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wouldn't hurt to keep a cup of possible cuttings. thanks, great ideaThat’s awesome bro. I love it.
On a side note I used to take cuttings and put them in a cup of water. Wait about 10-14 days and bam you got roots. Sometimes you’d just see little white bumps on the stalks. Which is just fine. It’s still ready to go. Stick it in your grow medium and give them a little makeshift humidity dome for a couple days and bam you got yourself a clone. Cheap and easy. However this method doesn’t always work so it’s not fool proof. But it does work most of the time. It’s good to take extra cuttings and change out the water every few days so it doesn’t grow algae.
I'll do it, thanks for the suggestionI have never used a dome and would never consider using one ,there’s one thing you should try is after making your final cut is place them in cup of water in complete darkness for min 12 hrs i usually do 24 hrs ,very seldom loose any clones ,30 plus years
use my well water which is 6.7-6.8 out of tap, and that pic is right after I took clones and put them in the dome... it drys out pretty quick, dont be mistaken by the way that pic looks, it doesnt stay that way for long before it drys out, I mist the dome in the morning before work and then again after work....with the T8's down on it all the way, it drys out in an hour or 2...using FFOF and Clonex in solo cups filled just over halfway with the FFOF, then after a week or so I take the lid off or just open the vents wide open on the top, then when they root add more soil to solo cup, then just wait for them to grow until transplant in 2 gallon pots....done, easy peasy, 100% everytime....(another old trick to get ur solo cups ready... is use a 1/4 inch bit on ur drill and stack em up and drill a hole thru a bunch at a time.... they are cheap at the dollar store and reusable,just good ole common sense)Just curious what your ph is? I used a dome recently and it worked until three days in they were taking forever and so I put them on a mat and they "damped off" almost immediately and I lost the whole bunch. I have had this happen twice already yet and I've been trying different things; I was misting the cocoa blocks at different variables, paper towel bits around the base, using a bit of sheet instead of the plastic cover, but I'm damping off at different times. I'm building a pallet box for this and I'm thinking of laying some sponges with in off-flow in a dome with some hole at either end with some small fans to push/pull air through it (another thread will have the details).
AS a experienced grower I had difficulty cloning too but its not that hard just keep in the parameters and sucess will come your way. the dome is great as cuttings dont have root systems yet and take in moisture through the leaves but you do't want it too moist either! they have vented domes, they are a must have! Dont use too intense a light til they are rooted well! T5's work well but flurs can be used just avoid big azz lights as its a waste of juice! lower nute ppm too I run 400 veg for the first month, ph 6.0. I have 90% sucess with most strains. I use Clonex cloning gel too but keeping everything clean is very important too. Typically I do cuts in the mornings and after a few days flood and drain the solution it keeps it moist enough to gain roots. I spray neem after rooting and open the vents to lower humidity. occasionally I breathe in there to add co2 lol.I would suggest a bigger size of grodan (6 inch) cubes for a clean slate style ( and limit your trays to like 10-15 so theres no planted touching ) if it was me cause humidity takes it away and if you lose it it def can damage the whole process or promote other things. having a balanced clone medium so it never " fully dries or nothing stresess def makes all the example of failure of pass and I don't like throwing away my cutting .
Physan 20 might be a great option for to guratee clean and a good defense ( clean all your trays and misc) . alot of disease start from the roots and begin , might as well protect yourself
its hard to buy that kind of thing without a record of it, maybe i'm being overly paranoid but . . . .
Ooooo, now that's dirty.Being in China you know Aliexpress and Alibaba both have everything you need
Here's what I do.i use jiffy pellets but Rockwool will do just as good .wet them until they'r soaked through then I very gently squeeze em so that they'r evenly wet but not dripping.just moist.i take my cuts (about 3/4 inches) and dipp em in clonex and stick em in the medium.i put them in the prop and I spray the dome with water. don't spray the clones .leave em for exactly 7 days .don't even open the prop.then after 7 days I prop the dome up so there's maybe a quarter inch gap.leave for another 2 days and prop open dome a bit more.usually by this point the roots are usually starting to show,some may take longer.i noticed my roots only start to come once the medium has started to dry a bit.remember roots don't like being submerged in permanently wet medium.they grow better in a moist medium that's got a decent amount of oxygen in.i'll try it out, but i feel like that might be strain dependent. i'm running true og and she's always been really picky when it comes to cloning her.
