The Triploid Clone Project
Utilizing the El-Cheapo No Maintanance Cloning Method

Since I've noticed the triploid branch on this grow, I've been wanting to study it in more detail. So instead of fertilizing it, I decided to make a clone, and keep the log in the FREAK SHOW thread.

I cut off the branch as close to the meristem as I could get and stuck it in a jar of water. I saw that the 1st node didn't have a fully formed 3rd (leaf/branch), but the nub is there.

I prepared a clean pair of scissors, some cloning gel, and a bowl of water. I stuck the branch into the bowl of water, and underwater cut the leaves & branches from the first node. I also snipped another cm of the end of the branch at a 45° angle. Then I dipped it in cloning gel, and stuck it back in the water.

Now I wait. It sits on my desk under a 20w tiny bulb desklamp. No clue what spectrum. No temperature control. No humidity dome. No foliar feeding. Just a stick in a jar of water sitting on my desk, like the stick I budded in the post further above except with rooting hormone: As the water evaporates, I should see root growth. (This part could qualify for "Goofy Techniques", too)

Since I took the photos and started typing this thread, there's been a thread of cloning gel forming from the stick to the bottom of the jar. But batteries are dead in cam, and I'm outta cash, and the charger's broken. So no more good pics till I get batteries or a charger. Boo hoo. You'll hafta deal with webcam pics. Which is ok in this case.

Updates as things happen