Plant Cloning Issues, What's Going On?

GenericEnigma

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I'm coming close to the 14 days now for the second lot of clones, and really, am getting no where.

I've got the Turbo Kloner in a tent, in the corner, out of direct light, temperature controlled the room to about 23 degrees C.

Last night I sprayed out the Turbo Kloner water tank with some bleach, it fizzed up a little, perhaps some organic matter in the tank? Dunno. But I filled it back up with some distilled water (5L + about 1L of tap water as that's all I had), and popped about 3ppm of Calcium Hypochlorite.

Really not sure what's going wrong, because I've always had great success with cuttings, and to be frank, this really has me stumped.

The only thing I can think of, realistically, is if the plants have some sort of issue preventing the cuttings from rooting...?

As mentioned earlier, this particular strain has been cloned before (this is the second generation of clones), and I had absolutely no dramas getting them to root. Only now I'm struggling. All conditions are the same, nothing different, except the first batch of clones where the humidity was far too high in the dome box..

But I've been running no dome with the Turbo Kloner, and still not seeing much action happening root-wise. I worry, because the stems look like they're shrinking and dying off, they don't look like they're alive, they literally look like they're slowly dying off. The stems in the aerocloner are 1/2 the size of the stem above the collar, they don't look good. Is this normal?

Looking at the stem in your pic, it seems healthy, no issues. Whereas mine... Look like they're going to eventually rot...
What about your water source? And if tap water, is the municipality doing anything different?

In my conditions, 23dC would cause a cottony white mold to grow on my stems.
 
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