Can you
Can you tell us what your cloning process is and your strike rate, cheers jim
I’ll try and explain it all best I can:
Mother plant, is usually trained to a lollipop with as many cut sites as I can get per plant ( lots of topping and training) they’re in coco. I’ll start prepping the Mum 48 hours before taking cuts by ph adjusted RO h2o only feeds, and spray with clonex solution at 2x lights outs.
Prep the blocks: about a 1 hour soak in RO h20 adjusted to 5.5 ph. Release the soak water by firm shakes without damaging or squeezing the blocks. Place blocks in new soak bucket of RO h20 with 4ml per litre of Canna Rizotonic ph’d to 5.8-6, soak for 30 mins. Release soak solution as above until block is just moist. Place blocks on humidity dome floor.
Prep a jug with RO h20 ph adjusted to 5.8-6ph, this is to place cuts in asap after taking, within a few seconds. This stops air in the stem.
Place an amount of clonex gel in a shot glass.
I use disposable scalpels, and a hobby cutting board, everything is clean as and wiped down with ISO, and I’ll wear powder free disposable gloves.
I prep the cut site first on the Mum by eying the cut, and removing the lower fans that will be on the cut and halving the upper fans with clean fiskas. I make cuts to include 3min-4 nodes, so I take more than this off the Mum (scapel) and straight into in jug, stem submerged. I repeat unit I’ve got 5-6 cuts in the jug.
Then I take a cut out and quickly make my final cut on the board at 45degree angle either 6ish mm under a node (this node has no leaf or stem off it, or straight through the middle of a node if I can get 2 nodes in the block, if the stem is woody i’ll Use the scalpel on an angle and very lightly scrape, and into the clonex gel. Repeat.
Then I’ll place the cuts into the blocks, pushing in gently until firmly in. Spray foliage with ph6 RO h20
I like the humidity dome at 27C inside, and spray clones twice a day, mornings and night alternating with a Rizo solution and h20, and the inside of the dome cover with h20. I keep the dome lid vents closed for 3-4 days. Then start opening by 1/4-1/2 each day after that, then place lid on angle to start acclimating. I keep an eye on the moisture on the bottom of the blocks, if they start to get too dry I’ll spray them with Rizo solution, you don’t want them wet or you’ll get stem rot. Dome lid normally comes off by about day 10. Sometimes I have roots out by then or day 14. Depends on strain.
I use T5’s for cloning. On 24/7. Don’t use a fan on your cuts, will dry them out quickly.
Get 100% strike rate most times. Even when monster cropping to week 4.
Any Q’s let me know. Hope I’ve explained it well enough and haven’t left any thing out