Just to see what would happen i tried cloning a middle section of stem rather than the growing tip, everything i've ever read about cloning says use the growing tips of plants, i had a plant i no longer had room for, so i decided to cut it up for clones, so with one of the branches i cut it in two, used the top half the traditional way and the other bit i cut to about 4 inches and left two little offshoots on it, cut the top at 45 degrees and put a little bit of cloning gel over the wound, then put it in a rapid rooter 2 inches down. I've got pretty good conditions for cloning: humidity done, heating pad and T5's. Mostly my clones root in about a week and close to 100%. So low and behold after a week this middle section has rooted, but during that week, the little offshoots i'd left on there were growing all the time, which i thought was odd because as i believe, plants need roots to grow and when you do cloning all the plants energies are concentrated on growing roots and not photosynthesis. Something else interesting, out of the 9 cuttings i took, this middle section has the most vigous roots of all of them.
I not not sure about the advantages of cloning from middle sections, other than the ability to get more clones per cutting and i don't know how this plant will now grow or look. It's been a fun experiment and i'm now gonna transplant it and see how it grows.
chelsea69 Reviewed by chelsea69 on . Cloning Experiment Just to see what would happen i tried cloning a middle section of stem rather than the growing tip, everything i've ever read about cloning says use the growing tips of plants, i had a plant i no longer had room for, so i decided to cut it up for clones, so with one of the branches i cut it in two, used the top half the traditional way and the other bit i cut to about 4 inches and left two little offshoots on it, cut the top at 45 degrees and put a little bit of cloning gel over the wound, then Rating: 5