LMAO Cloning For Dummies

Kingjoe83 said:
I was thinking about purchasing clonex rooting gel my buddy says to stick it in the gel the branch I cut off? Lower is best since sun is weakest down low anyways right?

Does the branch need to be a certain size?

It's not in flowering it's in veg been planted directly into the dirt in back from a seed. Been there about 5-6 weeks now I'd say

Also thanks for reaching out imhigh...
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Considering that you're in Canada I cannot imagine that your plants will have enough growing time outdoors to finish. So once your clones have rooted I would plant them into pots you can bring in when it gets too cold outside.
 
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Oh, yeah. Since this is a thread about cloning, thought i should post a pic of one of mine in my super high-tech cloning setup. Patent pending. .
 
Kingjoe be very careful taking a clone from a plant outside inside. Especially if you have plants inside. It's very likely that you will bring in critters. I did this many years ago and will never do it again. My rule now is if it's outside it stays outside. The natural order outside can keep a plant somewhat pest free because the natural order will keep everything in balance. But bring in one of those critters and it's very hard to keep the balance. I won't even take a clone from friends anymore because I am afraid they will have critters that I don't want anywhere near my indoor plants. A friend did me a favor one time trying to add to my genitecs and low and behold thrips went through everything I had. That's what finnaly shut me down. This is my first grow since. So please ask yourself if it's worth it to take the chance. If you don't have anything inside then fine but if you do you are running a big risk. IMO. Just wanted to throw that out there.
 
Imhigh85 said:
How much would it be for one of those magic cloners LOL you know I do this the caveman way that one is in their terrarium Style
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Well, I could design one especially for you. Posting & packaging included, um, this could be yours for the low, low price of $99, 99. Also included is a supercool soil recipe book, a meditation dvd (so your clones don't get too stressed) and a 12 month supply of earbuds - only if you order RIGHT NOW.
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Okay I guess I'm going to start making out my Christmas list worthy year so I can have one of those eventually LMAO it would look great in my window
 
Wastedknight said:
Kingjoe be very careful taking a clone from a plant outside inside. Especially if you have plants inside. It's very likely that you will bring in critters. I did this many years ago and will never do it again. My rule now is if it's outside it stays outside. The natural order outside can keep a plant somewhat pest free because the natural order will keep everything in balance. But bring in one of those critters and it's very hard to keep the balance. I won't even take a clone from friends anymore because I am afraid they will have critters that I don't want anywhere near my indoor plants. A friend did me a favor one time trying to add to my genitecs and low and behold thrips went through everything I had. That's what finnaly shut me down. This is my first grow since. So please ask yourself if it's worth it to take the chance. If you don't have anything inside then fine but if you do you are running a big risk. IMO. Just wanted to throw that out there.
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You could probably spray and flush your plant with an H202 mix which should eliminate pesky critters. I would quarantine the plants for a few days away from your indoor plants, give them a few applications of the H202 mix as a flush and spray making sure to hit the undersides of the leaves. If they look good after 2 or 3 days and you see no critters I would feel okay bringing them inside.
 
Imhigh85 said:
Clonex works perfectly just remember take a little out use from that that you took from the container after you are done dispose of anything left over so you don't transfer bacteria back and forth to your gel just cut off the branch dip it into the gel for just a few seconds and then place it into a pellet medium soil or a hydro and you should be good to go

As for cutting the branches down on the bottom this is one of the best places to take them from due to the are struggling of lack of light and going to die off in the end anyways another way to do this is when you start doing your topping you can take the top and clone it as well this will give you a clone and allow your plants to split another thing that I like to do is take my clones when I am lollipopping a plant because it is just going to be thrown in the trash throwing it in a cup of water will root a cutting if you are going to be putting the Clones outside it is best to leave them in water for 24 hours before placing them in any kind of soil or medium to root I don't understand quite yet why this works but seems to speed the process up

I can take a clone as small as to inches and I can take a clone as big as almost a branch 12 to 18 inches is the biggest one I think I have ever done but these are more advanced clones when you get this big
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Wow great read .

I will put them on a cup of water then clonex them then in pro mix hp?
 
Imhigh85 said:
Okay I guess I'm going to start making out my Christmas list worthy year so I can have one of those eventually LMAO it would look great in my window
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For a limited time only, receive 24 fake cherry tomato ornaments - not only will they fool your neighbours as to yor horticultural propensities, it's also a GREAT way to LST your fragile young clones.
 
I just got an article in my email which to sum it up is splitting the stem of a plant a week or 3 days before Harvest time will improve yield and trichome production and potency and they say density to I am not sure about this but here is my question for everybody on here what does not be the same thing as throwing your plan into complete darkness because according to the article all these benefits are called by the stress of the plant trying to build up a defense?

Anybody's thoughts
 
Yes sir in the plant Into Darkness for 72 hours and here's how this works the plant is actually producing the resin at night so by taking and leaving the light off by 3 days it goes into resin production and goes into overload thinking something's wrong the added stress has triggered it 2 calls a last minute rush to finish out maturity is a noticeable difference in doing that I hope this helps
 
You can turn off your light for 2 or 3 days or you can take your plant and put it in a closet for 2 or 3 days because the condition change is not going to matter much considering you are doing the added of the stress and that is the whole intent
 
Imhigh85 said:
I just got an article in my email which to sum it up is splitting the stem of a plant a week or 3 days before Harvest time will improve yield and trichome production and potency and they say density to I am not sure about this but here is my question for everybody on here what does not be the same thing as throwing your plan into complete darkness because according to the article all these benefits are called by the stress of the plant trying to build up a defense?

Anybody's thoughts
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I don't have an opinion on any specific stressor, but I do believe them effective. In my limited experience, the plants respond to everything I do, and most of the responses are positive. They have such a strong will to survive and propagate, and being that we know that trichomes are a major part of the plants defense mechanism, it only makes sense that imposing stress would cause it to react by building up its defenses.

I plan to try several things in this grow. I'll increase the dark period and I'll supercrop several colas like three weeks before harvest.

I'm not sure that the last minute things makes sense. I doubt a plant has time to do much in two days, so I'll increase darkness and decrease temps slowly over last several weeks. If it thinks winter is coming on, I'm confident it will put its last energy into growing sticky trichomes to catch any pollen that might fly by.
 
3 days is actually a lot for a plant specialty three days of continuous stress I know three days before my wedding I was stressed and smoking a lot but that's besides the point I am going to attempt the stem splitting on a plant I am going to split a 4 inch Gap at the base of the stem inserting a pencil to keep the two sides from ever touching this will split the flow of nutrients each side is going to have to start to work harder to increase flow which this should increase the stress worst case scenario three days before Harvest doing this if it kills my plants oh well I know not to do it again but it's got me thinking and now I ended up making a whole another thread now I got to see if people will show up

I like the three days in darkness another one that I like to do along with the three days in darkness is the last couple days before I put it into darkness I will quit giving them water this will make it use what's left around in it and what's left in the pot which will allow my buds to dry quicker in the end I don't have as much water weight

But it makes sense to me it makes sense to you it had to of made sense to the person that wrote the article so it's worth one plant I think
 
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