Ak 48 Clone problems in aero cloner

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greenthumbgraph

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Hello all, not sure if this is the right place for my thread but I've been having a lot of issues lately. I'm starting to think growing is not for me! 1 of my 3 issues that I'm inquiring about right now are my clones! They've been in this clone bucket I ordered from HTG for 3 weeks now. I cut them from a female plant made a 45 degree cut scraped the tissue a little & dipped in root tek rooting gel (it came free with the bucket) I used regular tap water which sat out for over 24hrs & ph'ed to 5.5 Temps have been a little tedious to keep in line but overall I keep temps btwn 72-80 degrees. I've been running the pump 24/7 I have 1 26w cfl hanging about 1ft above the clones room temp I'll guesstimate is about 75-80 degrees daily (it' 25 degrees @ the moment where I'm located, so my heater is on most of the time) during week # 2 I started adding h202 to the res 29% 5ml to 3 gallons of water. In the beginning of week #3 which was last thursday 1/31/13 I'll admit I got a little impatient & added half strength veg nutes (dyna gro) & some b1 vitamins. I started seeing little bumps on the stem & a few very little roots during the end of week 1! not much has happened since. You should not that the mother it came from was not the healthiest I think she had some kind of lockout but I took the cuttings before it got too bad. Over all the clones still look decent not too much yellowing & absolutely no wilting @ all.. What's the deal??? Thanks in advance & sorry for the text book. lol hopefully the pics will help they're not the best I took a pic of the best rooted cloneclone bucet.jpgclone roots.jpg
 
BBbubblegum

BBbubblegum

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greenthumbgraph said:
hey BBbubblegum they started to root about a week in but have since slowed down a lot for some reason this posted twice I had pics on the other post
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So you have a pump on them right? They usually sit still with bumps and then out of nowhere start shooting out roots. Seems like you're doing everything right. Was the mother still in veg?
 
BBbubblegum

BBbubblegum

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greenthumbgraph said:
Just uploaded the pics its not the greatest quality
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It looks like some of them have pistils on them. I'm assuming you took these from a flowering mother. That is what is causing the delay. However, judging by the root bumps the roots look like they will take off over the next 48 hours. Keep us updated.
 
superstoner1

superstoner1

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For cloning ph-ing the water is a waste, so are the nutes. Without roots the plants can not get nutes and ph affects nute uptake via the roots. I would say the biggest issue is running the pump 24 hours. Not to mention the h2o2
 
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greenthumbgraph

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BBbubblegum said:
It looks like some of them have pistils on them. I'm assuming you took these from a flowering mother. That is what is causing the delay. However, judging by the root bumps the roots look like they will take off over the next 48 hours. Keep us updated.
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I never flipped the lights on the mom she was under 24/7 cfl for 2 months & I sure would hope they'd take off in the next 48hrs but these bumps & roots have been this way for a week maybe a little longer so I don't know what's going on. Is it possible that the clones are stunted??
 
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greenthumbgraph

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superstoner1 said:
For cloning ph-ing the water is a waste, so are the nutes. Without roots the plants can not get nutes and ph affects nute uptake via the roots. I would say the biggest issue is running the pump 24 hours. Not to mention the h2o2
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Thanks for responding superstoner1 I hear you with the ph & nutes being a waste I've read so many different things I'm not sure what's right & what's not @ this point. The h202 I added only because it seems like there might be some light leaks in the res I didn't want algae to become a problem
 
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