They have been transplanted a while ago. The soil is almost ready to be watered again but no growth except for the obvious one thats doing well. 2 250 watt cfls. FF ocean forest soil. No additional nutes. What am i doing wrong?
I guess the ones that have fallen over didnt have the roots i thought they did. Are the ones that are standing still salvagable? Im not sure what to do ive started to mist them to avoid having the soil dry.
I thought you could only clone with rockwool? because something in it softens the plants stems, making it easier for the roots to sprout? Is that the case or no?
completely untrue. you can clone with a number of mediums. I just built a bubble cloner and it clones with just water.
Oh, ok. Im no grower or anything, but i swore i've heard that before. So OP, did how did you take these clones?
While cloning, it is important to keep the humidity relatively higher than normal. This is because the roots have not yet developed enough to support the plant with necessary nutrients/H20. Keep your humidity as high as possible, somewhere around the 80''s. If you can find a dome to put over your clones, that would help a lot. Spray the leaves regularly with a fine mist of water. Check for sufficient root growth, then transplant. Considering favorable temperatures, and ideal PH, it seems you've diagnosed your own problem. Good luck!
dont mist the leaves, raise the light to 24-30 inches, if they were HID i would say 3 ft. then water your soil till it is thoroughly moist. next you want to leave them alone, when they dry up they should start growing again, if they are still lookin like shit then my trick is to just "force" them, this means to have them force to grow roots by letting the medium dry out the roots will foce them selves to grow to find water. basically what im saying is that i believe the problem you have is that the grow medium is too damp and the light is too close for freshly rooted clones
Dont mist the leaves??? You very wrong JOE, theres a reason you want the humidity high but that wont cut it if you want a very high success rate. The plant has no way to absorb water except through foliage feeding, while the humidity helps the leaves will soak up much more water if you mist them. Once you have roots you can STILL mist them a lot of people mist there plants until 3weeks old with well established roots. To say Not to mist the leaves is just ignorant. Im not saying it wont work if you dont mist Im saying it is nothing but an advantage to do so, if your going to give bad advice Joe atleast try and back what your saying up with an arguement cuz id love to hear it.
humidity yes i agree, but i never mist leaves, espescially when they are clones or dried up foliage. humidity has to stay in the 70% range during the clone/seedling stage, but misting the leaves on wilted clones is a nono in my book. even when i make clones i get a better and faster rooting when i dont mist the leaves, put it this way, if the plant is getting its water thru the leaves, it doesnt force its self to make new roots because its already getting water, as i stated above, btw , not arguing , just stating my own experience
ok so if their are no roots how does the plant get water to survive??? Humidity + misting, you get wilted leaves because you dont mist, i always mist and never get droopy or wilted leaves, think about it if your gettin dried or wilted leaves its due to lack of water, thats why u foliage feed, any1 with experience will agree.
when i make my clones they never get droopy or wilted, green from begining to end, and by not misting it you force it to make roots, i am 100% sure that i read it in a hightimes mag 5-6 yrs back, and i started using this method and it worked soo great that i never look back, your going on the asumption that he planted them without roots, yet he didnt answer wether they did have roots or not, i am assuming they did have roots and he planted them with roots showing , and just didnt put his light high enouf, when planting clones under hid lamps you should always raise your lamps 2-3 ft above the plants for 3-4 days to let them adjust to the light otherwise they will wilt, i just dont mist my clones and im sure there are alot of other ppl here that do and alot of other ppl here that dont, as long as you keep your humidity levels at round 70% you shouldnt be misting them
ARTICLE FROM HIGH TIMES APRIL 2007 MAGAZINE The best way to make clones is always the way that is best for you! You can propagate or reproduce cannabis by cutting a growing branch tip and rooting it. Here's the way I like to make clones. Choose a mother plant that's at least two months old. If the variety is difficult to clone, leach the soil with 2 gallons of water for each gallon of soil every morning for a week before taking clones. Don't add fertilizer. Use a sharp blade to make a 45-degree cut across firm, healthy branches, generally those that are 0.125 to 0.25 inches [3 to 6 mm] wide and 2 to 4 inches [3 to 5cm] in length. Take care not to smash the end of the stem when making the cut. Trim off 2 or 3 sets of leaves and growth nodes so the stem can fit into the soil There should be at least two sets of leaves above the soil line and 1 or 2 sets of trimmed nodes below ground. When cutting, make the slice halfway between the sets of nodes. Immediately place the cut end in water. Store cut clones in water while making more clones. I like to use Oasis root cubes. Saturate cubes in water pH balanced at about 6.0. Make a hole in the cube a little larger then the stem. The hole should stop about half a inch from the bottom of the container to allow for root growth. Dip stem in a rooting gel as per instructions. When planting, take special care to keep a solid layer or hormone gel or powder around the stem while gently packing soil into place. Lightly water until the surface is evenly moist. Keep cuttings moist at all times, but don't let the soil get soggy. Clones root fastest with 18 to 24 hours of fluorescent light. Coll white fluorescents [or a combination of warm and cool white] are excellent for rooting. Clones root fastest when humidity levels are 95% to 100% the first two days and gradually reduced to 80% to 85% during the following week. A humidity tent will help keep humidity high. Construct the tent out of plastic bags, rigid plastic, or glass. Remember to leave openings for air to flow in and out so little clones can breathe. If practical, mist clones several times a day as an alternative to the humidity tent. Remove any sick, rotting, or dead foliage.
At the time of transplant i believed they all had at least tiny roots. Some were more obvious than others. Im guessing the ones that didnt are the ones fallen over. I have been misting alot since David suggested and I cant say for certain yet but seems like they are getting better. Im trying to keep the rapid rooters in the soil moist
You are both right. Misting help foliar feed but is usually done primarily while you are waiting for the clone to develop roots. Once the roots are developed the misting should be cut back to a minimum and you want to transplant the clones into slightly damp soil to force the roots to grow by seek out water. You also want to continue using the humidity dome slightly propped up to allow air to get in. Slowly get the clone used to not having the dome by removing it for increasing increments of time each day. Don't use after about 1 week.