p.s. If you are keeping (or making) a mother plant, I find they are easier to keep in soil.
It's a weird phenomenon, growing in hydro, in my opinion, is easier. But keeping mother plants in hydro, is too much work. You gotta make sure your solutions are good all the time, you're constantly mixing batches of solution. Air stones fail, air pumps fail.
With mother plants, you are going to be paying less attention to them. At least everyone I have spoken to says that they just naturally fall second in line.
& it's a lot easier to somewhat neglect a plant when it's in soil. It's easier to grow a killer plant in hydro in my opinion. But these plants (mothers) are not a race, they are a marathon. Less fail points in soil over a long period of time.
I find hydro easier because I'm only doing 4-5 plants. I'm on it, every day. If I had another 10-20 plants to keep up with for an indefinite amount of time, I'd put them in soil. They aren't being "grown" they are being "kept." For that purpose, I think soil is easier.
By the way, for monster crops, the two clones you took that are in that little tupperware cloner that are on the top left, & bottom right...that's how you want to take them. The bottom left will work too but not as crazy. The top right, I don't see a growth point on it?
If I'm right about the top right one, don't worry about it. I've seen people with more experience than you, on more than one occasion, do an entire batch of clones, that were just fan leaves (like they cut the fan leaves off, & tried to root them). I can't tell what the clone is the pic is hard to see. So ignore me if I'm wrong.
But for monster cropping, clones like the top left & bottom right - those are perfect.
** Edit - Nm, I zoomed in & it looks like one growth point per clone. That's how you do regular clones. Monster crops you want to take something more like this
if you can.
Yours will work perfectly too, but one like this, when it reverts, well, you don't need another mother for a long time. It's hard to see, but there are several growth points on this.
ALL of those tips, once reverted, go crazy.
But it looks like you cloned them right. When shooting for monsters in the future try to find something that has a few growth points on it. You will have so many clones from that plant you won't know what to do with it.
& FYI, the damage to those leaves is from a cricket. So now you know what that looks like. They like to chew off the ends of the leaves. Old growth, new growth, they don't seem to care. Those little sobs will do a number on the leaves, & they are very hard to find/kill. I hate those little bastards. My cat can smell a mouse a mile away. We never have mice "living" in the house, because as soon as they get in, my cat takes em out. It's pretty amazing actually. This time of year, they all try to come in out of the cold. She spends half her day sitting & watching where they get in & just picks them off one by one.
I wish I could teach her to hunt crickets. She sees them, just doesn't care to kill them.
