My ugly-ass clones

JSB99 said:

And Mama's really healthy, BTW...

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Is that basil? Using it as some sort of cover crop to keep the medium from drying? Or just killing two birds with one stone (or pot lol)

JDMase said:

Hey man I made a thread similar to this, same issues. I tried air layering. It worked mostly but then along the way it somehow died. Nevertheless I did it, but in the mean time I got good advice similar to yours.

Basically I was told to add warmth (heat mat or warm window sill) only sprayed the dome not the actual plants, and I used root riot cubes and gave up with Rockwool. I sprayed the cubes I didn't pour water over them in case I washed away the rooting gel and powder

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Oh wow!! A Couple years ago i posted somewhere here suggesting/theorizing attempting to root a cutting while still on the plant by putting a rooting plug around the stem and taping it there so no lights touching the stem, and keeping it moist, assumably it would attempt to root. Kinda the same way when you bury a long stretched stem it starts to form roots. Until now i never heard of air layering. Idk why i never gave it a shot. Was a neat thought but i guess i got used to regular cloning.

Heres someones thread who does it

https://www.rollitup.org/t/air-layering-an-easy-peasy-means-of-asexual-reproduction.845267/

Grandpapy said:

I clone under a dome, depending on the strain it's anywhere from 5-14 days, GG4 being the fastest to WIFI which seems to take forever.

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whitebb2727 said:

Over thinking it.

I literally cut clones with an unsterile blade and put straight into soil with no dome. If they need a dome I will add one. Most don't unless its really dry where you are.

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My wife met me at one of my grows recently....long story short...I was topping and she literally picked up a cut stuck it into a jug of water on my patio and it rooted LOL.....GG4...roots showed at about 9 days....it's been in soil for 3 or 4 days now and looks great ....I stuck a KK cut and a BK cut In some water about a week ago....both look fine and are just in jugs of hose water on my patio.....I still can't believe this shit ....I don't need these plants at all ...but the experiment has been fun ....KISS method wins again I guess.


LOL....

Indacouch said:

My wife met me at one of my grows recently....long story short...I was topping and she literally picked up a cut stuck it into a jug of water on my patio and it rooted LOL.....GG4...roots showed at about 9 days....it's been in soil for 3 or 4 days now and looks great ....I stuck a KK cut and a BK cut In some water about a week ago....both look fine and are just in jugs of hose water on my patio.....I still can't believe this shit ....I don't need these plants at all ...but the experiment has been fun ....KISS method wins again I guess.
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How often did you change the water? Damn good results there!

JDMase said:

How often did you change the water? Damn good results there!

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I know this wasn't asked of me, but I change mine every few days. When changing, I do a quick bleach spray and scrub the tub before filling back up. Gets rid of the slime. I used to have a near perfect record with clones when I grew 10 years ago. These were the only ones that looked like shit. Outta practice I guess . My new clones look healthy. Even some of the shitty ones have new growth and lots of roots. I tossed the ones that were struggling.

But what I'm wondering is, if clones started off struggling, will that effect the growth and potency later on. Haven't gotten an answer, but that could be because no one's ever had clones as fucked up as mine and kept trying to grow them out!

Cloning in soil lately has yielded a -50% strike rate. Just more dampening off at the stem below the soil surface. I'm not sure on how to stop this, I read that cinnamon is good for preventing dampening off. Next i'm going to try I mixture of sand and EWC.