Cloning advise
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vyserage
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I use a humidity dome, heat mat, rooter plugs and a t5 light (I think it's called a t5)
vyserage
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I think that ran in the 60 or 70 dollar range for it all. You can find a kit on Amazon that has most of this. My first attempt cloning without a humidity dome was 1 out of 5 or 6.
Second attempt with all that stuff and got 6/6 success. The humidity dome makes a big difference.
Leave light on for 18/6 and mist them every morning and night. I fed them a low dose of recommended seedling mix from general hydroponics. My clones did so well they barely drooped on day 1 and by day 7 or 8 they had roots bursting out the bottom of the rooter pods.
I also had some cheap plastic planters that could hold 6 or 8 rooter pods which helped to keep the roots from being hit by the light as the roots grew out of the rooter pods. I would fill the domes bottom with enough water to fill up the bottom of the plastic trays that the rooter pods were sitting in. Same pre mix seedling water.i would add more water to the dome if I saw it going down.
I also dipped the bottom of clones into cloneX to help root development
Second attempt with all that stuff and got 6/6 success. The humidity dome makes a big difference.
Leave light on for 18/6 and mist them every morning and night. I fed them a low dose of recommended seedling mix from general hydroponics. My clones did so well they barely drooped on day 1 and by day 7 or 8 they had roots bursting out the bottom of the rooter pods.
I also had some cheap plastic planters that could hold 6 or 8 rooter pods which helped to keep the roots from being hit by the light as the roots grew out of the rooter pods. I would fill the domes bottom with enough water to fill up the bottom of the plastic trays that the rooter pods were sitting in. Same pre mix seedling water.i would add more water to the dome if I saw it going down.
I also dipped the bottom of clones into cloneX to help root development
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Thanks! I was looking into one of those cloning and propagation kits....will give it a shot
HigherTheHigh
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If you can maybe now or in the future buy an aero cloner, such an easier way of doing it in my opinion, drop the cutting in a pod and come back in 2 weeks to hords of roots, i payed £45 or $70 for mine and i would never go back to the old way of cloning only if i really had too.
vyserage
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I thought about that one but it looked like for clones only. Haven't actually confirmed yet.
HigherTheHigh
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Well i am going to attempt to try grow 1 plant all the way through till flower, wont be a big plant but big enough.
Mayne
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pair of scissors and a bottle of water, and small table light, 15-30 watts. 24hours of light a day.
cut the cutting you select, instantly put into the water, dont spray the leafs, dont trim the leafs, just wait 10 days, put in soil, and grow it.
almost free.
once you transplant, THEN spray the leafs.
Bunch might say this is wrong, but Ive found, when you dont spray the leafs after cutting, it has no other option but to make roots to drink, and as a form of survival, it will try to do it as fast as it can. Ive done this several times, and every single clone grows. By the tenth day in the waterbottle, you may see the leafs start to discolor, that is the good sign of transplant time. Once u transplant, soak the soil around the base to keep moist till the 5th day of transplant, then let dry a bit.
cut the cutting you select, instantly put into the water, dont spray the leafs, dont trim the leafs, just wait 10 days, put in soil, and grow it.
almost free.
once you transplant, THEN spray the leafs.
Bunch might say this is wrong, but Ive found, when you dont spray the leafs after cutting, it has no other option but to make roots to drink, and as a form of survival, it will try to do it as fast as it can. Ive done this several times, and every single clone grows. By the tenth day in the waterbottle, you may see the leafs start to discolor, that is the good sign of transplant time. Once u transplant, soak the soil around the base to keep moist till the 5th day of transplant, then let dry a bit.
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Well that is the first time I've heard this method. It is certainly worth a try.
When is the best time to take cuttings from the mother plant? Right before flowering?
HigherTheHigh
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I have found if you take a cutting in week 2 of flower you end up with a really bushy plant, takes an extra week for some reason but certainly get a few branches all around the same node height mixed up, some times when you get it just right the stem can look a little like a hub of a bicycle, lots of stems.
Hootenanny
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Yeah i take clones at day 21 of switching to 12/12. If you check my journal I made a little guide on how I do it.. typically get 100% success rate... though success rate is largely strain dependent.
It makes for extremely bushy plants, as when you revert the clone back to vege it will push out a branch for each calyx on the bud. Requires a bit of pruning through vege as you actually end up with more branches then you need, at least for my style of growing.
It makes for extremely bushy plants, as when you revert the clone back to vege it will push out a branch for each calyx on the bud. Requires a bit of pruning through vege as you actually end up with more branches then you need, at least for my style of growing.
pontiacman
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I use a cloner (easy cloner 9 spot) , a scalpel, clonex, clear rez, and a mature plant. I add botanicare rhisoblast after 2 days in the cloner, about 1ml, and a couple of drops of orca liquid mycos. Perfect clones every time.
Roots in 6 days and transplant in 8.
Just my method.
Roots in 6 days and transplant in 8.
Just my method.
