why dont you set your pump to 15 min on 15 off. your pump will heat up the water if its running all the time
when you put your cuttings in your aeroponic system what do you add to your water?
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when you put your cuttings in your aeroponic system what do you add to your water?
I was hoping to avoid doing that since I feel it may burn out the pump faster, but I am going to try it. When the pump has been off, the water is around 72 degrees. Hopefully it will help and I can use the same method on the large res too. I need to be able to take more than 8 cuttings at a time. I use Botanicare's Power Clone. Was successful with it previously in the winter in a different part of the house.
Do you think I need an airstone to keep the water moving since the pump will be off most of the time now?
stumps
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I've used it but don't any more. If I keep my rez at 80 and the air stones going I have roots in as little as 5 day using only tap water.
when i have my water at them temps the stem turns to mush so i keep it at 70 but it takes 3weeks could it be some think to do with the strain????
what dose every one els put in the res? i just use 1 drop of superthrive per gallon and ph at any were between 5.5 and 6.0
why dose it take so long in my arocloner i have it spraying 15 on 15 off if i have it on constant it makes the ends of the stem go mushy??
any body? what am i doing wrong why so long
RickWhite
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Many of the problems people might be experiencing with cloning might have to do with Pythium, the fungus that is responsible for root rot. Many systems contain some Pythium which can make cloning difficult.
First, Pythium is systemic and is often fund in the plant stem. The good news is that it can be defeated.
Pythium breeds well above 70 deg, in low O2 water. Plus, it probably prefers higher PH. It is an opportunistic pathogen which means it attacks vulnerable (weak) roots. The reason the aero-cloners are working is because the Pythium can not thrive in such an O2 rich environment. If stems are rotting, you may have a Pythium issue.
To overcome this, do not heat your clone solution, keep your PH low 5.7 or so and keep things well aerated. Of course clone machines do a great job of this. It might also help to soak cuttings in a light bleach solution (5 drops / gall or so) but this is experimental for me. Other than that, always scrape one side of your stem so the rootless plant can uptake water and keep in high humidity.
I have rooted the same strain many times with 99% success. When I discovered the presence of Pythium, this dropped to around 5%. I was lucky to save my prized strain and am looking foreword to a new batch of strong clones in my new DIY fogger powered clone machine.
Good luck.
First, Pythium is systemic and is often fund in the plant stem. The good news is that it can be defeated.
Pythium breeds well above 70 deg, in low O2 water. Plus, it probably prefers higher PH. It is an opportunistic pathogen which means it attacks vulnerable (weak) roots. The reason the aero-cloners are working is because the Pythium can not thrive in such an O2 rich environment. If stems are rotting, you may have a Pythium issue.
To overcome this, do not heat your clone solution, keep your PH low 5.7 or so and keep things well aerated. Of course clone machines do a great job of this. It might also help to soak cuttings in a light bleach solution (5 drops / gall or so) but this is experimental for me. Other than that, always scrape one side of your stem so the rootless plant can uptake water and keep in high humidity.
I have rooted the same strain many times with 99% success. When I discovered the presence of Pythium, this dropped to around 5%. I was lucky to save my prized strain and am looking foreword to a new batch of strong clones in my new DIY fogger powered clone machine.
Good luck.
spl1
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I use 8 to 10 drops per gallon of water it works great if you don't use prozyms.
Also Superthrive is a great things for new cuttings, I use it 1/8 tsp per gallon and and I dip my cutting in Schultz rooting dust.
dwaenekd2
Member
my roommate and i use a humidity dome with T-5 florescent and a heating pad underneath that. we airate the dome everyday to allow fresh air in, and then we mist the dome and clones and let them do their thing, we get roots in about a week, we"ve only had 1 clone die in the humidity dome and i think it got smashed and the roots that were forming broke, so it works very well, the more leaves that are on the cutting the faster it will root.
SotaFats
Active Member
Been having problems getting roots in 7days. After reading this whole thread I thinks its my diy clone sprayer res is to hot. Gonna be watching temps closely now. I liked the farmer that used the silver duct tape for his bucket, im gonna use that silver shit to redo my lid as the duct tape don’t cut it with water. Check my journal for he bucket set up. Oh and the bucket started leaking around the grommets after about 5 days, gotta fix that tonite.