90% success rate with this cloning method

Berniemac · May 11, 2025

Clones were transplanted from their original starter tray, they were under the dome for 2 weeks. Looking healthy for the most part. Only a few didn’t root too well so I say 90% success rate even though none have yet to die. I definitely like this technique more, I saw the best success from my own experience by immediately cutting, adding root hormone, and sticking into moist medium, dome on for 10 days misting once a day, then slowly starting to vent and expose to natural environment, after 2 weeks since cut, they should be good to go. I’d like to see what y’all’s cloning set up looks like ! Maybe I can get some better ideas !

brendog · May 11, 2025

I do a cap of 3% peroxide in a tall glass of water, take the cutting and immediately get the stem in the water, typical clone cut 45° with a node, looks like a harpoon, dip n grow for at least 10 seconds and plug into straight coco that way they drink at their own pace, just clonex in the medium but I've seen up to 10 products in the clone mix, just keep it simple ph 5.8

HerbalEdu · May 12, 2025

cutting diped in honey directly in soil in small cup, and watered with aloe vera, no dome or misting i just keep the medium slightly overwatered the first week so the cutting can easily get water from the stem buried in the soil (kinda like the glass of water method) until it form some roots

15 days and usually i get small cups full of roots ready for transplant to bigger pots

(honey + biobizz acti vera for watering give me as much roots as the use of clonex gel in 15 days)

Galgrows · May 12, 2025

Here's a few cuts i did. Used water cup when i first cut it off to place it in so it stays wet then dip in clonex gel, placed into a light fluffy seedling mix and used a old cake container tall enough for the cloner. Spary the lid inside an the clones set it under my little t5 lamp 24hrs for 10days and remove the dome couple times a day for 1/2 hr. I do have failure to thrive on some but mostly all will eventually grow. Just takes time and practice, practice.

Berniemac · May 12, 2025

brendog said:
I do a cap of 3% peroxide in a tall glass of water, take the cutting and immediately get the stem in the water, typical clone cut 45° with a node, looks like a harpoon, dip n grow for at least 10 seconds and plug into straight coco that way they drink at their own pace, just clonex in the medium but I've seen up to 10 products in the clone mix, just keep it simple ph 5.8

Mmmm good choice with the peroxide I assume to kill off any bacteria if any , or any potential of. And I’ve heard great things about cloneX, I shall try that soon. Thanks

Berniemac · May 12, 2025

HerbalEdu said:
cutting diped in honey directly in soil in small cup, and watered with aloe vera, no dome or misting i just keep the medium slightly overwatered the first week so the cutting can easily get water from the stem buried in the soil (kinda like the glass of water method) until it form some roots

15 days and usually i get small cups full of roots ready for transplant to bigger pots

(honey + biobizz acti vera for watering give me as much roots as the use of clonex gel in 15 days)

Mannnnn I’ve been wanting to try honey! I’ve heard its a great root stimulant and I’ve seen loads of videos of people using honey for other plant propagation, I’m sure it works great for cannabis too! You just sold me on doing it! And when you say water with aloe Vera, you mean like some aloe vera blended with some water? Or…?. lol
Ima try this out for sure! Preciate it

Berniemac · May 12, 2025

Galgrows said:
Here's a few cuts i did. Used water cup when i first cut it off to place it in so it stays wet then dip in clonex gel, placed into a light fluffy seedling mix and used a old cake container tall enough for the cloner. Spary the lid inside a the clones set it under my little t5 lamp 24hrs for 10days and remove the dome couple times a day for 1/2 hr. I do have failure to thrive on some but mostly all will eventually grow. Just takes time and practice, practice.

Looking like a success if they are growing! Definitely gonna add some cloneX to my arsenal ! Preciate it!
Yeah it seems like they really enjoy light during this time!

LoveGrowingIt · May 12, 2025

Clonex is banned in my state because it's a carcinogen.

I use soil plugs and a humidity dome. I use an 18/6 light schedule. The dome has a heater and lights with a controller. I also use a temperature and humidity sensor. I've had a 100% rooting rate using the humidity dome, but I don't do a lot of cloning. I mostly use the humidity dome for starting seeds.

ATLien415 · May 12, 2025

Where is Clonex banned, and where for carcinogenic ingredients? Don't understand the chemistry of that unless you had concentrated Clonex and a nice high power UV light and were messing around/not cloning plants. The only problem on the state level would be the hormones in Clonex. Federally in the US, Clonex is good to go to all states right now.

