A simple yet extremely effective cloning technique

4nikator said:

I've done it the same way, but for the light. Which I have repeatedly been advised to keep very low wattage for at least several weeks.

I have an OCto-cloner, 4.5 gallons of distilled h2o, that has a very weak Olivia' cloning solution, and have put over 30 cuttings into it with not one single clone to show for it. Water temp at 76-88 degrees F and ambient temp at around 67-85.

I know clone crosses are rooting, but this is all pure sativa, and only one rooted while on the mother plant, (Air Layered) and I'm waiting to see if even it survives.

If you are cloining primarily indica dominant strains, then I don't know that this method will work. So far, it has not.

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I allways use both pal do u leave the vents open on prop ? I have incredible bulk witch is around 85% indica 20%sativa and my lemon is pure sativa all i was told years ago was the way im using now as the person who showed me was getting 6-5oz per plant all the same way i dont like my prop to get that hot doyou spray every few hours?

aceyboiiiii said:

I allways use both pal do u leave the vents open on prop ? I have incredible bulk witch is around 85% indica 20%sativa and my lemon is pure sativa all i was told years ago was the way im using now as the person who showed me was getting 6-5oz per plant all the same way i dont like my prop to get that hot doyou spray every few hours?

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Vents open on the soiless and soil cuttings frequent misting of cuttings and dome with 80 degree temps for the media; and in the Octo-cloner, temperature of h2o was in the 70s for three weeks with no roots at all, and then I was advised to heat it up to the low 80s. I have been fairly consistent with spraying to keep dome misty, as well as the cuttings. Nothing worked.

The bulk of your crosses doing so well doesn't surprise me, most everyone who is cloning reports excellent numbers, but only a couple are growing pure sativa, (mine are from 20 yr old seeds). I'm surprised these old seeds rooted at all but they are doing just great, thick, hard main branches, pre-flowering now in the grow tent and outdoors, hoping the females can be fertilized by the intermingled males among them to produce a big seed crop. This is the last of a pure sativa strain that I have so I want to have plenty of seeds to practice and experiment with moving forward. I'm wishing for a hot September and reasonably warm October to get the mating done properly.

The next crop with the new seeds, I am not going to wait as long as I did this year to take cuttings and I will take them mostly from the top main stems.

I'm hoping I can re-veg the one female cutting that rooted (as an air-layered clone) while on its mother which was in pre-flower, and passed the vegging stage. It is now finishing its flowering cycle in the 11/13 flowering tent, and once it is harvested, (it won't be very much since it is a small clone, not exactly going crazy) then I'll try re-vegging in the 24 hr tent. Fingers crossed.

4nikator said:

Vents open on the soiless and soil cuttings frequent misting of cuttings and dome with 80 degree temps for the media; and in the Octo-cloner, temperature of h2o was in the 70s for three weeks with no roots at all, and then I was advised to heat it up to the low 80s. I have been fairly consistent with spraying to keep dome misty, as well as the cuttings. Nothing worked.

The bulk of your crosses doing so well doesn't surprise me, most everyone who is cloning reports excellent numbers, but only a couple are growing pure sativa, (mine are from 20 yr old seeds). I'm surprised these old seeds rooted at all but they are doing just great, thick, hard main branches, pre-flowering now in the grow tent and outdoors, hoping the females can be fertilized by the intermingled males among them to produce a big seed crop. This is the last of a pure sativa strain that I have so I want to have plenty of seeds to practice and experiment with moving forward. I'm wishing for a hot September and reasonably warm October to get the mating done properly.

The next crop with the new seeds, I am not going to wait as long as I did this year to take cuttings and I will take them mostly from the top main stems.

I'm hoping I can re-veg the one female cutting that rooted (as an air-layered clone) while on its mother which was in pre-flower, and passed the vegging stage. It is now finishing its flowering cycle in the 11/13 flowering tent, and once it is harvested, (it won't be very much since it is a small clone, not exactly going crazy) then I'll try re-vegging in the 24 hr tent. Fingers crossed.

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Looks like you know your stuff mate i have had a pure sativa a while ago and kept them in root riot around 68f and tape the vents up for 2days and then lift the lid pour 200ml warm water pop lid back on wen the cubes feel vet drain them untill dry remove the water out of the bottom of tray Wait 1day and then start to spray im under 600w hps and i have only had a few die in last 3 years i did the sativa 1 the same remember when the prop gets water at the top that will drop on the plants so wait untill spray and keep heat down im hoping in 3/4days will have roots i will upload a pic soon as it takes around 8/10 days max

So around 2/3 days start to spray every few hours

wow....nearly a year has gone by since I returned to this site. Fell from an extension ladder, making the second biggest mistake in my life, breaking the Trochanter off the femur. Long story, that should be a short one, but due to surgeon's errors and his maniacal ego spent ten weeks in hospital which is only by way of saying every single one of my 32 plants' experiment died due to benign neglect. 12 outdoor Sativas, 20 indoor tent, mixed male and female including air layered one rooting, Aero-cloner, and artificial media. Could not remove the males from the outdoor grow, and my spouse was so angry at me she didn't want to help. All but one plant got fertilized and matured enough to yield a million seeds.

I am only now getting back into my grow, outdoor, two from seeds I harvested from the fertilized Sativas and two GSC from fresh seed. (GSC Only a foot tall but already has a danky smell to it with only 4 nodes leafed out. Chopped the top off one of them for cloning, doubling the mother branches which are already as tall as the original top, brought indoors, tented, and it is now rooted and transplanted).

If u r still around I'd love to be updated on how the Sativa grow went and if u ever posted pics.

(if you own extension ladders and are tempted to go higher than your own height, Sell the damned things or give them away)

4nikator said:

wow....nearly a year has gone by since I returned to this site. Fell from an extension ladder, making the second biggest mistake in my life, breaking the Trochanter off the femur. Long story, that should be a short one, but due to surgeon's errors and his maniacal ego spent ten weeks in hospital which is only by way of saying every single one of my 32 plants' experiment died due to benign neglect. 12 outdoor Sativas, 20 indoor tent, mixed male and female including air layered one rooting, Aero-cloner, and artificial media. Could not remove the males from the outdoor grow, and my spouse was so angry at me she didn't want to help. All but one plant got fertilized and matured enough to yield a million seeds.


(if you own extension ladders and are tempted to go higher than your own height, Sell the damned things or give them away)

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i need more info on how you fell of the ladder..or did the ladder and you go for a fall backwards?

On September 21, 2015, Ladder and I started to fall backwards, which I knew would be fatal, so I pushed the ladder forward to stop it from falling on top of me. I was successful at that but failed to bend my right knee to absorb some of the shock at impact-- I was only 10 ft off the ground--- when my right heel hit the ground stick straight.

I could have been back to my grow room and outside within a week but the surgeon and doctors made errors only a person with no medical training would make, costing me dearly, when 6 months later after three surgeries eventually the entire right hip had to be replaced in March.