My first ever clone rooted !! Now I have a question

mookie brown

mookie brown

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So I have this cutting that I've been trying to root since the 11th. I have it in a peat pellet, I just broke the burlap wrap around the peat to take a look at the stem & noticed a root about a 1/4" long. My question is this, I'm going to grow with a hempy bucket. Should I take the cutting out of the peat & place directly now in hempy & start the veg feeding or should I wait for the root to grow longer or should I transfer it with the peat to my hempy bucket ?
 
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phudson

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mookie brown said:
So I have this cutting that I've been trying to root since the 11th. I have it in a peat pellet, I just broke the burlap wrap around the peat to take a look at the stem & noticed a root about a 1/4" long. My question is this, I'm going to grow with a hempy bucket. Should I take the cutting out of the peat & place directly now in hempy & start the veg feeding or should I wait for the root to grow longer or should I transfer it with the peat to my hempy bucket ?
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Personally myself I like to let the clone root very well before I plant it. Usually I get roots shooting out around the entire peat pellet. Once they are well rooted and they go into the pot they will grow pretty quickly from my experience. I have had good results with soaking my peat pellet with jump start and misting once a day with the same product and once a day with straight water. I also like to drip some rooting solution into the pellet as well as dipping the clone before I place it in the peat. My results have been fantastic with this approach. Heat mats help as well.
 
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mikegreenthumb

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let it root more before you do anything with it also 11 days is awhile to wait for clones to root might wanna see why its taking so long it ush takes me 4-8 days for clones to root and i mean well rooted
 
mookie brown

mookie brown

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phudson said:
Personally myself I like to let the clone root very well before I plant it. Usually I get roots shooting out around the entire peat pellet. Once they are well rooted and they go into the pot they will grow pretty quickly from my experience. I have had good results with soaking my peat pellet with jump start and misting once a day with the same product and once a day with straight water. I also like to drip some rooting solution into the pellet as well as dipping the clone before I place it in the peat. My results have been fantastic with this approach. Heat mats help as well.
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Thanks, I'll let it root more. when I was watering the peat pellet I did have a teaspoon of the schultz root powder added to a gallon of chlorine free water. I figured it couldn't hurt & sure enough it didn't :)



mikegreenthumb said:
let it root more before you do anything with it also 11 days is awhile to wait for clones to root might wanna see why its taking so long it ush takes me 4-8 days for clones to root and i mean well rooted
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Exactly !! It's lack of experience with using peat pellets with a little over watering the peat pellets. Those little bastards hold a lot of water. I just checked my last 2 cuttings & they have a better root mass than the first one. Next time I clone I'll use an aerocloner. I was going to be happy if I had 1 cutting root but to find 3 of 3 for a 100% success really makes me happy. My cloning techniques can only get better from here :)
 
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mikegreenthumb

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mookie brown said:
Thanks, I'll let it root more. when I was watering the peat pellet I did have a teaspoon of the schultz root powder added to a gallon of chlorine free water. I figured it couldn't hurt & sure enough it didn't :)





Exactly !! It's lack of experience with using peat pellets with a little over watering the peat pellets. Those little bastards hold a lot of water. I just checked my last 2 cuttings & they have a better root mass than the first one. Next time I clone I'll use an aerocloner. I was going to be happy if I had 1 cutting root but to find 3 of 3 for a 100% success really makes me happy. My cloning techniques can only get better from here :)
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might wanna give oasis cubes or rockwool a shot works great for me i got 100% success and have done a fucking bunch of clones now prob 50 this month alone
 
axjnkee

axjnkee

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I have found I get better rooting just putting the clones right into a cup of my favorite potting soil and 86ing the peat pellets altogether. I got 16 clones in veg right now and half of them were rooted in the pellets the other half into cups of soil. when I transplanted I noticed how much more MASSIVE the root systems were from the cup clones. just my 2 cents
 

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