Have you tried air cloning? Basically you leave the cut on the plant and instead make an incision in the stalk almost to the center of the stalk (don't cut through the center, just expose the center along the cut) put root hormone where you cut and put dirt around the area held in place with gauze or burlap. Water it till roots are coming out of the burlap, then cut and plant.i've tried all the techniques
Exactly what I do jiffy pellets, rapid rooters, just tap water and rooting powder. Take clones from as close to the bottom of the plant as you can. I leave top growth and 1 set of fan leaves that I trim in half. Everything else comes off. Cut stem on a 45 and scrape the outer layer of the stem at the bottom removing just the skin of the stem then dip in rooting powder and place in to jiffy pellets. It's important to make sure you press the soil/peat tight against the cutting leaving no gaps or air pocketsHere's what I do.i use jiffy pellets but Rockwool will do just as good .wet them until they'r soaked through then I very gently squeeze em so that they'r evenly wet but not dripping.just moist.i take my cuts (about 3/4 inches) and dipp em in clonex and stick em in the medium.i put them in the prop and I spray the dome with water. don't spray the clones .leave em for exactly 7 days .don't even open the prop.then after 7 days I prop the dome up so there's maybe a quarter inch gap.leave for another 2 days and prop open dome a bit more.usually by this point the roots are usually starting to show,some may take longer.i noticed my roots only start to come once the medium has started to dry a bit.remember roots don't like being submerged in permanently wet medium.they grow better in a moist medium that's got a decent amount of oxygen in.
Good luck.
What's the penalty if you get caught growing weed?
Aye there's nothing worse than picking up a clone that's been rooting for a week and the cut moves about in the hole meaning it didn't root coz the medium wasn't tight against the cut.Exactly what I do jiffy pellets, rapid rooters, just tap water and rooting powder. Take clones from as close to the bottom of the plant as you can. I leave top growth and 1 set of fan leaves that I trim in half. Everything else comes off. Cut stem on a 45 and scrape the outer layer of the stem at the bottom removing just the skin of the stem then dip in rooting powder and place in to jiffy pellets. It's important to make sure you press the soil/peat tight against the cutting leaving no gaps or air pockets
I,v got some air layered branches going right now.i,v never tried it before but kept meaning to give it a try but I,v finally got round 2 it.theyr only about 4 days in .Have you tried air cloning? Basically you leave the cut on the plant and instead make an incision in the stalk almost to the center of the stalk (don't cut through the center, just expose the center along the cut) put root hormone where you cut and put dirt around the area held in place with gauze or burlap. Water it till roots are coming out of the burlap, then cut and plant.
I run into that white fuzz once in a while I'm having a little boat of problems with cloning right now I don't know why it seems to run in Cycles I'm considering switching up to a bubble cloner I made but have never used if I figure it out I'll let you know good luckWhite fungus has kill my whole dome in less than a week. it's the second time this month . . .
Cloning in dirty clone dome
the medium is old soil and worm casting
27 celsius in the root zone and 23 celsius above the soil
1)I'm going to clean the dome,
2)boil the medium to 100 Celsius
3)run a uvc light in the dome, with ozone
Any thoughts out there with the community?
I run into the white fuzz every now and then I'm dealing with it right now I don't know why but it runs in weird streaks with me either I'll get a whole tray of clones or like now I'm going to throw the other half away that didn't get the white fuzz this weekendWhite fungus has kill my whole dome in less than a week. it's the second time this month . . .
Cloning in dirty clone dome
the medium is old soil and worm casting
27 celsius in the root zone and 23 celsius above the soil
1)I'm going to clean the dome,
2)boil the medium to 100 Celsius
3)run a uvc light in the dome, with ozone
Any thoughts out there with the community?
This is ironic because many of the gardening products I buy here in USA are from China LOLi forgot to tell you guys that i'm in china, so i dont have the luxury of buying products :p .
you think lowering the temp will be better? what temps do you recommend? the air in the dome is 23c, the grow medium is 27c
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