The mother was in veg, I'm pretty certain. As for transport, homie lived next door (now evicted), so we just took the dome over in a black bag. We used scissors to get them, the gel was deposited in the hole of the rapidrooter cube, and the cuttings were stuck in. The gel was visible for a week.

They were in one of those fit-in cube/soil holders, but since I cleaned the whole thing out I just put them in the tray... yr saying I should make a perlite layer on the bottom and put the cubes on top of that? Or a towel at the bottom? and soak this in water?

I'm a little confused.

that's where I kept mine under my 46 to root them after having them about 12" for a week
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I also have no idea what this means!