Ok where to start...
Cloning methods... I have a hortipot aero 24 site machine and also use a coco pellet in a tray with Olivia's cloning gel. For both scenarios I use
Clonex. As you know a lot of factors come into play... strain, plant health, temp, humidity, light, etc. I just finished testing coco vs aero. Same strain, same plant, same results lol! The coco pellets I'm talking about are like jiffy pellets. Water them with the
Clonex solution. They blow up. Poke a hole through the top to the appropriate depth, cut and dip the clone, in it goes. Let the pellet partially dry and then saturate the thing with more
Clonex solution. Repeat until roots explode out the sides. Now you get to make a decision to put the thing into coco or dirt. If I wasn't into flowering outside I'd go with coco for a lot of reasons. But dirt is the life for me lol! You already know about aero cloning.
Momma plant(s). Kills me to watch you buy clones. Man please get 1 pot any size, 1 more clone, decent
promix, and I swear to God I will answer every question and guide you through how to do this. It's a perpetual organic clone machine. I can easily take 12 clones right now and make twice that next month in a 9 inch x 6 inch footprint that thrives under florous with a quart of stuff every other day. Nutes are measured by the fractional teaspoon. Cheeeeeap. :) And they last for years.
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That's enough for now. But man hydro? You're biting off a lot. My mentor didn't let me touch hydro until after like 3 years in the dirt. Oh shut up. There wasn't an internet back then and the fucking encyclopedia didn't come with grow instructions. We had high times mag and Marc Emery. So when the owner of a hydro shop that gets published in high times and could pick up the phone get Emery in the line and order up the moon, kinda got my attention when he took my dumb ass endless questioning about peppers and tomatoes self under his wing? Yep in awe. His wife was one of the coolest hippie chicks besides my wife that I've ever met. Anyway, hope this gives you more to chew on. I'll let the water guys speak to today's techniques. The easiest hydro imo is a flood and drain bucket system. BSG and I are doing angrownthread together and he's got an kick ass system you should check out. 3rd grow ever and he's throwing out frost eye candy from under HPS/MH in parabolics lol!!!