cloning blueberry

my blueberry clones seem to be significantly slower rooting then my other strains. i kno it is more dificult to grow but is this normal? 1/2 of them died the other 1/2 look healthy but should have better roots by now in my opinion im is there a trick to taking cuts from blueberry thats different then other strains? they were all givin rooting hormone and kept moist n everything what im wondering is there a trick to it or do i just need to be more patient?

oh and im trying to root them in dirt without any kind of buble cloner thing

No different than other varieties, that I'm aware of. Just follow normal cloning techniques and you should be fine. With my BBxNL cuttings, I get about 98% success in dirt, and about 99.9% in the cheapo aerocloner.

The key to big healthy root masses is scarification, preferably through a node (where a stem meets the main stalk). You'll never get a big healthy plant unless it starts with a big healthy set of roots. Search it if you don't know about it.

the survivers rooted now but they did take longer to root then my other strains and my sucsess rate was nowhere near 90% if i had to guess it was around 50-60% 70 at best. i understand what ur talkin about it took me a second to realize what u meant by scarification lol. i did scar some of them n i didnt others some1 told me u dont need to so i figured id see which had a lower mortality rate for myself but i never marked which were which so lookin at it now i probably lost a bunch of cuts for nothin lol oh well live n learn thanks 4 ur input dude this is like my second time cloning it definatly beats seed in many ways

As a point of intrest, I have cloned blueberry recentlly. (se my Belladonna/Blueberry/Sweet tooth log in grow log section / sorry no link, short on time.

All of my BB clones took, did not loose a one of them. I took my cutting at two stage increments, not 3 or more like I have seen others do. I used a simple clone tray and dome, with little peat starter plugs. I had new growth on all cuttings in about 3 days. They are all doing very well outside, about 3' high, 2 main shoots growing, about 1 month old. I was able to take 140 cuttings from 3 plants, only using bottom 4 shoots. If anything the strain seemed to clone VERY well, and evenlly