One of several clones that were transplanted today. This one pictured was cut a little over a week ago.
I love watching them progress from simple cuttings to mature plants. Growing weed is such a rewarding and enjoyable hobby. I highly recommend people try it for themselves. 💚
As someone who’s only education in growing plants was a high school botany class: what are the white bits? Parasites? Is that why it had to be quarantined?
I think they’re roots, buddy.
Take this with a pinch of salt (as I’m not too knowledgeable myself) but OP has likely taken a cutting from a plant, dipped it into some rooting powder and the cutting is now becoming a beautiful little plant.
I think they’re roots, buddy.
Yup!
OP has likely taken a cutting from a plant
Specifically from a photoperiod weed plant. Many types of plants including weed will root directly in soil or tap water and don’t need any special supplies or fancy powders/gels/etc, but those can be helpful. It’s really down to what you’re comfortable with and what you find success with.
Propagation is pretty simple but there are some things that aren’t practical like auto flowering plants. They won’t re-veg so trying to clone them is a waste of time.
Entirely possible. In my botany class we messed with cloning a little but it’s been so long that I don’t remember if we used anything to assist the growing, or if we just plucked healthy secondary stems and put them in pots of soil.
what are the white bits?
New roots emerging from a stem. The picture shows the bottom part of a cutting I took from a mother plant. One of the benefits of photoperiod plants is the option to clone/propagate them from cuttings rather than starting new seeds. It allows you to preserve and continue to grow the same exact same phenotype of a strain when you find one that’s special, etc.
Is that why it had to be quarantined?
It was only quarantined in the sense that it was moved from a communal propagation area to its own pot. The title was meant to be silly because I figured most of Lemmy is nerdy enough to have heard of rootkits in the IT world. My rootkit is for gardening lol.
Ahhhh gotcha. Like I told the other user, been a long while since I messed with growing plants. I’ve heard of rootkits but I’m not tech-savvy enough to know what they do, but enough to know that they’d need to be quarantined.
I love watching them progress from simple cuttings to mature plants. Growing weed is such a rewarding and enjoyable hobby. I highly recommend people try it for themselves. 💚
Honestly, I got kind of into growing plants/gardening because of my experience growing weed. It was the first stuff I grew when I was like 14, and totally share the bliss around it.
There’s also an Orwell quote I believe, directed at his son to grow things in life. Or the saying that goes something like, “It’s a good time when people plant seeds of trees under which shadow they’ll never sit.”
Growing is amazing :)
It’s a gateway drug… To gardening… 💚
