From Aero Cloner to Soil?

So I have done this a few times in the past but usually just hand the aero clone off to the friend for them to plant into soil or whatever. So now I am going to move some into potting soil myself for another friend and am wondering what is the best procedure here. I usually give them to someone in a baggy with the 2" netpot, collar, the whole nine yards. Should I remove the net pot and or collar (I was thinking I would remove the collar but leave the netpot)? Anything special with the soil? I am thinking lots of perlite to keep them airy in a solo cup then they can move it to what ever soil in a larger pot once it is happy in the solo cup?

Any advice here is appreciated.

Thanks!

Can the plant be removed from the net pot? Doesn't hurt if a lot of the roots get torn off they'll grow back quickly in soil. I've had reveg plants in DWC get roots so thick they start ripping the net pots apart.

The plastic can be snipped with some wire cutters to help get the plants out of the pots too.

^ yep snip the cup

I don't use a net pot in my cloner. I do use collars though. My process for moving clones into soil is as follows. Fill a solo cup up to top with water. Take another solo cup your potting into and fill 25% with soil. Take clone out of cloner and remove collar. Pour 25% of the water into your cup filled 25% of soil and as doing this stick clone down in soil, all at same time. Then fill cup up with soil to your liking, I usually fill almost all the way up. Then use rest of the water you have left over. Stick in a shady place like under another bigger plant for few days as you move it under direct light.

booms111 said:

I don't use a net pot in my cloner. I do use collars though. My process for moving clones into soil is as follows. Fill a solo cup up to top with water. Take another solo cup your potting into and fill 25% with soil. Take clone out of cloner and remove collar. Pour 25% of the water into your cup filled 25% of soil and as doing this stick clone down in soil, all at same time. Then fill cup up with soil to your liking, I usually fill almost all the way up. Then use rest of the water you have left over. Stick in a shady place like under another bigger plant for few days as you move it under direct light.

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Thats an EXCELLENT method

I do the exact same thing to put my clones into my 5 inch pots with growstones into my rdwc set up

Water takes the weight off the roots

Works sweet

booms111 said:

I don't use a net pot in my cloner. I do use collars though. My process for moving clones into soil is as follows. Fill a solo cup up to top with water. Take another solo cup your potting into and fill 25% with soil. Take clone out of cloner and remove collar. Pour 25% of the water into your cup filled 25% of soil and as doing this stick clone down in soil, all at same time. Then fill cup up with soil to your liking, I usually fill almost all the way up. Then use rest of the water you have left over. Stick in a shady place like under another bigger plant for few days as you move it under direct light.

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Thanks I will give that a try, makes perfect sense once someone says it!

I made an improved version of my mini DWC cloner a few months back using just neoprene collars and it worked like a hot-damn.






RO water and 1/10th of my 3-part nutes under a 23w 6500K CFL. Two weeks later.

That is smart, to make the holes that small.
Never thought of that.

The key to seedlings/clones is getting a mass of roots. Now I start in coco pods inserted into 3" net pots with coco cups then side fill with ornamental stone. I used to use bubbler, but this grow I experimented with low pressure aero + high pressure mist heads. This produce large root balls FAST. When ready, I then transfer directly (no reason to remove from net pots) into my F & D, but also do this in soil/less mix

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Keesje said:

That is smart, to make the holes that small.
Never thought of that.

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Not sure how smart it was but it seems to work OK.

Thanks for the kind words.

Of course it is smart.
Almost everybody has got a drill with a diameter of around 8, 9 or 10 mm or less then 1 inch.
But hardly anyone has a drill that is wide enough to put a netpot or collar in.

Off topic.
I bought this set of drills for less then 10 dollar on Aliexpress.
A must have for everybody who is engaged in hydro.

netpot or a

Hole Saw anyone? super cheap for a set

Here are pics I couldn't load yesterday