If you want to make cloning a mundane and trivial part of your grow room, just stop with the domes and mediums and weird gels. Get a basic, basic rooting hormone without random add-ins and an aeroponic cloner. Aeroponic cloners are scientifically the better way to do clones. The hardest part of cloning is keeping the right humidity in the soil and the air, or the right deltas in the medium and the air. Domes are a poor attempt to rectify this. An aerocloner will keep the correct delta ion the medium beneath 'ground-level' and will keep the foliage proper. The end result is a true 100% success rate on clones, 100% success on revegging, and even growth while cloning or revegging.

Berniemac · May 28, 2025

ATLien415 said:
Where is Clonex banned, and where for carcinogenic ingredients? Don't understand the chemistry of that unless you had concentrated Clonex and a nice high power UV light and were messing around/not cloning plants. The only problem on the state level would be the hormones in Clonex. Federally in the US, Clonex is good to go to all states right now.

If you want to make cloning a mundane and trivial part of your grow room, just stop with the domes and mediums and weird gels. Get a basic, basic rooting hormone without random add-ins and an aeroponic cloner. Aeroponic cloners are scientifically the better way to do clones. The hardest part of cloning is keeping the right humidity in the soil and the air, or the right deltas in the medium and the air. Domes are a poor attempt to rectify this. An aerocloner will keep the correct delta ion the medium beneath 'ground-level' and will keep the foliage proper. The end result is a true 100% success rate on clones, 100% success on revegging, and even growth while cloning or revegging.

Good to know, I have put thought into better cloning techniques I feel like I will begin to try rooting in honey, I hear that works well. But thank you for the advice, I’ll look into better alternatives, I bought a take root rooting one years ago and legit barely use it, so one little bottle is still pretty much full, it’s what I had on hand, it did the job

Berniemac · May 28, 2025

#Progress

Berniemac · May 28, 2025

Clones are looking super healthy 4 and half weeks since cut. New growth coming in strong! And I also topped about a week ago…. Haha cause I can and they can

Berniemac · Jun 12, 2025

As of Monday , getting nice dense bushy outgrowth ! Topping at early stages helps a lot IMO…
Feed once every 5 days ish and cycle between a plain water feed and a nutrient feed. Been working week for the past few years! Really dialed in the consistency of my plants !

mancorn · Jun 12, 2025

Berniemac said:
I’d like to see what y’all’s cloning set up looks like ! Maybe I can get some better ideas !

Yours are looking good! Not sure you’ll get any ideas from me - as my setup isn’t real elaborate.

Some woody cuts into the dome (placed in a cement mixing tray as dome was dripping so bad), spaced by terracotta frogs over a seed mat. The room has a lot of natural light and did a few earlier cuts without any light, but it took 2 weeks. This time I added a 60W incandescent desk lamp (which added some heat). Just plain tap water in the tray with no misting. Stayed 80 degrees/90 rH.

Day 11 today and it’s outside into overcast, 56 degrees. (Come on Mr Sun!)

Galgrows · Jun 12, 2025

mancorn said:
Yours are looking good! Not sure you’ll get any ideas from me - as my setup isn’t real elaborate.

Some woody cuts into the dome (placed in a cement mixing tray as dome was dripping so bad), spaced by terracotta frogs over a seed mat. The room has a lot of natural light and did a few earlier cuts without any light, but it took 2 weeks. This time I added a 60W incandescent desk lamp (which added some heat). Just plain tap water in the tray with no misting. Stayed 80 degrees/90 rH.

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Day 11 today and it’s outside into overcast, 56 degrees. (Come on Mr Sun!)

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The plants look great considering the air temps outdoors. < you get that sunshine and higher temps.

Berniemac · Jun 13, 2025

mancorn said:
Yours are looking good! Not sure you’ll get any ideas from me - as my setup isn’t real elaborate.

Some woody cuts into the dome (placed in a cement mixing tray as dome was dripping so bad), spaced by terracotta frogs over a seed mat. The room has a lot of natural light and did a few earlier cuts without any light, but it took 2 weeks. This time I added a 60W incandescent desk lamp (which added some heat). Just plain tap water in the tray with no misting. Stayed 80 degrees/90 rH.

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Day 11 today and it’s outside into overcast, 56 degrees. (Come on Mr Sun!)

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always something to learn if you’re willing lol
That’s interesting 2 weeks no direct source light , and the root structure looks nice! I guess the heat pad does work along with the dome!
I know for me I noticed humidity plays a big part in how the clones develop, a very moist humid environment is great!
Plants look healthy, add some eggshell with aloe Vera into your plants and they’ll grow big and lush

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