Quote Originally Posted by Weed4Life
I dont know what all the fuss is about the moisture level. I see people growing clones in cups of water and have success. I kept my clones soaking in a tupperware container sitting in 1/4" of water daily and sprayed daily and used anti-wilt every 6 days and roots popped out after 14 days in my Jiffy pellets.
Cannabis doesn't 'water clone' (i.e. stick a cutting in a glass of water... and wait) very well, as do some other herbs like mint or basil. It prefers a damp rooting medium with lots of air in it- give it 'wet' or saturated, where all air is driven out of the medium and the cut on the stem tip will tend to rot, no matter how sterile you keep your scalpel. This slows rooting WAY down.

14 days to set root is a long time in cloneland. The cutting is depending on stored nutes in the leaves while the plant has no roots. Nutes as they appear in water given to the plant are not directly 'edible' to the plant. It's the roots which are responsible for changing the nutes into elements that the plant can use.

Aerocloners have been known to show roots in 4 days- mainly because there's no media in the way and root nodes are visible sooner than if they are plugged into some medium. Jiffypots and rockwool can yield visible roots out of the bottom in 5-7 days, but root nodes are happening just as fast as in aerocloners; you just can't see them for a few more days. The faster you can get roots happening, the better the plant will do down the track.

I see a lot of people using humidomes and anti-wilt products. If the plant can uptake enough water through the stem cut, slowing down transpiration by blocking the stomata on leaves with wax or raising the humidity so the leaves can't transpire much water usually isn't needed.