This sounds like a great idea! I was wondering how people change
the water in their DWC setup or a bubbler cloner?
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This sounds like a great idea! I was wondering how people change
the water in their DWC setup or a bubbler cloner?
wht is the ph of the water. still 5.8-6.2?
honestly italian, i don't know what the ph is, i have no meter to check it.
and maxrun, if the how of it is really what you want to know,
the easiest way is to have an extra bin to put the plant filled
lid from one bin onto the extra bin while you then empty and clean
the original bin. then just put the plant filled lid back on the
original bin.
if your question is more toward how often, i'd say every 2 weeks
to every 10 days.
im just not sure on what size i should trim from the plant for my clone. the ones in your pics look pretty big. i was trying to stay on the small side but the stems would barely touch the water.
Hey italian,
I've used this method with small cuttings and it works great, i'd say mine were no bigger than 3". As for them barely touching the water, that's just what you want, i have my stems around 1/4" from the water. i think, correct me if i'm wrong bozo, but i think bozo has his stems a little further away from the water than that, (the airstone makes the water spit up and onto the stem) so you shouldn't have any problems with them not being big enough, obviously you don't want to be taking crappy little 1" cuts, but my crappy little 2.5" cuts rooted just fine ;)
Good luck!
e2a - Check out the first few pages of bozo's imaginary garden, it'll give you more of an idea how it works.
thanks hudson, and you're right, your cuttings can be prettyQuote:
Originally Posted by hudson88
darn small, as long as the bubbling water splash's the
stems, within about a week, you get roots. and, you can
make some very small cuts take root in a bubble cloner.
when you put your cuts in the cloner, some will be close to
the water and some will be barely sticking below the lid, all you really
need to worry about is that the exposed stem is getting wet.
anyway, there are many different ways to root clones. i chose
this way because of the speed with which the cuts take root and
also the simplicity of the design. it has been working for me very
well so far so i don't think i'll be changing any time soon.
so good luck to you all, i hope this works as well for you as
it has for me.
Did you dip those cuttings into a clone gel of some sort before you stuck them into the pipe insulation and fire that bad boy up?
Hope you don't mind me answering this one for you bozo, tell me to feck off if i'm pushing in on your thread lolQuote:
Originally Posted by SimonSaysSmoke
I asked bozo if he uses a rooting gel/powder, his reply was this, " i no longer bother with rooting hormones (i've got a brand new 2 oz jar of Rootech that i bought before i made the cloner)
both the ThriveAlive and the Superthrive are for root development and, so far at least, i haven't needed anything else"
BTW I use a little formulex in my cloner and that seems to work ok too.
Oh and i just noticed a question from italian regarding ph and bozo said he doesn't check his. I left my cuttings in the bubble cloner for around 2 weeks if i remember correctly, (they were growing so quick i thought i'd leave them in it till their roots started to get tangled) a couple of days before i transplanted to soil the clones started getting a couple of brown spots which i think was ph related.
So from my experience i think that they'll root without any problems with plain tap water (ph somewhere around 7, thats what mine is) but after they've grown some decent roots and fast growth starts on the leaves then you need to ph your water down to around 6.0.
Ah must have missed it, thank you very much. :thumbsup:
word. great thread this is!!! props bozo and friends