Okay - here's the skinny.

I took 5 clones hoping for 1. This was my first time cloning. I made some noobish mistakes, which i planned on, and here's what I did:

I waited until Fiona (My Pineapple Express by G13 Labs) was about 10 nodes elongated, and the bottom nodes were 3-4" tall. On the 1st node up from the main stem I would FIM the budtips and stem, and immediately scrape the cuttling with the scalpel. I dipped the cuttling into a spoonfull (plastic spoon) of rootech rooting gel hormone, and dipped the cuttling into the riotcubes on the heating pad, under 2 20w Fluros - I did this 5 times, sprayed heavily, domed, and left it alone.

8 days later, 3 have survived, and all 3 are showing roots coming out of the cubes. They'll be transplanted in the next few days. Here is a pic:

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I noticed the root coming out first thing in the morning.

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Group shot


Things I would change:

When I first cut them, I would have also rolled them in a dry rooting hormone after they were geled
I would have taken more, knowing that I can create a duel chamber if need be.
I would have used a larger dome, I started with a 2" dome, which is what killed 1 of the clones that died.
I would NOT have trimmed the leaves before I got started. The plants are going to use the nutrients from those leaves, however, leaving them on would have given me a natural LST which I'm a huge fan of, so I would have trimmed as needed.

I used a fresh scalpel for these cuts, and my trimmers on the leaves.

I would like to mention that each of these tops has been FIM'd so each clone, including mom, will have 2 tops to start, and after we clone each of those tops, they'll have 4 each, all LST'd

Now, who's the noob?

Love ya.