Why are my clones going purple and dying? [PICTURES]

All of my clones stems turn purple than die. I have no idea why this is. any help?

- They are kept in a high humidity dome
- some are in soil pucks, some are in soil that contains no fertilizer
- Kept at room temperature
- On 18 hour lighting
- tried using rooting gel and powder, both have failed me.
- Cut the clone at a 45 degree angle, tried splicing, shaving and small cuts at the base. All have failed me.
- Clone is kept about 6 inches away from one 23watt CFL

The only thing that I can think of is that I water the mother plant with CalMag supplement and 20-20-20 fertilizer (Veg Stage of course)
I have never ever been able to make a clone root. It always dies after 7 days, and when I dig it up there is zero roots.
I've watched a tone a youtube videos and read a lot of articles online. I have no idea why it's not rooting

Your suggestions are greatly appreciated!


Please note the purple stems in the pictures.

root did not take??...IMO...as i had similar looking clones...they are all dead now

........................... leave them in the jiffys n pot them in small pots with potting compost, this has happend to me and they have recoverd it just takes time and care

Can I water the clones with CalMag to help it out? Or will that just make it worse?

I don't think you're supposed to give them anything other than straight pH'd water until they have a root systme that can do something with nutes etc. I have only cloned just over 20 times, but every one has rooted. I do as you do, take cutting, straight into water, out of water into rooting agent (I use powder), then into a jiffy pellet/rock wool. They sit under a cfl on 18/6 under dome for first week or so, spraying the inside of the dome several times a day to keep humidity up and slowly open vents over the weeks as roots appear to harden them off. Then plant on from there. I can't see where you can be going wrong

Chriss2525 said:

Can I water the clones with CalMag to help it out? Or will that just make it worse?

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No you cant ,no nutes during cloning. Too wet is the issue, remove dome after 2-3 days then just mist a few times a day, dont water the jiffys to saturation (most important) only 1/2 wet and the jiffys should need a 1/2 watering every day all things going well.

*BUDS said:

No you cant ,no nutes during cloning. Too wet is the issue, remove dome after 2-3 days then just mist a few times a day, dont water the jiffys to saturation (most important) only 1/2 wet and the jiffys should need a 1/2 watering every day all things going well.

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Thank you for the response! I'll give it a try!