How Do I Clone Marijuana Plants?Tutorial

i am planning on cloning soon and i am wondering if i take a sun leave off or one of the shoots next to the sun leave, and about how long till i see roots

sp the best way to clones is the with the bubbler machine.... post links of DIY to making them please.... the rockwoll methods seem not to work the stem just browns up

so you can cut a clone from any part of the plant?? jus 1.5 inches beneath the leaf set that you want to keep?

Mr Ganja! one question. I'm clear with everything but,! does it matter if I use a clear jar or other than clear?

THANK YOU SO MUCH! this is a super easy method! one of my plants was eaten by my sister inlaws dog and this saved the little plants life!

I recently started to experiment with clones for the first time.

I have a healthy outdoor mother plant of which i took them.
the first 3 I took, hanged all droopy in an hour, misted them regurlaly for 3 days and they did not came back up, now are they actually dead, or do the still have a chance to form roots?

took a new one, this one is a bit droopy but nowhere near the other 3, and he's being misted equally.

Another question i have is, will these clones(taken they survive) flower automatically under natural light? i want to keep them indoors until i can take new clones from these for the new planting season. But with natural lighting they will just flower right?
is there a way to keep them in the vegative state without lamps?

sorry if I do not make a lot of sense

Thankyou for taking the time to write this method down. I'm a nooob just 'practicing' on some seeds I was given and some i've collected over past 30yrs ! (yeah 30 gawd i feel old sometimes).
I'm doing a bit of experimenting at the moment and need a way to physicaly see the root growth, your method is just what I need. I will use a glass but cover in thick card so I can pull card down to inspect roots. and put back so no light hits root system.
Talking just about cuttings, I have been givin them 24hrs light (artificial 50w halogen, as it warms the cuttings, and I used cut in half [clear plastic] soda bottles as a lid to keep humidity in).....And I must say they have all taken, on 3rd day they seem to appear 'limp' like they dying, but next 12hrs the stem stiffens as if something has started to work and i'm thinking that must be root. the last lot i took out and inspected after 4 days, the root had NOT grown any side shoots or anything much else, *** I Think**** This was because now I always try to peel some of the lower stems outer skin off at same time im removing lower branches....And I think with this one I did not as when the branches came off they did so cleanly.
Basically I have a question - Do you need to scrape/pull off a bit of the stems 'skin' for want of better word? i.e. do roots grow through this better than 'skin' if left intact. - cellulose outer coating?.....

I see I have been giving them too much of wrong light so i'll put on window sill if weather OK today.

Ow yes and i've already ordered some "proper" cloning Gel, not just the 1st thing I saw in a superstore. (Although it does seem to do the trick the powder, but it's "messy" - so I may srt growing roots outta my feet if i dont clean up good)

OK this is getting long so i'll finish my story elsewhere and you can read the fate of my 30yr old seeds.....

after transplanting the clones what hours of light on light off do you need to keep them from being stressed, under a 400 watt veg light.

ok i read the main topic but i still have questions.
lets say i have a cutting (clone),

1- Before putting them in glass of water, do i dip of the stems in cloning gel ?
2- Do i put the cuttings in a glass of water Immidiately after chopping?
3- Does water in the glass cover the bottom of the stem? (water covers ? % of the bottom of the stem)

if someone reify all the steps as below, it would be more clear... some of us have bad english
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1= I always Dipped mine in Superthrive.
2= Yes immediately after the Dip they go in the water.
3= U want enuff water in the cup to cover the scraped area. But id recommend at least an inch some cuts like to drink alotta water.

Rogue said:

Anyways, it seems like a lot of work for an inexperienced individual

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Are you serious? LOL - what could be easier than cutting a branch off 3 nodes down, removing most of the leaves then squeezing the stem and sticking it in water whilst keeping it squeezed?

my question is:

do the clones need 24/0 light regime from the 1st day to the time for placing in soil (pot) ?

or i can ask that like this:

what is the light regime from the 1st day of rockwool placing till placing them in soil ?

forexample:
1st day 2nd day 3rd day ........ till i see roots : what is the light shedule ?
after i see roots till they go in soil: what is the light shedule?

