Increasing Your Stock with Cuttings
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Materials Needed:

• Razor of Very Sharp Knife
• Rubbing Alcohol
• Rooting Gel or Powder
• Stock Plant -- Any Softwood should suffice
• Dominaero Propagation System

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Introduction to Cloning

Taking a cutting is a great way to increase your plant stock. When you take a cutting you are "cloning" the mother plant creating an identical specimen, the downside is, if the plant has a disease or any negative traits they are passed as well, so only choose your best stock for cloning.

I have anywhere between 15-20 mother geraniums that i use for my spring cuttings. As I create more batches of clones I transplant them into the flower beds outside and at the end of the season i choose the best stock to winter over.

With the advent of fogponics, what took 3-4 weeks can be accomplished in just 1 week. Mist cloning is such an efficient method of propagation, i have yet to find a plant that wouldn't take root.

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The mother I am using for this tutorial is a clone from my grand-fathers stock. This plant is identical to its mother which was cloned in 1968. As you can see 40 years of cloning doesnt change any characteristics of the plant.


Step 1: Choosing the Stem Site
Take a look at your plants, find one that nice and juicey and chop it in half :alein (10):



Step 2: Take a close look at the leaf nodes
This is where youll make your cut



Step 3: Make the cut
With your sterilized knife make a clean cut below the node



Step 4: Cut off any blossoms
Those beauties require far to much energy and all your plants resources will be directed to blooming rather than rooting



Step 5: Prepare your cutting
Take a look at it, will the leaves let it fit in the collar??



Step 6: Chop some of the excess leaves off
These die anyways so chop those suckers down



Step 7: Clean the woody off the node
This speciman has some semi-hardwood so we just score it or trim it off



Step 8: The Stem is Prepped
It looks fresh and ready to root


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( You can use either Clone Gel or Powder powder at this point)
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Step 9: Dip in some water
For this stem we are using powder so we need to moisten




Step 10: Nice and Damp
One good drop of water should do it



Step 11: Time for Indole-3-butyric acid
Sometimes i sprinkle this on my breakfast and grow a third leg



Step 12: Make sure its a liberal
You have to be liberal...



If you decided to use gel....




Step 13:Slide her into the collar
Leave a little gap for root growth on the stem



Step 14: Placing it Deep
Make sure you have it sunk far so you expose the bulk of the stem to the fog.



Step 15: Drop her in the Tank
Check daily but in a weeks time she will be ready for transplant



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Conclusion
As I stated in step 6, the lower large leaves always die


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Drum Roll Please: Root Growth



Not bad huh!!! The stem cracked and roots will start dropping a few more hours. The plant was cut and cloned on Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM and that picture was taken at Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 6:30 PM

So in 5 days the stem cracked and root hairs are dropping on a difficult geranium strain to clone!!!

Mist is the way to go, propagation has never been so easy!!!

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Outstanding mk22! Thanks for this, and welcome to Rollitup!

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Looks like very fine root growth from the stem.

May we please see a 3 Day update pix of the new roots?

Are you spraying along with the fogging?
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Actually, when I went back and looked at your pix,
the stem has very fine hairs
like I thought were roots,
but I don't see any real root growth in your pic.

Is it Working? ? ? ? ?

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Your clones will take root sooner if you use less powder and also cut the end of the clone at a 45 degree angle, plus it would help if you cut the end in half.

Normally it works perfectly, however my solution overheated the otherday and i lost everything....

Heres some examples of rootings

This one is 9 days after the cutting and my first clone in fog



Heres 48 hours



and 7 more days later

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great job my man serious propagation that is compared to my ghetto setup
did you make the tub mister thing yourself?

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yessum, its really simple, ill be posting a how-to once i get some more bugs worked out. i mod over at fogponics and im getting some great insight from the fogfather jesse james, he made the dominaero, he's giving me some pointers about using a fan to lift the fog and then the height for the sprayers. check back in a couple days, ill have some new how-to's

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What kind of fogger do you use in that system? Does the website you mod for plan to sell that separately or for that matter do you know a good place to get one?

I know they have them, i dont know if they are going to part out the system. That all may change in sept. hightimes is giving them a STASH Award in the Sept issue something along the line of "best new grow technology"


anyways
I have a couple different types, ive been using a 3 head unit with teflon discs.

Ultrasonic Mist Maker
has a cheap 1 head unit, its the small but its under $30.00

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