You've pretty much got the idea, which makes me think that your clones are dying not because you're cutting them wrong, but they aren't getting environment they need once they are cut. edit: (durrrr on my part, OP wasn't the one that posted clone instructions)

I've been told by just about everybody who regularly takes clones to use a gel instead of a powder hormone. Never an explanation why, but maybe somebody else can clarify that.


I followed this guys instructions, and these things are inconceivably badass for both starting seeds and getting clones rooted. Cheap too. I happened to have all of the required parts at home already, the only thing I had to pick up with an airline splitter for my airstones (I didn't have the cool perforated tubing).

http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...time-easy.html