All 6 of my clones died...

Bloody annoyed - opened the rockwool cubes and they'd all gone brown and dead at the bottom...thats annoying, they'd been in the moisture dome for almost 3 weeks as well

What went wrong? All I did was spray them almost daily and they all died with no roots? (BLOODY overpriced CLONEX didn't work!)

Anyway - put the mothers into flower at the weekend, so just taken another clone off each plant and am now trying water-cloning...

Any advice? Still got a few leaves on them, putting them under 24 hours of light in a cup of water...will I have to refill it before roots develop?

Without more information it's difficult to judge but my guess is that you didn't keep the temperature up. Clones like it rather hot to take root 21C+. What light did you have them under?

Did you keep the rock wool wet the whole time? Beyond just misting? I have clones that occasionaly won't root and just sit there, but if they turn brown and die then it sounds like they dried out. Don't know about Clonex but I use the cheap old GreenLight rooting powder you get at Home Depot for $3.99 and rarely loose a clone. Keeping the rock wool wet is essential.

I bury my rockwool cubes in potting soil (FFOF) in a 16oz dixie cup leaving just the top exposed. Then I water the whole thing heavily, dip the clone in the rooting powder, stick it in the rockwool, and put a plastic baggie with a small hole in it over the top of the cup, leaving it there until I see some new growth on the clone - usually a week or two - which means roots are growing. Sure fire method and the wet soil helps to keep the rockwool from drying so quickly. Also, a drop or two per gallon of superthrive in the water you use will help.

It was nice and moist in there - dunno if it was maybe TOO moist? The temps may have had something to do with it...I've only got 1 grow space so they efectively went into flower last week,lets hope the water-cloning works anyway - its simpler so its probably more likely to work

You are giving them 24hrs of light arent you? Olivias cloning gel is kick ass btw!

Kushcrosser said:

You are giving them 24hrs of light arent you? Olivias cloning gel is kick ass btw!

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Until friday (17-18 days) they were under 18/6 - i've put the 2 new clones into a cup with water in it...keeping them seperate from the rest, under 24 light this time (single 23-watt cfl above) is it worth sticking a little blob of gel in the water? If not when should I put very weak nutes in? Any idea on when they may run out of water? (they're both in the same cup...)

Maybe add a little superthrive to the water, just to help things along. Although i haven't done any cloning so i could be wrong lol.

Good luck!