RolllingStone
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Aeroponic clone with just non ph tap water ??
Cloning with nothing but an airstone and a bucket of water
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Airwalker16
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No it is Ph'd to 5.5-6.5
Airwalker16
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Here buddy. This is how simple it is.
then you'd go ahead and fill it with Ph'd R/O water (5.5-6.5) to about an inch below the spray head and put it on a timer for 15 mins of every hour to be on. Roots in less than a week, everytime.
then you'd go ahead and fill it with Ph'd R/O water (5.5-6.5) to about an inch below the spray head and put it on a timer for 15 mins of every hour to be on. Roots in less than a week, everytime.VegasWinner
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I use a 5 gallon home depot orange bucket painted black, with a small submersible pump and a 360 spinning cloner attached to the pump in a gallon of just water. Been doing it this way for years.peace
OutofLEDCloset
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Nice vegas
Airwalker16
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Home depot sells black buckets in they're online store for $5/pc. Ships to store free
Just fyi.
OutofLEDCloset
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I built a bubbleponic cloner. I think its a 3 gallon tote. I use our city's crappy water and an air stone. Let stems sit in water. Within two weeks I have 6 rooted clones. Not to complicated.
BobBitchen
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No need to PH water.
IMHO Tap water works better than RO, the small amount of clorine/cloromine is beneficial
Clone king is a great unit
Pro tekt & KLN seems to help
IMHO Tap water works better than RO, the small amount of clorine/cloromine is beneficial
Clone king is a great unit
Pro tekt & KLN seems to help
xxEMOxx
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Ok,
SO I have read thru this and its shocking that 5 years later people are still having the same problems with such a simple set up.
First and foremost, whatever holds your water in a bubble cloner should not allow ligbt to pass thru to root zone.
2nd: The stems/bottoms of the cuttings should not touch the water but be suspended out of the water by a decent amount and allow the mist to created by the bubbling surrond them.
3rd: Just plain ole' tap water works just fine, but otherwise I would use alittle bit of Superthrive, or a low dose of Oliva's cloning solution.
4th: No timer is needed, but a regular 15 on, 15 off, timer set randomly does allow the root zone area to dry out/lower humidity enough to speed up rooting as stated in the link below. But the link shows results and describes how my simple one was built!
Here is link to a post I made showing one of the small versions of a airstone/bubble cloner I made and posted in 2011 with results shown as well! This thing cost me about $30 and most of that was the cost of the air pump itself.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/diy-bubble-cloner-result-photos.434967/
I recently built a large one for a friend and it cost $40 due to the airpump costing $20, and amount of sites and the fact he wanted wanted/insisted on neopreme collars. But it works great, is much easier to maintain then an aerocloner, no sprayers to clog, no manifolds to build, no pumps to burn out, and no specialty timers to buy and have to set!
SO I have read thru this and its shocking that 5 years later people are still having the same problems with such a simple set up.
First and foremost, whatever holds your water in a bubble cloner should not allow ligbt to pass thru to root zone.
2nd: The stems/bottoms of the cuttings should not touch the water but be suspended out of the water by a decent amount and allow the mist to created by the bubbling surrond them.
3rd: Just plain ole' tap water works just fine, but otherwise I would use alittle bit of Superthrive, or a low dose of Oliva's cloning solution.
4th: No timer is needed, but a regular 15 on, 15 off, timer set randomly does allow the root zone area to dry out/lower humidity enough to speed up rooting as stated in the link below. But the link shows results and describes how my simple one was built!
Here is link to a post I made showing one of the small versions of a airstone/bubble cloner I made and posted in 2011 with results shown as well! This thing cost me about $30 and most of that was the cost of the air pump itself.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/diy-bubble-cloner-result-photos.434967/
I recently built a large one for a friend and it cost $40 due to the airpump costing $20, and amount of sites and the fact he wanted wanted/insisted on neopreme collars. But it works great, is much easier to maintain then an aerocloner, no sprayers to clog, no manifolds to build, no pumps to burn out, and no specialty timers to buy and have to set!
xxEMOxx
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If you have it so the stems sit out of the water, they will root faster, and have less chance of sickness, and dieseases. The whole concept is suppose to be mist/bubbles that support the cutting and root growth, not sumerged cutting on oxygenated water, which would be more like a DWC cloner.
Airwalker16
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If you want mist, use mist. Air stones and air pumps do create mist, but nothing like a submersible pump with a spray head on it.
Airwalker16
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They're at home depot.
here is my redneck cloner LOL Rubbermaid and styrofoam and a $20 air pump, it holds a hundred and twenty.The container holds about 40 liters of water, I used tap water, Idumped in a cap of Voodoo Juice and piranha plus around 40 ml bud candy to feed the critters, and maybe two or three hundred parts per million of Sensi bloom solution from Advanced Nutrients. The solution was just oo automatically pH balance my water because my meter was down. But it worked out well and I just kept doing that.
The stems are directly in the water, but since they are in styrofoam and the Styrofoam floats perfectly level on top of the water, the air pump distribute air bubbles evenly underneath the floating layer. I think that's the only reason why they can make it.
I don't know if it's the best way, I just know that it works and I am not in a rush to get them so I don't count the days that it takes them to root...but around 7-10 depending on strain...
Airwalker16
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Good fuckin luck getting those out without completely ruining the roots. I hope you plan on sacrificing that piece of Styrofoam to aide you in retrieving them.
BobBitchen
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reliable, easy,close to 100%
inexpensive, and just works..
clon-king....
https://www.amazon.com/Clone-King-Aeroponic-Cloning-Machine/dp/B008NRQJC0/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473350232&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=clineking
non PH'd water is all ya need
inexpensive, and just works..
clon-king....
https://www.amazon.com/Clone-King-Aeroponic-Cloning-Machine/dp/B008NRQJC0/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473350232&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=clineking
non PH'd water is all ya need
Yeah the styrofoam goes to the garbage afterwards for sure, A4 by 8 sheet is $10 and I can make 8 of those. But thanks for wishing me good fucking luck.
And I agree 100% with Bobitchen...all you need is plain water... I started putting in the beneficial bacteria way back because if my temperature goes out of whack a little bit the bad bacteria have a hard time taking over. From what I've read, beneficials can ward off the bad guys.
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