[Ichabod Crane]

Today I saw my first roots. They are on one of the Blue Dream clones. It has been 4 days 3 hours and 40 minutes since I started this clone according to the tag. If you look at the stem just above the coco coir you can see two new roots that cross each other. Should not be long for the others to start showing roots. Here is the picture of the Blue Dream clones roots.

[MicroRoy]

Fast man.

[SecondAttempt]

Subbed... let the awesomeness ensue.

[Ichabod Crane]

Originally Posted by MicroRoy

Fast man.

Yes this type of cloning seems to zoom along for me.

Originally Posted by SecondAttempt

Subbed... let the awesomeness ensue.

Dont know about that, but we will see.

[Sluicebox]

This is awesome! I will definitely be trying this out. Big cuts rooted fast, no brainer. Nice job and thanks for sharing. Subbed.

[Ichabod Crane]

Originally Posted by Sluicebox

This is awesome! I will definitely be trying this out. Big cuts rooted fast, no brainer. Nice job and thanks for sharing. Subbed.

Glad you can make it. The more the better.

For today the update is clones. I took some clones from the air layers and put them in root riot cubes. How I take cuttings is as such. Cut it off, duh right? Then I dip it into the Dip n Grow for a count to ten. Then it goes into a root riot cube. The cube is first dunked into the same mix I poured over the coco earlier.

2 ml GH micro
3.5 ml GH bloom
2.5 ml Thrive Alive B-1
All in one gallon RO water PHed to 5.8.

After dunking the cube I hold it under the nutrient solution and squeeze it. Then while still under the solution I let it go. This draws the mix into the cube. After this I pull it out of the solution and squeeze most of the nutrient solution back out.

Once that is done I put the cutting into the cube then I put it into a tray. Like the trays you get tomato plants or plants like them in, in the spring at the garden store. Then it goes into my cloner set up. It is just a 10 x 20 nursery tray with a mesh 10 x 20 tray inside. I put water into the bottom tray till it comes up to the mesh tray. It also has a 7 inch clear plastic dome. Under it it has a heating mat.

The tray inside looks like the here.



The heating mat below is only half under the 10 x 20 tray. I find that more just cooks the cuttings. I use the mat to keep the humidity up in the dome. Here also is a picture.



Notice all the moisture on the dome. Because of this I dont have to cut any leaf tips to keep the from drying out to much.

Above this all is just a shop light with two 40 watt bulbs.

Now I took 8 Bruce Banner #3 clones, 4 Death Star clones, and 4 Blue Dream clones. Kind of a control to see how long they take to get a little bigger. They were from the same plants that were air layered. As a matter of fact they were what I cut off to put the bottles on. So they should be a good judge of plant to plant comparison.

So today I checked all the air layers and no more roots yet. But the clones do have roots. To be fair I did not check them before today. So they may be from yesterday or even before.

But enough talk here are the pictures. 3 Bruce Banner #3 out of 8 at day 7.



Death Star clones 3 out of 4 at day 7.



None of the Blue Dream have shown roots yet. But they are newer cuttings so we shall see yet when they do show roots.

So now you can compare my cloning by cuttings to my cloning by air layering.

Another thing I should mention is that the coco was drying out so I had to water the air layers last night. I know I said that you didnt have to earlier but I did. Maybe it was because I had to leave the caps off and they dried quicker. It is a hit and miss thing you will have to determine on your own.

I also watered the cubes today and two days ago. The cuttings didnt wilt but the cube was getting dry. I use the same mix as post above in this post. Just a light watering of 2 to 3 ml each cube. I use a turkey baster to keep it off the leaves.

[PetFlora]

Nice OP.

I recently stuck my toe in the coco waters, I developed a method for cloning/seedlings that combines a Hydro Bubbler + 3" net pots + 3" coco liners, infill with coco. It's awesome

Prior to developing this, I used the same method, except I simply used small polished stones (Dollar Store) to fill in the space between the starter cube and the net pot. No complaints, BUT, I felt a stronger horizontal foundation will likely pay dividends

My hydro store only carries 20# bags of CoCo, so I have more than enough for an entire lifetime.

I did not realize how fluffy it is so I had to device a catch basket, or it would all fall through the net pot. On hand I had some heavy duty unbleached coffee filters, so I lined the net pot then inserted the starter cube, then filled in with coco and popped them into my DIY Bubbler

The first 2 pics are my original technique. Those plants are doing great, but so are the stone plants. The 2 new clones- no root gel, no starter cube. I did pre-soak with TappinRoot The third pic was taken yesterday, after 24 hours. Now another 24 hours and they appear unperturbed



Additionally, I would remove them from the bubbler several times a day and spray them with TappinRoot (sample given to me by my hydro store)

Once the roots exit from the sides and bottom I move them to my DIY Mini-Me F & D.

I went back to my hydro store and showed him the picture. He was very excited, and gave me a bunch of 3" coco baskets. I just tried them, along with 2 clones inserted with no root gel, no starter cube: 48 hours later, still no droop, or signs of stress

Ah crap, I closed the photo file without posting root pics. Drop by my thread, plenty pics there

[Rooibard]

Very interesting! Seems like a nice way to produce motherplants sort of perpetually... Do u use mycorhizal fungi for ur plants normally? I wonder if it would give a nice head start for fungi to colonize the roots right after 1st roots show up in air layer...

Peace

[Ichabod Crane]

Originally Posted by Rooibard

Very interesting! Seems like a nice way to produce motherplants sort of perpetually... Do u use mycorhizal fungi for ur plants normally? I wonder if it would give a nice head start for fungi to colonize the roots right after 1st roots show up in air layer...

Peace

I do not use that.

[Marlo]

Roots in 4 days is insane!