Trimming Fan Leaves?
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Viinny420
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StevenSD420
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and yes, but you want your clones to be anywhere from 1" to 1/2" in size, you can cut smaller ones but they take a little longer to develop; if time isn't a problem, then chop today =)
and yes, but you want your clones to be anywhere from 1" to 1/2" in size, you can cut smaller ones but they take a little longer to develop; if time isn't a problem, then chop today =)
Viinny420
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Yeah time is really no big deal but where would i cut it at? Could u maybe use the pic in paint and like draw a line or something
StevenSD420
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I drew a red circle where you want to cut. You want to cut along side the main part of the plant. Ideally you want to cut the whole branch off leaving as little of it as possible left on the main part of the plant. A technique I've seen and have tried once (and it worked just doing half asses efforts) was taking the end you cut, and doing a small slice in the middle, basically splitting the bottom into two.
Where you just gonna put the cutting in a soil? Or did you have rock wool, a pellet, or what?
I do wanna point out though, I'm still considered a newbie to all of this, but during my 2 months of testing things out, cloning was one of the few things I was really successful with
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Viinny420
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I dont have any rockwool or anything.. i was just planting on putting it in soil
mundaiis
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Well if you don't want that branch to grow back u can cut it at the red circle, i myself would cut it after the first node so u end up getting TWO SHOOTS coming from that one stem.
make sure to have some rooting hormone and keep it in a humidity dome for the first five days or your branch will shrivel up and die.
after that slowly harden it up by taking it out of the dome for a few hours a day.
mundaiis
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you can just put in soil, but for that i would make a longer cut so the cutting does not perspire all of its moisture through its leaves and shrivel up.
my kandy kush cutting done au natural was done this way, it took about 2 weeks to shoot out a very minimal amount of roots out of where a node used to be.
it will probably die if u do it this way being so short, by i guess if u cut the node off and just cut it where u had the red circle u could do this,
the only problem is you branch would not grow back and u would not be able to make any cuttings off of the lower branch where the youngest hormones of the plant are for better cloning.
my kandy kush cutting done au natural was done this way, it took about 2 weeks to shoot out a very minimal amount of roots out of where a node used to be.
it will probably die if u do it this way being so short, by i guess if u cut the node off and just cut it where u had the red circle u could do this,
the only problem is you branch would not grow back and u would not be able to make any cuttings off of the lower branch where the youngest hormones of the plant are for better cloning.
kinetic
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Allot of people like to cut at a 45 degree angle as well and lightly drag the razor along the bottom portion of the stem you cut, say roughly 2 inches. I've rooted in a cup of water before taken from a week into flower. It was a bitch, however it did root but it took awhile. I have to test my greenthumb everynow and then with small 'projects'. Good Luck! There's some video in the newbie section as well.
edit: I wasn't trying to be a dick with the cashew bit, just funny.
edit: I wasn't trying to be a dick with the cashew bit, just funny.
hotrodharley
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Roots will grow laterally all down the stem if treated with rooting compounds such as Clonex. The plant does not develop a tap root like a germed seed does. The first roots appear at the leaf nodes. I have good luck trimming the stem, placing in plain water (Actually I use RO water from our dialysis unit) for several days and check root development. Then I dip in clonex, and double dip into Schultz Take Root powder, both are for hardwood cuttings and work well with a woody cannabis plant! Into peat plugs and into the humidifier cups. Then under a humidity dome for 5-7 days in my flowering room. My wild dog leg Afghani girl gives up clones that root 100% of the time with this method. My Super Silver Haze - about 90% success. Cold in AK.
