clone problem

[jayhlc]

3 time clone all fail
last week try again...
problem always follow...

i upload plant photo

i help someone tell me ..
why clone not so easy........
and
tell me what's problem on my clone plants~

thanks so very very very very very much~

jayhlc Reviewed by jayhlc on 08-29-2008. clone problem 3 time clone all fail last week try again... problem always follow... i upload plant photo i help someone tell me .. why clone not so easy........ and tell me what's problem on my clone plants~ Rating: 5

[LuciferN]

I know this is a long read, but it should fix you're cloning problems.

Cloning is not that hard, but there is some important thing you have to check.

EVERY tools you are using should be sterilized, a good tip for that is 1 part bleach 3 part water. It's easier to make clone from plants in the veg. if you try to make clones from a flowering plant it will be a bigger shock and they will need more time to make roots as it need to revert back to veg and then they will make roots.

There is something else I've noticed in you're pictures; you left the leafs complete and I see there is some king of brownish thing. You should cut the tip of the leafs, like that the clone will concentrate on making roots and not anything else, like growing. The brown look like some mold was it like that before you cut the clone ?

Some other little tips, before you cut the clone make some scratch and nicks on the side of the branch and then cut it to 45 degree, as SOON it is cut place the steam and all the area where it has been alter in the rooting hormone, the faster you do it the more chances the clone have, leave it sitting there for 30 sec and stir gently.

After you can put the clone in the media you are using if it's soil pack around them stem enough so it stand up right, but not too tight as the roots need to grow deeper in the medium. Mist them with a spray watter bottle ad use a dome to keep the humidity inside.

After the cut give the clones 12 hours of dark, this will help them fight the shock they suffer. After this time be sure to give them at least 16 hours of light (a CFL should do the trick, no HPS light it's too strong for them) if it's not 24 hours. Open the dome and mist them at least 2 times a day, this is for 2 reason; it the clones dry they will die and it will give them some fresh Co2 to live on, you can breath gently in the dome to give them more Co2... Wait at least 10 days and check for roots under you're tray.