Do clones need nutes besides rooting gel?
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Walter9999
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At this point in their lives there are no roots to uptake nutrients. So no...
Final Phase
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If you get into growing lots of clones over the years you would do well to invest in one of the EzClone type machines. I use rooting gel to insure roots in 8 to 14 days. In the past I have gotten quality clones with no gel - Just cut them and start up the machine...
twostrokenut
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I've done my best work with a turbocloner and plain ph'd water. If I have rooting gel I will use it though.
Afgan King
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I take my clones in rapid rooters and when I soak em I soak with rhizotonic and mycos slurry. Shouldn't need anything till roots are established and should be transplanted by time needs nutes
Afgan King
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Got a 128 site ez cloner and used to run 6 at a time at my work. 100% rooting some as early as 5-10 days strain dependent I will say some strains hate that shit and love Rockwool or rapid rooters. If with ez cloner keep water at 71° run the clonex solution at 20ml/gal cut your clone at 45° angle from both sides to make a point then tap the white middle with your razor. Place your razor perpendicular to the stalk of clone scrape very lightly don't need a solid scrape just scuff it lightly dip in clonex gel and put in cloner. Don't turn cloner on till filled. I do this with 128 site ez cloners lol the largest u can get so its easy to do on smaller ones
bryan oconner
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i used to do zero nutrients in my cloner . but i see a bit or yellowing , so i run 1/4 of regular dose of nutrients working very well for me . also scrap the stem with a sharp razor so on lightly that you want to form roots it will shave off a week or so of waiting . i am talking about very light scraping like you could with a finger nail suggest trying only 1 my way to see if you like the results . the answer is yes an no if you need rooting gel . depends on the garden . it cant hurt to add them so why not ? also you did not ask but i do trim the leafs with sharp snips in half cut them right in half . this method is done by a lot of people and major commercial grow centers .
not my plant .
not my plant .
Final Phase
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When water temps rise I put in 6 bottles of frozen water in the water tank once a day to bring water temps down. The plants respond well to that... When the temps rise too much the stems get gooey and don't root up.
Afgan King
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Ya it's called damping. Pretty much a stem rot temps at 71° clonex solution at 20ml per gallon and run 24 hrs you'll root 100% did it for a living made my name in the industry from my cloning techniques
Skunk Baxter
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I clone in coco. If something's taking too long to root, I'll often use foliar feeding just to keep them happy. I tend to go by the color of the leaves - if the leaves were yellowish or pale green when I cut them, then I watch them more closely because the clone doesn't have much nitrogen to work with to begin with. I usually start giving a clone light nutes after a week or so, because it's a safe bet that some small roots are starting to form.
Afgan King
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Why I use the mycos slurry and rhizotonic has trace nutes along with root stimulant
Skunk Baxter
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What is your recipe? How do you formulate it? Because it sounds intriguing. You grow coco too, don't you?
Afgan King
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Yup use this mycos 1 tsp for a 1 liter and rhizotonic at 5ml in that same liter
And I use tupur which is a coco mix
purplehays1
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cloning is very strain dependent, some strains ive run will clone 95% success every time with just water and a rockwool cube. Other strains i will struggle to get 75% success with rooting gel, and ive cut thousands of clones.
Short answer if ur willing to have a lot fail u dont need anything, unless its a particularly hard to clone strain.
Budley Doright
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I've used rock wool for years but was gifted a bag of root riot cubes and was reall happy with the results, some do tend to fall apart though which is a huge drawback.
Afgan King
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Rapid rooters won't