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Here's my $.25: I've been trying to get started since last spring, when I got a handful of small rooted plants to bring up as mothers. I'm on a well and have a softener, but was cautioned about the sodium the softener adds, so we watered the mothers with raw hard water. They seemed to be...

We've been trying to get started up here since spring, but have been unable to grow any viable clones - they all just died off before generating any roots. I've discussed that at length in another thread here, so I won't repeat myself. My thinking now is that the mothers have been too...

Update: That's what I'm going with - running the >750ppm well water first through a conventional NaCl softener (after which the TDS is still about the same, which makes sense, as it's just swapping Na ions for those coming out of the ground), then running it through the consumer-grade RO unit...

No. We've been using straight well water to maintain our mothers (in dirt), and experimenting with both well and bottled RO water in our aerocloner, but the results have been shit. My thinking now is that running the mothers on pH-adjusted well water without any added nutes is leaving them in...

Doc, thanks very much for continuing to maintain this thread. I'm new to this stuff, I think that a lot of the trouble I'm having getting started is water-related, and I'm looking for practical solutions. I get what you're saying about grocery-store RO, but that doesn't really work for me, as...

With the heater in the reservoir providing 72F and the IR lamp outside of the dome providing 78F under it, both are very stable.

If you go all the way back to the beginning of the thread, you'll see that on my first go I was using bottled RO water for exactly that reason. The water here is very hard - lots of calcium, and (I think) iron - but it's fine for drinking. The mothers are also feeding off of it, so we know...

Water temp in the right neighborhood. Room ambient is in the low 60s, though, and I don't have the option of raising it. That's one of the reasons I'm running the dome - with an IR heat lamp I can raise the temp in the dome to up around 80. At the moment it's fairly high - 50-60% - but it's...

Our first runs had colder water, so we added a heater to bring it up to 72. The mothers are well-established and growing in dirt. Seem pretty stable. We're on well water, so chlorine's not an issue. We're not adding anything to the water other than the cloning gel that's washed off of the...

Nothing special, really. They're growing in dirt, we water them with pHed well water, and we're kinda sloppy about what we fertilize them with - some organic stuff, etc. Got any specific suggestions for nutes in such a case? Will anything make them more likely to yield successful clones?

I haven't tried Clonex, but beyond that you're not giving me much information. What's the humidity? Ambient temperature? Water temperature? Water pH?

It's dry here. Very dry. TurboKlone's support suggested leaving the dome on for the first 5 days or so. Which temp(s)? The water temperature is 72F, exactly what TurboKlone recommended and verified by others here. Do you mean the temp under the dome? Lights are as close as they can be...

I've started a new batch, and based on what's been offered here and from TurboKlone's support people, here's what I'm doing: - well water - meter says about 75ppm dissolved solids - pH adjusted to 5.7 with phosphoric acid - 5ml of 3% H2O2 added to tank (~13 liter capacity) - reservoir heater...

That was a joke. Occam's Razor is the rule that says the simplest answer is usually the right one. Of all the people who've weighed in over this, your approach is definitely the simplest, so it fits the rule. That the razor is dirty adds to the joke. As I said at the top of the set, tap...

Can you clarify that for me, please? Do you mean 24x7 lighting and 15on/15off pump or 24x7 pump and 15on/15off lights? I'm wondering too whether I might try running the cloner next to my mothers under the 18on/6off 1KW sodium vapour instead of the fluorescents I was using previously. Yeah, I'm...