Cloning with coco

714steadyeddie

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does anyone have experience cloning with coco? If so share you're forumla.

I'm going to try and learn to clone this round so any tips or experiences would be helpful
 

simply_slide

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does anyone have experience cloning with coco? If so share you're forumla.

I'm going to try and learn to clone this round so any tips or experiences would be helpful
Super easy to clone with coco! What I did:

1 prepare coco by cleaning it.
2 flush coco with cal-mag and 1/4 veg nute.
3 take solo cup, with good drainage holes.
4 (optional) dip cutting in root hormone.
5 insert cutting 2-3" into coco in the solo cup.
6 place solo cups in Rubbermaid tub
7 fill about 1/2 -1" of water for coco to wick as needed
8 cover and let root.


Another option so you can check for roots, and what I have switched over to is using clear cups inside solo cups so you can just pull the clear cup out and see without disturbing the plant.
 

714steadyeddie

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Super easy to clone with coco! What I did:

1 prepare coco by cleaning it.
2 flush coco with cal-mag and 1/4 veg nute.
3 take solo cup, with good drainage holes.
4 (optional) dip cutting in root hormone.
5 insert cutting 2-3" into coco in the solo cup.
6 place solo cups in Rubbermaid tub
7 fill about 1/2 -1" of water for coco to wick as needed
8 cover and let root.


Another option so you can check for roots, and what I have switched over to is using clear cups inside solo cups so you can just pull the clear cup out and see without disturbing the plant.
How big tubs are we talking?
And also since the coco will be precharge with nutes I won't need to mist the plants will I ?
 

coreywebster

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Cloning in coco is piss easy dude. take clones as you should. I use fresh coco without doing anything to it. I fill a small pot, Christ knows what they are but small, about 6cm across and 10 high. So fill it a 3rd full and spray with clean phd water to moisten it, add another 3rd, moisten again, repeat. Pot is full. I make a small hole, spray a little more water and stick your clone in(after dipping in clonex) pop your pot in your propagator , do the next pot, repeat until you have as any as you want. Pop the lid on propagator, mist lightly. then mist a few times a day for the first few days and reduce misting. You will know when they are rooted because the lowest leaves will start to yellow or if your brave you can just pull them gently. That's all I ever did in coco. These days I just slap perlite in a seedling cell tray, stick a cm of water in the bottom and forget about em. Don't even have to mist em or use a dome. Either way Bam 98-100% success rate.
I must point out my climate is neither very cold nor very hot so I don't have to worry about heat mats. That may differ from one environment to the next.
GL cloning, you wont need it!
 

714steadyeddie

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Cloning in coco is piss easy dude. take clones as you should. I use fresh coco without doing anything to it. I fill a small pot, Christ knows what they are but small, about 6cm across and 10 high. So fill it a 3rd full and spray with clean phd water to moisten it, add another 3rd, moisten again, repeat. Pot is full. I make a small hole, spray a little more water and stick your clone in(after dipping in clonex) pop your pot in your propagator , do the next pot, repeat until you have as any as you want. Pop the lid on propagator, mist lightly. then mist a few times a day for the first few days and reduce misting. You will know when they are rooted because the lowest leaves will start to yellow or if your brave you can just pull them gently. That's all I ever did in coco. These days I just slap perlite in a seedling cell tray, stick a cm of water in the bottom and forget about em. Don't even have to mist em or use a dome. Either way Bam 98-100% success rate.
I must point out my climate is neither very cold nor very hot so I don't have to worry about heat mats. That may differ from one environment to the next.
GL cloning, you wont need it!
Awesome thanks for the solid plan of attack!
 

coreywebster

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How big tubs are we talking?
And also since the coco will be precharge with nutes I won't need to mist the plants will I ?
You don't really want precharged with nutes, cal/mag may be an exception.
clones cant take nutes very easy. Misting them lets the leaves absorb the moisture that the plant needs. In coco or soil you cant have the medium so soaked it provides all the moisture because your stem would rot before roots develop. So you mist. They may wilt when you first take them, but they should sit back up all pert within 12 hours and they will stay that way as long as the RH stays high within the dome or propagator. Plain water. As I say you can tell when they have roots by looking at the leaves. Its good to keep em in there until

Edit, as you can see simply_slide has a slightly different approach. Both will work. Pretty much all cloning methods do. Keep things clean and moist!
 

simply_slide

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I precharged because I would leave my clones in the cups for about a week or two before transplant. I also acclimate my clones to regular room RH, so I never have any wilting.

There is 1000 ways to clones and 10 ways to do it wrong, so what works for me might not be your style and vice versa. I also have had 100% success this way in coco, but only 70% success when doing the same thing in organic soil. There are to many variables to say one way someone does it is wrong.
 

outlier

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I get better results cloning in coco. I think your climate has a lot do with what works best. I find aero hard to manage outside my winter months (sub-tropical winter).

I don't do anything special - an el cheapo $5 seedling tray with a dome. Open the air vents on about day 6-8, remove the dome on about day 12-14 or whenever I see roots coming through the bottom of the trays. Survival of the fittest I say. Cut a few extra and kill off the stragglers. Seems to work well for me.
 

coreywebster

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Nice cloner @Airwalker16
I'm the same as you @outlier , I used a cloner for a while, good results, faster roots. But I liked the simplicity of coco. Until I switched to straight perlite. I don't even know where I got that idea from but it was probably on here. Same success rate as coco though, I just got lazier with age and the perlite system fitted well with that!:sleep:
 

OutofLEDCloset

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I precharged because I would leave my clones in the cups for about a week or two before transplant. I also acclimate my clones to regular room RH, so I never have any wilting.

There is 1000 ways to clones and 10 ways to do it wrong, so what works for me might not be your style and vice versa. I also have had 100% success this way in coco, but only 70% success when doing the same thing in organic soil. There are to many variables to say one way someone does it is wrong.
Right on the money. Just focus on the ten wrong and avoid. I'm a crappy cloner. No matter I never get all to root. Sometimes none. Minimum 2 weeks to root. That's aero,bubble and RW methods. But my garden is years old and have same cuts. Healthy mothers make healthy babies. They deserve the most attention.
 

Airwalker16

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Depends how many cups you have.

I mist the plant just cause, but the coco wicking the water will keep the plant humid enough. I just put plastic bags over each cup.

You should know, I now use a clone dome and rockwool. But I have cloned in coco many times.
I'm so over rockwool. This last run I did will be the last I use it. Rapid rooter plugs from now on..RW just stays too moist. Roots get content and don't grow.
 

Airwalker16

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Nice cloner @Airwalker16
I'm the same as you @outlier , I used a cloner for a while, good results, faster roots. But I liked the simplicity of coco. Until I switched to straight perlite. I don't even know where I got that idea from but it was probably on here. Same success rate as coco though, I just got lazier with age and the perlite system fitted well with that!:sleep:
This is just as simple as straight Into coco. Better even. You have established roots you KNOW are there, which you can bury in confidence.
 

simply_slide

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I'm so over rockwool. This last run I did will be the last I use it. Rapid rooter plugs from now on..RW just stays too moist. Roots get content and don't grow.
This is my first run in it. I'm doing a test right now. I have 10 clones all together.

2 in aloe
2 in honey
2 in mykos
2 in honey and mykos
2 in aloe and mykos
 
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