Quote Originally Posted by headshake
you can clone under one CFL that is 18" or so away. the light is not a factor at this point and time. the plant is working on making roots, not photosynthesizing to make new growth up top. once they are well rooted, then kick the light up.



-shake



Quote Originally Posted by ZZTops
Also keep the light a good distance from the clones, like 18" to 24" away

One of the other things that Shake mentioned was temp,... in my experience having the light that far away drops the temps too low under the dome. I guess a heating pad or similar method could be used.

I have a 96w 4 tube T5 on top of my cloner .5" off the top of the dome, so what? 4" from the plants? And I have only lost a couple of clones due to air getting into the stem on the 2nd cut (wilted dead on the next morning)

I hadn't much thought about the fact that they really don't need that much light, since they need to focus on making roots. I've been more concerned with temps and humidity.

Perhaps with my next batch I'll try something a bit different, ie less light and some other source of heat.