What's the max length for cutting clones?

Fangule

Fangule

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I've read it was between 5" to 8". Some people say max 3". I'm confused. My mother has really long branches,




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I want to trim her lower branches for clones. Any ideas would be appreciated.
 
undercovergrow

undercovergrow

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i just did this a few weeks back and i had a small three inch (after i had trimmed off a bottom leaf node) and then just small leaves and they are still growing! but i am not experienced (that was my FIRST time at cloning and did an experiment where i had one that was five inches (which to me seemed to be a good size) and then a small one that was three inches)--both are still alive and the plant i took them from looked like your pictures. good luck! btw, it was scary to cut them off, but i enjoyed watching two new branches start coming out from what was left--totally made up for it!
 
Fangule

Fangule

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Glad it work out for you, how old are they now? Unfortunately my clones became yellow. There alive and rooted 19 days later but I plucked the yellow leaves like a noob. So now they look like this.

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I don't know what the deal is with the purple stems.
 
jimmer6577

jimmer6577

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If that was where you were keeping them that is your issue. I don't follow any guidelines myself on size of cuttings I take. If you read more about the tech. you will understand that you can cut it down to what you want. Normally as long as the part your trying to root is in your medium and above ground your good. As far as height, the clones in the picture are about right. This being said clones don't need much light till they root. They root best under little light with good amounts of dark time. If your really having proplems then cut them 3-4 days after you flip them then they are stressed and trying to dig in and root.
 
Fangule

Fangule

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It's that they where real yellow. When they where first cut i had the light in the hood and the temps did pass 80 F. Also the CFL was about an inch away. Maybe the combination of excess heat and proximity of CFL caused the yellowing. And maybe some nut burn as well. I'm not sure.

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jimmer6577

jimmer6577

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Fangule said:
It's that they where real yellow. When they where first cut i had the light in the hood and the temps did pass 80 F. Also the CFL was about an inch away. Maybe the combination of excess heat and proximity of CFL caused the yellowing. And maybe some nut burn as well. I'm not sure.

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To much light is bad. I only use 3 25watt cfl's about 12 inches away to root a tray of about 15-20 clones at once. I understood the pulling of the yellow leafs. I just noticed they were in a tent and that is normally problem #1 when trying to clone from mine and friends past experience. I would suggest a burbee tray with a humidity dome, this way you give your clones the humidity they desire while spacing your light at the same time. Just trying to help but I am a little high, O.K. real high.
 
undercovergrow

undercovergrow

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yes i noticed mine yellowed a bit but are looking okay now. (clones taken on Nov. 2nd & rooted/transplanted Nov. 12) this is one of the ones i was talking about (this was one of my smaller ones):
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i think i buried more of my stem than you did but your second pics look good! well, at least to this noob, they do! :lol:

BTW, i started mine out in RootRiot and then once they had roots, transplanted them to the soil.
 
Fangule

Fangule

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undercovergrow said:
yes i noticed mine yellowed a bit but are looking okay now. (clones taken on Nov. 2nd & rooted/transplanted Nov. 12) this is one of the ones i was talking about (this was one of my smaller ones):
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i think i buried more of my stem than you did but your second pics look good! well, at least to this noob, they do! :lol:

BTW, i started mine out in RootRiot and then once they had roots, transplanted them to the soil.
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24 days old and looking good.
 
Fangule

Fangule

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jimmer6577 said:
To much light is bad. I only use 3 25watt cfl's about 12 inches away to root a tray of about 15-20 clones at once. I understood the pulling of the yellow leafs. I just noticed they were in a tent and that is normally problem #1 when trying to clone from mine and friends past experience. I would suggest a burbee tray with a humidity dome, this way you give your clones the humidity they desire while spacing your light at the same time. Just trying to help but I am a little high, O.K. real high.
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O.K. I'll try that now gonna take like 4 clones now How deep should they go in soil? I'm gonna cut like 7"- 8".
 
Fangule

Fangule

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JohnDee said:
Fangule,
One of the Mods here...a hydro guy named AlBFuct does tall cuttings. Around 9" and just sticks them in a small rockwool cube. Of course he's a very experienced expert. He has a tutorial around here somewhere...ok found it.

https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/6592-get-harvest-every-2-weeks.html

I don't think you should bury your cuttings that deep.
JD
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I just took 4 clones. The long ones are about 2" in soil and the short ones are about 1-1 2/4 inches in soil.

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Thanks for the link JD will surely check it out.
 
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