hello mate, Ive been reading info from this site for a while and been a member only for a while, but I have been involved in growing for many years now. In Australia due to customs laws you can only really clone. All I have ever done is clone so if you follow these simple rules you will have a 100% strike rate.
1. Take a cutting two to six inches only
2. Take cutting from woody branch as taking from soft wood will decrease chance of clone staying alive
3. Make cut on angle not straight.
4. Clean leaves from bottom of cutting, leaving only top of cutting with leaves.
5. Use liquid, not powder hormone to clone.(purple/softwood)
6. Use rockwool grow cubes. Soak them in 1/4 the strength you are currently using to feed the mother with. Once soaked, let them lose excess water, but ensure they are still moist. I usually leave for say 2-3 hours. Take a long thin object, similar to what you would use to check if a cake is cooked. Push this into the centre of grow cube and push through bottom of block.
7.Take cutting and dip in clone solution,( i also use a small syringe with clone solution in it and in push some into centre of rockwool where you made earlier hole to bottom).
8.Now take dipped cutting and push into centre of grow block. Push cutting into grow block so you can get leaves at top of cutting as near to the surface of the grow cube, ensuring that the bottom of cutting has about 1-1.5 inches before it would come out of bottom of grow cube.
Thats it!

Ensuring that they are put in a grow box, if box has vent holes keep them open always and put under light for 18 - 24 hours.
Finally some tips, the week before taking the cuttings lower the amount of nutrients you use say 1/2 to a 3/4 tops. This will help lower N out of the N P K. As most nutrients deliver all as complete, just lowering The N is all that is needed so diluting nutrients a week prior will give greater root growth on cutting, this is fact as for years I would not drop nutrients prior to taking cuttings, but since doing this clones will look healthy quicker and root far faster. After one week under lights (fluorescent) they will need a little water. Water with water only for this water as there are salts still in grow cube. Week 2 after being in grow box the cuttings now should have rooted. So as you start week 3 start a very very light feed, without knowing what your using as nutrients its hard to say but the safest way would be say if the bottle shows 10ml per 10L, I would mix only 10% of this at first water and increase by 5% each week, without going over 50% this is usually the best and what I use.
Happy growing mate.
ozzyweed Reviewed by ozzyweed on . Cloning Questions (some redundant) Bunch of cloning questions! I have read many articles and posts so if some these are redundant I apologize and I appreciate your answers. I have two ice females that I have been using to make clones but my flowering area is full so I am backing up and the females are getting tooooo big and I am trying to figure out what I can do. See picâ??s 1) Can I cut 6 inches off the top and root that? The stalk is pretty thick and I wasnâ??t sure if it would work. 2) My clones usually begin to Rating: 5