I am a fairly experienced grower and have been cloning for years, fine-tuning my technique to get around 95% success rate.
I have been an organic grower for some time now and was fairly happy with bottled organics but have made the switch to dry amendments. I used to use cloning gel and a light nutrient schedule from the bottle but want to eliminate that as well.

My last couple rounds of cloning with gel but without nutrients had poor results, like 50% success rate and half the clones that survived were in terrible condition.

My last round of clones were taken just before the donors went into the flower room and also had a low success rate and some of them took just over two weeks to throw roots. As a result, I was not able to keep clones of many of my flowering plants.

I should point out that this is a mixed grow from seed, now just over four weeks in bloom. I have found three plants that I would really, really like to keep around based on their terps and structure but don’t have clones of them.

So, I built myself a bubble cloner with the intention of only using water, no gels, no nutes. However, since I’m four weeks plus into flower I expect the clones to take a long time to root, if at all. So if I see a clone about to die but has roots, I think I will add some liquid organic nutes just to save its life.



They just went in to the machine late last night.
It’s my first time using this machine so it’s not really fair to judge its overall effectiveness if these flowering clones don’t survive, but I think it will still be interesting to see the results if they do survive.
I did notice a bit of a dead spot in one corner of the reservoir, but I couldn’t do much about it. I placed a clone directly above it just to test, and that clone seems to have wilted already.
I just came up with a solution to correct that problem while writing this, but it’s gonna be too late for that cutting.



Hopefully there won’t be frequent updates because that would mean they’re dropping like flies. I don’t expect roots to appear for some time, and that’s when I really want to post again.
That said, I’m happy to reply to anyone in the meantime.

Incidentally, the keepers are an old (10 years +) Durban Poison from Dutch Passion that has purple hues and reeks of lemon cleaner.
There’s also a Big D Energy freebie from Ethos that stinks of orange gas and has huge branches, hopefully preparing for huge buds.
Finally, there’s a Pink Kush from Reeferman with a very strong fruity candy funk smell.