[syko2]

How to root cutting's in 5 to 7 day's with your exsisting hydroponic equipment.

Simple, easy to use system with little maintance. Requires no misting, no domes, no rooting agent's and no ph adjusting.

You can use your dwc or swc systems for rooting...just raise the water in your res to submerg the cutting's stem.

Plain tap water with a starting ppm of 50(.5) up to 200 (.5) and a PH of 7.0 can be used. Lowering the PH from my experience is pointless. The main thing's to rember are keep everything clean and max your DO leavels by keeping temp's cool. 65 to 78 is ideal. Use an air pump 2 times the size of the res ie 10 galon res use a air pump good for 20 galons.

Using 1" air stones will greatly increase your amount of bubbles but almost any size air stones or bubble curtin's can be used.

Mediumless or the use of a medium like grow rock's, lava rock's and coco coir among others can be used.

I use a 10 galon Homz or Stirlite tub w/ a 10 galon wisper air pump and 2 1" air stones. Any size res can be used and it can even be clear.

After you take your cutting make sure the cutting's stem is submerged at least 1" into the res water. Keep the cutting's stem submerged till it root's. It is usally with in 5 to 7 day's however, some do take longer.

Keep the system clean by dumping, washing and refilling it every 7 to 10 day's. Adding h202 @ 1 tsp to 1 tbsp a galon or 5 to 15 mls a galon every few day's will help keep the system clean & it will add oxigen to the res but I don't add anything except plain fresh tap water.

H2o + O2 = Root's... Fraze coined by Joecrowe.

No need to add any rooting hormones into the system or to the cutting's stem however, water solutible gel's or solutions like Rootec or Oliva's can be used thoe I noticed no difference in rooting times.

Once the cutting has rooted you can place the cutting into the medium of choise. If it is a soil or soiless medium, water heavy the 1st time then allow the medium to dry out compleatly befor watering again so the root mass can turn into soil root's.

i been using same system for few weeks now and the results are amazing ,some strains can root in 2- 3 days ,heres a pic of caljax at 9 days



ill never go back to normal techinques and i owe thanks to 00420 for his guidance

[syko2]

Great pic's !!!

Here is an excellent link of a simple aero cloner that works. I have experienced similar results.

https://www.overgrow.com/edge/showthr...hreadid=474454

AL

[00420]

i have lots of info to add

i been using this for about 2 yr's now and lov it 100% cloning every time i been taking pic's a doc'ing a lot in the past few month's on this.......

pic's to come as im still working on bugs......

"65 to 78 is ideal"......... i find 78-80 to be best.

any thing under 75 takes longer to root from what i have play'd with.
i found silverhaze to be my fastest rooter 2 days



ps.......im a caregiver for 8 + my self

[bartender187]

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420 Silver Haze looks to be the bomb diggity.

A friend is still usin the ol' perlite and vermiculite in cups method, Im goin to direct him to this thread, and hopefully he will leave enlightened.

Im goin to make a Shallow water cloner... I think i have all the parts layin around at my house, except maybe some net pots...

Nice post hazy

bartender187

[00420]

dont even need net pot's 187...... just drill some holes im doing test on dif size holes also.

i just took some more pic's / clone today

as soon as i find the right size hole all make a new one i dont like the 10 gall rubbermade...... i have a new 5 gal that is bigger to fit more clones with less water to heat/cool....

[00420]

Originally posted by bartender187
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420 Silver Haze looks to be the bomb diggity.

A friend is still usin the ol' perlite and vermiculite in cups method, Im goin to direct him to this thread, and hopefully he will leave enlightened.

Im goin to make a Shallow water cloner... I think i have all the parts layin around at my house, except maybe some net pots...

Nice post hazy

bartender187

it was bomb tell i seen it got spidermites from the guy i got it from ..... i had to toss it out on day 4 i did not want it to spred in my garden.. but no prob i got a new one that is looking good
cant wait to clone it.

tell your buddy to give this a try i used rockwool be for this never again
them brown thing work good. you dont have to ph them either
i like to start in the dwc cloner then move to the brown thing's. all find out what there called. easyer to put in to the perlite in them. i dont like dumping perlite on the new root's.

00420 - I drilled 1/2" holes and 1-5/8" holes. I used the inserts from an aerocloner and they work fine. I made a second one to move the new clones under a stronger fluro 65w, and than a 150w hps. Better cloning results than anything else I have ever tried so far. no camera pics. I have roots like the one in the link.

Avid

[GreatLakes THC]

420 what's the purpose of clipping the fan leaves? does it help promote upward growth in some way? I haven't worked with clones yet, but will be at some point during this next grow.

GreatLakes THC