Clear cups!

I clone into clear shotglass sized cups.....I have yet to see any issue arise from some light getting onto those roots. Maybe I'm missing something?

I encourage arguing, and demand some grade school level name calling.

Mom always rooted cuttings in clear glasses. Many years ago. I grow in white buckets too. That's another fallacy

My wife grows flowers from seed in mason jars with no drainage. Just some pea sized rocks at the bottom. Roots are always healthy and white.

Any root, in time, exposed to light. Will, change to a root not effectively working.

Can you? Yes. It would behove you to transfer to soil as soon as you actually "see" a root.

As far as rooting in a clear container. I simply root some times by simply throwing cuttings into a cup of water... They root, even fussy cloning plants will. If done right.. They take quite awhile to establish in soil in solo cups once transplanted to them...

You still get a healthier clone by dark rooting methods. Rooting in a media, in a clear cup. Is dark rooting. Just remember to up pot when you see roots.

Harley. Growing in a media, in white buckets is no biggie. I would not use a "non - opaque" bucket for hydro though. Algae growth problems

Some use two cups. One clear and one red on the outside. Buts that’s overkill imo

I disagree with all of the above. Poopy-faces.

I put a cup around mine.

Chip Green said:

I clone into clear shotglass sized cups.....I have yet to see any issue arise from some light getting onto those roots. Maybe I'm missing something?

I encourage arguing, and demand some grade school level name calling.

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Well one thing I've noticed is yes a cutting will start in a clear shot glass or container in a window sill, done it. But I have found my cuttings will spring bigger shoots quicker by just wrapping tin foil on the outside of the clear jar, so lighting is blocked for the new roots. But if done right you can pull it out of the tinfoil wrap and inspect and or refresh the bubbly water. I been having 100% success that way. But after all that's my backwood redneck growin style.

Chip Green said:

I clone into clear shotglass sized cups.....I have yet to see any issue arise from some light getting onto those roots. Maybe I'm missing something?

I encourage arguing, and demand some grade school level name calling.

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is me:

Ive done it, but I got yelled at for it so I stopped.

by my Mom

so I wrap in kitchen foil

The roots are in the dark until they reach the edge of the cup, it's not hurting anything.

Here's some reading.
Light as stress factor to plant roots – case of root halotropism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4264407/#!po=5.68182

I think the actual science was that if the root was in a dry environment and recieved light it would green at those points so as to produce bark to protect it, not 100% here but think there are articles on it about for most plant roots.

I've started using the above method for cuttings/clones as newspapers are abundant and mostly free.
They can be a pain in the arse though!