My cloning tech, hmm. Well, I use CloneX gel, sharp clean snippers and anti wilt spray. My last round I used Rapid ruders, they are an organic clone starter plug that are made out of composted bark and pre soaked to proper PH levels. I wait until the branch I want to take clones from has a couple of inter nodes on the branch and then get close to the tip and snip usually right above an internodes so that once I make the cut that plant wil grow back a few new shoots to take clones from the next round. As soon as I make that cut I place the clone in a dish of water so that no air gets into the cut creating an air bolas that can stop the clone from rooting by stopping nute uptake or water uptake. Then from the water I dip the clone into some antiwilt solution, I don't think that is necessary, but since I have it around I use it, it slows some of the wilting that takes place allot of time after cloning. I then put the clone back into the dish of water and shave some of the skin back where I took the cutting to expose a little more of the root to the medium I will be using to get more uptake, then I dip it into the CloneX and into the rapid ruder. From there I put them in a tray with a dome and a heating pad under the trey, clones seem to take to heat in my exp. Instead of ruders you can use RW cubes or just go right into a soil/perlite mix. I have a 15 sight bubble cloner that I may mess around with this next go round.
Hope this helps some.
On one hand cutting can be a pain in the rear when you firststart , but once you get the hang of it, it is not much trouble. For instance, I was trimming my plants when they were in the first week of flower, and this girl who was bushing up reel nice was one that I didn't take a clone from, and I didn't have all of my cloning things around so I just put some super thrive mixt with water that I keep in a misting bottle and pored it into a cup and snipped a cutting off of the girl and quickly put it root down in the cup. I put it in my computer cab and kind of forgot about it for a week and when I checked on it it was like I had just cut it. I threw it in a soil, perlite mix and moisend the soil a little and it looked like it was going to die a day later, so I pulled it out of the dirt and put a puddle of Super Thrive and water in the hole and misted a zip lock bag and taped it around the little pot and it perked up the next day and is rooted now. I didn't use any clonex, anti wilt spray, and it did just fine.
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