So I have tried cloning with clonex before without success until I finally made an aircloner with a topperware and air pump. After 10 days for the first time they were growing roots, so I removed a transparent bottle that acted as humidity dome and after 2-3 days the clones were looking bad as in dehydrated. So I put on the dome again and they quickly improved but few days later they developed mold. I treated with h2o2 water 1:9 and saw the mold effervesent, then I left for 1 week, came back and they were full of mold and pretty mich dead. What did I do wrong and how to prevent it next time?
Clones got mold and died, how to prevent?
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smokinrav
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Probably too much humidity.
Have you tried water cloning? As in putting a cut end in plain water and letting it grow roots? No humidity dome required and no stress. It takes a bit longer, but is practically foolproof.
Full disclosure, I wrote this 15 years ago under the Caprichoso
Have you tried water cloning? As in putting a cut end in plain water and letting it grow roots? No humidity dome required and no stress. It takes a bit longer, but is practically foolproof.
Full disclosure, I wrote this 15 years ago under the Caprichoso
Cloning in plain water under fluoros
This is a follow up to the piece I wrote for the FLower Pix News #6 http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=10530 I will go into more detail and include lots of pictures of each process I have found that water cloning facilitates. I hope you find that sticking a cutting in a cup of water...
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Wow, though it is so simple why nobody is using it? Seems unreal. It seems perhaps the reason my clones seemed dehydrated by removing the dome may not have to do with lack of humidity but strong light. I had a low PAR LED lamp nearby, not really above them, but next to them and above. From what I read on the article, light forces photosynthesis and since they have no effective roots yet then they use stuff stored in leaves thus yellowing and dehydrating. Is this correct? I actually wonder if using a humidity dome for an aircloner is actually necessary since commercial air cloners do not seem to come with one.
Perhaps ambience light is all that is needed for clones and must avoid any nearby lamp light?
xtsho
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As with most things regarding cannabis it is that simple. Too many growers overcomplicate things.
calvin.m16
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Get your climate dialed in (Temp, Humidity & Lighting). CLEAN the area you're growing like you are going to have open heart surgery in the same room.