Yesdog
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Man, yea I lost my first.... 15 clones, then i had a 4/5 success rate, now im at 10/10 on this last batch. Things i started doing differently, one or all of them seemed to help a bunch:
a) Bubble-bucket hasn't changed much, jsut a 5gal bucket with air stones and RapidStart. Underside of lid should be wet- i did that screw that up a few times. Using way more water now and the lid gets much more wet. This is probably the least important part for getting em to root. Just need something to wet the stems lol
b) no dome- just spraying a few times a day. They wilt for a day or 2, then pop back ('m in a very dry area too). If any leaves look perma-fucked, i trim em at that point. Light trim beforehand- leaving one growth node and a set of fan leaves. Lightly trim fan leaves.
c) Marring/scratch the stem- this is probably the biggest thing i started to do. I started cutting into the step just a little bit (so it makes 2 slashes across the stem), and I'd scrape up the lower part of the stem with the blade. A bunch. The stem looks like a fucking horror movie.
d) Coating the stem in dry rooting compound + great white. I think this might have been the key (plus the scratching in step C). The dry rooting compound is insoluble, and when mixed with great white it makes this nice microbe-rich pasty scab. I coat the stem with that, and watch to see how much of it runs off the next day or 2 (the bubbler gets it only semi-wet). If the 'scab' stayed really well stuck (and looks dry) and the plant looks droopy, ill spray the 'scab' a bit to get it wet and pasty again (some of it does come off, but not all of it. seems like you want a thin layer, so i use the spray bottle to adjust it down where its not totally blocking the stem from the water). So basically you want the paste layer to look wet, and brown (but not washed off). I'll get bumps in about 3 days, roots in 6.
e) 24 hour light. This might be just because i took clones from flowering plants, but I keep a constant (weak) light going.
The last 10/10 clones I did were also late late into flowering, still with 100% success. Got a bunch of clones sticking around with new growth coming out of the buds (which is so odd). I have 1 clone with literally 0 fan leaves, just a bud and sugar leaves. Has big nasty roots.
EDIT: its all black magic though lol
a) Bubble-bucket hasn't changed much, jsut a 5gal bucket with air stones and RapidStart. Underside of lid should be wet- i did that screw that up a few times. Using way more water now and the lid gets much more wet. This is probably the least important part for getting em to root. Just need something to wet the stems lol
b) no dome- just spraying a few times a day. They wilt for a day or 2, then pop back ('m in a very dry area too). If any leaves look perma-fucked, i trim em at that point. Light trim beforehand- leaving one growth node and a set of fan leaves. Lightly trim fan leaves.
c) Marring/scratch the stem- this is probably the biggest thing i started to do. I started cutting into the step just a little bit (so it makes 2 slashes across the stem), and I'd scrape up the lower part of the stem with the blade. A bunch. The stem looks like a fucking horror movie.
d) Coating the stem in dry rooting compound + great white. I think this might have been the key (plus the scratching in step C). The dry rooting compound is insoluble, and when mixed with great white it makes this nice microbe-rich pasty scab. I coat the stem with that, and watch to see how much of it runs off the next day or 2 (the bubbler gets it only semi-wet). If the 'scab' stayed really well stuck (and looks dry) and the plant looks droopy, ill spray the 'scab' a bit to get it wet and pasty again (some of it does come off, but not all of it. seems like you want a thin layer, so i use the spray bottle to adjust it down where its not totally blocking the stem from the water). So basically you want the paste layer to look wet, and brown (but not washed off). I'll get bumps in about 3 days, roots in 6.
e) 24 hour light. This might be just because i took clones from flowering plants, but I keep a constant (weak) light going.
The last 10/10 clones I did were also late late into flowering, still with 100% success. Got a bunch of clones sticking around with new growth coming out of the buds (which is so odd). I have 1 clone with literally 0 fan leaves, just a bud and sugar leaves. Has big nasty roots.
There's so many good machines/methods for cloning. I think it's probably one of the less important parts- just need something that keeps the stem anywhere between sorta wet and really wet. I stuck with my janky bubble cloner (an ace hardware bucket covered in black tape lol) just because it doesn't keep the stems 'too' wet. This allows the paste to more gradually slough off over a few days.@Reggie Jr. - dude, go to google and look up ice tube cloner - you use an ice tube tray for making ice cubes made to fit into water bottles. You but them at walmart. buy you some vermiculite and and drill small holes in the bottom of the ice tubes. use a tupperware container and put in a little bit of water to make it go about 1/8-1/2 inch of water to allow the ice tubes full of vermiculite to bottom water. this has worked for me 100 percent of the time. it's so simple and no dome or nutrients needed. i don't even ph the water.
EDIT: its all black magic though lol
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