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Title: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Backs on October 30, 2016, 11:01:58 AM: Hello, I came to this site specifically to share and collect knowledge on the subject of salvia divinorum. Ive been cultivating almost 2 years now and am confident enough in my crop and in my technique to start sharing and collecting info from real people. I recently tried reddit and that was a nightmare, an awful website with insane restrictions. So now I'm going to try here. I look forward to interacting with the community and posting plenty of pictures and tips I've learned from hands on experience.
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: plantlight on October 30, 2016, 11:36:12 AM: Welcome Backs! :) Have you had any success getting them to seed?
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Chicsa on October 30, 2016, 02:06:30 PM: I too am from a Bay Area, but I bet its not the same Bay Area... Ironically, I'm willin to bet we're both on the west coast, but my west coast is actually on the east coast :P :P :P

Confusing enough? hahahah jus playin.

Bay Life

Welcome my friend.
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Bach on October 30, 2016, 04:41:49 PM: Hello Backs, Welcome to STS!

We need a Salvia expert, glad to have you here. :)
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Backs on October 30, 2016, 07:10:28 PM: @plantlight
Unfortunately not. Ive had success as far as cloning goes and keeping what I have alive and healthy but flowering is tricky.
With the recent boom in my salvia numbers and the fact that in 3 months the clones outgrew the mother plant (over a year old), I'm starting to think that I have a good chance of getting my girls to flower. The clones are extremely sturdy so anything could happen once I get them in the ground after winter.

@Chicsa
@Bach
Thanks for the welcome

The plant on the left is the mother plant, the bowl of clones on the right are 3 months old.
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Backs on October 30, 2016, 07:16:22 PM: Here is one more clone to check out. This one is very pretty.

All I use is fox farm soil, water, and "plant food" fertilizer.
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: plantlight on October 30, 2016, 07:30:19 PM: Quote from: Backs on October 30, 2016, 07:16:22 PM
Here is one more clone to check out. This one is very pretty.

All I use is fox farm soil, water, and "plant food" fertilizer.

Looking very green and healthy :) I see they're indoors. Do you use artificial light? Also, what fertilizer and concentration do you recommend ?
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Bach on October 30, 2016, 08:26:33 PM: Fowering is day length sensitive and mine bloom reliably every year around December. It's not tricky at all really.
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: MadPlanter on October 31, 2016, 12:22:55 AM: Welcome to STS! I'm not so far off from you too. Unfortunately I never do so well with her despite growing other things with ease. Glad to hear youve got results!

Peace
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Backs on October 31, 2016, 02:11:41 AM: @plantlight
I use:
Brand: Grow more concentrate
Product: House plant food
I add 6 drops to one gallon and use the whole gallon on the clone bowl every 2 weeks. I water in between because the plants drink water fast and before you know it one of the plants will droop like a noodle if you aren't careful. The mother plant I fertilize once a month.
As far as lights go, i only use the sun. I open the blinds during the day and they get a lot of sunlight. I usually keep them outside, they are in for the coming winter cold. Outside I keep them under wooden beams so beams of unfiltered sunlight are hitting the plant all day but they never linger on the same spot more than an hour.

@Bach, With any luck ill have success like you once I move the girls into the ground and they get used to their permanent location.
@MadPlanter, I had some troubles when growing my first clone, I honestly believe the problem is that the clone I got just couldn't adapt to the bay area (or I introduced it wrong) so it grew slow and now its hard like wood. The clones that I made here however, are thriving.

1st pic: fertilizer
2nd pic: Base of mother clone
P.S you can see how my technique was awful at the beginning. The branches that are dead died back because I cut off the clones wrong when I first tried my hand at it. I was cutting in the middle of the branch instead of just below a node. Once I started cutting below the node, my success went through the roof and the spots I cut from wouldn't die back as far.
3rd pic: Mother clone when I got her.
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: BubbleCat on October 31, 2016, 04:19:22 AM: Welcome ! Sallys are looking good :)
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: Backs on October 31, 2016, 12:58:04 PM: @BubbleCat
Thanks
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: MadPlanter on October 31, 2016, 02:30:06 PM: I'd love to add sally back into my collection someday. Anything you might look for in trade? Hit me up via pm if so!
Title: Re: Greetings from the Bay Area
Post by: happyconcacti on December 04, 2016, 06:08:34 PM: Welcome to STS!!!

Thanks for signing up, looking forward to getting to know ya.

:D
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