NightVision
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I built a bubble cloner almost identical to that. Mine looks much larger though, I have 72 1/2" holes drilled in the lid. I used one hole for the air hoses, so a total capacity of 71. I use earplugs to hold the cutting in the hole, works out perfect. I also put aluminum foil over the clear bottom section because there was slime growing on everything. My lid is dark blue, so no worries there. The slime stopped growing.
I've got it mostly full now and only one showed roots after about 10 days, but they were only spikes and didn't keep growing. About 1/3 of the cuttings looked very sad and limp. I concluded the bubble cloner wouldn't work on this scale. I had 2 pumps with 3 stones.
So I turned it into an aeroponic cloner last night. It was very easy and now all of the cuttings are perked up and the soon to root tips have good water saturation, but the water temps are high, don't know exactly, just stuck my finger in the water and it was obviously above room temp(74F), so I put a few ice cubes in there.
I also bought some of the new rapid rooter cubes. Its a thick sheet of cubes with a hole in each cube. 98 cubes per sheet. The cuttings in the cubes look great.
Come to think of it, I have a great clone area for comparison. Peat pucks beside rapid rooters beside aeroponic cloner. Peat pucks don't work very well for me.
I've got it mostly full now and only one showed roots after about 10 days, but they were only spikes and didn't keep growing. About 1/3 of the cuttings looked very sad and limp. I concluded the bubble cloner wouldn't work on this scale. I had 2 pumps with 3 stones.
So I turned it into an aeroponic cloner last night. It was very easy and now all of the cuttings are perked up and the soon to root tips have good water saturation, but the water temps are high, don't know exactly, just stuck my finger in the water and it was obviously above room temp(74F), so I put a few ice cubes in there.
I also bought some of the new rapid rooter cubes. Its a thick sheet of cubes with a hole in each cube. 98 cubes per sheet. The cuttings in the cubes look great.
Come to think of it, I have a great clone area for comparison. Peat pucks beside rapid rooters beside aeroponic cloner. Peat pucks don't work very well for me.