[Beuhologue]

Hi

I thought about a solution to quarantine more effectively not yet rooted cuts received, either by mail or hand to hand, to prevent secondary infections, and confine the insects/diseases/pests carried by each cut, especially for those who receiving cuts of several sources that ultimately end up in the same space.

Advantages:

_Possibilities to observe cuts, to move the clones from quarantine to a distant place of treatment without contaminating healthy plants and those in quarantine;

_The certified healthy clones can move faster towards to the mother plants place;

_Less pesticide;

_Treatements are faster and more efficient;

_Once a clone of a variety are rooted are bug or problem free, the others may be placed in the freezer and thrown away or kept until eradication/until the death of cuts of by reducing to a minimum the risk of collective contamination;

_Cheap.

Equipment:

_Plastic clear glasses/cups ;

_1cm thick Dacron (white felted material, material socks surrounding carbon filters);

_Hot glue pistol;

_Transparent tape;

_Sharp cissors/and/or scalpel.



How to do?

_Cut regularly the bottom of a plastic cup;

_Cut Dacron strips one centimeter and a half wide;

_Stick a Dacron band on the upper edge of the lower part of the cup, not need more of 5 or 6 glue lines perpendicular to the top edge to stick it;

_Once the glue cooled, passing the bottom of the cup in the upper part of the cup, and lower the bottom to adjust the 2 parts keeping the Dacron strip horizontal well and regular, adjustment overwrites Dacron which 1cm passes to 3mm;

_Put 4 large glue dots overlapping the two inner sides of the cup to fix these two parts together;

_Opportunities to multiply the vents/barriers to insects





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[Beuhologue]

[Beuhologue]

[Beuhologue]

[I wood]

While I do think your method would work well, a cup a sandwich bag and a rubber band perform the same task with much less work.
Being able to toss the occasional bad cut is very useful.

[growingcrazy]

Originally Posted by I wood

While I do think your method would work well, a cup a sandwich bag and a rubber band perform the same task with much less work.
Being able to toss the occasional bad cut is very useful.

You can even go a step further and just set them in a 1 gallon bag, breathe into the bag a little and seal it.

I will set cuts in solo cups in the bag with about 1/4" of water or so. Simple and the bag is still useable for whatever else!

[stoned-trout]

yeehaw....

[growingcrazy]

Yeah buddy! Looks like a subway cookie display..lol

You just peel the cans away or do the plants slide right out?

[Beuhologue]

Yo!

It really effective, as rooting environement and for observation, (some rootings in 5 days)
I receive 23 cuts from a friend, this friend had thrips few weeks ago, and send me some cuts at a moment where he trust that the problem is solve,
On the 23 cuts, one still have 2 eggs, after few days in my quarantine environnement, the thrips break their eggs and start to walking on leaves.
When I see it, no stress at all, the problem is allready kept inside my quarantine cups, I'm not afraid for infection spreading, after inspection, there is just one cut.

I open the cup, kill the 2 thrips by pinching the leaf, treat it by spraying, cups are stick again together, plant back in quarantine, operation: 3 minutes

=>No stress
=>gain of time
=>gain of money (less pesticide to spill)
=>limitation of the pollution (divide the amount of spraying by 23 this time, but I got 27 other cuts from an other friend by side, so you could divide it by 50)

In response to ####, plastic cup is a better choice than plastic bag, plastic sheet folding of the bag + humidity inside the bag = hard to see inside
Plastic cup ==>humidity inside==> you knock the bottom of the cup and majority of water fall down and left you with a better vision inside,


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[Beuhologue]

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