How to root clones using Jiffys
”Tools” you’ll need (as seen in this picture):
From left to right:
- Alcohol;
- A piece of plastic that you can cut out of a plastic bottle of water. This will be used later to drop a bit of Clonex gel (in this picture the piece of plastic is in the left, hanging on the bottle of alcohol);
- Clonex;
- A container with water to immerse the Jiffys;
- Jiffys;
- A good scissor;
- A shaving blade (if you don’t have one available and your scissor is really good, you can use just the scissor);
- Glasses to immerse the clone stems in water for at least 2 hours.
As you’ll see next, besides all you can see in the Picture, you’ll also need:
- A toothpick or a matchstick
- A sprinkling water device;
- A mini greenhouse (bought or improvised).
Procedure
We clean the scissor with alcohol:
Than, we cut some good branches out of our mother plants, like this one:
Immerse the stem in water as quick as possible, using a glass for each strain to avoid confusions:
Leave it in the water at least for 2 hours, so that the whole clone gets moist in the inside.
Immerse the Jiffys in water, using the container I’ve mentioned:
10 minutes later the Jiffys will have absorbed the water and will be expanded, as in this picture:
When taking the Jiffys out of the water they should be squeezed with our hands so they keep some humidity without being soaked.
After expanded and then squeezed, they are displayed in the mini greenhouse:
With a toothpick we make a hole in each Jiffy. The clone stem will later get in this hole:
We clean our working place with alcohol (in this case a small plastic yellow board):
Now we are going to use the Clonex, the shaving blade and the piece of plastic:
We spill a small portion of Clonex upon the piece of plastic:
Then we take the clone out of the glass of water and cut the tips of some leaves, to stimulate root growth and to make the clone lighter so that it doesn’t wilt easily and keeps erect:
We “clean” the small branches out of the clone and cut the stem again at about 45º, as seen in the following pictures:
After the cut is made we need to immerse the stem in Clonex as quick as possible, so that no oxygen gets “inside” the clone:
Right after the stem is involved in Clonex, we stick it in the Jiffys hole:
Here they are. Ready and with a “map” in case I forget which is which:
Closed inside their mini greenhouse:
Now in the place where they will stay rooting, side by side with 2 fluoros of 18w each:
To finish we use the water sprinkling device to “spray” water on the leaves, on the walls and on the ceiling of the greenhouse:
Finished the procedure we only need to wait for them to root in 7 to 20 days (the time they will take to root depends on several factors, being the strain and the conditions we give them the two main factors).
Every day (preferably 2 or 3 times a day) we should uncover to renew the air e to sprinkle more water to the walls and ceiling of the greenhouse.
In the first 2 or 3 days we leave the holes of the greenhouse almost completly closed. From then on we start opening them a little, and a little more each day, until we get to day 8-10 when we can open the holes wide open and become to sprinkle less water. A few days later we can even leave the greenhouse completly uncovered for one hour or two. We do this because, when the clones feel that they can no longer feed themselves through their leaves (as a consequence of low humidity levels), they feel forced to develop and stretch their roots in order to find food and hidratation through their roots.
When we start to see roots piercing the fine net walls of the Jiffys it means the clone is already rooted and it is convenient to pass it to a pot with soil as soon as possible.
Then let them grow for a week or two and they are ready to 12/12!
Good clones!
Stay cool!
-p_
”Tools” you’ll need (as seen in this picture):
From left to right:
- Alcohol;
- A piece of plastic that you can cut out of a plastic bottle of water. This will be used later to drop a bit of Clonex gel (in this picture the piece of plastic is in the left, hanging on the bottle of alcohol);
- Clonex;
- A container with water to immerse the Jiffys;
- Jiffys;
- A good scissor;
- A shaving blade (if you don’t have one available and your scissor is really good, you can use just the scissor);
- Glasses to immerse the clone stems in water for at least 2 hours.
As you’ll see next, besides all you can see in the Picture, you’ll also need:
- A toothpick or a matchstick
- A sprinkling water device;
- A mini greenhouse (bought or improvised).
Procedure
We clean the scissor with alcohol:
Than, we cut some good branches out of our mother plants, like this one:
Immerse the stem in water as quick as possible, using a glass for each strain to avoid confusions:
Leave it in the water at least for 2 hours, so that the whole clone gets moist in the inside.
Immerse the Jiffys in water, using the container I’ve mentioned:
10 minutes later the Jiffys will have absorbed the water and will be expanded, as in this picture:
When taking the Jiffys out of the water they should be squeezed with our hands so they keep some humidity without being soaked.
After expanded and then squeezed, they are displayed in the mini greenhouse:
With a toothpick we make a hole in each Jiffy. The clone stem will later get in this hole:
We clean our working place with alcohol (in this case a small plastic yellow board):
Now we are going to use the Clonex, the shaving blade and the piece of plastic:
We spill a small portion of Clonex upon the piece of plastic:
Then we take the clone out of the glass of water and cut the tips of some leaves, to stimulate root growth and to make the clone lighter so that it doesn’t wilt easily and keeps erect:
We “clean” the small branches out of the clone and cut the stem again at about 45º, as seen in the following pictures:
After the cut is made we need to immerse the stem in Clonex as quick as possible, so that no oxygen gets “inside” the clone:
Right after the stem is involved in Clonex, we stick it in the Jiffys hole:
Here they are. Ready and with a “map” in case I forget which is which:
Closed inside their mini greenhouse:
Now in the place where they will stay rooting, side by side with 2 fluoros of 18w each:
To finish we use the water sprinkling device to “spray” water on the leaves, on the walls and on the ceiling of the greenhouse:
Finished the procedure we only need to wait for them to root in 7 to 20 days (the time they will take to root depends on several factors, being the strain and the conditions we give them the two main factors).
Every day (preferably 2 or 3 times a day) we should uncover to renew the air e to sprinkle more water to the walls and ceiling of the greenhouse.
In the first 2 or 3 days we leave the holes of the greenhouse almost completly closed. From then on we start opening them a little, and a little more each day, until we get to day 8-10 when we can open the holes wide open and become to sprinkle less water. A few days later we can even leave the greenhouse completly uncovered for one hour or two. We do this because, when the clones feel that they can no longer feed themselves through their leaves (as a consequence of low humidity levels), they feel forced to develop and stretch their roots in order to find food and hidratation through their roots.
When we start to see roots piercing the fine net walls of the Jiffys it means the clone is already rooted and it is convenient to pass it to a pot with soil as soon as possible.
Then let them grow for a week or two and they are ready to 12/12!
Good clones!
Stay cool!
-p_
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