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First Attempt at Cloning

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Clone'o'matic420
, 03-24-2012 at 11:03 AM (318 Views)
I really like the idea of cloning. I am a major supporter of genetics research and hope to be a breeder of this beautiful plant one day. Using the cloning method is a perfect way to keep your strain constant and need to get good at this.

I am open to all advice and criticisms. Just know that I WILL ALWAYS stick to DWC growing/cloning. It is the method i prefer best so when giving advice, please don't just tell me to switch to aeroponics or something. It's like telling a english major to switch to Egineering because engineers are more popular and successful right now...


anywho, enough ranting. here is m set up:

Water: distilled
Nutrients: Flora series Hydro, right now at a 5% solution of recommended strength for vegetative growth.
Medium: Expanding clay pebbles in net lids on black buckets with air stone in each.
Lights: 4 foot, 8 bulb, T5, 6500K, and they hand approx. 10" above the plant.


So i got these clones in 4 days ago, on the 20th of march. The grower who sold them to me cut them ~2 hours before they were in my hands. He covered the stem in powdered rooting hormone and put them in rock wool. (Note: the rock wool was not pre-soaked because the grower did not know I was doing hydro.) When I brought the plants back o my place i pulled them out of the rock wool, rinsed the stem under distilled water, made a new cut underwater ~1/2 inch above the original. Pulled stem out of water and dipped into eZcone's gel rooting hormone and then placed into 8" net pots with the stem approx. 2" buried under the rocks.

I then put the net pot lids with clones on the black buckets. I made sure that the water line (of distilled 5% nutrient water) was 1" below where the cut on the stem was in the rocks. I sprayed a clone dome with 6.0ph water and put on top of both black buckets with clones in them. Since I did not want the plants under full light, I then put a sheet of mylar over the clone dome so that it was blocking a about 60% of the light hitting the plants. I spray the clone dome approx 3 times a day, each time making sure the clone dome has completely dried out (so that the plant will search for roots).

This is what the clones look like after 4 days. Clone 1 looks bad(first 2 pics) but clone 2 looks good, i think the yellowing leaves is the plant using energy to make roots.

