jenna haze
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is it just one strain your trying to root - or have you not had success with diff cuts and diff methods?
As in potting soil? Or as in seedling starter mix?Whats Wrong With Soil?
Hhmm... well, I know I'm different, but didn't realize I'm that different. When I root cuts in soil or media I really prefer to use a rooting hormone of some sort. Otherwise I find myself growing old before they root. I also find that I get much better rooting rates when I use fluoros and put the new cuts off to the sides of the fluoros or allow them to be shaded by mother plants.Here's what I see wrong with your methods:
1. Wrong choice of growing medium. You should use what's called seedling starter mix. It generally consists of peat moss, perlite, and vermiculite. I make my own, because it's cheaper and just as good. I've found a 50/50 mix of just peat moss/perlite is as good as anything. Vermiculite is just cheap filler IMO, it doesn't add anything needed to the mix, so I don't use it. Plus it's not the safest stuff to work with.
2. Don't fuss about the chlorine in the water.
3. Don't use peat pellets. God I fuckin' hate those things! Just poke a hole in the middle of the potted+wetted medium and put the clone in it, close the hole, water/feed, cover, repeat process with next clone(if necessary).
4. Don't fuss about when the mother plant had nutes. Just make sure she wasn't recently watered(like that day).
5. Shit! Rooting powders! There's 95% percent of the problem right there. Dip'N Grow is the bestest, and the cheapest! I've NEVER seen a rooting powder actually ROOT anything. More like ROT! Which is what they should be called, rotting powders.
6. And this one is more important than some tend to realize, sufficient quantity AND quality of light. Don't mess around here. Flourescent lighting is perfect. Just make sure it's not too bright, and has a wide spectrum and/or color temp. around 5000K-6000K(close to natural sunlight/daylight). I like OTT lights best. But presently I use two bulb colors(6500K and 2700K)in the same fixture to get a wide spectrum effect that works just as good.
7. I agree, don't spray them.
Good article on cloning.
here is my cloning method
Somehow they all keep dying I have not been able to get even 1 clone to root:mad0233:
1. Set up equipment.
a. Fill 2X pots with miracle grow moisture control (all time released nuts capsules sifted out.) and water with clean water left to stand for 24 hrs to rid chlorine then make a small hole to insert peat puck.
b. Soak 2X Peat Pucks in clean container with clean water that has been left to stand for 24 hrs to rid chlorine.
c. Using 2 clean stainless steel cups fill one with same fresh water that was left to stand for 24 hrs. The other with a small amount of rooting powder.
d. Sterilize 1X new razorblade with 99% alcohol then rinse with tap until clean of alcohol.
2. Ensure mother plant has not had nuts in 5 days(even tried with nuts, was told by a friend that less nuts in plant means less to live on so they'll root faster out of necessity) and has been freshly watered 3-5 hrs prior to cutting.
3. Take cutting at 45* angle then immediately submerge into water then into powder.
4. Give it a tap to release excess powder and insert into peat puck then carefully pinch peat puck to hold cutting
5. Insert into hole in soil fill around puck then mist cutting and lid then cover your plant with the dome.
6. They sit on a heating pad set to 75* F and are under 2X CFL 20 watt I believe
I use rooting hormones too. But mine get more light than that. I keep them ~3-4" below 2 different colored 48" 40W fluorescent tubes(6500°K + 2700°K) in a standard shoplight fixture. Works great! And so does...Hhmm... well, I know I'm different, but didn't realize I'm that different. When I root cuts in soil or media I really prefer to use a rooting hormone of some sort. Otherwise I find myself growing old before they root. I also find that I get much better rooting rates when I use fluoros and put the new cuts off to the sides of the fluoros or allow them to be shaded by mother plants.
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