You have to maintain much higher humidity for unclipped clones to root successfully.

Clipping, in my experiences, decreases the time for roots to show and increases the success-rate of them rooting. Only large fan leaves should be clipped. Smaller leaves are fine intact.

I'm not aware of any major cons.

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those stems look like they may be rotting hard to tell from the pics.

I run the same cloner

1 minute on, 4 minutes off

Tap water and nothing else PH'd to somewhere between 5.8 and 6.0.

Doest matter much about the cutting size, or shape. Every cutting ever put in the thing has sprouted roots sooner or later. 7 or 8 days seems the average.

Just wait, they are coming.

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Noted. I think I may just give it a try just for sh!ts and giggles. Thanks.

That's all I can do at this point. You know how it is for noobs like me. The thought of cloning can seem pretty intimidating especially when I've never done it before. I'm the type of person that hopes for the best and expects the worst. We'll see what happens. I'll keep everyone posted when I first see roots

cloning is fickle i have done clones of mixed strains had them all root perfect other times same conditions and all die.

the reason ppl clip the leaves is to reduce transpiration while the clone is trying to root. if you have a humidity dome you dont need to do it, but if you have them out in the open then you should probably clip them

I haven't seen 18 gallon Rubbermaid sized humidity domes anywhere. So hit up your local drug store and pick up a humidifier.

I adapted[duct tape] a piece of PVC into the humidity exhaust port and put a valve onto it so I could control the output volume. Then just dial it into what you need. I can easily run 80% into a 4x4x6 tent with that thing even while exhausting during lights on.

3 node clones with no roots still look fresh like the day I chopped them even after a week of riding in the cloner.

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My clones stay fresh as the day I cut them as well, with only 55-60% humidity. I don't think a humidifier is necessarily needed, just a bit of patience.

i did this and had good luck.

My first clone look at post #8 and watch the videos (5 min each).

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