Do you have any tricks to keep your cuttings green and healthy?

[ice minus]

I have hard water. Have you tried filtering the water to get rid of the calcium or magnesium from the source? Have you checked ppm? Your hard water is making it go up ,get rid of the solids and it will stay stable and your nutrient solution will work better too. I went from 750 ppm to 220 with just a single filter. I bought the big blue filters with the second having a smaller micron and went to 200 ppm,our municiple water is 140 ppm

Hi Dime! Thank you for visiting my thread!

So, I escalated my inquiries with my city all the way up to the head water engineer who provided with me with the latest water analysis and composition,



I decided after some consideration that I'm going to be a glutton for punishment and try to work WITH my water, instead of against it by using RO and stuff, because I've been told even by users I trust here and even Tad at KIS Organics & Black Swallow Living Soil that it's not worth giving up on, but just to try and get that pH down to 6.6 area and of course treat for chlorine and chloramines where possible because there's a lot of good naturally occuring minerals as well in there

I attach this to my garden hose and fill a large 5gal bucket with fresh water. PPMs around natural 325 or so

I add 0.25g of pure food grade absorbic acid to neutralize the chlorine and chloramines (calculator here: https://www.reddit.com/r/aquaponics/s/HipzOcfwus )

Stir every time I walk by it for a few days

Then when I transfer to a smaller container for watering purposes



And then anything further I decide to add from here will get added and pH checked at which point it always registers between 7 and 8 lately

I the pH to 6.6 as per Tad's instructions before immediately watering

 

[ice minus]

By the way - just an update to the original pic, it's loving it's new soil

Huge difference already

 

[Lester Beans]

I would cut off the damaged leaves and the parts of the other leaves that are damaged. Feed 500ppm veg/bloom food mixed 50/50 ph'd to 6.5.

In the future make sure the mother plant is green and growing well.

Water mother 20 minutes before taking cuttings.

When taking cuttings clip the larger leaves back halfway. Make sure to have at least one node under the medium.

Scour the stem, backside of node that's to be buried, from above the node down to the cut, just slightly until you see white.

Let cuttings hang out in a glass of pH 5.8 water over night.

Next day use rooting powder and insert clones into media.

Do not dome. If they begin to wilt just light spritz of water will do. This might need to be done a few times in the first day but only if they begin to wilt.

Lights need to be far away or turned down.

Keep rh 50% or higher.

A seedling heat mat helps greatly.

You should see roots in 4-10 days.

 

[ice minus]

I would cut off the damaged leaves and the parts of the other leaves that are damaged. Feed 500ppm veg/bloom food mixed 50/50 ph'd to 6.5.

In the future make sure the mother plant is green and growing well.

Water mother 20 minutes before taking cuttings.

When taking cuttings clip the larger leaves back halfway. Make sure to have at least one node under the medium.

Scour the stem, backside of node that's to be buried, from above the node down to the cut, just slightly until you see white.

Let cuttings hang out in a glass of pH 5.8 water over night.

Next day use rooting powder and insert clones into media.

Do not dome. If they begin to wilt just light spritz of water will do. This might need to be done a few times in the first day but only if they begin to wilt.

Lights need to be far away or turned down.

Keep rh 50% or higher.

A seedling heat mat helps greatly.

You should see roots in 4-10 days.

What a fantastic, useful post! Hugely appreciated, and I will definitely adhere to as many as possible in the future. I'm especially interested in the cuttings in the glass of 5.8 pH water overnight! Is that the whole cut, submerged?
Huge improvement again today, all 3 of the cuts seem to have made it with no issues

I'm gonna trim back those dead leaves now and will re-take another pic after as well

You guys are the best, thanks again!!

 

[ice minus]

 

[Hiddenjems]

First off you want to start with really healthy moms saturated with nutes and sugars. Second keep them under low light until they’re starting to uptake nutes.

It takes longer for plants to develop roots and the right fungi to uptake nutes from soil than to develop hydroponic type roots.

 

[ice minus]

Thank you guys very much

Very pleased to report that every single one appears to have made it through it's trials and tribulations. Only remaining one waiting to report success with is the one in my FertilPot -- but it looks healthy as a bull - never wilted or needed doming/spritzing even once, and hasn't faded out like my original pics

So many that I've begun running experiments on a few of them because I expected some to fail, and none did

I used already brewed coffee grinds to pH Down. What would happen?

Hi there We make minimum 2-4 espresso per day in our house between me and the wife. I heard coffee is acidic so just for fun I stuck my pH pen in a litre of water and added already brewed leftover grinds to bring the water from 8.1 to 6.5 Then I ran the concoction through a chemex filter to...

www.icmag.com

I guess they call it "weed" for a reason!! These girls just thrive to survive

I'm currently trying to repurpose spent espresso pucks otherwise destined for the organics bin as a pH Down.

I am treating the natural hard water @ pH 8-8.2 source with grinds until 6.6 pH, Then using the water from this process without any other pH adjustments

The clones that got very stressed looking like my ones in OP were all moved to small desk lights and solved the issue mostly indeed. Only thing is it added a few days to rooting time IMO but small price to pay for healthier clones right!

Thanks again ICMAG! You guys are the best!

 

[ice minus]

These were the 3 gnarliest ones, top right was the one in my OP, purple pot

They're all starting to take off! I didn't lose a single one

PS bottom right is dried out and wilted I know, fixed now!

Just didn't wanna be one of those guys who never check back in

 

[ice minus]

Just for thread closure as I don't really think further pics are needed, and just to help out any other noobs like myself who might say "boy, that looks like mine!"

Before

After

I deliberately left the original growth and damaged leaves just to show even THOSE recovered quite a lot

The lesson I walked away with at least, is that it's called weed for a reason! They do anything they can to survive and with TLC even a noob like me brought them back around

Thanks for all your help and posts as always