How are my wilted cuttings looking??

Ok so I have 4 bubba skywalker and 5 platinum master kush cuttings......for the most part they're all wilted!! Cheaped out and didn't get a clone machine, the dome is completely free of mist after about 8 hours and I'm away 12 hours at a time so I'm afraid it's not enough humidity? I have the tray tucked behind the mother plants in a 4x4 tent with a 400w mh. I also draped a white shirt over back side of hood to further reduce direct hid lighting on cuttings. Tent temp is stable around 73 degrees and Humidity is on average 70% inside tent so I assume it's a bit higher in dome but the actual dome lid doesn't seal flush so I'm sure some air gets in the tray as my tent is under decent vacuum pressure. It has officially been about 24 hours and this is how they look......am I ok?? This is the very first time I've taking clones so I have no idea what to expect right now! Soaked riot rioters n 5.5 phd water and mist with the same. I also mist the foliage everytime I mist the dome lid. I also don't have a heat mat at this time!

You have to soak the cubes before you stick the cutting in. Those cubes look as dry as Gandi's sandal

Yes that's when I took them out the tent they were a little dry.....I gave each maybe 10 droplets of water each is that good enough?? How much should i water?

I've read so much about not over saturating that I'm afraid to give them to much! Even though I trimmed pretty good I think maybe each would have been doing better had a removed another stem from each of them. Too late now?

Sigh. .....this can't be a good sign

Fendi Frames said:

Sigh. .....this can't be a good sign

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I'd say those are done for.

Nah dude they're still alive, barely but alive!! Water those cubes with plenty of water......PRONTO!!!

Woohoo Let this be testament that anything is possible! All of these bad boys have sprung back up to life! The plugs were semi dry but I think my biggest problem was with temps and Humidity. Inside my tent the dome would never stay moist. Theres a 6 inch fan extracting hood heat causing a low humidity levels and very little warmth for cuttings, maybe even being n the shade of 400mh bulb also.

Long story short only thing I did was move tray out of 16/8 mother tent to the top shelf of my closet and left my regular 60watt bulb closet light on all day and kept door closed. 36 hours later they look like this

Mine also looked like that the morning I woke up after taking the cuttings all 13 were flipped over .... So also use a closet ... But it's the closet in my grow room and I have a t5 screwed in the bottom of the shelf on rope ratchets and my heating mat and dome sit on one of those plastic 3 drawer storage things from Walmart .... So I just taped my dome closed but only in the front middle (left the front sides open and pushed the back as tight to the wall as I could) humidity jumped from 53 to 80 in 20 minutes I also had to get temp regulator for my heating mat bc it was WAY to hot in there and I too am gone 12 hours a day... So that and a little 8" work desk fan i took home from the office and rigged up to work as an exhaust for the closet when the veg room lights are on and 6 days later 3 clones have rooted already and I can use the top of the shelf thing to germinate seeds (paper towel method) just popped 13 of them the last 2 days on it also

Alright so I've neglected my babies a little bit now they look like they're dying again but differently! Leaves look burnt but blackened??? I've been misting probably once a day honestly and today will he the first day that I've took the doom off completely. And I only did this thinking I either left it covering the clones longer then I should have or exhausted/heat stressed the cuttings being in closet. Closet maybe will reach 82 degrees maybe.

Could it be my lightning? I have the standard 45 watt bulbs closet bulb that I just leave on 24 hours a day now. Please help! !!! Considering moving them back to tent now and dailing the lumatek ballast back to 250watts MH. Only thing there is not very much humidity.

I've been misting plants and dome with 5.5phd water.....will ph balance go off scale sitting in a mister bottle? I haven't been feeding any type of nutes either please help!!! If a give plugs a nice squeeze some water will drip out but a whole lot. .....is this too wet? PLEASE ADVICE!! I really would like to not lot Lol these cuts. No roots coming thru yet

Anyone? ??

What is the rh in the dome? And do u spray the dome??? What's the temp in there also

Rh as in humidity? Sorry new to the terms but yes I mist the dome, tho for the past 2 r 3 days I'd look at dome and if I seen water droplets still on dome I wouldn't bother. Blame it on work time constraints I guess. Do u think think killed my plants? I have central ac right outside my closet. The closest gets warm ay best never hot. But aware plants should be closer to warm to encourage root growth so I always leave door closed to try and retain heat. But unfortunately there's no record being logged for temps or rh (if that means humidity) shouldve just grab the clone king and called it a day

Get humidity up asap give them a water when I clone I. RR plugs I water once max twice before roots are showing

Ya rh is relative humidity make sure you get a hygrometer/thermometer and leave it inside your dome... Also try taping the the front and back middle of the dome closed around the edges to help retain humidity... Make sure you leave the sides loose enough to get some fresh air in ... Here's mine

I transplanted 6 last night and I have roots on 3 of 6 still in the dome just waiting to get more roots to transplant them

@Fendi Frames those are toast start over, use a dome and soak cubes but squeeze excess water off then add clone

Yeah.....I trashed my babies I'll be ordering cloneking online for about $60 which I originally set out to do. I just don't have enough time to check multiple times a day to ensure dome is always misted

You dont have to mist anything. Just make sure the lids on right and get a heat mat. You'll be throwing that cloneking in the trash after a yr or so

Diabolic I'm definitely going to try rooting the old fashion way again but this really made me feel a certain kinda way. Short of the heat mat everything else was pretty dialed in. When I pulled clones out of cubes NOT ONE had anyway hint of root growth and this was maybe a week and a half so? Maybe the heat mat really makes a big difference but the temps n closet was definitely north of 78 degrees overall.

I say clone king may work a bit better because u don't really have to keep humidity levels up nor need for misting, I can take cuts and leave them in the same chamber as the mothers vegging under 250w mh, set and forget! Then at that point I'll attempt the old skool way when the cloner starts kicking out babies