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what light nutrient mix do you use when you take clones?

Tonygreen

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Maybe im fucking up but I dont feed em anything but pure water till they get re potted.
 

Friend

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Usually just water until a week or so after they get roots growing.

Then they get some liquid kelp extract added in for a while until it's time for regular nute feedings to begin
 

ganjapool

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I like to use clonex at 20 milliliters in a gallon or maybe some liquid karma at 5 milliliters a gallon or just plain water with the ph adjusted to 6.8 I've also used thrive alive at 10 milliliters or super thrive I forgot what dose i have used that at its been a long time since I've used super thrive for soaking my plugs.
 

Coconutz

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warm tap water until they start turning light green - when I can tell they have roots, then 6/9 until chop
 

toastfighter2

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I have been soaking my rockwool cubes in a water with just a touch of GH maxibloom. The grodan site has a couple videos on cloning and they recommend "pre-charging" the cubes with a light nute mix. From there just plain tap water until they show decent roots. The main difference that I have noticed is that they don't get that yellow before I have to transplant them. i can't really say if it helped my clone rate, but not having them start to stall out is a bonus.
 

the gnome

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I dip cuts in root powder from lowes/ wally world etc etc
i use liquid karma 20ml every few waterings,
when I get roots i start adding veg nutes 1-2ml-gal along with LK.
I get roots in 10days average in perlite/verm using only water but the LK seems to keeps em green-n-healthy til then.
 

BudMan30

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Soak the rapid rooters in a bio root (GH (GO) product )solution at 15 ml/gallon for 2-3 hours. I have an air pump forcing air into the 5 gallon bucket keeping the solution aerated.
After the plugs have been soaked for a couple hours I put them into there fittings and place the cube tray into the bottom tray. I use oliva cloning gel,once I have all my cubes in the tray I fill the holes with the gel until the gels coming out of the top. (This eliminates haftinf to spread the gel around the 90* cut. All ya haft to do is take the clone from the plant , get a separate tray of pure unclorinzd water and make your procise 90 degree cutting underwater. This keeps the clone from getting any unwanted diseases.
Then take your freshly cut clone and place it I'n the cube that already has oliva gel inside of it. Cover the suronding area with little pieces of a rapid rooter cube insuring no air can get to the cut zone. Now you have your clone in the cube and cube Into the tray. Mist the cuttings with clonex mist solution.
Get a gallon jug of water from
Tbe store and use 15-20ml per gallon. Even out ph to 5.8-6.5 using pre/mixed ph down (Soliton. (Earth juice ph up/down )

Pour solution till the cubes about. 1/2 way submerged

Place on heating pad and put humid dome over the tray with the vents closed. Change your solution every 3 days till you see roots then open vents . keep your tray soliton aerated!!!
 

Jnugg

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Simple seedling tray filled with rapid rooters in plain water pH'd between 6.0 and 6.5 with a vented humidity dome.After they root and have a somewhat decent rootmass I transplant and then begin feeding.

No rooting hormones/dips/gels/powders used as rapid rooters are organic and also contain a natural rooting hormone.

Works everytime.
 
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