Gorilla glue cuttings, Please help as dont usually do cuts but need to save strain

Right, ive took these from another garden which were in soil. Ive used sterile scalpels and cut at 75 de angel and dipped in clonex gel in to soaked rockwoll then placed straight into clone dome with a t5 florescent light and sprayed daily. Its been a week and im noticing some strong yellowing on a few of the babies. My problem being is i dont grow cuts. Im finding that the rockwool is constantly wet im thinking its from the humidity as i havent soaked rockwool since planting a week ago. What should i be doing with these its my 2nd attempt as the first batch died. Please help i need to do another round of these beautiful babies as they grew so well 1st time round but cant gt pre grown cuts anymore . Any help would be great full. Tia

Right, ive took these from another garden which were in soil. Ive used sterile scalpels and cut at 75 de angel and dipped in clonex gel in to soaked rockwoll then placed straight into clone dome with a t5 florescent light and sprayed daily. Its been a week and im noticing some strong yellowing on a few of the babies. My problem being is i dont grow cuts. Im finding that the rockwool is constantly wet im thinking its from the humidity as i havent soaked rockwool since planting a week ago. What should i be doing with these its my 2nd attempt as the first batch died. Please help i need to do another round of these beautiful babies as they grew so well 1st time round but cant gt pre grown cuts anymore . Any help would be great full. TiaView attachment 3675870 View attachment 3675871

In my own experience, they look normal at this point. When I take clones, I keep the medium wet. If it dries out, the clones will definitely not make it. I've found roots usually around 7+ days or so. Whatever you do, don't let the cubes dry out..... the cut ends need moisture or the cut will close up. The yellowing of some of the leaves is normal, at least, with that particular way of cloning from what I've experienced. Take a deep breath......keep the cubes wet....keep your eyes open for roots poking out in a few days.

Lower leaves will yellow out when they are rooting strong in my experience. You check for roots yet on the bottom of the rockwool plugs?

Shud i be opening the dome vents a bit now or keep humidity high? Only asked about how wet to keep cubes as the seem to be getting aoaked from the dome as only give them a light foilour spray. Surely they shouldnt be continuously soaking wet. Thanks for input so far thou guys

Okay, so the rockwool cubes are wet. Did you wet them yourself before hand? And did you add any fertilizer to that water? Adding a small amount, at probably 1/4 concentration as your normal growth fertilizer blend is a good way to go.

Honestly at this point you could keep the vents open or remove the dome altogether. I keep my medium soaked/submerged so I don't forget and let it dry out and usually at worst I get about a 75+% success rate. Like HydroRed said, when the lower leaves start yellowing, that's usually an indication of root growth in my experience as well.

Imo from growing glue for 3 years, she is a heavy feeder. If theirs not enough food storage stored in the mom before taking cuttings, yellowing is going to happen as she's Hungry and eating her stored food supply. Maybe foliar spray with some N, should help the girls bounce back.

MisterBlah said:

Okay, so the rockwool cubes are wet. Did you wet them yourself before hand? And did you add any fertilizer to that water? Adding a small amount, at probably 1/4 concentration as your normal growth fertilizer blend is a good way to go.

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Misterblah. Thanks and yes did wet them a week ago but the still seem to be soaking wet and dont understand why .yes gave them some canna rhizotonic at probably less then 1/4

Timesetter said:

Honestly at this point you could keep the vents open or remove the dome altogether. I keep my medium soaked/submerged so I don't forget and let it dry out and usually at worst I get about a 75+% success rate. Like HydroRed said, when the lower leaves start yellowing, that's usually an indication of root growth in my experience as well.

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I was thinking is it time to remove dome but bit hesitant as theres no roots yet ?

DemonTrich said:

Imo from growing glue for 3 years, she is a heavy feeder. If theirs not enough food storage stored in the mom before taking cuttings, yellowing is going to happen as she's Hungry and eating her stored food supply. Maybe foliar spray with some N, should help the girls bounce back.

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So should i possibly mix canna vega into my spray m crack on with that

Back in my rockwool days I never sprayed them and mostly left the dome closed. Sometimes i would crack a vent. You don't want the rockwool laying in any water. In my experience the rockwool was a little finicky and the old tried and true Jiffy pellets were more reliable. Hopefully you can at least get 50% to root and keep them going.

I don't use anything but plain h20 when I clone. I take at least 2 to 3 node cuttings, so the clone has plenty of food storage to grow roots.

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When I douse my root riot plugs, I soak the plug in thrive alive red, squeeze, put under my t8. Temps are 84* and 85%rh+. I might Crack the vents a bit, and I do remove the dome 2x a day to spray the dome. I never spray the cuttings. Wait until roots pop out, them into so loo cups.

debo1987 said:

I was thinking is it time to remove dome but bit hesitant as theres no roots yet ?

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I dont remove my domes until I see roots.

althor said:

I dont remove my domes until I see roots.

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Yhhh i thought as much. Guna keep em covered for now, would you same fore vents ? Keep em closed till roots appear

Compare the weight/moisture of your greenest one to the yellowest, chanches are the cubes are too wet.

Ive gotten lazy and only shaken 1/2 the water out of the cubes and end up with yellowing.

You gotta let the cubes get just a little light with water...not dry but light. Make the roots come and search for water. If its totally wet all the time, the plant in a sense becomes "lazy" and wont seek water with the roots since there is so much present.

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Right, ive took these from another garden which were in soil. Ive used sterile scalpels and cut at 75 de angel and dipped in clonex gel in to soaked rockwoll then placed straight into clone dome with a t5 florescent light and sprayed daily. Its been a week and im noticing some strong yellowing on a few of the babies. My problem being is i dont grow cuts. Im finding that the rockwool is constantly wet im thinking its from the humidity as i havent soaked rockwool since planting a week ago. What should i be doing with these its my 2nd attempt as the first batch died. Please help i need to do another round of these beautiful babies as they grew so well 1st time round but cant gt pre grown cuts anymore . Any help would be great full. TiaView attachment 3675870 View attachment 3675871

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I've been cloning in cubes for like 8 years or so now, I like cubes since you can put so many in such a small space and it's so easy.
Here's a simple way of cloning that roots 98% of the clones w no dampening off. Soak the cubes @ 900 ppm 5.5 ph w basic a and b plus lil cal mag. I soak them for like 5 minutes. Grab them and shake out and loose water and put them in the tray. As I cut my clones I place them in a cup w 500ppm 5.5ph same food just diluted a bit more. I then clean up the cut except the top and stab into the cube. I keep the dome on and top closed for the 1st 3 days. On day 4 I remove the dome and wipe all moister out replacing w the tops closed. I do that til day 7 except leaving the dome off for 30 min and replacing w tops open. I repeat til day 10 and 98 out of 100 are hardened off, rooted and ready to run

Guy just want to say thank u all for ur help the babys have roots well a few do so aslong as i carry this strain through im happy as foook!!!!! So seriously thanks guys much appreciated as always