that is great to hear. just looking at he stems, they looked as if they were submerged in the water. i say that because of the color. i`m just glad u got a cut to root. now u have some mother to work with, and you can move on.
all in all this may have set u back a few weeks on the next run but u wont have to start from seed and u shouldn`t have the same problems again. we live we learn. i would ck the depth of the stems in the cloner the next time to make sure you have enough room for the stems to hang freely without being in the water, u may have to drop the water level smidge.
but the congrats are still in order because u did get to one and that's better than none at all, so congrats!