from generation to generation, this meant killing off the best looking example. It was a wasted six months!
So, it’s back to growing reputable feminized seeds. And cloning!
Here’s a picture of the veg plants about two weeks into their final pots and the flower room about three weeks from harvest.
All the plants in flower are from clones.
Wishing you an elevated day,
Max
Here’s an update to illustrate how cloning can propagate a continuous garden.
The cloned plants have been in their final pots for three weeks now. It’s time to add trellis and almost time to take new clones.
Flushing has started in the flower room with harvest scheduled to start in two weeks.
After harvest, the vegetative plants are moved in and flowering starts over again!
