?'s about cloning

Well, just to spite all the people that would never answer MY cloning questions, I'll answer yours.


Cloning is much more simple than most of us think, including myself. Once you've got some good 4-5" long auxillary nodes growing, find a nice looking one on the middle of the main stem and chop it close to the main stem. Within the first 10 seconds, dunk the whole clone underwater. This will be your workplace for a little while.

Most clones will have staggered nodes/leaves, but not all. In any case, find the lowest two sets, cutting both the leaf and node from the lowest and the leaf only from the second. Then, make the final cut about 1/4" from where the lowest node was. Make the cut at a 45-degree angle.

From there, if you choose to, you may apply rooting hormone to the bottom 1" of the clone. Gel seems to work better than powder. Then take your rooting medium and plant the clone 1 to 1 1/2" into the medium.

As for the cloning medium itself, some popular choices are rockwool or a 50/50 mix of perlite and vermiculite. Either of these work well.

Cloning with hormones takes 1-2 weeks, while no hormones takes 2-3.

Hope this clarifies things for you!

~Lycanthropy

 

I use the basic Clonex gel. I started off with RootOne-F, but I've since realized that powders take longer to work than the gel. If you can't find Clonex, any cloning/cutting gel should be just as good.

~Lycanthropy