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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    This sounds like a great idea! I was wondering how people change
    the water in their DWC setup or a bubbler cloner?
    maxrun427 Reviewed by maxrun427 on . cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results i put this together because i thought it had enough to stand alone and, i felt it was kinda lost for the newbie in my 'imaginary garden' thread. so, for the noobs like me and the noobs like the one i was before i found these boards and you people, i hope this helps. Rating: 5

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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    wht is the ph of the water. still 5.8-6.2?

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    #3
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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    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.

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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    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.

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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    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.

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    #6
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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    Quote Originally Posted by hudson88
    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 pretty
    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.

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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    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?

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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    Quote Originally Posted by SimonSaysSmoke
    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 lol

    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.

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    #9
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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    Ah must have missed it, thank you very much. :thumbsup:

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    #10
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    cheap and easy DIY cloner and what to do with the results

    word. great thread this is!!! props bozo and friends

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