Rooting or Rotting? How are my clones doing?

[hwy420]

This is my first attempt at cloning. I used a rooting hormone gel, they've been in the aeroponic cloner for a 11 days now. They are taking so long.

I've changed the water once so far. I've got the current TDS Meter reading 220 (The 220 came from 10% strength TSP of Bloom Formula & 2 drops of SuperTive per gal), and the PH is 6.1. I accidentily left the pump unplugged all night long last night and they were wilting bad, but recovered within a couple of hours.

Rooting or Rotting?

 

[smokin1]

pic 2 looks awful, but they look like they have some roots starting out. You will know in a day or 2. BTW the yellowing of the leaves is normal.

 

[smppro]

those are some big clones, next time cut your clone at a 45 degree angle and make sure there are no other branches on the bottom, you also dont need so many leaves on the clone itself.

 

[tomahawk2406]

yeah that 45 degree cut opens the layers of the stem that water and cloning gels will get to faster and have a quicker effect on the plant growing roots. and the bigger the clone, the more stressed it will be trying to develope roots while also trying continuing with photosynthesis.

 

[smokin1]

These are mine 8 days in DIY aero cloner, sry for the bad pics my camera sucks on close ups. No nutes, no rooting hrmn, just ph'ed distilled water.

 

[hwy420]

yeah that 45 degree cut opens the layers of the stem that water and cloning gels will get to faster and have a quicker effect on the plant growing roots. and the bigger the clone, the more stressed it will be trying to develope roots while also trying continuing with photosynthesis.

Someone in a youtube video told me to scrape down the oustide of the stem with a razor blade to damage it the stem base, and it would have a better chance at rooting. This is what I did; it's almost been 2 weeks since I took them, but it looks like everything on the stem is turning into a massive tap root or something.

 

[smppro]

a small scrape is ok , it does the same thing as cutting at 45 degree angle, just gives more surface area for roots, one important thing is you need atleast 1 node to root, aside from the ones with branches(which wont work, they need to be removed flush with the stem) i dont see any.

 

[smppro]

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=461

 

[Calijuana]

rooting

be patient i think they look good considering they could have not rooted at all. =]

 

[tom__420]

Are the sprayers on a timer or on 24/7?

 

[Dirtfree]

Do you have a humidity problem?
Your mother looks overfertilized or too much humidity.

Healthy cuttings come frome healthy mothers.

 

[h8red1]

looks great yo all those small bumps are gonna start shooting roots any day mine got like that at one time and it turn into one big root brro so atay up aight!!!!!

 

[hwy420]

looks great yo all those small bumps are gonna start shooting roots any day mine got like that at one time and it turn into one big root brro so atay up aight!!!!!

Cool; although it's an old thread, but it's important for others who come along who may have patience problems like me, but roots should be achieved within a week or two, but mine must have been stressed for some reason b/c it literally took almost a month for me this time around.

This picture is from 10/13/2009, when I finally was able to transplant them, but as you can see, I started this thread on 09/23, and it still took another 2 1/2 weeks for them to be ready to go into soil.

If interested, come see me in my journal with pictures of how they have turned out so far

Hwy420's White Widow Grow 4 weeks into flower as of 12/08/2009.