Diary:02/09/07: 8 Pots of Plants

[home.grower]

I just grew a bunch of clones myself, I didn't use any nutrients for 2 weeks just ph'd water, I sprayed them with water only when I turned the lights off for the 6 hours of dark period, and even then i only sprayed them for a week to stop them drying out.

After 2 weeks they had descent roots so I gave them a 10% coco feed every 3 days and have moved them into small pots.

As posted above it maybe best to simply cut off the yellow parts of the leaves, and dont bother spraying them with water, they will get all the moisture they need from the rockwool blocks.

Hello KHAN. I understand your method. My sidekick used to look after his clones exactly the same way. It often took 2 weeks at least for him to get his clones rooted. He would soak his cubes in Water before putting his clones in them. Then a daily mist with water kept the humidity up in the propagator. Once roots started to show he would give them Hygozyme as a root enhancer all the way up to the 3rd week in bloom.

I have ceased foliar spraying... The droplets on the inside of the dome are much much finer now.

Thanks for commenting KHAN, call again!!

[home.grower]

...Home.grower - I use Clonex both for misting and for moistening the rapid rooters/rockwool. I've never used Hygrozyme but I guess it's a similar product and will work the same. My personal opinion is to stay away from any nutes until the plants have a decent root system. ...but I only make about 100 clones per week so I guess you should take that with a grain of salt.

PC :smokin:

I will try and remember to get some clonex for the future.... I used to own some but can't figure where it ended up. How much of a root development am I looking to see before I bed some clones in half litre pots to veg? Can I pot the clones that have a few root shoots out the base of the cubes and just water them for a few weeks? Or should I wait untill there is substantial root mass before doing transplant number 1? I'll take a couple pics once I get out of bed....

[home.grower]

I don't use anything but water for my clones and have had a 100% success rate. You don't really wanna risk burning them with nutes...

Can you be more specific with regard to your method BUZz? Share how you achieve 100%... do you mist? or do you just keep ur cubes damp?

[home.grower]

Actually soaking the rockwool and not the leaves in a propergator causes humidity and takes away the need for soaking of the leaves, Taking away the risk of light magnifying on the water and burning your plants. 50 clones with no losses here...

So if I stop spraying them I'll be better off? I noticed the humidity changed when I stopped spraying yesterday. The mist on the inside of the dome was a lot finer... todays visit will be interesting...

[home.grower]

It has been a few days since I acquired a tray of 20 odd clones, of which only 4 had roots emerging from the rockwool cubes. Having bunged them in a propagator on 31/08/07 (3 days ago) a 9th clone has displayed roots emerging from its' cube. I busted open a 10th cube to see what's happening and took a pic to let it explain itself.

The first few pics are of the clones that have had roots showing for longer than 2 days, while the last pic is of a clone that I expect to be showing within the next 2 days.

[home.grower]

What indicates that it's time to pot a clone?

Is it the first sign of roots?

Is it when many roots are showing?

Is it after a certain period of time regardless of what they look like?

A poll would be good to see how many people use:

1. Just moistened cubes with a little puddle of water in a propagator

2. Particular accelerator products & frequency with results

3. Straight to a soil filled cup with rooting gel

I'm now eager to find out that ultimate cloning method with 100% success like BUZz UK claims... I'm off to surf Can.com

[PharmaCan]

Here's one of my clones after seven days. She's ready to go into coco. :thumbsup:

Right now you've got three people here, all of whom apparently have experience cloning, telling you essentially the same thing except with variations on the technique. I'm certainly not going to say that my technique is better than theirs, but neither am I going to change my technique. In a lot of ways growing can be as much an art as a skill and so you just kinda have to go with the flow and do things in a way that works good for you.

PC :smokin:

[KHAN]

I find that if you keep the rockwool in the black plastic tray they come in then they seem to root faster, it keeps the moisture in, stops mold growing from light hiting the cubes and promotes the roots to pop out as strong light kills them.

As pharma said it's about what works for you, but it looks like your clones are developing fine I wouldn't go about breaking up the cube tho :thumbsup: Goodluck man i'm sure you'll do fine.

[home.grower]

I hear you PharmaCan & Khan & Buzz UK

[mjdragon]

Hey man, just wanted to say nice setup. I grow in very similar conditions to you - space & lighting - (although I've grown from seed)..

Hope all goes well for you, will keep checking in!