My Clones Suck Someone Help

[RoundEye]

I have been using seed for a good long while now for every grow. I select a choice female and a strong male and set them aside for their own love making. I use those seeds for everything.
I'm sort of tired of having to go through the flower process to determine who is male/female. It's wasted time. So, I tried cloning because every video I've seen says it's not as hard as people make it out to be. Well, of the 20 clones I took. 20 died.

Does anyone have a kick ass video of how to properly clone?

RoundEye Reviewed by RoundEye on 03-17-2010. My Clones Suck Someone Help I have been using seed for a good long while now for every grow. I select a choice female and a strong male and set them aside for their own love making. I use those seeds for everything. I'm sort of tired of having to go through the flower process to determine who is male/female. It's wasted time. So, I tried cloning because every video I've seen says it's not as hard as people make it out to be. Well, of the 20 clones I took. 20 died. Does anyone have a kick ass video of how to properly Rating: 5

[copobo]

what method are you using?

make an aerocloner. costs under $50.

other hints
1. use the lowest branches on the plant.
2. include at least three nodes, cut everything off lower 2
3. recut, under water, at a 45 degree angle, then place in aero cloner
4. use no powders or gells or nutes. Adjust ph to 6.0
5. make cuttings before you put the plant into flower.

hth

[redtails]

My biggest problem was always with humidity, no dome = no roots.

I just cut a branch that's 2 or more nodes plus the tip, recut the bottom at 45 degrees, take off all leaves except the top node and growth tip, stick it in a solo cup half full of soil making sure there's plenty of contact between the soil and stem (packed slightly), water & mist it, place baggie over top of cup and put a rubberband around to keep it on. Then in a few days I'll pop off the baggie, mist again, and replace the bag. After a week or so I start taking the bag off for longer periods of time, misting & replacing it if the cutting starts to wilt. This works for me & friends I've shown it to 100% of the time now, rooting hormone or not.

Hope it helps, it's not a video though. Main thing is when you get something to work, remember what you did & try to replicate it each time.

[lifted247]

Listen to redtails, hes got a real good method written there. you dont need us for a link to a video, google it, type in jorge cervantes or other reputable growers. I was kinda confused reading your description on how you did your clones. you lost all 20? that is rough man. moment of silence for the unborn. Did you use rooting hormone? did you have a humidity dome of some kind? I mean humidity has to be high to develop roots. Use your lower branches, count down 3 nodes, cut stem at a 45 degree angle, recut under water, dip in cloning solution, cover, uncover every so often to get fresh air circulating, and voila you should see roots in no more than 10 days. do you have any pics?

[maro69camaro]

home made aero setup. no dome, just set the ph and let them grow. took 10 cuts all 10 rooted. no yellowing of leaf and when tranplanted they take off very fast.

[lifted247]

camaro. Make me a mother fucin list of what i need to build that rubbermade areosprayer you have in that picture and cost, those look marvelous, i usually stick to the soil method though, can you transplant those clones into soil, or are you aero all the way through flower

[stra8outtaWeed]

this is the cheapest and most hassle free way of cloning....with this method you can go soil or hydro when they root!:thumbsup:

http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...z-cloning.html

[maro69camaro]

camaro. Make me a mother fucin list of what i need to build that rubbermade areosprayer you have in that picture and cost, those look marvelous, i usually stick to the soil method though, can you transplant those clones into soil, or are you aero all the way through flower

get a Tough Guard tub they dont leak around the edges. 5-10 bucks
submersible pumps like a pond pump 300 gph or so. 15-20 bucks
pvc pipe, 3 T's, and 4 90's i used 1/2'' maybe 10 bucks for all of it
micro spray nozels from lowes or home depot got red caps and blue bottem. i think they where 4 bucks for a pack of 10. i used 20 in my setup but alot of guys get away with less of them.
neoprene plug .25 each
so we will say 55 bucks.
I took cuts at 45 degree angle about 3-4 nodes. striped the lower two sets and pull the lowest one down so it pills the skin off the lower part of the stem. insert in the plug and fire it up. no cloning dips at all. then i used Thrive Alive B1 at 2.5ml per gal of ro water, keep ph around 5.5 and wait about 8 days or so. after the 8th day we transplanted to soil and 3/4 gal pots for a friend. everyone took none died at any point. if you want any more info let me know.:thumbsup:

[lifted247]

Just got back from lowes

I think i fuckedup and got a pump to small, its 100-155 gph but the 300 gph one was like $44.95...was i at the wrong store, or didnt look good enough?

I got 8 elbows (90dgrees) 4 are female female, 4 are male male

5 slip T' fittings

4 shrub sprinkler nozzels

4adapters

i know that may not make sense to you, but do I for sure need a bigger pump?

I also need to get the tub, they have 14 gallon and 18 gallon ones,

also do you use the rubbermade container to house the pipes and misters, and as a resevoir for water/nutes, or is there a seperate resevoir?

[redtails]

I think you will need a more powerful pump or the nozzles might just drizzle, at least that's my experience.