Try keeping your heat mat inside of your box of failure lol. I've learned that clones love the direct heat and some water to "search" for. Keep some water at the bottom but let the peat pellets dry and keep spraying the leaves. I've had success with this. Good luck!And yet another update! My clone guy had two surviving clones, one AK-47 and one we think is a Gold Leaf. He wants to get out of the grow business for a while so he offered them to me! He keeps his clones in a cabinet in his garage, about 18h x 12d x 36w with a couple of dim T5s above. The AK-47 has grown enough so that he transplanted it a couple of days ago, so that one is in the shed next to the lights on the autos.
Your job, should y'all choose to accept it, is to keep the Gold Leaf alive for me. Let's get a consensus here if we can.
Here is a pic of what he gave me:
Here is the AK-47 clone in the shed:
And here is the possible Gold Leaf, in the box of failure®:
The box sits on a folded towel on a plant heat mat that keeps the thermometer reading in the high 70s to low 80s. The lid is now cracked and the RH is around 85%. I have an LED reading light above it now, pretty dim but evenly lit. All he ever did was water the plants, no spraying or heating or environmental control of any kind. Maybe I shouldn't even have it in the box at all since its previous space wasn't kept damp.
Let's find a way for me not to kill this one. I promised him clones of them in June.
I only meant that I lightly misted the grow pucks, be they Rapid Rooters or soako-expando peat pots, when the pseudo-soil seemed to be getting dry. I kept the green bits in a nice humid environment but tried to not get them too wet. And here I am trying to clone in a DIY bubble box despite my previous successes with grow pucks because life is nothing if not an adventure.
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