Organic cloning? How do you clone?

Grandpa GreenJeans

Grandpa GreenJeans

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MistaRasta said:
A recycle timer was the best investment I made for my cloning procedure. I set mine to 4:00 on 1:30 off and my water is always cool. Haven't dealt with slime, root rot, temp issues etc..after buying this thing
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Short interval timer here. 1sec on / 2 min off. Ran around 70 bucks
But then I have to use a HP pump capable of 200 psi, an accumulator tank rated for 200 psi, and stainless steel solinoid valve. This is probably the most expensive shit I have ever bought for clones, and the sad part is great results can be had a lot cheaper and easier.
But if your making clones by the hundreds, nothing beats the TAG HPA.
Best part is, the water consumption is so minimal that DTW is applicable and zero chance of root/rot issues.

If anyone has the gear to do HPA clones, I'd highly recommend it.
Shoot, now that i think about it, i may even make a thread about it, since I have the gear already.
 
Grandpa GreenJeans

Grandpa GreenJeans

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oldbikepunk said:
That's the zero-cost option since I am still using over 5 year old rooting powders and recycled garbage. If you recycle something even one time it's very good. My lights are 10-25 years old too. New bulbs.
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Me too. One of my rooting powders is ferti-lome brand and is at least 5 years old. Still works tho- I just used it to make some males.
I've always had high success rate with clones, but I did toss 3 for poor rooting times this last clone run. Mabey it's not as good as it should be??? Idk, eitherway it's cheap enough to replace if needed.
 
MistaRasta

MistaRasta

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Grandpa GreenJeans said:
Short interval timer here. 1sec on / 2 min off. Ran around 70 bucks
But then I have to use a HP pump capable of 200 psi, an accumulator tank rated for 200 psi, and stainless steel solinoid valve. This is probably the most expensive shit I have ever bought for clones, and the sad part is great results can be had a lot cheaper and easier.
But if your making clones by the hundreds, nothing beats the TAG HPA.
Best part is, the water consumption is so minimal that DTW is applicable and zero chance of root/rot issues.

If anyone has the gear to do HPA clones, I'd highly recommend it.
Shoot, now that i think about it, i may even make a thread about it, since I have the gear already.
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Man, your daily processes astound me..you'll have to fill me in on all those abbreviations as I'm not sure what you're talking about.

I keep it very simple with cloning.. Clip clones and sit in an aloe/silica solution for a day, stick clones in cloner and fill with water... 10-12 days later enjoy my 8-12 inch roots..

Sometimes I'll spray the clones with aloe/silica if I have time.. This definitely makes them root faster by about 4 days ime.
 
whitebb2727

whitebb2727

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Growan said:
I'd you have a willow tree near by you ban take a fairly young shooting branch and chop it up into short sections and simmer if for an hour or so. It contains some sort of acid the name of which I forget.

Willow water. Works. Tried it.
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st0wandgrow said:
I agree with this. Aero cloners are the fastest way to root cuttings. Just be sure to clean it thoroughly after each round
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Run the willow water in aero cloner or bubbler.
 
oldbikepunk

oldbikepunk

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Grandpa GreenJeans said:
Me too. One of my rooting powders is ferti-lome brand and is at least 5 years old. Still works tho- I just used it to make some males.
I've always had high success rate with clones, but I did toss 3 for poor rooting times this last clone run. Mabey it's not as good as it should be??? Idk, eitherway it's cheap enough to replace if needed.
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If you wanted to really be organic you can probably get a cutting to root with nothing at all in dirt. I'm going to do one for fun and see. I just did four off of a Mickey Kush. I'lm too lazy and it's too easy to root in my growing mixes. It's usually previously used soil. I spray the leaves, they're in plastic gallon jugs. I spray the dirt so it stays a little wet and I wait. Only stems that are too thin fail to root. The thicker/hardier stems always root. I wait two to four weeks and it just happens with rooting compound. I'll do one without anything and see what happens. You do need a heating pad or it takes forever and they fail a lot more. I keep mine under a 250 watt HPS with smaller and big plants in vegetative (18 hrs) and on a heating pad. Plants on cold cement grow remarkably better on a heating pad too. It can make a slow plant able to take off.
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Alienwidow said:
Ya definitely. People would lose their shit when they start seeing that.
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it's air-layering man, people have been doing that for a while
just not many cannabis growers... cuz cannabis growers like to buy extra shit for cloning.
Just like all the other stuff they buy needlessly.
Course that being said... I do have a ez cloner... it's the best way for multiple clones.
airlayering is AWESOME for getting clones that are damn near teen-size
alos works damn great for houseplants, jasmines, French lavender, philodendrons
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Alienwidow said:
What IS going on here?? Please post a thread on this because this looks like it would work really well.
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check it out man.
it works well on making BIG ass clones.
Little ones too, but in my experience the larger stems do better.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/earthkind/landscape/air-layering/
also is a technique similar called "ground" layering
where it's simply buried in the soil, while still being attached to the parent plant.
you get a long ass branch, and bury the middle of it.
It grows roots in about 15 days
it's how blackberries propagate... those fuckers are impossible to stop.
Works awesome for jasmine though.
 
oldbikepunk

oldbikepunk

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whitebb2727 said:
Its pretty common to root tree branches that way.
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It appears that he's grafting a scion, but i think the clones are just benefitting from the light position and the ambient temperature. It's a lot of clones and he's saving a lot of ground space. It looks like a big mother plant.
 
oldbikepunk

oldbikepunk

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And, Yes, 2 ANONYMOUS, we want to know what's going on there. It's just big clones taped up in the sky to a plant?
 
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4ftRoots

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I'll share my new and improved, foolproof cloning method.

step 1: Take a cutting from the plant and cut the stem at as wide of an angle as possible. Immediately put it in a cup of mediocre tap water.

step 2: Sometime after 2-3 days, before the stem gets too soft, take the cutting out of the water and stick it in some already used and living soil.

step 3: water the stem good at planting time. After a couple days the cutting should stop drooping. At that point the cutting took and will start to take off in a few days depending on strain and whatnot.

step 4: rejoice because you finally found an easy method for rols!

How to plant a fragile cutting properly in soil:
Get a toothpick or something with smaller diameter than your cutting. Stick it in the soil to create a nice starter hole, BUT be careful NOT to go deeper than the cuttings stem. Stick the cutting in the hole, feed it as close to the soil as possible to preven stem bending. Water around the stem real good.
 
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