Ok farmers here's what I have found out. My process for the most part was fine and dandy. The real culprit was the health of my mothers. Most of my garden was reading 1800-2000+ppm. I reuse my
promix which adds to the problem. Since monitoring my runoff. My plants are growing faster and look healthier.
The cuts I took in the post above died, the donor plants in flower needed to be flushed. Also after being stressed by high salts, the old growth doesn't appear to clone well duh. After taking this in to consideration I try somethings different on my next round of cuttings.
I took about 80 or so off a friend's outdoor plants he just threw out for a couple days. These were done with cubes and domes my traditional way.
Next I took from a spot I've been flushing for over a week another 40 or so. They need to be repotted but otherwise plenty of new growth on the tops for nice cuts.
Lastly I took 70ish cuts from tops of my best plants at my main spot in cubes and also in coco as suggested by several members. I only took awesome looking top growth. I used roots compressed blocks expanded with ro. Runoff was <100ppm. I mixed 30% perlite and precharged with 300ppm flower, iba, and that's it I think.
All were placed in my clone room away from gardens where I can pay good attention to them. Several have died but I'm not keeping track of ratios, anything over 50% would make me happy at this point. I give them all 1-4hours per day of no dome airing out. I put it back on if I see Alot of wilting but if they like it then I leave them open long as I'm there. I turned off the heat mats this time. No spraying, only dip in ro water when dry till they root. Never watered coco cuts after initial soak.
Outcome: the outdoor cuts are rooting right now just planted the first 5 at 14 days. Several more look to root any day.
The away spot I took several out today due to rot. Just guessing the needed more New growth or repot before cutting.
My last set looks good. It's been over a week for all of them several have swollen stems and look to root real soon.
I feel I have figured this out. I have my garden journal else where with the start dates and more notes. Keep y'all posted with pics as everything roots. The ones I planted all had fuzzy clumps of 5-10 points shooting out real nice. Feels good to figure Shit out. Feel dumb for the reason tho. Lost alot of $ because of this. I will always have enought cuts now constantly taking them from now on Lmao. If coco cuts root good they will be my side by side testers. coco seems alot easier to leach I want to make the switch :). Like the idea of not buying those cubes anymore, one less transplant step for me and less work(no dipping till they grow).
