my first guess would be that you might be keeping them to wet. what is important is the evaporation process from h2o out of cube it pulls root from stem in search of the slowly evaporating h2o. so when they are almost all the way dry dont soak to heavily or the evaporation process will take longer, hence longer time till roots appear. are they on heat pad if not purchase one. different strains do also have different rooting times. your success rate drop is baffling. im still at 100%
Old method
rapid rooters, root riot or similar type plug
10ml
hygrozyme/gallon of water
Soak plugs in ^ solution
cut clones 10-20 at a time
trim leaves
poke hole in plug
dip cut into
Clonex
put into plug
50 plugs per tray, 4-20 trays depending on op
cover tray with dome
place under 4' fluro
open dome 2-3 times a day
mist domes
spray plugs when they got drier, keeping them moist or brownish but not soaked
that worked great for almost 2 years
new location
I tried repeating the same thing and I get clones that go 3 weeks, dont root and just eventually wilt. They look great for the first 10 days
No, I am not anal about being sterile. Well a couple times I did, wiped the counter down with alcohol, scissors in alcohol, etc. Trays,inserts and domes are washed in bleach, then rinsed real good every time.
Some will root, but like I said, they get a couple tap roots and nothing more. I wonder if that is a sign it is too moist and the roots are not looking for water
I have tried different variations, wetter, dryer, etc. This is about my 5th round of cloning these plants. This IS a different strain that was gifted to me, AK47. The donor was a newb grower, just sprouted some seeds and got a decent AK47. I am using it because I just started over and only had seeds from hermies that produced hermies. Anyway, this guy cloned in rockwool cubes and every clone he gave me had nice roots coming out. he had no problems, everything rooted for him. I think he tended to keep everything real wet
I also tried rockwool, soaked it overnight at around 5.5-5.8. that didnt work either
I have 4 trays now with 25ish per tray. One tray has rockwool cubes and I left those uncovered since the cubes were so wet. after 3-4 days they seem to be drying out.
I just dont understand
It is killing me, I have an empty table (2-3 weeks now), waiting on plants, and a 2nd table flushing, scheduled to come down next weekend. I dont have anywhere near what I need. This sucks big time. Non med state, nobody to get clones from, donor of the Ak's quit growing
I am tempted to buy an aero cloner
maybe i should try some bottled water, a few gallons of distilled water? Maybe its chlorine
