I cut the leafs, becouse from what i understand it somewhat stops the photoshyntesis and lets the clone focus on rooting... but the web seems divided Guess the only thing that counts is experience. Hopefully some survives. Seems god so far. Purchased a good ultrasonic humidifier today.Nope, just the first link I found when I googled trimming leaves for clones. Like I showed in my pic I use rapid rooters. You told the OP his clones would die, because he trimmed the leaves. That's simply not true, oh master of 1000 cuts.