Cloning help

I heard somewhere that you can clone a plant by applying the rooting hormone directly to the mother plant. My question is how long does it take to see signs of roots on a living plant? Will this even work? I will post a picture of my crazy looking plant in a minute.

That's retarded - just use Clonex gel. It works great and is really cheap and you don't need to mix up a certain amount.

And you can get plants to root without anything, so what you heard is technically right.

How long does it typically take to root?

about 7-15 days

Will they grow still while they root?

I think what you are referring to is a technique called grafting and it involves using a host plant as a multi genetic mother. The plant has an ability to heal itself and when topped, split in half downward, and then another branch can be cut into a V shape, applied gel to, and then held in place between the split. The plant will use it's healing ability to "join" itself with the branch like a human would react to having a limb severed and stitched back together and re-heals. It looks pretty frankensteinish. Theres a thread about it somewhere in grafting topics where a guy has about 5-6 strains on one mother plant. Gotta think outside the box sometimes

Not a lot. You want to keep the light you give them to a minimum anyway, like T5's at a distance for 16 hours a day.

I have a 125 watt cfl about 30" away. Is that good?