Anybody have trouble rooting cuttings under SIL’s? I’m using the low 10w ones and a good distance from them... maybe not enough light? I’m not sure if it’s the light or something else but I have 4 different methods of cloning going atm to increase my odds because rooting is taking too long imo and they grow more and more unhealthy looking as time goes on and they start to root.
Here’s one example of some rooted cuttings that look pretty shitty to me and took longer then I’d want to root, 3wks at least maybe slightly longer. Using clonex and rock wool on a heating Matt with thermostat set at 83 degrees F. Can’t remember if I scraped one side of stem on those or not but it doesn’t seem to make much a difference either way, sometimes I do it, sometimes I don’t.
The 2nd pic is what that batch looked like shortly before a few of them were finally rooted enough to plant. I wire twist the cuttings to close them more. I wet them after and shake out excess water and they sit in a little wet perlite so roots can grow down into it. Holes in the bottoms of those cups and shake out excess water from the perlite too so things aren’t too wet and dry out. I use the chlorinated tap water. Tried R/O after that batch and didn’t change anything. If anything I’m thinking the chlorinated tap water is better. I sprayed the leaves maybe once with kelp to try and keep em healthy lookin, I mean to spray more often but life is busy.
Here’s my most recent batch same method
Here’s basically the “solo cloning” method slightly modified.
simple bubbler cloner method these look the healthiest the longest stayed a nice shade of darker green but are starting to look like the others now and are actually showing less signs of rooting and a few stems keep growing slime on the bottoms despite using R/O water and black poly to block light. I since then switched back to chlorinated tap water after rinsing everything really good but slime is growing back.
Rrrrr cloning can be so frustrating sometimes. I’ve had great success in the past with the simple bubble cloner method and the clonex rock wool method. I’m kinda hoping some one might have an idea what this abnormal yellowing and leaf deformity shit is about.
Here’s one example of some rooted cuttings that look pretty shitty to me and took longer then I’d want to root, 3wks at least maybe slightly longer. Using clonex and rock wool on a heating Matt with thermostat set at 83 degrees F. Can’t remember if I scraped one side of stem on those or not but it doesn’t seem to make much a difference either way, sometimes I do it, sometimes I don’t.
The 2nd pic is what that batch looked like shortly before a few of them were finally rooted enough to plant. I wire twist the cuttings to close them more. I wet them after and shake out excess water and they sit in a little wet perlite so roots can grow down into it. Holes in the bottoms of those cups and shake out excess water from the perlite too so things aren’t too wet and dry out. I use the chlorinated tap water. Tried R/O after that batch and didn’t change anything. If anything I’m thinking the chlorinated tap water is better. I sprayed the leaves maybe once with kelp to try and keep em healthy lookin, I mean to spray more often but life is busy.
Here’s my most recent batch same method
Here’s basically the “solo cloning” method slightly modified.
simple bubbler cloner method these look the healthiest the longest stayed a nice shade of darker green but are starting to look like the others now and are actually showing less signs of rooting and a few stems keep growing slime on the bottoms despite using R/O water and black poly to block light. I since then switched back to chlorinated tap water after rinsing everything really good but slime is growing back.
Rrrrr cloning can be so frustrating sometimes. I’ve had great success in the past with the simple bubble cloner method and the clonex rock wool method. I’m kinda hoping some one might have an idea what this abnormal yellowing and leaf deformity shit is about.
