How To Clone

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stoneyfisherman

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So I had to trim up a few of my ladies up out back ll(lol 7th<since they're getting ready to flower and space was getting tight. I've got a few seasons under my belt but am by no means a pro. I'm still 100% a struggling amateur who learns a bit each season and gets a little better each year. Anyways... I decided to try my hand at cloning a few of the branches I was going to cut anyways.
So basically I cut my Gals at a 45 degree angle, dipped in rooting powder, and into moist Rockwood cubes and into the domes that I'm trying to keep nice and humid via mister.
Now, my question is this. What do I do about light? My garden is outdoors and I know they won't last 10min under the July sun
Should I just leave them in room to soak up the natural light that's not too intense? Any tips or ideas will help greatly appreciated. The pics were just taken. 3 days after cutting and there not dead and wilting yet so I guess that's good. Thank you for your time everyone..
 

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stoneyfisherman said:
So I had to trim up a few of my ladies up out back ll(lol 7th<since they're getting ready to flower and space was getting tight. I've got a few seasons under my belt but am by no means a pro. I'm still 100% a struggling amateur who learns a bit each season and gets a little better each year. Anyways... I decided to try my hand at cloning a few of the branches I was going to cut anyways.
So basically I cut my Gals at a 45 degree angle, dipped in rooting powder, and into moist Rockwood cubes and into the domes that I'm trying to keep nice and humid via mister.
Now, my question is this. What do I do about light? My garden is outdoors and I know they won't last 10min under the July sun
Should I just leave them in room to soak up the natural light that's not too intense? Any tips or ideas will help greatly appreciated. The pics were just taken. 3 days after cutting and there not dead and wilting yet so I guess that's good. Thank you for your time everyone..
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Definitely no direct sunlight. I use 4500k cfls or LED light on very low setting. If you don't have a grow light fixture available, you can put them near any lamp or desk light...even a window that doesn't get direct sunlight. They don't need much light until they start to veg in 10 days to 2 weeks. Then, increase the light little by little. If you've got them covered with a dome, you shouldn't need to constantly mist them.
 
wakenbake91

wakenbake91

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Why do some people cut the leaves like OP on their clones? Does it help them to take in water from the cuts in the leaves? Genuinely curious and too lazy to search lmao
 
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wakenbake91 said:
Why do some people cut the leaves like OP on their clones? Does it help them to take in water from the cuts in the leaves? Genuinely curious and too lazy to search lmao
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I cut the big fan leaves off, and cut the ends off the leaves left on. The leaves tend to wilt if they are getting too much light and the rootless stem can't get them enough resources to support photosynthesis.
 
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higher self

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I root in plain water in 16 oz water bottles, no water change. Not changing the water builds up water vapor in the bottle & roots will often grow above the water line. Last batch I didn't cut leaves & they look a lot better so I won't cut them anymore. Roots in 8 days for some should be a few more days on the rest.

Took some larger clones this time their about 12 inches & about as thick as a pencil. Should root in 7-12 days as usual
 
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higher self said:
I root in plain water in 16 oz water bottles, no water change. Not changing the water builds up water vapor in the bottle & roots will often grow above the water line. Last batch I didn't cut leaves & they look a lot better so I won't cut them anymore. Roots in 8 days for some should be a few more days on the rest.

Took some larger clones this time their about 12 inches & about as thick as a pencil. Should root in 7-12 days as usual
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Would love to see a pic of this and how it looks??
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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We used to just fill up empty beer bottles with tap water, put them on the windowsill, and stick the clones in them. Lost a few, rooted a few. Cloning takes practice-you can copy what the guys showed you here and have ZERO success, but once you get the feel for it, you can have 100% success by altering a few things. I never directly mist the leaves, mist whatever they are in, dome, ziploc, etc, not the leaves. Also, don't let the media stay too moist. Let it dry out a little bit before re-moistening it. The moist/dry cycle is what really pulls the roots out.
 
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A.k.a

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I was doing the same just dropping cuts into a jar of water.

few weeks ago I made a cloner with some airstones just to see how it went. I noticed a huge difference in root Speed and size with cuttings that were right on top of or next to the bubblers.
 
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lunari

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I have a basil plant that I harvest continually and put the cuttings in a coffee mug of water on the kitchen table. If I take too long to use them they all grow roots. I am cloning cannabis the same way but on my windowsill indoors.

