I have a question for you guys that are soaking your clones in a glass of water are you putting them up in the window and letting them do their thing because if so I'm wondering if what we have all been taught about letting the light be on for 24 hours maybe it's not such a good thing I've been doing a test on the clones the ones that I let sleep for a few hours a night seem to be doing a lot better than the ones that run 24 hours light what are your guises thoughts on this The next test I'm going to do will be with a bubble cloner and some aloe vera I'm going to take a big branch of the aloe vera and squeeze all the juice into the water and see how things go because apparently the Alevera is supposed to help the plant uptake and keep it healthy until it grows its roots
i put clones inside a box with cfls temps around 80F with oasis foam cubes autofed from bottom ebb and flow. Anything that i put inside there clones fast at a 100% rate. i have no additives whatsoever and i leave the lights on 24/24. Don't seat it, provide warm humid temps with moist airy medium, and they will root. no need for hormones
GH the 20 liter container does ebb and flow from the bottom of the tray above, that tray in which the "rapid rooter" tray sits. the "rapid rooter" tray is only to hold the cubes a bit above the tray bottom so that they drain well. it is set on the same timer along with the veg chamber that floods it every 4 hours. it is enclosed with a towel curtain but not airtight. i use that towel for my sink to dry my hands lol temps inside are stable 80. last time i checked RH was 50s-60 inside. I noticed no ill effect from using up to 6 cfls in 2x2 cloning box. the height of the box is about 1 ft total. it gets quite bright 24/24
Really? From seed I top my plants when they get about 6 nodes. I take top 3 for the clone. Always works great for me and symetrical branching continues as if was started from seed, where as lower branches form alternating nodes. Haven't had a problem with top cuts rooting. Repeat when clone gets 6 nodes.There are distinct phases of plant growth: Rooting, vegetative growth, and flowering. Some overlap well and some don't. The hormones in the plants tell the plants what phase to be in. Light/dark are triggers for the release of these hormones. These normally occur in natural patterns in nature, but in the case of cloning, the rules change a bit. We are taking a part of a plant that has been doped with the growth hormone that tells it to continue in the vegetative growth phase, and trying to "force" it in a "nonstandard" direction for the plant.
Starting from the seedling, The rooting phase is one that requires the full attention of the plant until the roots are established. Then the plant will gradually switch over to veg growth, even though the roots are also still growing. This is the overlapping of phases. The same occurs with veg and flowering.
But once you have taken the cutting, you have to slow down(or pause) the "veg" phase in that cutting so that you can switch it over to the "new rooting" phase. Some plants will switch more easily than others. This is also why many people don't try to clone the upper branches as these have even higher levels of "growth" hormone, which inhibit "rooting" hormones.
The key is to get the growth hormones to shut down so that the rooting hormones can tell the plant to switch to rooting. Reducing the level of light to the cuttings and putting the cuttings under yellow(flowering lighting) will help to "pause" the veg growth. Adding rooting hormones ups the chances and speed of rooting. I also will cut my leaves in half to reduce the light gathering surfaces of the plant to pause the growth.
I just had a fat bowl of flowers so I hope this all makes sense
Really? From seed I top my plants when they get about 6 nodes. I take top 3 for the clone. Always works great for me and symetrical branching continues as if was started from seed, where as lower branches form alternating nodes. Haven't had a problem with top cuts rooting. Repeat when clone gets 6 nodes.
Just for the heck of it I just stuck a top in some dirt, put a milk jug over it, month later we had life
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