Has anyone tried air layering for clones

Drop That Sound

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You should post pics of this process. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Sorry for late reply..

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For example, on that method I was experimenting with, this plant from a few years back got way to big on me.. All the sections I circled in the red is a bunch of air layers.

I bunch them all up, like a "ponytail" so that light gets down in to the new canopy area way earlier, before I cut them away.


Then, your left with a nice big flat bowl shaped mother plant that is ready to drop a scrog right on, and pull 2-3 with a 1100 watt super HPS bulb in a short space ;)
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I'm pretty sure it will work even better with smaller plants (8 on each side of my room from now on in my new system), taking the main tops off via hydro air layering, before adding the lower halves to the screen.
 

Drop That Sound

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The roots are going crazy the last few days! Doubling in mass by the day. I would have been here over a week ago probably (its been one month as of today now) if both bags didn't dry out for days at a time on me. Starting to drink the solution up quick.. almost thought they were leaking again! I'll never use zip lock bags again (just did it to see through for the first experiment), and will put mesh over the not pots to keep the pebbles from falling out next time for sure.

Either way, I have one pretty good size clone that's equal to a 2 month old plant IMO, basically ready to flip in less than a month. No way anyone could take a small cutting and grow it that big in around 3-4 weeks! This is good, and the time hack I was hoping for! They are ready to drop in a system already, which is usually an extra step I have to do after taking normal air layers.

. They look even better than the mother plant itself because I kinda been lazy with her res changes, lol. Too busy lately should I say.. They kept growing the whole time even when they dried out, like air layers do.

Its so easy to drain and refill the bags too. I just stick the tube in a jug and blow into it instead of pumping anything. Just "gravity". Then hook the lines right back to the air pump hanging on the wall, which is way over powered btw (shook the plant which caused the major leaks). Worked out just like I wanted though.

Worlds first water cultured cannabis (or even any other plant?) air layers? Success. :)
 
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Drop That Sound

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That's awesome! I would have expected a green slimy bag of algae by now.
I didn't use any cal hypo\bleach or anything to keep it sterile either. Been pretty warm too, but I'm only using a few t-5s anyway. Just water and clonex solution the whole time. Next time I'll try using some hormones for the first week on one of them.
 

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The little clone popped another leak, so I put a bucket under the drip and refilled. This time I think it was the roots fault though..

They stay moist even with barely any water, almost as if the motherplant is helping..

Like a bag full of fish bones!

I gotta cut em away soon. Tired of patching up the cheap ziplock bags.

Not tired of looking at root porn like this though.

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