I've had really good success but it's not 100%. Right before switching to flower 30 some days ago I took a couple cuttings from my triple cheese. I ended up giving one away to my neighbor that was moving. The one that I kept still hasn't really rooted so I took some lower cuttings off of my flowering triple cheese that hadn't reached the lower net and this time dipped them in rooting powder before putting the flowering cuttings in water on my windowsill. I just want to preserve these genetics but might end up with a monstercropped bonai mother plant lol.
 
MeToe

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higher self said:
My 2x2 clone tent. None rooted yet, I just transplanted some rooted cuts into soil yesterday. Also not cutting the leaves works well, I won't cut them anymore. I'll update you when these root.
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The reason I asked is because I have been playing around with cuttings this year as I made mistakes or clipped too much.. so I'd try to salvage them.. I had 0 success with all but the last.. and now it's questionable.. the first were all started with root powder & Rockwool or a soil medium. I would dome them/ &mist but it was my own make shift Red Green" version cause I wasn't going to invest anything til I knew what I was doing with them. - This could have been my downfall right there..

Anyways, this last one I said screw it and just plopped it into a glass of water and set it on my kitchen window sill. It survived and stayed healthy for several weeks... and I say weeks because yes.. it never rooted.. I finally had to make a choice and put into soil. It's still alive.. but no where as healthy and pretty as it once was, and looks to be going the way of the dodo... Next year I'll be more 'read up' on them and be more prepared hopefully. I'm an outdoor grower, and sad to say frost is just around the corner in Canada... no more time for babies. Lol my hubby calls them my experiment babies

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MeToe said:
The reason I asked is because I have been playing around with cuttings this year as I made mistakes or clipped too much.. so I'd try to salvage them.. I had 0 success with all but the last.. and now it's questionable.. the first were all started with root powder & Rockwool or a soil medium. I would dome them/ &mist but it was my own make shift Red Green" version cause I wasn't going to invest anything til I knew what I was doing with them. - This could have been my downfall right there..

Anyways, this last one I said screw it and just plopped it into a glass of water and set it on my kitchen window sill. It survived and stayed healthy for several weeks... and I say weeks because yes.. it never rooted.. I finally had to make a choice and put into soil. It's still alive.. but no where as healthy and pretty as it once was, and looks to be going the way of the dodo... Next year I'll be more 'read up' on them and be more prepared hopefully. I'm an outdoor grower, and sad to say frost is just around the corner in Canada... no more time for babies. Lol my hubby calls them my experiment babies

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My wife puts them in a glass of water with a zip lock over the plant rubber banded to the glass.

Then she puts that into the fridge. Most end up rooting.
 
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Wizzlebiz said:
My wife puts them in a glass of water with a zip lock over the plant rubber banded to the glass.

Then she puts that into the fridge. Most end up rooting.
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Lol, that was basically my set up.. rubber band and a ziplock baggy :clap: - was changing with cold spring water daily. It stayed purdy like this until I moved it to soil, but never rooted...I can just see what he'd say if I started putting them in the fridge lmao
 
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MeToe said:
Lol, that was basically my set up.. rubber band and a ziplock baggy :clap: - was changing with cold spring water daily. It stayed purdy like this until I moved it to soil, but never rooted...I can just see what he'd say if I started putting them in the fridge lmao
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She uses tap water. I'd say the success rate is about 70% this way buy I'm always chopping shit off my plants so she has plenty of opportunities to try it lol.
 
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stoneyfisherman said:
... I cut my Gals at a 45 degree angle, dipped in rooting powder, and into moist Rockwood cubes and into the domes that I'm trying to keep nice and humid via mister.
Now, my question is this. What do I do about light?
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Like others have mentioned, a CFL works great, I like 6500K, which supposedly simulates "daylight". I've never had a cloning failure with that light source, the bulb is about 1 to 1.5 feet away, mounted on the same shelf as the cloning cups, its light is also reflecting off a white shelf above it. The clones are under domes for 2 weeks, they actually are rooted earlier, but I just mark a calendar for 2 weeks.

I have had failures, read that as no successes, under 12-band LED lights -- the same lights that are fantastic in the vegetative closet -- failed to support cloning, no root growth. It is my belief based on reading I've done that the CFL produces a much wider range of light frequencies.

This post from one of my grow journals has a pic of the light, shelf, and clones rooting. That bulb is either 60- or 100-watt incandescent-equivalent light. It stays on continuously for the entire 2 weeks.
 
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