All 6 of my clones died...

[The sim's Bob Newbie]

Bloody annoyed - opened the rockwool cubes and they'd all gone brown and dead at the bottom...thats annoying, they'd been in the moisture dome for almost 3 weeks as well

What went wrong? All I did was spray them almost daily and they all died with no roots? (BLOODY overpriced CLONEX didn't work!)

Anyway - put the mothers into flower at the weekend, so just taken another clone off each plant and am now trying water-cloning...

Any advice? Still got a few leaves on them, putting them under 24 hours of light in a cup of water...will I have to refill it before roots develop?

 

[CuriousSoul]

Without more information it's difficult to judge but my guess is that you didn't keep the temperature up. Clones like it rather hot to take root 21C+. What light did you have them under?

 

[Bamstone]

Did you keep the rock wool wet the whole time? Beyond just misting? I have clones that occasionaly won't root and just sit there, but if they turn brown and die then it sounds like they dried out. Don't know about Clonex but I use the cheap old GreenLight rooting powder you get at Home Depot for $3.99 and rarely loose a clone. Keeping the rock wool wet is essential.

I bury my rockwool cubes in potting soil (FFOF) in a 16oz dixie cup leaving just the top exposed. Then I water the whole thing heavily, dip the clone in the rooting powder, stick it in the rockwool, and put a plastic baggie with a small hole in it over the top of the cup, leaving it there until I see some new growth on the clone - usually a week or two - which means roots are growing. Sure fire method and the wet soil helps to keep the rockwool from drying so quickly. Also, a drop or two per gallon of superthrive in the water you use will help.

 

[The sim's Bob Newbie]

It was nice and moist in there - dunno if it was maybe TOO moist? The temps may have had something to do with it...I've only got 1 grow space so they efectively went into flower last week,lets hope the water-cloning works anyway - its simpler so its probably more likely to work

 

[Kushcrosser]

You are giving them 24hrs of light arent you? Olivias cloning gel is kick ass btw!

 

[The sim's Bob Newbie]

You are giving them 24hrs of light arent you? Olivias cloning gel is kick ass btw!

Until friday (17-18 days) they were under 18/6 - i've put the 2 new clones into a cup with water in it...keeping them seperate from the rest, under 24 light this time (single 23-watt cfl above) is it worth sticking a little blob of gel in the water? If not when should I put very weak nutes in? Any idea on when they may run out of water? (they're both in the same cup...)

 

[Stonedz]

Maybe add a little superthrive to the water, just to help things along. Although i haven't done any cloning so i could be wrong lol.

Good luck!