So guys I want to try cloning for the first time. I use soil fyi. I have been reading up on different methods and my question is what all supplies do I need to begin cloning. Thanks for any help and links if you can.
How To Clone A Cannabis Plant Once you have a nice collection of quality marijuana seeds, the next step is of course, quality marijuana plants. In an effort to reduce your expense and time spent with male plants, we introduce "How to Clone Marijuana Plants" (female marijuana plant cloning). When you know your plant is female and you want to continue to grow that particular weed, you can clone the cannabis plant many times over without any loss of potency. These offspring retain all the qualities of the original "Mother" plant. Your clone is also guaranteed female. Therefore, when you replant it, your resources are spent on a female species that you enjoy! No lost time, soil, nutrients, or energy. This practice also allows for a repetitious harvest throughout any time of the year. As you will find, cloning your favorite marijuana plants can be easy and save you big money. You can clone a marijuana plant many, many times from it's off-shoots. Cloning cannabis plants or How to Clone Cannabis, should not be confused with breeding marijuana plants, these are two completely different topics. Here, we are cloning a plant to provide for the exact same female species, versus breeding similar or different plants for their 'new' offspring strains. The cannabis plant is strong and versatile, it can be turned back to the vegetative stage once it has begun flowering and shows itself as a female. The following process can be used to reproduce (clone) a female marijuana plant once it has already been moved to the flowering (12/12) cycle and is determined to be female. You can clearly see the female pistils in this photograph. \t\t\t\t\t\t If we already know the plant is a female (female seeds), we simply follow the same procedure before we move the plant to flowering stage. The recovery period is shortened, (it does not have to revert back to vegetative, because it never left) and you can move this new clone in just a few weeks time. In Proper Preparation It is important when preparing to clone your marijuana that everything be clean. Once again, this includes you. If you don't use surgical gloves, then wash your hands and tools well with alcohol. Remember, in essence, we are preparing for surgery - it just happens to be on a favorite plant we know and love. Supplies; Rooting Gel, Alcohol, single edged razor blades, gloves, and the grow medium you plan on starting the clone in. Here you can see we are on a strict budget of Solo cups. Remove some rooting gel from it's container using your razor blade or knife. This protects the balance gel from any contamination. We have now chosen the female pot plant that we wish to clone and have prepared for our cloning procedure. For this example we are showing you just one, however, you would usually do multiple clones at one time. You would think it was gold with the cost of some rooting gels, but it can go a long way. Work hard not to contaminate your jar (drop soil over it, etc.,). We take a small amount off the cover with our razor blade and then seal our rooting gel and put it away. You will find it can last until you finish it (with proper care and minimal waste). Once you remove some gel from the container, I do NOT recommend putting any remainder back in the jar. Use as much as you can and dispose of the balance. Now we take our clean razor and head over to our Mother Plant where we have chosen our sprout to "cut"We want a nice clean cut at a good angle, not a straight cut. We are about 3-4 leafs in from the top of our stem. Take your razor blade and firmly slice at an angle across the stem that we wish to clone (see cut mark). Be gentle with your clone leaves and do not touch the new cut end of the sprout. Be careful not to touch your razor or the open cut of the stem to anything. You can accomplish an excellent cut if you use a mild slicing motion when you cut downward. Now we are ready to prepare our clone for transplanting. We take our rooting gel, our razor, and our sprout to a clean work area. Begin by slicing off the larger leaves that are close to the bottom of our clone sprout. We will be promoting additional root growth from these points. Take your rooting gel and generously apply it to the root tip and all the way up to our other cuts. Do not be afraid to apply a generous amount of gel to your clone cuttings, it immediately protects them, and gives them what they need to re-root. Please remember to be gentle with your little sprout as they are very sensitive and vulnerable right now. This Northern Lights/Haze marijuana clone is now ready for it's soil and humidity dome for a few days. Once we place it in our soil (we used our pinky to make a hole in our cup ahead of time), lightly move the soil around your clone attempting to make it straight at the same time. Do NOT press the soil too firmly, we will let the water settle the new clone and the soil. When we have our clone squared up and in place, we water the cup generously. This settles our soil and gives the plant a stance. We then move our new cannabis clone over to our humidity dome for a few days. When the soil is completely wet, we spray it and place it under a 20 hour light cycle in a domed enclosure. If you cloned a female that had already been converting to the flowering stage, it will take a number of weeks to completely turn-back this clone to it's vegetative stage. If you cloned a female plant (from seed) that you already know will be female, then you have only a couple of weeks and that clone will be ready to go to flowering. 2-3 weeks versus 6 weeks or more to turn some plants back to vegetative around. The concept of the mother plant is that you simply continue to take clones from HER (this helps to keep the mother plant short and sweet) and you can count on them being female and the potency of the original being retained. This also allows you control your harvest a little better... good plant (garden) management. Besides watering your new clone, be sure and spray it for a couple of days. It likes the moisture while it tries to re-root. Only use water at this point in the process, let the root gel do the rest. You can begin by investing in "female marijuana seeds" While more costly, they are guaranteed female and you save literally weeks ($$) when you clone a young female marijuana plant that is still in a vegetative state, versus turning back time (so to speak). Done properly and you only have to buy those expensive seeds ONCE! Because you make clones and will always have females of that strain as you continue to grow your personal marijuana garden.
