Killer cloner!

Hydrowannabe

Hydrowannabe

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Cold$moke said:
Nah ive done it with water outa the well 180 ppm ph 7.5

Clones like seeds dont need much :)
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Just bc it’s well water, doesn’t make it bad. If those are the true stats of the water, I would consider than dang good tap water. That’s better than they city water from my old place (I just moved recently which is one of the reason I’m using r/o water for everything. Don’t know much about my water yet except that it’s slimy and uses a water softener and has a ph of like 10. It’s out of whack
 
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Cold$moke

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Hes not wrong roots do use p to develop :)

Just gota be carful cause if you add to many nutes
The plant wont really root faster as they will just try and grow .

To verify this you can throw a cutting in a rockwool block and water it with 800ppm nutes

And it will grow but not root :)
 
Rolla J

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If you don't pay for water could run a line to your aeroponics system to bring in desired water at temp and then down the drain lol.
 
JSB99

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Hydrowannabe said:
Thanks again for all the tips. I kinda figured I was going to receive messages about how I didn’t need to add all that stuff to my water,...that plain water works just fine. I’m very very much disagree. Your water could be and probably is completely different from my water. My water goes through a water softener,.I’m not using it on my plants, just my skin ha. Like with everything with growing, everyone has their own way of doing things. I’ve only lost probably a few clone out of hundred or so. I’m sure some tap water works and reaps great results, but why fix what’s not broken
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Hey, if you got a formula that works for you, then by all means, don't change a thing :)
 
Hydrowannabe

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Cold$moke said:
Nah ive done it with water outa the well 180 ppm ph 7.5

Clones like seeds dont need much :)
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Cold$moke said:
No way man i just had to try a run with rockwool
Cause i never have before .

Took me right down to noob status lol
They looked like shit but to my credit 100%survival :)
I sure as shit will only clone either by aero or bubbler for life lol:)

But i have great luck just snipping a cut and jabbing it in a rockwool block before so i dunno lol
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Dang, alls I’ve ever done was used rockwool, so that sounds promising
 
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JSB99 said:
80 is fine. Clones like warmer water.
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Ok cool. It’s At 79 right now. Do you guys have your sprayers on timers to keep the water temp regulated. This is my first time having to monitor the water . I’m switching my whole process over to a more hydroponic setup hence the name
 
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Rolla J said:
The one that actually started to root happened more up in the sponge than on the exposed stem itself. Now it's the transitioning part of it I'm trying too. *I went out and got actual 2 inch neoprene collars this time lol
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I don’t think I’m the one to help ya bc it sounds like you are going from bubbles to soil which is completely fine, I’ve just never done it before. I’ve only rooted in rockwool. This is my first water culture project
 
Hydrowannabe

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Cold$moke said:
Hes not wrong roots do use p to develop :)

Just gota be carful cause if you add to many nutes
The plant wont really root faster as they will just try and grow .

To verify this you can throw a cutting in a rockwool block and water it with 800ppm nutes

And it will grow but not root :)
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I agree with that as well, which is why it’s reccomended to take cuttings from plants that haven’t been feed nitrogen for a week or two and obviously little to no nitrogen to form roots. I’m not really going for faster roots, just healthy clones. I’m not saying that cuttings can’t root with just plain water. I agree, they have plenty of energy in themselves to form roots, but unlike seeds, it isn’t not necessary to make the cutting suck from its own storage. Seeds obviously have to to pop out the shell, but I feel you know how to and can, my theory is p, why not put some feed in the water to help them out. That’s my theory for the entire grow I guess
 
GoatSoup

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Hydrowannabe said:
Don’t take that thermometer tip as gospel just yet lol. Ive never used it like that before but it seems to be working.
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I used the outdoor sensor in the rez before and it works fine.

Use a timer on the pump and it will help the temps. You only need to keep the cutting wet so 15m/15m works fine.
 
Cold$moke

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Hydrowannabe said:
I agree with that as well, which is why it’s reccomended to take cuttings from plants that haven’t been feed nitrogen for a week or two and obviously little to no nitrogen to form roots. I’m not really going for faster roots, just healthy clones. I’m not saying that cuttings can’t root with just plain water. I agree, they have plenty of energy in themselves to form roots, but unlike seeds, it isn’t not necessary to make the cutting suck from its own storage. Seeds obviously have to to pop out the shell, but I feel you know how to and can, my theory is p, why not put some feed in the water to help them out. That’s my theory for the entire grow I guess
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I do the same most of fhe time

Sometimes i get a finicky strain and it resonds better to just phed water .

I do it a lot of ways lol
 
Budley Doright

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Cold$moke said:
Hes not wrong roots do use p to develop :)

Just gota be carful cause if you add to many nutes
The plant wont really root faster as they will just try and grow .

To verify this you can throw a cutting in a rockwool block and water it with 800ppm nutes

And it will grow but not root :)
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I use res water (EC 1.2ish) from my flowering vegging plants as I’m to lazy to hook up the garden hose (in a shed) and yes they root lol. Rusty scissors, rooting powder, and root riot cubes in a opaque tote with 3” of perilite, put res water in and cover, roots in 6-10 days. I scrapped the cloner years ago and went back to basics.
 
Hydrowannabe

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Cold$moke said:
Use a timer so your pump isnt running 24 7

But some people use the heat depends on the environment
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Do your clones bend over while the sprayer is off? Once I put my cloner on a 15/15 cycle, I went to tbell and came back to see that they were all flopped over. Previously there were sticking straight up. I figured the pump must have shut off while I was gone. I’ve been running it since for about an hour straight now and they only popped back up half way. I’m thinking I should run the pump 24/7 until first sign of roots. The temp right now is 82.
 
Cold$moke

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Nope not good.

Neither aero or bubble should go limp

You need to keep it more wet :)

You shouldnt have to worry about the warm temps till it gets slimey :)

This is the fun of learning a new set up;)
 
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