Here we go, this is the aerocloner cleaned and disassembled, I made this after s1ingblades model, with a couple of alterations we will discuss when we come to em.
This is the Mcarea, under the diy walmart light. My first light, I grew 3 shitty crops under it. It works great for veg, but crappy for flower, it consists of 8 2ft. walmart grow lights, one is burned out...the bulbs are more than the whole light!
Here's the res with ten gallons of tap water in it.
manifold and pump installed.
Airstone in place.
POS left out a photo of the skirt, anyway, the skirt goes over the manifold and into the water. The airhose and cord go through the humidity hole, and connect to the pump, don't plug the fuc-er in yet or you'll have water everywhere! HEHE!
Install ALL of the collars, or pucks if you will, and now you can plug in the pump. So it's running as it normally would, and when you put the cuts in you will notice if a site isn't getting wet. It dosen't take alot of water at the sites, if the puck is wet when you put a cut in it...it's wet enough!
I add 2 teaspoons of hormex rooting hormone, this shit is full of nice things like b-12, iba...ect., go look it up!
Bring the victims in right next to where you're going to be working, it dosen't help to cover their eyes....they already know they're screwed!...LOL
I take 1 puck out and cover the hole with that cup, it keeps water from going everywhere.
Find a nice place to take a cutting and cut it off. I don't trip on cuts...I just cut the fuc-er off, I have found no difference in how you take em, I DO like to try to get a node near the cut, but they will root anywhere, and with that hormone roots come out the top of the pucks sometimes.
Trim it down til it looks something like this, I leave 1 set of leaves...and the meristem of course. We cut the leaves back like that to eliminate stomata that are located on the undersides of the leaves, this is where transpiration happens, and we're trying to minimize that cuz their ability to take up water has just been greatly reduced by the fact that they no longer have a root system.
A picture is missing of me putting a cut in a puck, just imagine me doin it and stickin it back in the hole in the lid.
I mist em with a very dilute solution of dr earth liquid concentrate 3-3-3. I have had healthier plants since I started doing this. The triple 3 has micronutrients in it also.
Put the thermometer and hygrometer in, set the lid on, and FORGET IT, come back in ten days and you have rooted cuts!.
If you go back into my second grow journal there are alot of references to the aerocloner.........how I made it, I will mention that I incorporated a coupla ideas I had into the design. I made the two humidity holes at either end of the lid, this allows moisture to rise into the dome and the humidity runs at around 90%. I also put a hole in the dome, for some circulation.........if I cover that vent hole it will rain in the dome. That's it, feel free to ask any questions.
Good Morning Mcloadie- going to chop another plant today!
