Darrens
Active Member
I've been trying cloning for a while and I finally found a method that has so far worked for me 100% of the time. The perlite cloning method. I just take a cut, put some perlite in a beer pong cup (haha), poke holes in the bottom, and then lightly water it. This has been working for me for the last 2+ weeks after failed attempts at about 4 other methods.
To make a long post short, I use a humidity dome and the rapid rooters tray without the rooter insert in it (so i can just pour water in the little tray and the perlite absorbs it thru the holes in the bottom of the cups). My humidity stays around 75% or more, and the temperature is around 75 degrees minimum, usually hits about 80F.
This morning I went down and checked my cuts so I could transplant the ones that had rooted. I removed the humidity dome and went to work. The clones I had taken on the 11th were looking great, the leaves were pointing up and everything looked well when I removed the dome. I kept the dome off for about an hour while I transplanted cuts that had rooted from prior weeks.
I noticed that the cuttings from 2/11 were drooping and wilting, however they had not been previously to removing the dome. I haven't had this issue before, the cuttings were from a Nirvana Jock Horror mother I have been cutting from for a few weeks. So I noticed that the leaves were almost like limp, and pretty weak like they couldn't hold them up. So I just spritzed the inside of the dome and put it back on the tray.
Do you think that the wilting was from the change in humidity and temps from when I removed the dome for the hour I was working in there? I can get pictures but I'd prefer not to since there's not really much to see.
Overtop of the clone area I have one 26w 6500K cfl and one is 2700K and it's also a 26w. I know the lighting isn't a problem because so far i've had 100% success with this method with those CFL's overtop.
Can anybody help me based on what I've described?
Thanks in advance.
To make a long post short, I use a humidity dome and the rapid rooters tray without the rooter insert in it (so i can just pour water in the little tray and the perlite absorbs it thru the holes in the bottom of the cups). My humidity stays around 75% or more, and the temperature is around 75 degrees minimum, usually hits about 80F.
This morning I went down and checked my cuts so I could transplant the ones that had rooted. I removed the humidity dome and went to work. The clones I had taken on the 11th were looking great, the leaves were pointing up and everything looked well when I removed the dome. I kept the dome off for about an hour while I transplanted cuts that had rooted from prior weeks.
I noticed that the cuttings from 2/11 were drooping and wilting, however they had not been previously to removing the dome. I haven't had this issue before, the cuttings were from a Nirvana Jock Horror mother I have been cutting from for a few weeks. So I noticed that the leaves were almost like limp, and pretty weak like they couldn't hold them up. So I just spritzed the inside of the dome and put it back on the tray.
Do you think that the wilting was from the change in humidity and temps from when I removed the dome for the hour I was working in there? I can get pictures but I'd prefer not to since there's not really much to see.
Overtop of the clone area I have one 26w 6500K cfl and one is 2700K and it's also a 26w. I know the lighting isn't a problem because so far i've had 100% success with this method with those CFL's overtop.
Can anybody help me based on what I've described?
Thanks in advance.
