New to cloning

DirtyEyeball696 said:

Ph’ing water is not needed? Not sure what too say except if you have that thought your either stupid about growing or just delusional. Have you ever heard of nutrient lockout? Do you know how that’s caused? I’d hate to see your plants


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were talking "cloning" , no roots = no nutrient uptake

Clone King, non PH'ed tap water, 14 days

somedude584 said:

What type of nutrients do you use for clones?

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I just use cogo’s


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DirtyEyeball696 said:

I’ve always been decent to good over the years but when I took all that crap that root riot puts in their cubes and replaced it with my nutrient solution results went through the roof. But who am I, ive only cloned hundreds of thousands of clones and have supplied numerous caregivers with genetics since09


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Thanks, like I said I did buy a oxycloner, but I’m sure once I start I’ll try multiple methods. I’ll be picking your brain in the future . Thx

DirtyEyeball696 said:

Ph’ing water is not needed? Not sure what too say except if you have that thought your either stupid about growing or just delusional. Have you ever heard of nutrient lockout? Do you know how that’s caused? I’d hate to see your plants


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It seems to depend what they're growing in honestly, I use rockwool cubes for rooting clones and put into soil and aside from PHing the cubes before they're used (as per instructions on the package) I can honestly say I've never PHd my water and havn't had an issue with it. Although I will admit I am only on my second grow now, I did finish my first grow though and got about 80g. The only issue I've really had with it was a mag deficiency but that's cause I didn't have a sweetner. If you grow in hydro then yes it's very important but soil from what I've seen doesn't really need it.

I dipped my clones in clonex rooting gel. Set up my turboklone with two and a half gallons of water clonex solution, hydroguard and Roots accelerator gold. First time using the cloner. This is what they look like after 2 weeks.

Conditions I kept my cloner in. Never replace the water only added some when it got low. I put an aquarium thermometer with a remote probe into the reservoir. Turboklone has a fan that keeps the water the same as room temperature so I made sure it never went over 75. I added an AirStone to the reservoir. pH my water to 5.7. for the first few days, within 12 hours it would usually be up to about 6.1 to 6.3. after a few days the pH was more stable. Oh I also use the timer 15 minutes on 15 minutes off.

somedude584 said:

I've always had problems with cloning. By the time I get roots, they usually have yellowed beyond saving. I've instead chosen to start using colloidal silver and pollinating selected plants for seed, but part of me still yearns for the stability and uniformness of clones.

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Because you have them under too intense a light!

I use NO direct lighting.....Indirect only, and my cuttings don't begin to "grow" and "yellow" over rooting because they are getting lighting enough to go into full photosynthesis........

NGA said:

I never use dome, or heat pad ,or spay them, no nutes ,stim -root,always use razor blade ,you can scrape stem I don't bother,I never have cuttings die.But I place my cuts in total darkness 24 hours in glass of water .Then dip in stim-root & place in what ever medium I have around ,100 % every time.very cheap no hazzle

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Not bad.....

Scraped do root faster...


There is something about plants that once gave good fast rooting clones and then they got slow, weak, and run rather less then they should...That some know around here and never speak of......
The "fix" is rather eye opening.... You treat with a "systemic" anti fungal.....This is now a mother plant only. You take cuts from that and re-establish the now running as it should strain. Back into your stable.