Storing Clones?

Anyone store clones in the fridge in a zip lock? If so, what steps do you take?
Adieu

never heard of this bear, but i'd love to know your cloning techniques, if you care to share.

love, brooke

Yea, Bear, how do YOU clone, sir?! How indeedy? :D

:dance:


Oh, and I've never heard of the refridge clone-storing technique...sounds improbable, but not impossible. Let me know how it works out. :thumbsup:


TGF

My cloning tech, hmm. Well, I use CloneX gel, sharp clean snippers and anti wilt spray. My last round I used Rapid ruders, they are an organic clone starter plug that are made out of composted bark and pre soaked to proper PH levels. I wait until the branch I want to take clones from has a couple of inter nodes on the branch and then get close to the tip and snip usually right above an internodes so that once I make the cut that plant wil grow back a few new shoots to take clones from the next round. As soon as I make that cut I place the clone in a dish of water so that no air gets into the cut creating an air bolas that can stop the clone from rooting by stopping nute uptake or water uptake. Then from the water I dip the clone into some antiwilt solution, I don't think that is necessary, but since I have it around I use it, it slows some of the wilting that takes place allot of time after cloning. I then put the clone back into the dish of water and shave some of the skin back where I took the cutting to expose a little more of the root to the medium I will be using to get more uptake, then I dip it into the CloneX and into the rapid ruder. From there I put them in a tray with a dome and a heating pad under the trey, clones seem to take to heat in my exp. Instead of ruders you can use RW cubes or just go right into a soil/perlite mix. I have a 15 sight bubble cloner that I may mess around with this next go round.
Hope this helps some.
On one hand cutting can be a pain in the rear when you firststart , but once you get the hang of it, it is not much trouble. For instance, I was trimming my plants when they were in the first week of flower, and this girl who was bushing up reel nice was one that I didn't take a clone from, and I didn't have all of my cloning things around so I just put some super thrive mixt with water that I keep in a misting bottle and pored it into a cup and snipped a cutting off of the girl and quickly put it root down in the cup. I put it in my computer cab and kind of forgot about it for a week and when I checked on it it was like I had just cut it. I threw it in a soil, perlite mix and moisend the soil a little and it looked like it was going to die a day later, so I pulled it out of the dirt and put a puddle of Super Thrive and water in the hole and misted a zip lock bag and taped it around the little pot and it perked up the next day and is rooted now. I didn't use any clonex, anti wilt spray, and it did just fine.
Adieu
Love you's as well

There is a way to store clones in the fridg, I am just having a hard time catching someone who can shoot me the step by step. Over on IC mag this fellow stored some clones in the fridge for 7 weeks, and others had done it to. Maybe I will just have to experiment a little, or maybe I will just sit some in a glass for a couple weeks and see how they do with changing the water every few days.
My mother cab is getting too crowded and I need to take some clones. I had to give away a Big Bud x Skunk 1 today because I didn't have the room, but at least the guy gave me some Purple Lion clones from Altamet seeds. It was kind of funny, his clones are 2 weeks and they have about 4 leaves and are about 8 inches tall, mine are about 9 inches tall with about 30 leaves and internodes already. My wife thought something was wrong when he left because of the differance, but I told her some folks just do it a little different. I may experiment and cut about 3 inches off of the clones he gave me and reroot them because they are so stretched that it just aint funny, and I want to put them in with some cuttings that I will take next week. Adieu

high!
i have an article here about storing clones in a fridge,,,in fact rooting clones in a fridge!
this is not an easy task, first everything is done micro!, the cuttings are little pieces of stem of leaf, no more than 2 inches long, this is called micro cloning, the next difficult part will be getting hold of the gel used which is calledbasal medium or murashige and skoog [MS],
having presumed you are now aremed with this and some sterile glass tubes you may begin.
firstly, the addvantages,,
storing genetics,
clearing of deseaseand or pests,
fungus and other micro organisms,
and rejuvination of plants,!
the method is very presise, everything has to be very sterile, once the cutting have been taken they too must be sterilised by means of soaking in a solution with 5 ml bleech to 1 litre of water,then washed three times with sterire distilled water,
then they are ready for planting in the glass test tubes in the gel!,once they are tin the tubes, seal the top with alluminium foil, not air tight!,
and place in the fridge,,,,now this is more dificult!,,, the fridge needs to have light!, 18 hrs of course no more than 36 watd cfl or tubes per meter square!, keep the fridge at 12 to 14 degrees centigrade, after 14 days the new micro leaves will apear and after 30 days roots will have formed, once this has hapened the clones can be kept like this forseveral months, as they grow very slowly indeed, when you want to use the clones, remove from the test tube and plant straight into your grow medium,
all of the above process is done in a perfectly sterile laboratory conditions,,
the amount of importance to sterility is paramount!wear surgical gloves! stereilise knive after evry cut! by dipping in alchohol 70% from chemist and burnig off! boil the test tubes in pressure cooker with lid on untill boiling andallow to cool with the lid on!for 24 hrs!, wash everything with alcohol before you start.

the info for this thread was taken from soft secrets issue number two 2006, in spanish and inerperated into english by me!
i think i have covered all the necesarry info, if not try checking out soft
sectrets on line.
it is a free newspaper from holland available threwout europe!

good luck.
welcome to the world of endless possibilities,,,,hydroponics!

mistake the size of the nicro clones is between 3 and five millimeters
1/4 inch

I have herd of that technical way of storing for long term on a micro scale, but I don't have the time or the energy to do all of that, but I will post any new information on my end.
Thanks for the input, and I am going to look up that Soft Secrets for a read on that process.
Adieu

your welcome

OK, found a little info on what I want to try. Figured I would share
Timing clones
by Ed Rosenthal
There are several ways of slowing down the growth of clones. The first is to delay planting. You can store the cuttings in the vegetable chiller section
of a refrigerator in a plastic bag, the way you’d store lettuce for about two weeks or longer. This will weaken the clones a little and they will have
a lower strike ratio. However, it may be a worthwhile trade-off. After the clones are cut they can be left unpruned or trimmed for planting. Then dip them
in a 1% hydrogen peroxide solution to sterilize them to prevent infection. A 1% solution is made by diluting one part drugstore hydrogen peroxide to two
parts water that has been boiled and cooled. When you are ready to plant just take the clones out of the bag.

The cutting state is perilous for plants so a good environment that promotes active growth minimizes risks. Once the cuttings have formed roots and are
growing new leaves, their metabolism can be slowed down. There are a number of ways to do this. Plant metabolism and light requirements slow down in a
cool environment. At 45-50°F (8-10°C) the plants remain in a nearly suspended state. They require only 150 watts of fluorescent per square meter (15 watts
psf) and very dilute fertilizer. When you are ready to jump start them, place them in a warmer environment with brighter light and more fertilizer. They
will quickly respond to the change in the environment.

Even if you can’t cool the clones to 50°F (10°C), you can decrease the intensity of the light and provide diluted water-nutrient mix. The growth rate will
slow.