Rotted/Damped off Clone Failure

[Kohuhu]

Hi all.

So I took a lot of cuttings for clones. Prepared them, rooting hormone, etc.

Approx two days later was speaking to a guy who showed me how he "scarfed" them with a razor blade to get a better rooting response.

I went home and decided because the cuttings were still fresh it wouldn't hurt for me to pull them out of the jiffy and scarf them as I was shown, re-dip them in hormone and place them back in the jiffy.

They all "damped" off and rotted/went slimey.

Obviously I shouldn't have done what I did but I don't understand what happened.

Can someone explain?

 

[Pushrod Monkey]

WTF is scarfing?

 

[GNick55]

well you probably shouldn’t of pulled them out firstly,. and scrapping means very very lightly scrap here and there around where the rooting powder/gel will be applied..
you probably were too rough..

 

[Gavin]

Your medium is to wet try not to have ur jiffy saturated

 

[growsince79]

Hi all.

So I took a lot of cuttings for clones. Prepared them, rooting hormone, etc.

Approx two days later was speaking to a guy who showed me how he "scarfed" them with a razor blade to get a better rooting response.

I went home and decided because the cuttings were still fresh it wouldn't hurt for me to pull them out of the jiffy and scarf them as I was shown, re-dip them in hormone and place them back in the jiffy.

They all "damped" off and rotted/went slimey.

Obviously I shouldn't have done what I did but I don't understand what happened.

Can someone explain?

They were too wet. Next time, soak the jiffy pot in warm tap water and squeeze out the excess like you would a sponge.