1 year, 6 months ago-
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Had to cut clones this am so ill share a few tips I’ve found using rockwool.
After you soak, very lightly, I mean very, squeeze and hold at sorta an angle to remove some water. Then I shake them slightly and remove more, you don’t want them to be super soaked because you want them to get dried up, within a few days. (Once there getting dry i spray bottoms slightly every morning and every night until roots start. Then you can give more water. You want roots to search for water, and if there to wet it can cause the stem to rott.)
After you remove I’d say roughly half the water put them upside down and poke your own holes, not in the center but half way between center and the edge. I do this for 2 reasons. It will help hold your clone up, I’ve found the hole that’s provided is always to large. And secondly it makes it a bit easier for roots to find the edge.
Using this method ive found that on average it takes about 8 days to root. I’ve seen as little as 6 days but never been able to recreate what ever happened there. I’ve also seen longer if I forgot to soray them. It’s pretty risky, if you forget to spray they can definitely die. I’ve seen them shriveled mess before and come back as well, just to experiment and gain something from my f up.
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Well these clones taking longer than normal but it happens sometimes. I think it’s a combination if 2 things, because I did everything exactly the same as and other time.
I didn’t have room for the clone tray and dome it was packed in there. I usually have dome on until the cubes get dried up, about 3-4 days. Slowly opening the vents a bit each day.
The biggest factor I think are these cheap rockwool cubes. I went to a different grow store than I normally would, this one was literally right across the street from dispensary. Well the guy sold on these cheaper cubes, they were half the price, and came lose in a huge cardboard box.
Could be many things I guess but this is what I figured happend. This pic was 3 days ago(10 days to show root) , 2 showed a root then and one the next day. One died from underwater, i must of missed spraying the bottom.Still waiting on the rest.
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Here’s my clone zone, well clone cutting zone at least. I’ve been chatting with someone who’s had some of their plants test positive for Hemp Latent viroid and told them I’d send them a pic/describe how I try to keep things sterile to minimize cross contamination. Although I’ve learned in that conversation and the reading it’s inspired I should be using diluted bleach to sterilize things, not 99% isopropyl alcohol. Always new things to learn to improve our growing…
So, to explain the pic and my process let’s start with the two pint jars in the top corners. I keep the snips I use to cut clones in one with sterilizer so they’re cleaned between each plant, you’ll notice everything has a place on the tray so standardize things so my ADHD brain doesn’t leave the snips laying around unsterilized between plants. The other jar has water in it so I can cut my clones and put them to soak until they’re all cut from that mom, I use a new pint jar for each mom so there’s no cross contamination, after cutting the clones and filling the jar the snips go into their jar and I pull the cuttings out one by one to prep them (strip lower leaves, etc) before placing them in the white oval dish filled with water. Once they’re all prepped I cut the bottoms again under water about 1/2-1″ up from the bottom to avoid any air embolisms in the stem. The two small jars at the front of the tray in the bottom left corner would have rooting hormone in them, again one jar per plant to avoid cross contamination, so after the clones are cut they all get dipped and then planted into a cell pack that sits in the open area of the tray. The scalpel sits in a jar of sterilizer as well between being used and finally the last little jar has sterilizer in it so I can dump the water in the oval dish and wipe it/the tray down between plants. You’ll notice everything that comes in contact with the plants is either glass, ceramic or metal for easy sterilization. I take it to the extreme as I worry about losing moms like Purple G or Stellar Collision that aren’t replaceable, but like everything in growing being proactive and overly cautious is better then running into problems that might not be as easy to fix. Hemps Latent Viroid for example is showing up in more and more clones/seeds and can only be cured from a plant through meristematic tissue culture as meristems and root tips are the only tissue unconnected to the vascular bundle and free of systemic pathogens. That requires microscopes and skills beyound most home growers and the cost is prohibitive to pay professional’s (assuming that’s even an option).
Growers are generally really worried about bugs but often don’t consider all the bacterial, fungal or viral problems which generally aren’t visible and can be much worse in the long run if they’re systemic or you have bad cultural practices that spread them from plant to plant, generation after generation.
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I’m trying the water method for once,it’s an expirament so I wanted to share it here she is swimming in her quick bottle ha 😅🤣😅
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