Ok so I took some cuttings and dipped them In clonex and put them in the water with siran wrap on top. Now they are under t5 bulbs. I misted them with water and about 4 hours later they are very drooped is this normal?

what stage does the plant have to be in to take a clipping?

wait, so do you need light, cause im groing outdoor o.0

I am only familiar with Hydroponics DWC, EbbnFlo, NFT, and the other numerous forms of Hydroponics. I do not like soil techniques as it just adds WITHOUT any benefits more problems like its MESSY and can contain bugs, bacterias, and Fungi. Its wasteful and more often than not the soil is not reusable. You can reuse it but its depleted of natural nutes and the trace elements and components breakdown to nothingness (lack of a better word). I'm not a "Veteran" grower but have had several successful crops in my growing experience and I'm an avid forum reader...not so much a poster. I read all the bullshit and only post a few compiled, accurate posts ever so often.

1. Pick a plant
2. Count down 3 nodes (Each "Y" section) starting from the tips of a branch.
3. Snip the branch nothing special or accurate.

Once all your clippings (as many as you can work with in 5-10 minutes) are taken its time to move to the prepping stage

4. Measure down approx. 1" from the 3rd node and make a diagonal cut under water...(much like you would for flowers IE roses or what not).
(NOTE: Pinching does nothing but cause damage. You would think that it would force the void of water to the tip that was cut but in reality its not a vacuum. Its a living thing. All your doing is crushing and damageing the integrity of the already formed cells and rupturing the cell walls on a microscopic level. This is just additional stress and damage that the plant will fix, taking more time and extra/access nutes that would have been better used for natural growth later at the end of a water changing cycle IE it used the nutes earlier to repair what you crushed.)

Tip...use treated water. 5.5 pH, superthrive.

Sounds like a pain but it can all be done with garden snips (I prefer a surgical surgical scalpel or Exact-o-Knife, snips, 1 cup of water, and a couple drops of superthrive).
If you slice the surface or score the last 1/2 inch on all four sides of the round stem this will give your clone more of an exposed area of the plant that the powder or gel can seep into thus making the root-able area MUCH greater than just the bottom diagonal slice.

5. Dip the Clone 1 inch into your rooting stimulant. Tap the plant on the edge of the container to remove any access.

Weather its a powder or a gel dipping in water is unnecessary. The plant has microscopic hairs that will hold all the necessary rooting stimulant.

6. Place the clone 1 inch into a 1.5x1.5 inch Rock-wool cube.
Tip...pretreat your cubes with Superthrive stress release solution and adjust the pH to 5.5 and soak over night.

Thats it at that point your growing.

Its a different topic keeping them alive after that with proper nutes, superthrive, etc. Misting, and lighting.

Mother plants AND clones are best kept together under 24 hours of artificial light. sticking to the golden rule of 50W per sq ft of growing space.

BUT commonsense says that if your doing SoG your light may not reach through that canopy of the leaves. So more wattage and Llumens may be necessary.

I would say keeping an eye on the clones daily and misting as the leaves look dry is the most accurate statement since everyones lighting will vary from Wattage, Llumens, spectrum, and distance to light source as well as heat, humidity, and many many other catalysts you could tweek as your learn about them to improve upon perfection.

Once finished i would suppose the only question someone may have would be how deep into the water should the rock wool sit? It can sit as deep as you like so as to not completely submerge the cube and so long as it or the roots touch the water so the cube will consistently stay wet. Keep in mind that your roots will grow into the water as it needs more. How fast and densely the roots grow will all be adversely affected by the amount and types of nutes, pH, your lighting setup, and humidity.

As for the clippings dipped in powder and placed in water alone will give you a problem later of placing the rooted clone into a substrate. To me its just an unnecessary and completely ADDITIONAL step. ALSO you are washing off or MOREOVER diluting the rooting stimulant at that point and I would bet that you could be getting MUCH better results by not doing so OR using a Rooting SOLUTION not powder or gel which is a rooting Stimulant. Two completely different things and if combined will give you the best results.

Superthrive is a solution that heps with stress and fatigue of a plant/tree. IE Contains elements that FORCE water/nutes into the plant on an atomic level if you can look that close.
(NOTE: It will and HAS brought brown, dead, dry looking plants back to luscious green healthy life so to speak. Its also got a 100% guarantee or money back.) You form your own opinion.
Rooting Solution is a liquid solution that promotes root growth. IE Root Solution from Green Light
Rooting Stimulant is a powder/gel that encourages roots to form. IE Root Stimulant from Schultz

I tried this and the stems at the bottom started to turn brown like it was dying but the leaves where still green

Im going to store this in my journal so i can come back and look at it later. Im going to assume its ok since its just for personal use. If thats a prob, just let me know.

nevermind you can only post 10 pics to your journal at once and that has 11. Hate to leave one out.

sorry im a newbie and confused did you dip it in the powder?? or does it just root it self ,and is that even possible??