CLONING
Here is a step by step method for cloning, its is simple, very consistent (about 95%) and best of all under 20$!!!!! Actually about $12.00 you need a bag of perlite, one of vermiculite, Rootone, and a clear storage box 18L x 10W x 6T,and some "pony pac" containers (these are cheap container for nursery plants ,,you can get them free if you ask what day they throw out the dead plants, and a little bloom formula fertilizer most any brand is OK the count should be about 5-12-8 or something like that with high potassium.
Step 1 - Select a cutting, you want a healthy piece not some scraggly piece of crap, snip it off with a pair of very sharp scissors, at this time mix the perlight and vermiculite at 50/50 mix and add watertill is soft and wet, pack the containers full and firmly pack the medium in.
Step 2 - Remove the leaves and small side branches leaving a nice cluster on the top of the cut.
Step 3 - Place the cut in a glass of water and 1/10the strength bloom fertilizer.
Step 4 - Put the stripped cut end into the rooting powder it should cling on real well because of the water fert mix make sure its VERY well coated.
Step 5 - take a pen and make a hole in the pre prepared mix and containers make it big so it wont scrape the rooting hormone off.
Step 6 - place the cutting into the hole you made in step 5 and pack the medium tightly around it.
Step 7 - Using the bloom formula spray the cuts getting them pretty wet, now for the storage box, tap holes on each side and two on top I like them to be about 1/2 across,turn the box upside down place you containers with the cuts on the lid and close it up, you will need to open it every other day for a week or so ,if its really hot or dry you can spray them also,after a week take the lid off for a few hours at a time then just leave it off, don't pull on the cuts or move them in any way this only slows progress, you will have rooted cuts in two weeks or so they can go into soil or hydro from there.
Here they are I removed the lid two days ago, today they were wilting a little (that's good) so I gave them a tiny bit of the 1/10th bloom mix, if you look carefully you can tell which are rooting already, they are the ones with the yellow leaves. I haven't looked but they should all have bumps and starting roots by the way they look on top, I made the mistake of putting them a little close to the fan so two of them next to a hole got a little crisp but they look like the will pull through....
Here are the same clones being pulled from their container I usually let the go 14 days but I need the cloner for the seedlings, the root development is very good but in a few more days its a huge clump! Bigger roots leads to bigger yields ,this is why I wanted you to coat the stem so far up and with so much hormone...Be very carefull when you pull the clone out it should be packed in there very snug , squeeze the sides of the pot and gently pull the stem as it releases from the pot. The clones are going in soil I make a big hole so as not to break the delicate roots. After they are in pack the soil around them. If going to hydro with Rockwool put in hole in top of cube and cover with flock if using gro rocks just carefully put them on a single layer of rocks hold the and add rocks till the basket is full.
Oh by the way the results were 100% rooted I think if you were really looking to say this was fast they have been rooted for three days atleast but I think its better to let them sit for a while (I like another four days longer than this time) this greatly increases chances of healthy growth and minimum shock due to transplanting.
Good luck cloners have fun!!!
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Cloning is very easy to do, alot of differant techniques are out there, bubblers, powders, soil to many really to mention. However this method is by far the easiest out there. The only thing you need is water, a little bit of light, and the little piece of plant you want to root. The example shown below is of 3 cuttings that I have already taken and would like to root them. The first one with the two leaves and one single growing tip, we will call this (R). THe next one has four nodes on it, as well as a couple larger leaves, we will call this (O). The third piece is taller and has 7 nodes and a couple more well sized leaves on it, we will call this one (L). S=R O=M L=L
Along with the regular way of cloning, after you cut you will right away dip the clone in water for about 25 seconds, make sure you tweak it to get rid of any air bubbles that could be around. Now here comes the fun part, normally you would remove it dip it in powder and stick it in a rocwool cube. This time you will be leaving it in water untill the cutting has roots and is strong enough to support itself. Make sure the cup is not clear and cannot see light through it, this way the roots wont be damaged.
Now we have finished the hard part, the most critical part is the light that these will receive, again many differant oppinions here but this is what works for me and it works 100/100 so why would i change
take the cuttings and sit them on a window sill that is not in direct sunlight. You probbly want to make sure its slightly shady. Just make sure they get 12 on 12 off or approx. The important thing is no direct sunlight or artificial light on them.
The pix below show the 3 clones in the cups, O and L have about 1" of water in it, if I were to add any more water it would be covering one of the stems. The smallest one out of the three I put in the plastic because the stem was to short to stay in water and still be standing up in the cup. You must do what you have to do to keep at least half of the stem submerged in water.
See how the glasses will make sure only a little bit of light will see the roots.
And there you go one of the easiest cloning methods around.
Notes
1)Rooting Medium
You can root in rockwool, perlite, sand, vermiculite, sunshine mixes, dirt, and even water. I prefer to use rockwool because it is easy to handle, easy to transport, and it keeps your clone area clean.
24 hours before cloning you should prepare your rooting medium by watering it with a mix of one liter of water and some horticultural fungicide (see the package for proper ratio of water to fungicide). Put the medium into a nursery tray. Put the tray in the clone room, 12" from the light source, which should be left on constantly.
2) personally id go with a sterile razor blade or a scalple maybe a stanley knife.
everyone should be able to work something out with this ehy???
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i made it cos there was not one page that described more than 1 or two ways of making the stuff 
