Roots in less than 7 days and you don't need a dome for clone machines!
Domes are old school and you don't need them for these for the machines. I have a few of these machines and at first it was a huge learning curve and I am no longer running into these issues.
A few things to consider when using the machines and I promise you will get the best roots ever.
Temperature of the room and the temp of the water. keep your room at around 75 to 80 degrees with a humidifier on at 55% you can keep it next to the clones. Keep your water cool. Instructions are below.
CUTTINGS - after getting your cuts make sure to scrape the bottom outer layer of stem about 1 - 2 inches of the stem thats going into the res. The cuttings will be able to consume the food through this and the roots will grow strong from that area. Use
Clonex rooting gel or your preferred cloning gel.
FEED the water so the clones stay healthy and continue to grow while growing roots - ez cloner 7 gallon 64 site machine gets (
Athena but you can use your preferred feed) 10ml
CaMG, 50ml Grow A, 50ml Grow B Make sure you stay between 300 to 400 ppm max. Add 6 tbspn of
Azos Root Booster. and thats it.
PYTHIUM and SLIME - The worst thing ever!!!!! If you see it add
Hydrogen peroxide to your res and pray!!! Keeping your water temps is tough but you have 2 options to growing healthy clones.
1. Keep your pumps on timers you can do the 3 minutes on 5 minutes off (this will delay the root growth by 2 days) or fill up a couple of bottles with water and freeze them, then throw the bottles into the res. to cool off the water, do that 2 times a day. Refresh the res every 4 to 5 days meaning change the water in the res and add the feed again.
2. Don't add the pumps to a timer and add Clear Res solution that is made by the ez cloner company or make your own solution with similar ingredients. Check the water and change it if necessary, I change the water anyway because I am OCD.
Thats all folks, Stay green and pass that!!!!