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milehighmedical
I had my first personal experience with cloning was quite successful. I was extremely nervous and thought for sure I'd fucked up. My buddy just handed me a cup full of water with three cuts sitting in it. They were in the cup for a few hours before I got my hands on them and got home.
Via his recommendation I trimmed the three big cuts into seven clones and scraped the outer skin off the bottom of the stem with a razor. Then I let them lay dipped in some Clonex for about 5+ minutes. Then I just inserted them in some jiffy cubes, and threw them under a 23w CFL.
After a week I thought two had survived and five were doomed so I started neglecting the other five in the corner of my veg cab and took good care of the other two which are super healthy. Then a week later I'd been to lazy to throw away the very dead looking clones, and when I finally went to toss them they had a set of fresh new leaves out of nowhere.
So after two weeks I had a 100% success rate on 7 clones. And three or four of them I transplanted after a week of rooting and the roots are already poking out of the bottom of their new pots.
I know for a fact that i was extremely unprofessional about the entire process and really regretted it at first. But then they all magically pulled through. My honest opinion is that it was just a truly vigorous super healthy happy strain/mother plant that just didn't give a flying shit that I was an amateur, it's mission was to keep growing, and it didn't let anything stop it.
So... in conclusion. Any cloning method works, I just believe the most important thing is to have a super healthy mother plant with extremely vigorous growth. Not which cloning powder or gel you use. I'll be honest, the only reason I buy clonex is because it comes in little single use packs which is enough for about 20+ clones, not because I researched a bunch and found it was the best. It's just a little bit of insurance, if I was too broke to drop the $3 I'd just use water. But I'd rather spend the couple dollars and save myself a week or two. Plain water is slooooooooooooooooow.
Via his recommendation I trimmed the three big cuts into seven clones and scraped the outer skin off the bottom of the stem with a razor. Then I let them lay dipped in some Clonex for about 5+ minutes. Then I just inserted them in some jiffy cubes, and threw them under a 23w CFL.
After a week I thought two had survived and five were doomed so I started neglecting the other five in the corner of my veg cab and took good care of the other two which are super healthy. Then a week later I'd been to lazy to throw away the very dead looking clones, and when I finally went to toss them they had a set of fresh new leaves out of nowhere.
So after two weeks I had a 100% success rate on 7 clones. And three or four of them I transplanted after a week of rooting and the roots are already poking out of the bottom of their new pots.
I know for a fact that i was extremely unprofessional about the entire process and really regretted it at first. But then they all magically pulled through. My honest opinion is that it was just a truly vigorous super healthy happy strain/mother plant that just didn't give a flying shit that I was an amateur, it's mission was to keep growing, and it didn't let anything stop it.
So... in conclusion. Any cloning method works, I just believe the most important thing is to have a super healthy mother plant with extremely vigorous growth. Not which cloning powder or gel you use. I'll be honest, the only reason I buy clonex is because it comes in little single use packs which is enough for about 20+ clones, not because I researched a bunch and found it was the best. It's just a little bit of insurance, if I was too broke to drop the $3 I'd just use water. But I'd rather spend the couple dollars and save myself a week or two. Plain water is slooooooooooooooooow.
