Preserve clones for 2-3 months ??

[Guywithoutajeep]

Hopefully someone out there has done it and can share their experience. I'm going to give it a shot either way. Both the plastic bag method and the cup of water in the fridge method should fail me nicely...lol. Maybe though.

 

[Ultra Current]

I take longer cuts than I need and wrap the middle to bottom of the stem in a wet paper towel and put them in Tupperware in the vegetable compartment in the fridge. I've never tried past a month but who knows. When you use them cut off the bottom 2" when you want to clone them later.

 

[Guywithoutajeep]

I take longer cuts than I need and wrap the middle to bottom of the stem in a wet paper towel and put them in Tupperware in the vegetable compartment in the fridge. I've never tried past a month but who knows. When you use them cut off the bottom 2" when you want to clone them later.

Tupperware...good idea. Thanks. I was also thinking about vacuum sealing a few and tossing them in the fridge as well. 4 different ways. Ok so I'm trying zip-lock, tupperware, cup of water, and vacuum seal. I'll report back soon, hopefully with good results.

 

[dank.frank]

I've preserved a cutting in dirt for literally years...

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dank.Frank

 

[supermanlives]

i have never had one survive stasis more than a month and still root. great experiment !!!!!

 

[Señor Chang]

Maybe trying those green produce bags that pull out oxidizing gasses...
good luck!

 

[Señor Chang]

...something else I was thinking about last night.
Perhaps trying different dilutions of food grade h202 in the soak water.
I know it is beneficial to preserving produce in the 'fridge.

 

[fukndenny]

have kept them up to 40 days in a bubble cloner + another 40 days in a beer cup, so 80 days before xplant is about my "limit".

 

[sub dermal]

4-6 weeks in a ziploc with damp paper towel around stem in fridge. in my experience.

 

[Jellyfish]

4-6 weeks in a ziploc with damp paper towel around stem in fridge. in my experience.

Wow, seriously?

 

[gloryoskie]

Cut stems in a salt shaker filled with water. Unattended lingered about month. Root bound in a salt shaker. Could survive longer with enhanced techniques, I guess. 12 weeks? I'll test the theory and let you know in March.

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Autopot for watering with super light feed.

Lights on ceiling. Not a lot of wattage.

6 on, 18 off with 1 hour of light after each 5hrs of dark.

With a large enough res and time to dial in the feed strength.. should get really lanky but that's it.

Stay Safe!

 

[sub dermal]

fridge ziploc clone storage, yeah

fridge ziploc clone storage, yeah

Wow, seriously?

4-6 weeks, yeah. i remember getting turned on to it from OG. someone mentioned it, someone else said they'd done it, and it seemed to the thing to try.

works. i actually broke a headband at the main stem, maybe 6 weeks ago. it's mentioned in my current thread. i took cuttings and put them in the fridge, let the rest of the plant veg out some more.

put those cuts in clonex and peat pucks, and half are rooted. took about 2 weeks almost. i'm finding this headband to root kinda slow to middlin'.

but, yeah. seriously.



cutting a good branch off, with 3 lateral nodes, 4-5 vertical ones, and tossing it in the fridge in a gallon ziploc is an amazing backup if you clone from pre-flowering plants usually. maybe your run doesn't work out. . . that branch is good for almost a dozen clones, and will keep healthy more than halfway thru a flower period.

i always take extra cuts anyway. running perpetual and not knowing how many of my cuts will root, working plant #s etc, sometimes it's nice to just pluck a cut from the fridge.

.sd