Is it necessary to evaporate plant water?

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

What are you cloning in?
An aero, bubble, or other hydro style cloner should be set to a pH for hydro (5.8 should work fine).
Rapidrooters come pre-moistened and you will just be misting the underside of the humidity dome with tap water, and misting the clones if they appear wilty. If the plugs appear a bit dry, tap water is fine for them. I LOVE those things, love love love, can't say it enough. *SMOOCHES* for whoever invented them. Seriously.

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ya man i got some dutch master rooting hormone and a rapid rooter with vents on the top. it has 50 spots for cuttings. why do you cut at a 45 degree angle? :rastasmoke:

I should break the news. Chlorine is very rarely used any more. Now most places(even the boons of NH) use chloramine. Chloramine is chlorine fused to ammonia(NH2Cl). Thats so it wont evaporate(and stop protecting the water) like it used too.
I hear that if you use an aeration stone in the water its supposed to evaporate chloramine, but I don't see how. I just use "Prime" by SeaChem. it uses "complex hydro-sulfate salts" and I've E-mailed the company about the dangers of that to my "aquarium plants", They responded with saying: "this is a very common question, The answer is only if you use more than the required dose."

You cut at a 45 degree angle to expose more of the soft tissue where there are undifferentiated cells that can easily be coaxed into roots.
When you put your clones under the dome, don't crowd them. They should not be clumped too closely together. They need plenty of space and air flow. Not like, put a fan on them, but like, when you open the dome twice a day, not to trap stale air among the plants.

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

You cut at a 45 degree angle to expose more of the soft tissue where there are undifferentiated cells that can easily be coaxed into roots.
When you put your clones under the dome, don't crowd them. They should not be clumped too closely together. They need plenty of space and air flow. Not like, put a fan on them, but like, when you open the dome twice a day, not to trap stale air among the plants.

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yeha i got the rapid rooter so its all good :rastasmoke: