cloning is very hard

i tried cloning. 4 days they both died i was foliar feeding them. i pulled em out to find ZERO rooting at all. why?

thats not enough info for me to help.

you should have them in a dome, you should only open and spray the DOME every day or so. rooting takes anywere from 1 to 3 weeks. a germination heating pad does wonders for rooting tho. what kind of meathod are you using for cloning? rockwool, peat, rapid rooters, ect.?

but yes i agree cloning is tricky, many people will take 100 clones and get a small handfull of rooters. when first starting off its not uncomon for someone to take 100 and have a 0% success rating.

i myself have done 6 clones in rockwool, 9 in an aerogarden, and 3 in peat. the rockwool didnt give me any rooted plants, the aerogarden so far has given me one... but it died a few days after rooting, the first 2 that i took in peat rooted, one in 1 week, one in 2 and a half. they are now full plants and in flowering. the other one i did recently didnt make it.

cloning can be a little tricky at first, but eventually you're gonna come up with a way that suits you and you're gonna be just fine.... don't worry at all. practice makes perfect.

I've had clones that rooted in rockwool, as well as clones that rooted in soil. At some of them, I didn't even use rooting hormone.

after you've taken the cuttings from the plant, did you also cut off the leaves on the first node. That's where it's easier for the roots to grow...

how often do u spray water on them....
i dont water the soil that often but i spray them atleast 5 times a day....

https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/160231-first-clones-100-success-thanks.html

build your self a ezcloner. check the diy section. I did and got 6 out of 8 on my first try took about 10 days,, works for me

i built a shoe box ez cloner but it didnt work, i figured out i was doing it wrong. now i have aerogardens to use, they suck. one rooted and its all gimped out and dying.

Some basic cloning tips:

- The lower on the plant you take the clones from, the easier they are to get rooted and get growing. Lower areas of the plant have the freshest hormones and therefore root a lot more readily than the top parts of the plant, which have their hormones focused on vegetative growth.
- Aeroponic cloners (such as EZ cloners) can be a great investment.
- Keep in high humidity until roots form.
- Make sure they have fresh air but not air blowing directly on them, that will dry them, making them transpire more - Bad.
- Use rooting hormone.
- Cut leaves in half to reduce transpiration.
- Cut out growing tips so the clone spends some time focusing its energy on growing some new roots instead of focusing on new vegetative growth. Make sure you cut off the growing tip just above a healthy node so that when roots form the plant has somewhere to grow it's fresh shoots from.
- Try different types of cuttings to find which works best for your strain (e.g - semi-hardwood, soft wood, stem tip cuttings etc. ... You know if you get really good you can get a leaf to grow roots! )

- The more research you do into it and the more experience you get with it, the easier it will become. There are a lot of plants out their that are a lot harder to take cuttings of than Cannabis.

Best of luck!

Kids these days, do your research. All the info is here on the board.
Cloning is a simple process, natural even.
You need humidity to keep it alive until it roots. Heck I used 2 liter coke bottle halves over styrofoam.
Cut your branches neatly, and shave off the outer stem to create more surface area.
Used rooting hormone.
Open the humidity dome once a day for a few minutes and spray your plants.
And wait.
You will get root. Its ok if it droops. It'll live.

Kids these days, do your research. All the info is here on the board.
Cloning is a simple process, natural even.
You need humidity to keep it alive until it roots. Heck I used 2 liter coke bottle halves over styrofoam.
Cut your branches neatly, and shave off the outer stem to create more surface area.
Used rooting hormone.
Open the humidity dome once a day for a few minutes and spray your plants.
And wait.
You will get root. Its ok if it droops. It'll live.

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Some wise advice.
You can mist your cuttings with water, but don't foliar feed them or anything like that before they've established a decent root system.
Tis true there are thousands of web pages, books and threads on how to propagate plants (not just MJ) ... It can have it's perils, but it is easy to get a 99% survival rate. Mass growing operations do thousands of clones at a time and have very high success rates so it can't be that hard now can it! lol.

Hygiene plays an important role too! Use sterile blades (fresh razor blades are good, cheap and disposable - or reusable a few times over if you sterilize them between cloning operations and preferably between plants so not to spread bacteria between them). Keep it clean, success is more likely!

the easiest thing i ever did to clone was peat, i just took the cuttings, then i planted the whole thing in a soil pot after a few days, i placed a tuperware container over it to keep it humid, but being in the big pot of soil, i never had to water, i never had to spray the dome, i never had to do shit, one rooted in a week, one rooted in 3 weeks, so that tells you how different theyre rooting scheduals can be.

PH is important, the new roots like it low i hear, around 5.5-6

i lost 75% of my first batch, used soil, a dome and rooting gel. I sprayed twice a day. It didn't help that one of the 'mothers' was dying and that i didn't use the cleanest blade, didn't clean inbetween cuts.. even now half of the survivors are turning yellow! oh well live and learn, at least one is showing new growth.. 2 weeks in.

markj said:

cloning can be a little tricky at first, but eventually you're gonna come up with a way that suits you and you're gonna be just fine.... don't worry at all. practice makes perfect.

I've had clones that rooted in rockwool, as well as clones that rooted in soil. At some of them, I didn't even use rooting hormone.

after you've taken the cuttings from the plant, did you also cut off the leaves on the first node. That's where it's easier for the roots to grow...

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there was only one leaf i clipped one of the original branches. is that the problem?

SiCoSkateboards said:

there was only one leaf i clipped one of the original branches. is that the problem?

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heres what i do.maybe this well help.
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see i dont have any branches like that, my shits are all tiny

They dont need to be that big. You just need... fuck what was it... about 3 nodes? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Use the bottom node for more root surfaces, clip the leaves of the second node, and make sure the top node is isnt too big.

UnEmploymentDude said:

They dont need to be that big. You just need... fuck what was it... about 3 nodes? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Use the bottom node for more root surfaces, clip the leaves of the second node, and make sure the top node is isnt too big.

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ya this was the fist time i cut them that big. heres thye resuls. there the two in the right row , and not the front one. there all clones but they where cut smaller.

What I have found with cloning is what works for 1 person might not work for another.I tried fancy bubbler cloners and every method everyone told me about and I failed. Now I use peat pellets with 2 ltr. soda bottles for domes. I cut at an angle and dip it in rooting powder put it in the pellets ( after they soaked in water), mist them and pop a dome on them. I mist them daily and I get roots in 1 to 2 weeks. I don't cut any leaves heck I don't even steralize my razor knife and I've never had a bacteria problem. You might just have to try different methods till you find what works for you.Keep at it it will happen. Now I get 9 out of 10 rooting and I take clones from all over the plant too. Top, bottom,middle. The cloning gods have blessed me finally.

mygirls said:

ya this was the fist time i cut them that big. heres thye resuls. there the two in the right row , and not the front one. there all clones but they where cut smaller.

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NICE!

Looking at plants as healthy as those make me want to start growing again!

first, take a clean shot glass. second, fill with one ounce of Patron. third, drink shot. fourth, fill same shot glass with water. fifth, put cutting in water. six, wait two three weeks under low light. if one finds themselves becoming impatient repeat steps 1-3. PH dont matter when cloning this way tap water just fine...