GroErr
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Lol, twigs and leaves. I don't go overboard on size, but I find you need a certain amount of material to get reliable clones and I need reliability since I don't keep mothers.You also work with a fair chunk of material. This helps a lot.
I too often find myself trying to get roots from leaves and twigs. lol
An old grower named magash showed me a fan leaf that he had
gotten roots to come from...a real fan, and it was making nubs like
a baby sawfish...weird. I was ruined. Cooler weather and water
cloners can take 6 weeks to get roots out of the hardest to clone
breeds, but they still can. :0) Nothing has helped more than patience,
but I have never used the stronger chemicals.
The temps comment is spot on with cloners, anything under 70F I've found can take forever. 70-75F and preferably on the higher end of that and they respond quick. I noticed through summer some cuts were taking as long as 3 weeks to get nubs and 4 weeks to be ready to transplant (air conditioning keeps the basement cooler during summer). Now that it's gotten cooler outside, the cloner sits beside the furnace which is coming on regularly and the temps have bumped back up to 73-75F. Just had some of those show me nubs within a week and a couple of those with nice long roots have only been in there for like 11 days! One of those is that awesome BR x Harlequin pheno in the 2gal which is great to see, if that cut is dank this pheno is a killer find, thing is a bush with no training and crazy amount of side branching, going to be a big producer
Only thing with the warmer water is I change it out more often, every 2 weeks max to avoid any slime-like crap starting up. Loving this little King Cloner for maintenance, it doesn't hold a lot of water so cleaning it and changing the water's like a 10 minute job. My old DIY cloner held a few gallons and was a heavy beatch to clean/change water.