Make this,and take all the headache out of cloning.Can make it for around $25-$35.I suggest a double pump for 2 air stones. No domes,no spraying daily.No buying rockwool,rootshooters,heating pads or gel.This thing is amazing. http://forum.grasscity.com/do-yourself/504667-budslingers-bubble-cloner.html
no it isnt i got clones from a box like this from a buddy and put them in soil it took them 3 days to settle the roots in and start growing again. i got them wrapped in toilet paper and they didnt look healthy at all. all lived.
What are you talking about? You remove when rooted,and stick it in your medium of choice. You really dont know this?
Its cool man... Your tutorial was nice though. I just feel its old school now,and a waste of money to buy gels ect. I also mentioned in the thread that you can actually have 2-3 clones in each cup easily.Just align them down the slit.I made a 12 slot one that can easily do 24-36 clones this way.Perhaps even 48.
I own 4 120/144 site machines and I still do trays of 96 in rockwool, nothing old fashioned about it. Space wise it is more efficient, they are ten bucks/tray (cheap as neoprene in bulk), easy to set up and the results are the same in the end.
And again you need to spray them,and keep buying gel,and rockwool ect. This guy wants the best cloning method for a small grow. Cloning in domes can be a pain for some people.Then theres why do all that extra work for as you say the same results? Do you only put 1 clone per site in your machines?You do realize you could do 2 minimum in a 2" neaopreen cup.An easy double the production of your current machines.I could see doin 3 in mine.Doin doubles right now. Think out of the box a bit =) Literally....
Let me preface this with, I am a cloner, it is my job. I use both trays and machines, I don't use large machines in the summer as they tend to have mediocre results due to rez temps being elevated whereas with rockwool trays all it means is I don't need to use the heating mat. Humidity dome + heating pad = no misting, ever. He is looking for a small time grow which is why I would recomment rockwool, you can do 7 (1 row) at a time, or 14 at a time if you like, not 24-36 needed to make a small 12 site machine cost effective. Heck you can do 3 clones if that is all you need, just buy cubes. Also most people using cloning machines use Gel, neoprene is as much as rockwool as I stated and if someone is not changing out their neoprene, they should. Machines cost more to make than a heating pad and dome and are just as expensive to run each run. What extra work? Again there is no reason to mist with a dome, once a day I pop the lids, dry them out with a paper towel, add a pint of RO water and put the lid back on, making sure the vents are completely open. That is some hard work right there. I will say loading and unloading a large machine of 21 gallons of water and scrubbing it clean, then disinfecting it is a whole lot more work than you will ever have with rockwool trays. Probably not relevant to the OP but a fact all the same. Click here to see one of my machines mid run, I run 2 per generally speaking, sneaking 3 in here and there. Not that it matters for the OP but the footprint on a 144 site machine is the same as 4 trays. 4 trays = 384 clones, same as one heavily loaded down machine. I not only think outside the box, I see the big picture.
Hello, I've been looking around to see who I should ask this question to.. You seem to know quite a bit about cloning so here goes... I'm about a week away from going into flowering, but I would like to clone one of my plants. The problem is that I am very limited on space, so I have only one grow/flowering space. I plan on flowing for about 4-6 weeks. If I was to take a clone now, is there a way to keep it from growing too big while my other plants are flowering for 4-6 weeks? Also since the lights in the room would be on a 12/12 cycle is it possible to keep the clone in the same room, or would that cause a big problem with the clone. I hope I asked that correctly. I you need more info please let me know. Thanks
[quote name='"xDisciplex"'] And again you need to spray them,and keep buying gel,and rockwool ect. This guy wants the best cloning method for a small grow. Cloning in domes can be a pain for some people.Then theres why do all that extra work for as you say the same results? Do you only put 1 clone per site in your machines?You do realize you could do 2 minimum in a 2" neaopreen cup.An easy double the production of your current machines.I could see doin 3 in mine.Doin doubles right now. Think out of the box a bit =) Literally....[/quote] I've been looking around to see who I should ask this question to.. You seem to know quite a bit about cloning so here goes... Everything I do will be in soil. I'm about a week away from going into flowering, but I would like to clone one of my plants. The problem is that I am very limited on space, so I have only one grow/flowering space. I plan on flowing for about 4-6 weeks. If I was to take a clone now, is there a way to keep it from growing too big while my other plants are flowering for 4-6 weeks? Also since the lights in the room would be on a 12/12 cycle is it possible to keep the clone in the same room, or would that cause a big problem with the clone. I hope I asked that correctly. If you need more info please let me know. Thanks
We should get credit for writing this cloning tutorial - It was taken from weedsthatplease.com Next time you steal someone else's content and try to pass it off as your own you should be charged - weedsthatplease.com What's the big deal in telling everyone where you got that content from?
I like to use clonex. Just saturate the grow cube with your liquid mix, and submerse the clone in it too, leave it in the liquid when you cut it the second time. The grow cube keeps the clonex so every time you water it, they get the nutrients