Quote Originally Posted by Lemuel714
How long do them in water? Scott's is decent but it is fairly cheap and may be where they came from. I've been doing this for a year now and have probably had the gnats for three months. So it hasn't always been a problem. I'm sold on Nematodes and mosquito dunks and will continue to use both as a preventive measure. I just repotted several plants and a few of them just had NOTHING left for roots. No wonder they're looking so bad.
I'll assume the water question was for me. It varies actually. I have 2 unknown strains, and each one reacted differently. The shorter of the two strains seemed to root pretty quick, I'd say within 7 days, the other, taller one took almost 2 weeks.... that is if I am remembering correctly. There were some other things that seemed to effect how long it took also. When I started with these two clones, for instance, I put them both in clear containers. I'm finding that tends to slow things down because once I figured out the root system needed darkness and added a cloth over the clear container, roots popped with 48 hours. Since then, I've tried a couple other things. I have one that's in a bottle that has been covered with black tape to provide darkness, I have another that is in a colored bottle that provides some shade and some light, and then I tried some straight into soil with rooting hormone. I saw "Saving Grace" once again, and there's a scene in there when they are cloning and they go straight to soil with the rooting hormone. Out of all of these trials, the straight to soil performed the worst, by far. I lost 2 clones in the process and although some of that was due to me not using a humidity dome I'm still finding I like the water only method the best - going that way I have yet to lose anything. Everything I'm doing is for personal use, and I'm more concerned with quality than time or quantity for that matter. Don't get me wrong, I still want a nice harvest but with the crap smoke we have around here, I'd rather have more potent than just more.

Here's a couple of pics of what I have going on. The first two are pictures of the clones, which are in my flower room now. The third pic is of the clone in the colored bottle, and the last pic is the root system starting on the one that is in the bottle with black tape for complete darkness.

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Now, if you look at picture three, you'll see a bunch of white dots on the stem. These are actually the beginnings of the root system, and there are a couple of small roots. Picture number four shows a little of the same, but this time the roots have developed a little more. You can literally see the difference the dark has for root development, even though both are still rooting. These were both put into the water the at the same time, BTW. Picture number four with the small roots is off to a good start. For my personal tastes, the roots are still a little small, so I'll let that stay in the water a couple more days until most of the roots reach about 2" and have a nice, thick root ball.

The clones in pictures number one and two were started this way, and they seem to be doing great. A couple people have advised that I am perhaps keeping them in the veg cycle a little more than needed.... I let them stay in the veg room about a month after they were in soil so they would get nice and tall. They did, with one being around 3 ft and the other closer to 4. I was under the impression that once they hit flower they would stop getting taller and just bud out but alas, that was incorrect, so my flower closet is overflowing atm. Hey, more bud though, right?
KeiserSozeh Reviewed by KeiserSozeh on . Ravaged by fungus gnats??? I started noticing gnats a while ago but didn't worry about them too much as it didn't look like they were actually damaging my plants. I was getting a lot of stunted growth but didn't connect the two. After a while the gnats got thicker and my plants started turning yellow, drying up and dying. Long story short, I read up a little on the gnats and went to war with them. First of all I keep two rooms. I've got one room for vegetative growth with a couple of t5s and a flowering room with Rating: 5