Al B. Fuct
once had a dog named
Wick cloners would seem not to be able to use heat mats, n'est ce pas?
A heat mat really speeds things along.
The upside to a wick cloner is that the moisture is somewhat automatically managed- but if it's too wet, there's not much you can do about it.
I'd rather water my clones by hand and use RW cubes. Cubes sit flat on a heat mat and thus heat is easily transferred into them and you water them one at a time and can feel the amount of water in them by heft. You can measure 10-15ml of water by syringe into RW cubes, 2x/day at 12h intervals, but I've learned to water by feel after all these years doing 30 cuttings every 2 weeks.
I just dip one corner of the cube in a bucket of pH 5.5-5.8 water for about 1/2 to 1 second, if it only needs a small amt of water. If too light (dry), I put the lower 1/3 of the cube in the watering soln and leave it for about 3 sec. Excess water is easily removed with a flick of the wrist. Cubes must always only be damp, never wet or saturated. Overwet media causes slow rooting every time and stem rot usually comes with it.
A heat mat really speeds things along.
The upside to a wick cloner is that the moisture is somewhat automatically managed- but if it's too wet, there's not much you can do about it.
I'd rather water my clones by hand and use RW cubes. Cubes sit flat on a heat mat and thus heat is easily transferred into them and you water them one at a time and can feel the amount of water in them by heft. You can measure 10-15ml of water by syringe into RW cubes, 2x/day at 12h intervals, but I've learned to water by feel after all these years doing 30 cuttings every 2 weeks.
I just dip one corner of the cube in a bucket of pH 5.5-5.8 water for about 1/2 to 1 second, if it only needs a small amt of water. If too light (dry), I put the lower 1/3 of the cube in the watering soln and leave it for about 3 sec. Excess water is easily removed with a flick of the wrist. Cubes must always only be damp, never wet or saturated. Overwet media causes slow rooting every time and stem rot usually comes with it.