To cover or not to cover

I have read a ridiculous amount about cloning, but I have little experience. I have problems so far with my success rate and time it takes them to root. My question is, does a humidity dome actually do more bad than good? I am seeing in guides that people have so many different methods. Basically, it seems that the dome helps ease the plant shock, but then takes away ventilation. Then it creates more shock when I finally do take the top off. In my mind, if the dome is not necessary, I don't want it. Am I foolish for saying that?

I have a seedling/cutting peat dome by ferry morse that I got at lowe's. It has little peat cubes, 50 total in about a 2 foot by 1 foot package. I cut the clones, dip in shultz powder, fill up the cube with potting mix, stick in the clone, and cover with a dome. I mist probably 4-6 times a day, whenever I see dry leaves. I want to know if I should just forget the cover, if it would make things faster in the long run.

I would always use a cover until the roots have shown. A clone can only take in water through the leaves until the roots have developed and keeping them covered ensure's they keep moist and dont dry out, clones can dry out very quickly. If your misting 4-5 times a day you are already circulating the air every time you open to spray. Plants love high humidity when they are first developing and its good to keep it high throughout the whole veg phase.

i have never used a cover with about 90% succes and i also put the cutting in a cup of water untell they root changing the water every other day or whin it looks yucky
this will work plants wants to live

That 5hit said:

i have never used a cover with about 90% succes and i also put the cutting in a cup of water untell they root changing the water every other day or whin it looks yucky
this will work plants wants to live

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Yeah i've cloned other plants (not MJ) like this and it works every time. I have tried clonign MJ, got roots and quit (it was male) same way, so Im sure it would almost always work.

Looks like your gonna get the same trouble here as with your search, some of us love to use covers, some don't. Everyone has success with the way they like to do things. I think you will have to just work out whats best suited to you. I just love to use a heated propigator for those first few weeks, high humidity and stable environment.

krustofskie said:

Looks like your gonna get the same trouble here as with your search, some of us love to use covers, some don't. Everyone has success with the way they like to do things. I think you will have to just work out whats best suited to you. I just love to use a heated propigator for those first few weeks, high humidity and stable environment.

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heating pad would def help either way!!
But yeah everyone has their way, I'm gonna try a dome as well sometime, just maybe not use it as long.

sooo stoned

See I told you! No agreement. You'd think we're talking about abortion or something. How about this. What is the FASTEST way using only SOIL and/or water.

I've cloned using quite a few methods in the past. In my experience, if you are cloning in water, the dome is generally not needed. If you are cloning in soil, it usually helps.