Clones Took From Early Flower Actually Rooted!

TJ_BASS

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So I was doing some early flower pruning and decided to take some clones. (This was my first grow unknown bagseed from 3-4 year old shake my uncle had lol) I took only 3 clones they were really small left some leaves on it and cut the tips of it.
I never heard of cloning in flower till someone mentioned it on my grow journal so I did some research and tried it.
I did a diy method that I made up my self. I didn’t have any peat pellets so I decided to use FoxFarm Ocean Forest Potting Soil and decided to take some plastic wrap and make a contraption similar to the shape of a peat pellet and watered it with straight Tap water till moist. I didn’t use any rooting hormones basically nothing at all, I just put the clones straight into the moist soil and babied it for about a week making sure it was at a high humidity level (90%-100%) and decent temp (68-75*F) and also making sure the soil is real moist.
24hr light schedule
I stopped babying it after about 2 weeks just got tired of it and I knew I was just doing to much trying to make sure it was all perfect. So I just let it sit.
I was really skeptical about it I didn’t think they would survive none of them because I thought at first some of the yellowing must be from it dying but I was wrong, it was metabolizing it’s self to concentrate on root production (that’s what I think) They stayed alive for a pretty long time. I would have expected them to die off especially because of how small the clones were when I took them.
Then BOOM! I check on it about 4 weeks later and notice some new growth, checked on the roots and man were they long, well only 2 of them. The other one had roots but they were still small and didn’t poke threw like the other ones but I’ll still give it a chance.
I’ll have some pics later today I transplanted the other two today into solo cups FoxFarm Ocean forest potting soil with added perlite.
They’re under a regular led light bulb probably 24 watts equivalent. And I switched the light schedule to 18:6 so it can start to veg again.

I’m a noob grower and I learned that it’s not that hard to clone and I wouldn’t need any rooting hormone. Next time I’ll just throw them in a cup of water keep it even more simple.
Happy Growing!:weed:
T.
 
Right on TJ. You want to make sure your substrate has access to oxygen; carefully with plastic if you’re trying to emulate peat pellets.

Focus on sanitary cuts with a sharp blade, avoiding oxygen embolisms by keeping cuttings wet, and allowing the medium to dry out to encourage rooting. Hormones can help but are not required.

Congrats on your rooting success!
 
Thank you! I made sure to have good air coming to the roots one of them was a paper towel and that one didn’t really root well
 
Story sounds familiar, my first time taking cuttings, after about 2/3 weeks of nothing I figured I lost them all, went out a week later to throw them out and found this...
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Now doing very well, going into flower in a couple weeks. I took this cutting beginning of August, Sunset Sherbet. Wish I done this years ago! :)
 
When I first started out ,I was told to use a very low feed of Flowering Nutrients.The young clones like the phosphorus and Potassium.Worked a treat has a cube dip very low 0.2/0.3 ec.But now I just use Mineral water and Aloe Vera has the rooting gel ,also put odd bit of the slime in the water the cubes are gonna be soaked in ,and just shake bottle till it's all blended well.I don't even look at the bottom of the cubes ,till about 12/14 days after putting clones in.I do use the Medium sized cubes though,if I use the small ones I check after about 7/10 days.All ways make a note of what one cloned the best ,and a note of early smell.Never worrie about what the top looks like,un less they are really bad ,I once had 3 Blues clones given me,they looked dead on top,but had a mass of white roots ,they came on brilliant ,and I had that strain about 5/6 year.Cloning each year ,because of root size not plant.Just not keen on root bound plants ,I think it causes too much stress.Shit I miss that plant,it was before I got Northern Jack Herer.My aim is to one day have all the uk clones.Exodus ,Barnsley Jack,Blues,I have Livers .Like I used to before custom base made me go all out Haze ,what a shame.And I was not the first to fall for that ,getting shut of the old gene pool for all new,Super Lemon Haze ,Super Silver ,Neville's.Now they all ask me for the old strains ,glad I'm out of that game to be honest.Get them the old strains ,they would want hazes.
 
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Top 2 are the ones that rooted very well
3rd pic is the one that rooted but it didn’t poke through
You can see my professional setup with the last two pictures lol
Something I didn’t mention while I was cloning them they started to produce slightly more trichomes. The twisted growth is from it switching over to the vegetative state again. Looks pretty Gnarly.
 
They're producing new leaves, thats good to see. My clones are looking like little trees now, its worth the wait!
 
Larger 3 are Sunset Sherbet and Notorious OG, unsure which is which as clones got mixed up. Smaller two are Sunset Sherbet.
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