What Part Makes Best Clones ?

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Michiganja Meduana

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What part of the plant gives you the best rooting clones/ The top, or the bottom? Should the branches be longer or shorter? How many, if any, nodes do you want below the surface? Does it do any good to strip the outer layer off the stem? Does it do any good to split the stem?
 
Cuttings from the middle or bottom tend to root better/faster. I like to take 4" - 6" cuttings with a node at the end and split the bottom twice making 4 "legs" about 1/2" long. I do not scrape as it is not necessary. No nutes, no foliar feeding, and no need for rooting hormone. Do not use a humidity dome as it can cause damping off and problems when they are first potted adjusting to the low humidity. Your clones should root in 7 - 20 days depending on the strain. Happy Growing :weed:
 
Cloning can be tricky.... I take a clean cut and trim the fan leaves back. I believe cutting down the middle or shaving the ends is more stress to repair then to make roots. 3 nodes down...cut. From the tops of the mother plant. Always take the healthiest parts of the mother.My clones are around 3-4 inches in length. You'll love the EZ, makes em root fast. I wouldnt bother with any nutes.
 
Thank you. I took cuttings a couple days ago from a plant, but thought maybe I should have paid better attention.

I was wondering about nutes, because after about 4 days, the leaves are yellowing, a couple fell off, and I don't have any roots yet. I'm afraid it might run out of leaves before it catches up and grows roots.
 
the plant uses the nutes that are stored in the leaves for root production. that's why they yellow and fall off.

I run a 25 site ez cloner. I also add a small air stone, 5.8ph h2o, cloning gel. 7 days I get nice roots, water switched out after 7 days. 13 days and I transplant to solo cups w/FFOF soil.
 
I believe the bottom most nodes have the most hormones in the for rooting.

i use clonex in my aero cloner.

i do not use a dome and do not mist. like someone else had said it can cause "damping off" which he used the wrong terminology there but in a sense the same thing, which is rot/fungus will grow on the plant and turn it into a sludgy mess (damping off is a "disease" that occurs at the base of the seedling stem where the plant first comes out of the soil, due to overwatering rot/fungus attack the base of the plant and kill it)

i cut 45 degree angle and like to leave at least 1 inch of stem below the peophrene collar.

i do scrape the "skin" verry lightly, DO NOT remove it completly. scraping the "skin" is proven to expose natural hormones in the stem that contribute to rooting, but it also proven to be not nessesary.
 
I''d just cut anything i felt like and just chuck it in some wter, soil, coco, rockwool, and let it do it's things. shouldn't be a need to make something so simple so complicated just so you could potentially shave a day off of rooting etc.
 
You guys should check out air layering. Its cloning while the cutting is still attached to the plant. There some videos on this on YouTube and I'm gonna start doing this as you can take really big clones and have a head start on growth instead of waiting for a baby clone. Its really a cool thing and can help with people who want to keep the same mother plant without having to flower the mother once she gets too big. NWGT has a video on it check it out. Peace
 
akhiymjames said:
You guys should check out air layering. Its cloning while the cutting is still attached to the plant. There some videos on this on YouTube and I'm gonna start doing this as you can take really big clones and have a head start on growth instead of waiting for a baby clone. Its really a cool thing and can help with people who want to keep the same mother plant without having to flower the mother once she gets too big. NWGT has a video on it check it out. Peace
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well my tomato plant this year actually started popping out roots all over the stems due to high humidity. i would imagine to do as you mention above you would just need to wrap a rockwool or rapid rooter plug around the desired area and keep it moist. this would cause the plant to think that particular area was under ground and its natural instinct is to root
 
akhiymjames said:
You guys should check out air layering. Its cloning while the cutting is still attached to the plant. There some videos on this on YouTube and I'm gonna start doing this as you can take really big clones and have a head start on growth instead of waiting for a baby clone. Its really a cool thing and can help with people who want to keep the same mother plant without having to flower the mother once she gets too big. NWGT has a video on it check it out. Peace
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Why would you flower the mother if she got too big? I just chop it back to near nothing and let it start all over again. (but note if it wasn't stable genetics then it wouldn't be a mother in the first place)
 
3-6" long, with a top and a lower node, then an inch to two inches of stem below that, cut on a 45 degree angle. I sometimes split like @CaretakerDad, but mostly I scrape a bit.

I don't find any one part of the plant better than the other. I take clips from wherever I need to prune the plant to keep my Moms in the shape I like.

I too use an aerocloner. No root hormone, just plain straight tap water (plants don't have roots yet, so pH isn't even important as no nutes are being taken in).

Drop in cloner, and between 8-16 days, roots galore.

-spek
 
RetiredMatthebrute said:
well my tomato plant this year actually started popping out roots all over the stems due to high humidity. i would imagine to do as you mention above you would just need to wrap a rockwool or rapid rooter plug around the desired area and keep it moist. this would cause the plant to think that particular area was under ground and its natural instinct is to root
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Yep you are correct man.

tip top toker said:
Why would you flower the mother if she got too big? I just chop it back to near nothing and let it start all over again. (but note if it wasn't stable genetics then it wouldn't be a mother in the first place)
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Some do and just take a new cutting and start the mother over again. I guess it depends on someones space. But the reason I see someone flowering it because the longer you have the mother the bigger the root system is going to get and who has the space to keep a mother in a 50gal pot or bigger. That's the only reason I would flower my mother but I would make sure I took a few clones just to be sure that I don't lose her. With air layering you would never have to flower the mother and once her roots get too big in the pot she's in you air layer it at the bottom of the main stalk to start new roots and can put her in a smaller pot.
 
I prefer too take mine from the bottom of the plant, more repair hormones and less (N)
give you a big advantage over this simple cambium engineering feat ..lol
 
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