Easy Cloning

I've seen alot of people post threads about help with cloning, and most of them make it more complicated than it has to be. here is a very easy way to clone your plant, and you probably have everything you need to do it in your kitchen. The best part of this method is no rooting hormone is needed.

what you'll need:
sharp scissors
a pencil
small container like a tupperware that light cannon't be seen through
a piece of styrafoam that can fit over the opening of your container
a plant that is mature enough to be cloned.
Optional:
Aquarium air pump with hose and airstone

make sure the cutting you take has at least 8 inches from top to bottom and multiple nodes, 4 to 6 and nice size leaves at the top. You don’t want this to be new growth

take your styrafoam, and use the pencil to poke as many holes as you want clones, make sure the hole goes all the way through and keep them about two inches apart. make sure your piece of foam has a flat side, and that the flat side touches the water.

fill your container with water, tap water will do fine because the plants don't have roots yet so pH isn't an issue yet, if you would like to make the process go faster attach a small air stone to an aquarium pump, the air bubbles will help stimulate rooth development. it will work anyway with out the airstone, just not as fast. take the container and set it aside.

take your cuttings from your plant and remove all branches and leaves except for the top two nodes, then place the cutting in one of the holes in your styrafoam.

the next step is the reason why you want your cuttings' setms to be long. when you have your desired ammount of clones set up in the styrafoam, place them so the ends of the stems are in the water, but your styrafoam is not in the way of your scissors

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT
cut the end stem underwater in your container at an angle so that as much of the inner part of the stem is exposed for about two inches. i cannot stress the fact that this needs to be done UNDERWATER enough. if you do not do this underwater, an air bubble will block the plants ability to absorb water through the end of its stem.

after that, place the styrafoam all the way in the water so it floats on top, and place your set up in an area where there is ambient light, but not direct light shining on the plants. if too much light shines directly on the plant it will cause photosythisis to happen, but since the plant has no roots, all of the elements needed for that process are missing and it will just destroy its self. i just pulled that out of my ass, but i have observed that too much light will cause the plants to not root.

let them sit for a couple weeks and lift up your styrafoam to check progress. if the end of your stem has a bunch of little white numbs on it you have sucessfully cloned a plant, but now comes the part that will confuse you to watch.

the leaves that you left on the plant will start to die. This is a GOOD thing, it means your clone is redistributing stored nuteriant to those numbs and roots will start to grow.

from this point on check your stems every day, and when roots have grown to a lenghth of your liking, remove all non-green(dead) plant matter and move the clones into what ever growing medium you like.

i will post actual pictures of the process when i do it again, but this should help anyone alot.

 

i am waiting for the batteries in my camera to charge, but when they do i will post pics of the roots of the current clones i have going.

you only need high humidity if you're keeping your plants under light. the heat from the light causes the water to evaporate so you need to keep humidifing the environment, but since with this method does not keep the plants under light, no humidity is needed.

 

here are some pictures of the clones that are just finishing with this technique.