Mr Apricot
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ya just put them in shade under the hps and be patient. some clones from the same plant root faster than others and are stronger. Its all a waiting game.
Cloning lights.
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Just to throw my 2 cents in there, I've done side by side tests with different spectrum on regular 4 foot florescent shop lights. In my experience the ones that worked the best were 4100K with the highest CRI rating. I think 80 CRI, I can't remember exactly. They have multiple CRI rated florescents of the same spectrum so look for the highest CRI you can find.
Careful here. Whether F&D, drain to waste or saturation in aerated water, water is the O2 delivery system. Sitting in a damp cube with old water, esp under a dome, will choke off O2 to the root zone.
Whether my old cloning tray or my current bubbler, 100% saturation is what keeps them from drowning. Without bubbling water, you'll want to flood the cube at least daily to force out stale water and air and replace them with fresh.
ridingsolo
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Much thanks to everyone!
On a more somber note... I opened the top of my makeshift chamber only to be greeted with a great whiff of mold. All the cuttings have wilted leaves with nothing growing at the bottom but fungus.
Back to square one. (with much better ideas for round 2)
On a more somber note... I opened the top of my makeshift chamber only to be greeted with a great whiff of mold. All the cuttings have wilted leaves with nothing growing at the bottom but fungus.
Back to square one. (with much better ideas for round 2)
Frankie Pebbles
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ridingsolo
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I'll just have to buy a dome... hahah
Ed has done a lot for the scene but im afraid not everything in his books is the gospel
warm white is best for cloning. i use a 9w warm white cfl
you really dont need much light or any fancy equipment if you just want a few clones to root.
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tokinafaty420
The cabinet I clone in has only two 52w CFL bulbs over top. Doesn't need anything special.
uhhh... didn't you just say that your dome killed everything you had... uhh...gimme a sec... yep, you did, right here. The dome killed you dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
As you've just learned the hard way, high RH is deadly. 15% RH is more than enough. Toss that lid in the trash and, high RH and death will go with it. Keeping cuts short and well trimmed eliminates the need for domes and their lethal levels of RH.
way back in the day before we had these things called CFL's I used a 75w gro-n-show bulb to root my cuts...never used a dome...just as FB said...nice short healthy cuts in a low light area and the roots 7-10 days later...oh and no rooting hormones either...just good ole verm/perlite 50/50 mix...
Frankie Pebbles
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Hey bro, you got it, cut it and stick it give it a blast of water and mist couple times a day for the first few days after that they were on there own...I come from the old school when we didn't have the rooting hormones...hell I recall growing good pot before they had all these cool ass names...hahaha
uhhh... didn't you just say that your dome killed everything you had... uhh...gimme a sec... yep, you did, right here. The dome killed you dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
As you've just learned the hard way, high RH is deadly. 15% RH is more than enough. Toss that lid in the trash and, high RH and death will go with it. Keeping cuts short and well trimmed eliminates the need for domes and their lethal levels of RH.
personally i wouldnt dream of rooting mj cuttings without a dome - the humidity helps stop them from losing too much water - but then again ive never had a cut go moldy either.
just goes to show there are many ways to do it - each grower needs to find a method that works for them in their local conditions which can be very different. in the general run of things mj is very easy to clone compared to most other plants.
VG.
Damn straight! There are a million ways to clone in the Naked City. If you got roots, you did it right no matter what you did. Used "correctly" my bubbler killed everything, used "wrong" 100% success. I REFUSE to believe my IC sisters and brothers are lying to me about naked stems in plain water. Just doesn't work for me.
ridingsolo
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I do think all the cuttings had too many leaves in retrospect. this was also my first experience using rockwool. I Obviously need to do some more homework while my plant recovers.
Freezer, What setup is that in your pic there. Aeroponics? I have some major problems with things drying out too quickly in the grow room even though the humidity stays around 60% on it's own. I didn't want the towel or the cubes drying out, so I used plastic wrap. Aeroponics would eliminate both problems in one shot?
Freezer, What setup is that in your pic there. Aeroponics? I have some major problems with things drying out too quickly in the grow room even though the humidity stays around 60% on it's own. I didn't want the towel or the cubes drying out, so I used plastic wrap. Aeroponics would eliminate both problems in one shot?
Mine's a standard bubbler but, it wouldn't work for me with naked stems. I had 100% success in my old cloning tray with Hormex, gel and rockwool so, I transferred those elements to the bubbler and haven't lost a clone since.
Aeroponics strikes me as overly complicated. That and the stories of them working once or twice and never again.
Aeroponics strikes me as overly complicated. That and the stories of them working once or twice and never again.
ridingsolo
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got it. thanks!
Hey freezerboy, i don't doubt that you know what your talking about, but my experience a couple of days ago didnt support what your saying. i'm actually doing a little cloning right now with little cloning experience. I made 18 cuttings, dipped in rootech gel and put into rockwool which was soaked with water and europonic rockwool conditioning solution and put them under a dome. They were under the dome for about 24 hours and looked fine. I figured id take the dome of for a little to give them some fresh air. So i took the dome off and left the room. I came back no more than 15 min later and every cutting was completely limp like a wet noodle just slumped over, leaves on the bottom of the tray. I misted them and put the dome back on. Most of them recovered, 2 are still limp and slumped over. I left the dome on for another 4 days, im on day 5-6 now and they seem to be rooting. If i gently tug on the cutting, it doest move from the rockwool, so im guessing roots are starting to take hold. Anyway, just wanted to share my experience of what happened when i took the dome off for 15 min.uhhh... didn't you just say that your dome killed everything you had... uhh...gimme a sec... yep, you did, right here. The dome killed you dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.
As you've just learned the hard way, high RH is deadly. 15% RH is more than enough. Toss that lid in the trash and, high RH and death will go with it. Keeping cuts short and well trimmed eliminates the need for domes and their lethal levels of RH.
Frankie Pebbles
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