Quote Originally Posted by Marc Benson
I'm trying exactly this right now. Hacked a shoot off the bottom of a plant and threw it in some water. Read an article where this guy was doing clones in just a plain old glass of tap water and had real success. Said you could use shoots from a flowering female but he suggested cutting the flower off and most leaves. Reason being that he felt that since the cutting didn't have any roots that it really couldn't support much vegatative matter. Being one to wonder if you could just cut one off, throw it in some pH adjusted water, get some roots going, and then put it in some soil and throw a cool white cfl (for some veg) and a warm white cfl (to keep the flower going) on it and see if it would prosper...that's what I'm doing. Cut it 2 days ago. Scratched up the bottom 1" of the stem (not a lot just rough it up...supposed to help promote root growth) and it looks perfect. They say you can expect roots to start growing in 4 to 7 days. If they do I'll let them grow a little, carefully put it in some soil and see what happens!
marci was just bout 2 post the exact same thing 4 years my mam has been clonin all her plants and im talkin some fusy plants, shes in2 her gardenin, anyway her method, never failed, is exactly as u said, takes her cuttin and in2 plain oul water, rots show soon after and hey presto.
i know mary j isnt a plant she works with but same principle no??