First Attempt At Cloning

[PharmaCan]

the bottom was white and bulgy looking, almost like cauliflower.

Those were roots starting. :thumbsup:

Any day now you should see root growth coming out of the cubes.

PC :smokin:

[dejayou30]

Success! 3/5 finally showed roots through the rockwool after 9 days! I put them into my system and took 6 more, so hopefully I can fill up my bins quickly!

[spongebobsmokepants]

Question: How can you have too much light? I wouldn't have guessed that's possible (except for heat).

clones have no roots when they are new, too much light will stress the plant and dry it out quicker than it can take up moisture.
You know how insufficient light will make your plants stretch? That low light will also encourage your clones to stretch and grow.

[dejayou30]

Just had 6/6 root in 8 days! My garden is full again!

[OLDJIMMYBONES]

tryed to clone so many times with no luck ever :wtf:

[whatsthatsmell]

Deja, for your next cloning session, take your rapid rooters and flip them upside down so that the wider end is sitting down and your can stick the plant on the narrow end. Make a small cut in the top of the rapid rooter so you can stick the plant in that cut. Take your cutting and do your dig-n-gro stuff, now when it comes to the prop tray, take out that little divider insert you got going on and just let the rapid roots sit in the tray with just enough water in the bottom to keep them moist. Take your neem oil spray that you use during veg and dilute that again to about 1/4 strength that you normally use (i just take some out of the already made bottle into a new one, filled 1/4 then topped with water). Once your clones are in the tray, spray them with the diluted neem oil, this will keep your plants from getting droopy without having to purchase the anti-wilt stuff. You will also notice that your roots will pop sooner that way. Your letting the air to get your roots more and since your in hydro that is exactly what you want to see.

[stinkyattic]

WTS's method (hmm... lol... I've seen it before) works well, except I would not let them sit in water- spray down the inside of the tray and dome so it's misty, but not an actual puddle.

I get roots showing in less than 2 weeks using that method.

I've also just started using these wicked blue 'ott lights' from Home DePOT (a different type of CFL) and they seem to work spectacularly.

Edit: Weedhound you can clone a clone indefinitely. That's how the 'elites' have been passed down, some as much as 20 years from the day the seed was popped.

Cloning a finishing plant is tough though. I'd re-veg first and THEN clone.

[whatsthatsmell]

yes, that method of cloning was shown to me by ms. stinky, sorry, i should have given credit

[stinkyattic]

Oh knock it off, haha. Spreadin' the looooove...