BorkBorkBork
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Got another run of clones going now, trying it without any rooting hormone this time, just snip and in the cloner.
In one of my earlier attempts to clone...
I used rapid rooters and a tray.....
they held quite a bit of water too....
Yet I managed to kill them.... they dried out....
With this deal I can add to the res one time in 2 weeks and voila roots....
I cant seem to see the need to let the unit sit in an inch of water. It seems to hold a decent amount of water with out it. This is especially true if you put a dome on it.
The best part about using these, imo, is that since they are translucent, you can monitor root development!
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Why can't I ever find this ice cube tray at Wally World?
You can buy fairly large storage containers for less than $5, and a hole cutter for $5, add a bubbler/stone and you are rockin.![]()
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If growing up to 6 plants you can get a 6 liter container (shoe box size) for $1.00 at Dollar stores. One 10" bubble stone creates a highly oxygenated environment for seedlings to develop or clones to root. I am going to use 2 @ 10" stones since I have them.
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The only thing i never liked about this method was the fact i could not see the roots as they grew. Guess what i plan on getting soonK+ for the idea
I must admit that I'm a new guy in the hood but what I found as an easy cheap cloning method with more than 80% success rate, is just to take an empty plastic bottle (better if it has curves - like a coke bottle), you cut the bottle at about half hight (see pictures) than you put soil and than the clone. KEEP THE CAP ON!
Now you just give the clone a lot of water and you close him with the top you just cut off.
place them under a floracent light in a warm room (in cold times you just place it closer to the light source).
a few days, up to 2 weeks you'll be able to see the roots running down the sides off the bottle.
Good luck!
been there, done that. ...here's a couple pics of the bubbler i retired after a friend pointed me over here.
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...now i wouldn't think of cloning any other way than with my ice-tube-tray's and in fact i am such a convert i built a cab just for my cloners and the newly rooted clones resulting, lol.
anyway, here's a pic of the cab with 2 cloners up top, left and right.
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here you can see the open shelf i built to allow air-flow and to passively recapture heat from the lower bulbs.
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here's the back almost complete
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and a shot from the front before final finishing touch's
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in any event, in my humble opinion this passive wick style cloner is the easiest, most reliable cloning method there is, bar none.
peace, and stay safe, SOG