Questions about mothers and clones

Hello,
I've been digging around to get as much info about mothers and clones and would like to verify with experts here what I understood is correct.
so here I go:

1. For mothers (very first mother), start flowering phase and find out sex. If it's female take it out of flowering cycle and start veg cycle to maintain mother plant.

2. Cut around the 4th node of the mother's stems.
- Dip the end into water to remove any air pockets
- Make a 45 degree angled cut at the end
- Dip into root gel
- Plant into rockwool (rockwool is soaked in ph adjusted water with a few drops of superthrive) or directly into soil
- Maintain humidity and spray leaves with water
- If in rockwool, after about a week transplant into soil pot.

Did I get it right?

A few questions:
1. Can I transplant the rockwool directly into soil or do I need to somehow remove the rockwool material before planting into soil?
2. For maintaining mother's height do I place the mother into a small cabinet close to the lights? Or is the height depended on the size of the pot?

thanks guys!
I never thought growing could be this much fun. Weed got me into growing but it's also making me wanna grow my own vegetables too lol

You pretty much "Got It" The thing I do different is no rock wool, and I clone/for sex my mother, BEFORE I put her in 12/12, I cut a clone of mom, to see if it is for sure a female... You can top, your mom to keep her short...

This is how I do it:

My Cloning Technique…
Wash my hands with rubbing alcohol…
I then select a great little branch, between 2” and 6” [long], with at least two nodes to go under medium…
My Medium is: 50% MG Seedling Soil/20% Vermiculite/30% Perilite…Percentage may vary…
Cups-Dixie or equal I like the 12-16 oz kind, holes in bottom…
I cut branch off with a very sharp razor blade or equal…
I re-trim cut to a 45 degree just below the node to be under medium…between the two nodes to go under medium, I pull off growth, and shred it carefully…from one node to another…
If you use snips of any kind you may experience clone loss…If you loose one-two out of ten, and you use snips, that is why… Spring/Summer/Fall I loose zero %, even with one node under, and trying to clone an ugly stick, it still roots… This technique is idiot proof, cause at times… am an idiot…
I remove any extra leaves, and trim remaining leaves to fit the inside of a Dixie cup…
I take my medium, and use a fine spray bottle with water and Super Thrive and mist my medium [mist medium, not clone]…
I then take a wood skewer and make a hole in middle of my medium for clone cut, hole is just slightly larger than clone shaft…
I then spray the soil mix a few times again…
My cuttings have been ‘soaking’ in a mixture of Water and Super thrive [Super Thrive has been proven to add to rapid root growth…and that’s about all]
I now take cutting and Dip it in my [active ingredient] Indole-3-Butyric Acid powder, covering up to where I plan on putting it under soil…
The hole in soil is just larger than the cuttings to be put in soil…
The clone is then inserted into hole, and medium/soil is compressed against the inserted branch…and I continue to compress the medium around inside of Dixie cup as to not let there be any air bubbles between soil and Clone powder/clone gel…
Sometimes I do 3 or 4 at a time, I’ve done up to ten clones at a time…
The clone in soil is now watered again, with the water super thrive mix they were soaking in before insertion…
I now take a clear 10 oz plastic cup and notch bottom [you do not want air tight] and use it as a lid on top of my clone cup…
I now put them on my clone rack two inches from under Aquarium grow lights, with some 22 watt CFL’s 4-6” in front of them…
Day one- Mist soil 1-2 more times, some times clone droops, I use skewers and tooth picks to prop up…if it happens
Day two- Mist two to three times the soil only, not the plant!
Clear dome stays on for one week/seven days only off for spraying soil…
Day Eight- they are put under brighter/higher wattage CFL’s and watered daily [twice if dry] with a nice water soluble fert at 25% strength…
Days 8-14 Water as needed…
Day 14-20 ready for trans plant…

Good Luck man, like I said, fool and idiot proof... cause well, at times I am....

Hey Sand4x105,
I'm sure at times I can be the bigger idiot lol.
thank you for the extra info, I'll make sure to not use snips and only spray the medium. The snips make sense cause I'm guessing scissors would not just cut but squash the stem(visualizing how a pair of scissors would cut). One question is I read that if it's pure water it's ok to spray the plants too. What do you think? Another question is would it stress the plant too much if I 12/12 then switch back to veg cycle? It's because I don't have a separate cabinet just yet for 12/12.

Just starting with my first Mum , so far I only water when she droops, reflected light from cfl's and a 250w, just transplanted so no nutes for awhile. When I'm ready for more clones, up the water, nutes and lights. I've read RUI and mother tips are hard to dig out. Hope you get more mother tips here. I was having terrible luck with trying to clone in Jiffy cubes and a dome. I made a $15 dollar clone bubbler and now get 100%.

HDPursuit said:

Just starting with my first Mum , so far I only water when she droops, reflected light from cfl's and a 250w, just transplanted so no nutes for awhile. When I'm ready for more clones, up the water, nutes and lights. I've read RUI and mother tips are hard to dig out. Hope you get more mother tips here. I was having terrible luck with trying to clone in Jiffy cubes and a dome. I made a $15 dollar clone bubbler and now get 100%.View attachment 2767934

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Thanks, after all the Heartache and Frustration of Jiffy pellets and a dome, the bubbler is awesome and cheap