somebody already said that. FYIThe technique is called "Air Layering". FYI
shit people just come on this forum and post i dont think anyone actually reads what goes on in these topics ^^looks pretty cool to me, world this work on an orange tree?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNN6Ar5pYo I stumbled across this video while trying to learn how to clone maple trees. pretty cooooool
well some legal growers are only allowed a certain number of plants. with this method they could have a bunch of clones rooted without them being considered a seperate plant.Don't get me wrong, that is sort of cool, but what is the point?? I cut mine, put in plain water, scratch the bottom angled cut about one inch up, dip put in cloner and in less that 8 days I have perfect results.. So why do it on the plant? Maybe if you want to share a clone with a buddy and are not at that grow stage or your cloner is full and want to not take one from there to give but see no real reason to do it that way... Other reasons let me know?? Still cool though...
In the wild, as I mentioned in another thread on the same subject I mentioned how potplants will send out vine like runners from the hedge to do this naturally.Air layering is anything but new, not to growers who know a bit of botanical info anyway. I started a thread about it about around a year and a half ago and it didn't get much attention, a fair number of views but only a handful of replies. It seemed too radical for most.
It has been used for ages to clone hard to clone trees and bushes but it works equally well for cannabis.
My cloning bin is a shelf about 2/3'rds the way up the wall and it's in the motheroom. It takes up no space at all and the (cool white) flouresent contributes to the moms as well. I can put 40 or 50 clones in the bin. I really wouldn't want to be dealing with 40 or 50 of these things hanging off my moms. All of my clones do well. I cut my shoots about one foot long and I snip them about 3/8" of an inch above the next shoot. I use 400w mercury vapor bulbs to get the shoots to grow more rapidly. There can be a lot more to it but I'll stop here. You'll have to decide for yourself whats practical and what's just a hobby.And you wouldnt need a dome or extra lights so i can save you space..But keeping the plant/clone number down is a good advantage IMO
I did 20 within 25min's and wasn't messy or hard at all. And this is on a 4 month old rocklock mother which has given me a significant amount of clones already so shes pretty thick. I got a Og Kush #18 where im gonna do 25 on today.Yeah - this is a cool method. For big clones it's really cool, but if you want to make like 5-15 clones of the plant it would probably be a mess. This method can be used on almost any plant and is very effective since you don't reconnect the clone from the energy sourse.
Anyways - thanks for posting the method - tried it and it works like a charm.