'Solo Cloning' - Cheap and Easy Cloning

[yukonjoe]

Good show mate. Gonna give it a go.

 

[Haps]

I just transplanted my first batch of sensi star clones using this method, and it worked just as the took says, I love it. I use small styrofoam cups inverted over tylenol and pill bottles, because they are the right size, and they taper at the top to fit the inverted cup. An X cut in the top, then today, I just cut up the side of the cup to remove it and the clones had beauty roots. Mine rooted in 2-3 weeks, but had to wait another week till I was ready to transplant, no worries.

This is by far the best cloning method I have tried, and I have done, and designed many units. Thanks for this thread.
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[Easygrowing]

Nice Done PT

thanks !

Many times i put them in a normally glass with water-lights cames in-but they dont care-they gives me roots anyways.
But will try those.

 

[shagdawg420]

good shit

 

[GF-Z]

i was trying this method without any additives, rooting hormones, just tap water and fresh cutting. some strains rooted faster than 6days. Almost 100% (2 cuttings get rot)

 

[LIFER25]

Gonna try this method tonight. I was gonna put together a bubbler cloner but found this thread and have some cups laying around. Well update in a few weeks.

 

[Haps]

I got 100% on my second batch, and I had 5 extras, so I left them in the clone cupps untouched.......... for over 9 weeks, and they are still fine, did not add a drop of water or touch them in all that time.

I may take a vacation this year, now that I can leave clones long enough, very cool, thanks to FB and the Took.
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[J.C.grower]

this is great!! thanks Peregrin Took!!

 

[Herborizer]

Cool thread.

 

[NE_GROWER_978]

nice thread for sure! gonna give this a go tonight and ill leet you know how it goes

 

[there goes edro]

Very informative. Im gonna give it a try. Ill post the outcome sometime in the future.

 

[MTRUM75]

I saw this thread a few days before it was time to clone, so I decided to give it a try.

I did most like normal in rockwool cubes and three in plain water.

I had a 100% root from both groups but the cuttings in water rooted a week sooner.

I found a new rooting program.

Thank you.


**EDIT**

I used the solo cup method with all of my cuttings (eighteen of them) during my next cycle.

I do not know what I did different, but this time the cuttings took 4 weeks to root. I did still have a 100% root.

I will try again to see what the results are.

 

[Scrappy-doo]

Is temperature a very important factor with this method? My room is in the low 60's when lights are off, and about 70 when they are on.

 

[trichrider]

me too on the temp detail. 60* to 70*...need heat mat?

 

[MTRUM75]

I use a heat pad. Mine has a probe that a put in a cup of water setting with the plants.

 

[TOKING TOKOLOSH]

No airation?
Root seems tiny for 16 days...
I clone in a bubbler box, with pool noodles and airstones...
10-14 days serious root mass!

 

[Peregrin Took]

Wrote this 12 years ago. Still works 100%.

Yeah there are other ways that will root your cuttings bigger and faster.

How does the old saying go?

"Good. Fast. Cheap....pick two"

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Good timing for this thread to resurface. Have to give this a try.

 

[mexweed]

glad to come across this, more appealing than the hempy cups since I never buy perlite and my cloning product is liquid mix tsp per gallon water, perfect to use in the cups

 

[greenspiritz]

After trying, root riots, jiffy pellets, biobizz light and coco.

The most successful way for me with near 100%, has always been rooted in water.

Really easy, much less maintenance, cheaper and more successful in my experience.

I use a floating raft system with a floating styroform board with holes poked through with a airpump and air stone attached underneath.


Great post, thanks for sharing

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