EZ, Cheap, Recycled DIY Cloner

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1. Get a gallon of ice cream, eat it and wash the container
2. Get a lid from a butter container or another similar lid that fits inside the ice cream container. This is to keep your jiffy pellets from becoming over saturated, but keeps the RH 95%+
3. Get some jiffy pellets and add water to expand.
4. Take a toothpick and poke holes 3/4 of the depth of the jiffy pellets.
5. Cut clones, dip into cloning solution if you feel the need< I don't use cloning powder/gel and still have a 95%+ success rate
6. Insert clone stem into jiffy pellet.
7. With your index finger and thumb gently pinch the pellet twice, this ensure contact with the stem and drains excess water from the pellet.
8. If you prefer to cut your leaf tips/halves off to lessen transpiration do this now. As you can see in the pictures I don't feel that step is necessary either.
9. Fill your bucket up to the top of the butter lid you inserted earlier, maybe a 1/4" of water total.
10. Put the bucket lid on the bucket and stick under 24hrs of light.
11. Each day open your bucket lid and wave it above the bucket, this expells the old stale air and exchanges with fresh air, this helps cut down on mold/damping off

That's it!!!! Within 7-10 days you should have roots!!! Hope this helps the broke newbie looking for an easy way to clone.
I usually put 6 clones per bucket, they need a little room but not much really. And you can stack up to two buckets high to manage space issues. Hell I even throw transplanted cutting on top of the buckets that are shorter than my veg plants. If you have any questions hit me up. Peace ninjas
 

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