Any advice?
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  1. terrycodone's Avatar
    as long as the leaves arent yellowing at an aggressive rate i would agree with you saying its using the energy and nutes stored in the fan leaves for propagation,on the contrary i have 3 clones fully rooted in their 2nd week of veg and the lightest leaf is only slighly light green.as usual this might be a wait and see situation.good luck though!and nevver lose ur passion for breeding!its rewarding as hell!
  2. smokeingdog's Avatar
    M8 NEVER EVER BUY CLONES/CUTTINGS OFF NO ONE UNLESS THERE ALREADY ROOTED,AN I NEVER DO IT LIKE THAT,I GROW IN A (IGS 10 POT DRIP SYSTEM)AN I HAD LOADS OF TROUBLE WITH CLONES AT FIRST,I WOULD ROOT EM PUT THEM IN ME SYSTEM AN 2 HOURS LATER THEY WOULD ALL BE LOOKING LIKE THAT 1 ON UR FIRST PIC,ME MOTHER PLANT MUST OF HAD ABOUT 60 CLONES CUT OF HER TILL I REALIZED WERE I WAS GOING WRONG,WHAT U NEED TO DO IS GET UR SELF A PROPATOR ELECTRIC ONES ARE GREAT FOR CLONEING AS ROOTS SEEK HEAT,AN LEAVE THEM IN THE ROCKWOOL AN SPRAY P.H WRITE WARTER ON THE LEAFS 3 OR 4 TIMES ADAY SO THE CLONES CAN FEED THROUGH THE LEAFS AN WITH IN 14DAYS(MAX) YOU WILL SEE ROOTS COMING OUT THE SIDES OF THE ROCKWOOL,BUT THEN YOU WILL NEED TO PUT THEM IN 4INCH ROCKWOOL CUBES AN LET THE ROOTS COME OUT SIDES OF THOSE B4 YOU PUT THEM IN UR HYDRO SYSTEM,ROOTS ON A 1"INCH ROCKWOOL CUBE ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE HYDRO SYSTEM,U MUST LET THEM COME OUT THE 4"INCH AN INCH OR SO OR THEY WILL ALL DIE TAKE IT FROM ME,ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE ROCKWOOL IS WET AS WELL NOT SOAKED,U NOT WHAT I MEAN UR NOT STUPID ARE U M8................GOOD LUCK M8 I WILL BE CHECKING UR JOURNAL.
  3. smokeingdog's Avatar
    GO ON UTUBE AN LOOK UP MR GREEN HE SHOWS U THE LOT FROM CLONEING TO SMOKEING HIS HARVEST I GOT HIS DVD BUT IT DEFO ON YOUTUBE IN PARTS
  4. Clone'o'matic420's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by smokeingdog
    M8 NEVER EVER BUY CLONES/CUTTINGS OFF NO ONE UNLESS THERE ALREADY ROOTED,AN I NEVER DO IT LIKE THAT,I GROW IN A (IGS 10 POT DRIP SYSTEM)AN I HAD LOADS OF TROUBLE WITH CLONES AT FIRST,I WOULD ROOT EM PUT THEM IN ME SYSTEM AN 2 HOURS LATER THEY WOULD ALL BE LOOKING LIKE THAT 1 ON UR FIRST PIC,ME MOTHER PLANT MUST OF HAD ABOUT 60 CLONES CUT OF HER TILL I REALIZED WERE I WAS GOING WRONG,WHAT U NEED TO DO IS GET UR SELF A PROPATOR ELECTRIC ONES ARE GREAT FOR CLONEING AS ROOTS SEEK HEAT,AN LEAVE THEM IN THE ROCKWOOL AN SPRAY P.H WRITE WARTER ON THE LEAFS 3 OR 4 TIMES ADAY SO THE CLONES CAN FEED THROUGH THE LEAFS AN WITH IN 14DAYS(MAX) YOU WILL SEE ROOTS COMING OUT THE SIDES OF THE ROCKWOOL,BUT THEN YOU WILL NEED TO PUT THEM IN 4INCH ROCKWOOL CUBES AN LET THE ROOTS COME OUT SIDES OF THOSE B4 YOU PUT THEM IN UR HYDRO SYSTEM,ROOTS ON A 1"INCH ROCKWOOL CUBE ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE HYDRO SYSTEM,U MUST LET THEM COME OUT THE 4"INCH AN INCH OR SO OR THEY WILL ALL DIE TAKE IT FROM ME,ALWAYS MAKE SURE THE ROCKWOOL IS WET AS WELL NOT SOAKED,U NOT WHAT I MEAN UR NOT STUPID ARE U M8................GOOD LUCK M8 I WILL BE CHECKING UR JOURNAL.
    Don't take offense to this, but I am not going to take your advice due to this complete misconception, "SPRAY P.H WRITE WARTER ON THE LEAFS 3 OR 4 TIMES ADAY SO THE CLONES CAN FEED THROUGH THE LEAFS"..... Plants do not breath through leaves, I learned that in my Freshman biology class man. It is a common misconception and people need to realize it does not work like that.

    Keeping the plants humid DOES keep water from evaporating from the leaves as quick, which makes it APPEAR like it is taking in water through the leaves when in fact it is just running less water through its stalk. Its obvious. I mean, look at the rooting times for people who use clone domes and spray and people who don't... People who don't spray plants have their roots grow twice as fast. Coincidence? no.... When not getting sprayed the plant realizes how dry of a climate it is in and will then create hormones that trigger root growth. If you spray the leaves then the plant thinks it won't need to grow roots for the next few days.


    P.S. Grammar really helps people. It is not needed in spoken language but in written it is used to connect ideas, make lists, and have the writing easier to read. The grammar guides you through the ideas, pauses, and separates different subjects. I think when writing SCIENTIFIC articles on this site about growing, you should at least have the curtsy to take time and think about how you are expressing your ideas through your writing and enter the correct grammar.
  5. babysas's Avatar
    woah grammar police...

    why you do all that extra work?
    just clone them in rw..

    buying unrooted cuttings is just silly....


    also........... leafs
  6. Clone'o'matic420's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by babysas
    woah grammar police...

    why you do all that extra work?
    just clone them in rw..

    buying unrooted cuttings is just silly....


    also........... leafs

    thx for the correction. My stupid dyslexic ass, lol
  7. Clone'o'matic420's Avatar
    and I'm just trying to let people know that when they write without grammar it is extremely hard to understand. Also, I feel that if we want to make this site as professional as possible and represent the marijuana community in a positive way then we should use correct grammar.
  8. babysas's Avatar
    you're going to have a hard time with that mission sir....but good luck