why won't my cuttings root

why won't my cuttings root i am using this as a clone box Technology Garden Tutorial - Building your own homemade aeroponic cloning machine | Technology Garden and i am using this for my directions to take the cuttings http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...-kush-mom.html and i am still managing to get a 0% success rate.... the first time the water was just 75F water with Olivia's cloning gel and the mothers are a white widow and AK47 i took ten all ten died it pretty much just looked like the part under the top rotted and didn't even try to root i let them stay in there for about a month just to see. and then this time i decided to use super thrive in the water with there rooting concentrate for delicate plants and then put the rooting gel on the cuttings and it has been a week or so now and the tops of the plants look better than the bottoms and it looks as is its doing the same thing agen

are you using a humidity dome? clones transpire water and have no way of getting it back (no roots) so you need a super high (above 90% is good) humidity. try that and see what happens.

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IF using the SuperThrive crap (editorial opinion :D), only use ONE DROP per gallon ... no kidding, it IS that concentrated, more can kill your seedlings ... secondly, cut your lights back, in brightness, not hours ... just use a single cfl or something like that ... without bright light, the plant can focus on root-building ... when the roots start appearing, you can bring the lights back up ... this seed-starting log I made, is also beneficial to cloning, in some instances - http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...ml#post1967488 ... I really like the Rapid-Rooter plugs, and my bubbler setup ... they are excellent for cloning :thumbsup: ... happy gardening :smokin:

this is what they look like a week and 2 days after taking the cuttings and putting into the clone box system they get this weird gel on the stem and turn this brown color

is that the top or the bottop of the plug?

If it is the bottom, then I am pretty sure the roots have to be in it.

If it is the top, then I am pretty sure, you have to leave some leafs so that your plant can feed using them.

that was the bottom of the plug and what do you mean the roots have to be in it?? if your cloning then you don't have any roots till they form and that's the problem there not rooting there rotting i guess

You do not have to have the stem in water to root. Bubbles bursting at water surface is enough to wet the air and stem between water level and top of cloner. How much light were they under? The brown stuff is most likely algae.

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Originally Posted by frostedwonder

You do not have to have the stem in water to root. Bubbles bursting at water surface is enough to wet the air and stem between water level and top of cloner. How much light were they under? The brown stuff is most likely algae.

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no there not in the water the tub and watering system was cleaned with bleach and then rinsed with bottled water and that is also the water i was using with the super thrive added in. and they were under two two foot 20w shop florescent tubes... but i am using two 40wat 4 foot ones to grow all my little plants and that works fine and i have used those two 20w ones to grow plants before too though

don't use bleach to clean anything, it leaves a film behind. Use peroxide at 1ml per gallon of water to do your cleaning. then add aquashield. I ran into the same problem you're having and the bleach was the culprit.

keep at it.

Got a picture of your cloner? Is it lightproof? If not at 75+degrees you got algae/funk. what ph is your water? I recommend 5.6-6, others might disagree. Pitch the olivias and get dip and grow and you want your humidity to be 80%. good luck