Stronger rooting agent make cloning easier??

[Tomatoesonly]

Well, I got too comfortable cloning, and my latest batch is having all kinds of problems striking roots.
I was doing just about anything I wanted and they would clone. Now, using RW and Clonex and a dome... I'm getting a very very low success rate.
I'm wondering if something like Hormodin 3 would be better since it has a .8% IBA. Clonex is .31%

 

[dogzter]

Those products lose efficacy over time are they old?
Hormex makes a very high iba powder for hard to root trees and shrubs that will root just about anything.

 

[Tomatoesonly]

Those products lose efficacy over time are they old?
Hormex makes a very high iba powder for hard to root trees and shrubs that will root just about anything.

Well the bottle I'm using of clonex I kept in the fridge, but it is at least a year old and may have been abused prior to my purchase. Still purple but runny. It's not a gel any more.

 

[foomar]

The high strength Hormex powders definately outperform clonex , especially on plants that are harder to root than canna , a pound tub has lasted a decade and still good.
They listed #8 for canna on their website.

 

[Hiddenjems]

I use tap water in an aero cloner with great success. I don’t use a dome. The more water I get to move through the cutting, the faster I get roots. I usually process around 100 clones a month.

The 100% most important part is a healthy mother plant.

 

[Lester Beans]

Water the plant clones are to be taken from 20 min before clipping.

If the clonex is runny it's expired. Clonex isn't very good to begin with. Dogzter was on the money with his recommendation.

You should not need a dome with an aero cloner. If you get a little wilt a light mist of water cures that.

 

[Tomatoesonly]

I use tap water in an aero cloner with great success. I don’t use a dome. The more water I get to move through the cutting, the faster I get roots. I usually process around 100 clones a month.

The 100% most important part is a healthy mother plant.

I grabbed a bubble cloner, and cut a clone for it. We'll see how it does. That hormex is expensive compared to Hormodin.

 

[foomar]

Hormodex powders are perfect for traditional cuttings in a media like peat/coir/perlte ect.
Have not found them as usefull in a bubble cloner as it is actively washed off , a liquid product might be better here.

Or buy the pure IBA chemical off fleabay which is much cheaper.

 

[Tomatoesonly]

So I'm trying that Hormodin 3 on some clones right now. So one clone got about 1.25" of powder on it's stem, but only 3/4 went into the plug. Everything touched by that powder has swollen up in the first day. It's wild. Doesn't mean actual roots will form, though. I've had clones with TONS of calluses formed, but just wouldn't form roots.