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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)

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