Rooting Clones: How do you do it?

[#1cheesebuds]

Rapid rooters soaked in solution of 20ml per ga. liquid karma 6.0 ph

While they soak I set up Dip & Grow cloning solution and Super Natural cloning powder. Remove Rapid Rooters and squeeze out excess solution place into tray insert.

Then take clones, dip into Dip & Grow then dust with Super Natural and stick into Rapid Rooter. Roots pop out in 7-10 days.

My last batch had some pop roots in 5 days
Here are roots after 10 days

wow wow dude those clones look very nicely done. thats how I am gunna start cloning in the future.

as for me I do my cloning in DWC, soil, coco, and plain water.
I would really love to buy a mother hudrofarm like the one I had back in my younger days.

 

[DiabloKush]

i Rock the Rock Wool all day

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Ice-Tube cloner...

72 sites (edit: That's 27 sites... sorry) in a compact space, 100% vermiculite. A quart ziplock provides a nice throwaway res for the R/O water and a 6-site section chopped off.

Stay Safe!

p.s. didn't vote as it wasn't on the list.

 

[FRIENDinDEED]

when growing at any stage i have come to understand that at certain stages in the plants life it has specific needs and as long as those needs are met the plant will thrive.

ive tried most of them (rockwool, rr plugs, peat plugs, plain perilite, plain vermiculite, soil) and th one that gets my cuts rooted within 10 days time on the nose is:

-1 bag/equal part perilite
-1 bag/equal part vermiculite
- 1 regular (red/blue) plastic beer cup to use as a pot
- 1 another clear plastic beer cup to use as a dome
- 1 gallon of GH series 1-1-1

since its all i use i make a 5gl bucket of it; *mix the perilite and vermiculite together; *pour the gallon of 1-1-1- into the bucket until the mixture is moist (may not take the whole gallon); *fill the bottom cup with the peri/verm mix; * take your cutting at at least 4" - 5" long; *cut the bottom of the cuting on an angle; shave off very small section of the outer layer of the stem to expose the white material underneath; *dip into your choice of rooting hormone; * stick cutting as far down as it can go into verm/peri mix; *then dome cutting with clear plastic cup.

within 10 (+/-) days you will have a cutting that you can either put into soil or hydro with no problems, bursting with roots at the bottom 1" of the cutting

this one is just a small sample of what i normally would find after the 10 (+/-) days

what this also allowed me to do was to keep the plants in the cups a lot longer than usual if i needed to; its the hempy mixture without the hole on the side for drainage; i would fill another beer cup about 3/4 of the way to water each time so i wouldnt have to constantly guess how much i needed to water them; after a while/once they got bigger it became obvious that i would have to step up the water regime but by that time it was time to transplant them to DWC so it wasn't a big deal to leave them in those cups for a lil while.

the longer they were left in the cups though, the more i noticed that what i was doing became more like the hempy style of growing with having to constantly water them (or what i consider having to constantly water them) the bigger they got.

 

[RubeGoldberg]

For me.. rockwool, stimroot and a dome that I take off and let the plants breath. I foliar with kelp extract to keep them green. Nearly 100% success rate.



One of the most important cloning mediums was left out of the voting poll!! Most people I know around B.C use these.

 

[Grizz]

whatever your method try using a weak mix of sea weed extract to pre soak them in, beats any clone gel or KLN. even the hard to root og's root when i use it.

 

[one Q]

define "weak"

 

[supermanlives]

sunshine 4 ,perlite 50/50 in party cups

 

[Grizz]

define "weak"

just a couple drops in a beer cup about 1/2 full of water, doesent need to be percise

 

[noyd666]

hi. clear cup ,holes in bottom,perlite bot, rest coco.9'' cutting, gell , put in coco, cut leaves in half, squirt with syring, 4-7 days roots.i put clear cups into black cups . put 12 cups into planter trays ,2 lots, slide em into cupboard pull fluro down onto, for warmth .sometimes i'll leave cuts in water 10 hours , even overnight, i forgot no wilt look better ,uptake of water i think

 

[Redrum92]

No option for air layering?

 

[neongreen]

...or layering straight into a small pot with soil in it, which is what I do to take clones outdoors - takes ages (a month or two), but I'm struggling to successfully clone indoors ATM so will do anything that works.

 

[Budley Doright]

I have sort of a new method..... I only did 2..... but both rooted....

here is the larger of the two.....

WHat do youall think???? 13 days after the cut...






I was just checking how it rooted...... I would normally just plant the plug of vermiculite......


I wasnt sure if I should post this here since I dont use any of those methods......


lol......

This was rooted in a wick cloner.... the most recent version is at the end of my cloning thread in my sig.......


cheap cheap cheap..........

 

[thatonedude]

none of the above. just use a disposable aluminum baking dish with included dome with moist perlite. stick a piece of 1.25 inch pvc pipe in to the bottom of tray, which is where I add water. if its wet in the pipe you are good. if its dry add water

 

[stoned-trout]

perlite kicks ass.. it works as well or better than any other medium...and you cant overwater it unlike most mediums for cloning....yeehaw

 

[hayday]

Easiest part of the whole grow cycle...

Compact,reusable,very efficient and inexpensive.

 

[neongreen]

Easiest part of the whole grow cycle...


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Compact,reusable,very efficient and inexpensive.

I just tried a similar method to what you suggested to clone some of my outdoor plants, except I used about 20-30% vermicule and a little bit of crushed oyster shell (to provide calcium). Also used a little rooting hormone powder. I left them on a NE facing window sill and had 100% root in 15-20 days (some were taken later than others) for the ones that were properly pushed into the medium.

That was the only slightly tricky part for me. I found that I had to poke holes into the perlite/vermicule with a bamboo skewer, or some would refuse to go into the medium properly. Even when doing that, 2 out of 12 cuts were not properly in the medium and didn't make it.

Anyway, thank you (also to the other poster/s who posted this method). First time I've managed to clone successfully in many years, and I'll be using this method from now on.

 

[Budley Doright]

I dont want to burst your bubble...but temps are perfect....

lets see how you fare this winter.....

 

[JohnKimble]

I've discovered those clear party cups fit perfectly as a dome in 4" green grower pots. Thats what I use. I just dip the clone in hormone and put it soil with green pot.