First off i use soil, can you take the clone out of the rockwool, or does this damage the roots? Or should i plant the clone cube in soil w/o removing it?

[Harvest]

place cube in soil! do not remove from the rockwool!

[gongageek]

Harvest is absolutely correct. If you try to remove them from the rockwool you are sure to destroy the roots and they will likely not recover.

Thanks, i was about rip them open! Now i know better

[FtWendy]

Indeed - you missed a bullet there D.

Just pop it into the soil, and lightly pack more around and on top of the rw cube. Water tonight, then wait at least double the amount of time between waterings you've been applying the last week until watering again. Basically, if it was every other day for the last week, for the near future it will be once every four days...

Cheers FTW

[High Country]

You can do the same thing with jiffy pellets or what ever propagation medium you use. Just pop it straight into soil and they will be fine.

[Canadibus]

dont forget to remove the plastic :P good luck

[onefiftyfour]

you DONT remove the plastic
and you DONT bury the rockwool

the plastic is there to prevent the rockwool from absorbing excessive moisture when watering, in turn ROTTING the stem of the plant.

you can sit the rockwool 1inch deep in your soil, or even just place it straight on top. within a few days it will be rooted firmly.
i have seen entire crops lost due to buried rockwool being permanently saturated, starving the area of oxygen and promoting rot.

[Dutchgrown]

Originally Posted by onefiftyfour

you DONT remove the plastic
and you DONT bury the rockwool

the plastic is there to prevent the rockwool from absorbing excessive moisture when watering, in turn ROTTING the stem of the plant.

you can sit the rockwool 1inch deep in your soil, or even just place it straight on top. within a few days it will be rooted firmly.
i have seen entire crops lost due to buried rockwool being permanently saturated, starving the area of oxygen and promoting rot.

Perhaps overwatering, as well as cooler temps and inadequate air flow (if indoors in a closed room) caused that problem.

I always remove the plastic....and bury the whole cube in soil....thousands of times....with no ill effects whatsoever. When going from rockwool to soil, a 1" starter cube holds little water, the soil pulls/draws the water through, provided the soil isn't kept too moist/saturated. I've also used larger cubes than 1" starters and never had the problem you mention.

My .02 euro cents.

[High Country]

Originally Posted by Dutchgrown

Perhaps overwatering, as well as cooler temps and inadequate air flow (if indoors in a closed room) caused that problem.

I always remove the plastic....and bury the whole cube in soil....thousands of times....with no ill effects whatsoever. When going from rockwool to soil, a 1" starter cube holds little water, the soil pulls/draws the water through, provided the soil isn't kept too moist/saturated. I've also used larger cubes than 1" starters and never had the problem you mention.

My .02 euro cents.

Yep. capillary action will suck the water out of that Grodan cube.