Can not clone to save my life.

waktoo

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Yeah. This... ^^^^^^

Cloning in ambient light made a world of difference for me. A huge difference...

It may take a bit longer, but the success rate went from less than 20% to almost 100%.
 

elephantSea

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here's my jam.

get a solid color rubbermaid bin big enough to fit a humidity dome. cut a hole in the lid of the bin so a lower power led or flouro can shine through. No need for a heat mat. leave the light on 24hrs obviously.

prepare your moms a day or two before to minimize stress, trim them into palm trees. slightly cut the tips off one or two bigger fan leaves to prevent excess transpiration.

using root riots, and when you're ready to clone - fill a large glass with RO water. Starting with one plant, cut each prepared section with a new/wetted razor blade at about a 45 degree angle in the woody area. the woody area is key, if you're trying to clone too new of plant growth - you will have a very difficult time. immediately place into the glass of water; you want to minimize the time the freshly cut end is exposed to air, and repeat until you've cut everything you want from this plant. You really have all the time in the world now so just go slow. soak the root riots in RO water. When ready, take out a cut, score the back of the stem at the cut by just running the edge of the razor blade perpendicular along it lightly a few times until you feel the grittiness of the outside layer removed, dip in rooting gel, or fresh coconut milk and place into the root riot gently. Be gentle, you don't wanna fuck up the cut end. pre-poke the root riots if necessary. btw, I just use the root riots upside down so they stand on their own.

when all done, put them inside the humidity dome (or similar), mist them, whatever, and put the dome inside the bin under the light. now just leave them the fuck alone for a while. Don't really need to bother looking at them for at least 4 or 5 days. They will make their own environment in there and be happy.

I typically find that after about a week, the root riots dry up a bit so I add a little bit of water and remove the dome, almost the next day roots are busting out. been doing it this way for years and can't remember the last time a cut didnt root. It becomes a machine after a while.

goodluck! Dont over think things
 
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Smitty42088

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Clear plastic container cut your clones at 45 scrape the sides before applying gel put them in the container of soil spray periodically to keep the encloser super humid works every time for me
 

Mustangmike

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Cutting the leaves in half width wise will help the cutting retain moisture. I take my cuttings throw them in my veg tent with the bigger plants and set them on the soil in the shade. About 90% success rate with this method. Also taking the cuttings from lower on the plant should increase your odds, but I don’t usually have issues taking them from other spots they just seem to take a while to root. And like others have said cleanliness is a huge one.

https://forum.grasscity.com/threads/why-cut-leaves-in-half-when-cloning.581025/

Good luck and happy growing
 

waxman420

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Not all that experienced but u said 64 -72 degrees . Too cold imo shoot for 75. If room temp is dropping to 64 the water is too cold they can root still but take forever
 

raggyb

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So many good suggestions here. I only did once but it was a 80% success. Only things I haven't seen mentioned was that 100% humidity is ok just open once a while to breath for a minute to keep off mold. Took 2 weeks before saw any root. Somewhere around there started venting down from 100%. Kept it warm and had things lined up so I could move fast through the operation.
 
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