Cloning made easy

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I know some are having trouble cloning. Well, this is my current method which works great and is ultra-easy.

I've took some pictures of my way of doing it, and I hope it will help someone

Ingredients;



1. Mother plants - something to take cuttings from.
2. Jiffy (peat pellets) in the emount of clones you intend to take. You need to pre-soak them in PH 5.5-6.0 water for at least 3 hours. 12 hours is better.
3. Clear plastic cups, I've used small one used for wine tastes because the jiffy fills one almost perfectly. Any will do. You will need 2 times plastic cups the emount of Jiffies.
4. Clean sharp blades. I've used utility knife blades because I lost my scalple, but you would rather use the later.
5. Rooting hormone. Either powder like mine or jel.
6. Clear masking tape.

Step 1:

Take a jiffy and squeeze it to lose the excess water. You need it soaked but not to the stage it drips.






Stage 2:



Put the Jiffy in a cup and put your pinky in to make a hole. A pencil could work too. Or the back of the scalple.

You should have a hole by now.





Stage 3:



Cut your cutting in a sharp angle - the sharper the better. You want to expose as much inner core as possible.
You should take a cutting from a branch with at least 3 nodes.


Stage 4:



Dip you cutting in the water used for soaking the Jiffies.

This is how your cutting should look like:



Stage 5:



Cut shallow cuts all over the bottom of the stem.


Stage 6:



Dip the cutting in water again. Remember, the cutting DIES when air gets in the stem.


Stage 7:



Dip the cutting in the rooting hormone.


Stage 8:



Put the cutting covered with the rooting hormone in the Jiffy. Take caution to keep the rooting hormone on the stem and not on the top of the Jiffy.


Stage 9:



Squeeze the jiffy to hold the cutting. You need to squeeze it pretty good to get the Jiffy to touch all the stem.

Stage 10:



Cut a cross in the top of another cup.


Stage 11:



Put that cup on the cup with the cutting.


Stage 12:



Cover the gap with the masking tape and LABEL you clone.

This is how your effort should look like:






To get them to root ASAP you need to give them the following conditions:
1. High humidity. Which will occure naturally due to the closed cups. the small hole in the top should be enough for them to breath.
2. A temp of around 26C.
3. Check every other day to see if roots popped.

When you see the first root coming out that time to open the top cup and transplant the plant.

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Perhaps the best explanation on this subject for people not using a hydro setup. You can also use 20oz water bottles. Cut the top off right at the top of the straight part of the bottle. Take off labeling and put upside down over the jiffy.
It should go down pretty far on the jiffy and still leave some room for air. You can keep the bottle on the plant after you transplant.

Thanks.
And yes, forgot to mention - the Jiffy should go into dirt and not hydro setups as the peat will hold too much water cause rot.

In my bigger veg room I kept the jiffies in clear soda bottles cut at the half almost completly but kept somehow attached, put the jiffy in and closed it keeping the "cork" out.

Good post and nice pics. Clears up some of the missing items I've seen in others.

(and Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head)

I kept checking my cutting once every 3 days or so, and today I've noticed big roots on 2 out of 3 clones. Been 10 days since.

Probably the third one is ready too, but because of the moisture level I can barely see little roots. Doesn't matter, I have other 6 clones in there waiting so I'm checking anyway.

NEXT PART OF THE TUTORIAL

When your cutting rooted you want to transplant them. you can check the transplanting tutorial in my signature.

VERY IMPORTANT.
In a plants early days it needs a lot of moisture. 80-90% is great. Less than 60% is bad.
Keep one of the plastic cups on the plant after transplanting to keep the humidity inside.
You should remove the dome after 2 new nodes have been grown. Usually takes a week and a half in my setup.

Do not worry about the old leaves deforming or dying, they are weak from all that stress and hard labor you put them through. You'l have new leaves in no time

internet crashed so couldn't upload the pictures. here they are.

so you spray water on the leaves or does the jiffy hold all the water that you need

you do nothing but waiting.
the cuts on the top cup lets enought air movment for that stage and humidity rises as the jiffy is packed with water that evaporates.
to get optimal results you wanna use small containers and big jiffy.

sweet doing this
i have a plant and its in coco its close to harvest
i know the strike rate of cloning in this stage is low but im wondering if you got any tips
on how to do this

very tight

jimmy130380 said:

sweet doing this
i have a plant and its in coco its close to harvest
i know the strike rate of cloning in this stage is low but im wondering if you got any tips
on how to do this

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that would be a waste of bud.
even if do get the clone to root its growth will be stunned for at least 3 weeks. Even then it would probably be weaker than a clone took during veg.

Greendude said:

very tight

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thanks

Any reason for not doing bigger cuttings? After seeing the close up next to your fingers, the cutings look to be about 2 inches tall. Any reason you didnt do 4-6 inch cuttings? Also I read that you should group up the leafs and cut them in half this way the leafs wont absorb everything and the rooting system will grow faster? What do ya think? Thanks!

I need small plants and I use small containers, so I take small cuttings. You can scale the whole thing up if you want.
However, I got 3/3 plants to root in 10-12 days, so it does work.
I also take small cutting because I had small mother plants. Plus, from a 6 inch branch I can take 3 cuttings, and it still works

Cutting the large leaves in half is to make less water evaporate from them. But I don't have any large leaves since my cuttings are so small. And if there is a large leaf even if I cut it in half it won't fit in, so I remove them.
Actually the leaves should absorb stuff - while cloning you count on foliar feeding to give the cuttings energy to root. So probably more leaves = faster rooting.
Cutting the leaves in half does help to identify which leaves are new and which are old.

By the way, my cuttings are usually 1-1.5 inch tall

for the sceptics - another round of 6 clones all rooted well.

however one died of mold because I haven't moved it for a week after it rooted and 2 died because of lack of water. Had to go for a weekend.

BUT they did root and with attendance they would have survived.