Rooting clones in dirt questions...

[weeddaddy50]

Excellent advice. dealing with bugs...takes time

Because there can be bugs and other issues like mold, fungus, weeds, stray seeds, etc, the pucks, cubes and rooters start out sterile. I note some plants root faster in the Rapid Rooters than they do with the rockwool or visaversa, depends on the phenotype.

I worked very hard over a 2 year period to rid myself of gnats, mites, and any other bug issue. Now I only use sterilized out of the bag stuff.

[rattlingdags]

I was curious about which medium would be quickest/easiest when I took my first set of clones about a month ago. I used stone wool, peat pucks, seed soil and the little peat pots. I don't have one of those cool cloners so I stuck with those 4 mediums. By far the quickest rooting was the soil, followed closely by the peat pots, then peat pucks and lastly the stone wool.
I hadn't considered possible bugs in the soil then so it was probably beginners luck that I avoided them this time. Won't be risking it again.
I wondered if perhaps because the stone wool is quite dense compared with the soil-like mediums that the roots took longer to appear? - could make the roots stronger though.
All the clones rooted in less than 2 weeks and are now veging happily *touch wood*

[tikiroom]

I prefer Rapid Rooters. :thumbsup: