Clones rooted... But not growing?

[Man1fesT]

I took 8 clones from a plant that was in flower, probably a mistake right there but all 8 of them rooted in jiffy pellets in a humidity dome (dairy queen cake container :jointsmile:) under 2 64w CFL's. After the roots were poking through the netting around the jiffy pellet I put them in see through dixie cups, which I think is another mistake but I wanted to monitor root progress. Anyways once they were rooted in dixie cups I put them in my small grow box under 10 100w CFL's and after a week of no progress in their growth but still nice and green I took out 6 of the CFL's because I thought too much light this early may have been stunting the growth. However, now after another week I now have all 8 "clones" under only 2 CFL's and they haven't grown a bit, still just single leaves with roots. The roots of each clone look healthy, I water each day and also mist each clone because they are starting to look like they are drying out but are still green.

Any ideas of whats going on?

[headshake]

did you try to clone fan leaves?

-shake

[Man1fesT]

No, not fan leaves just the regular mid sized ones.

[headshake]

so you cloned just a leaf?

-shake

[Man1fesT]

Lol, yeah I thought that's what you're supposed to do... I'm getting ready to laugh at myself...

[headshake]

Lol, yeah I thought that's what you're supposed to do... I'm getting ready to laugh at myself...

i'm pretty sure that you have to get a growing shoot (something with some growth hormone). i took fan leaves once and they rooted but never grew at all, after a two months or so.


-shake

[irydyum]

Im pretty sure you are right shake (a touch of sarcasm intended). It must be a limb of the plant, multiple leaf sites attached to one main "stem". Preferably with one or 2 nodes exposed below the surface.

Do you have any pics of the rooted fan leaf by chance? I have never tried to do it, but the physiology of the plant seems like it wouldn't let a petiole develop roots.