clone question?
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VidiotRayM
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No and yes......
doc111
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No you don't need any rooting hormone to clone. Try cloning in a cup of water. It works pretty good if you aren't using rooting hormone. I usually use an empty beer can (clean of course) in order to keep the light off of the roots. Be sure to pH your water and change it daily!
SeanIzen
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sweet I knew it! I was thinking so because how did the first guy clone if cloning hadn't been done yet? lol. nature is amazing sometimes just how damned and determined it is to stay alive. you slice off a branch and in a last ditch effort it reverts its tip to root growth... anyone else think this is amazing!?
VidiotRayM
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You don't have to use anything.......but I believe there's a benefit.......many of the powders have an anti fungal agent, but I had a guy say foot powder accomplishes the same thing.......and I've heard people say they don't do anything at all without any difference in success rates.
I do use them...maybe out of habit... I use a gel for my aero cloner more to seal the cut against an air bubble than anything and I use a powder if I root in rw...... I think I get more roots with it than without....... I also thought clonex really increased the amount of roots as the whole stem seemed to burst with roots as opposed to a few nodes here and there.....but when they jacked the price too high, I quit using it. As long as you can get it to root, so it can feed itself....it's all good.
A package of rooting powder doesn't cost very much and lasts quite a while, but there's nothing that says you can't get by without it. For pennies a plant, I'll continue to use it....... They're all basically the same thing....active ingredient Indole Butryl whatever...or something like that.....and there are claims that it's a carcenogen(sp?)..
I do use them...maybe out of habit... I use a gel for my aero cloner more to seal the cut against an air bubble than anything and I use a powder if I root in rw...... I think I get more roots with it than without....... I also thought clonex really increased the amount of roots as the whole stem seemed to burst with roots as opposed to a few nodes here and there.....but when they jacked the price too high, I quit using it. As long as you can get it to root, so it can feed itself....it's all good.
A package of rooting powder doesn't cost very much and lasts quite a while, but there's nothing that says you can't get by without it. For pennies a plant, I'll continue to use it....... They're all basically the same thing....active ingredient Indole Butryl whatever...or something like that.....and there are claims that it's a carcenogen(sp?)..