Cloning & Yellow Leaves

Alpha Prime

Member
Hi all, I have taken clones from 1 of my healthy mothers, put them in my aero cloner, waited the 7 days for roots, and now they are finally here!!! Just stubs, really, but i can tell they are root-beginnings :-). Anyway, now that these are in the clear, I have a problem. I dont know what I should do at this point. I am giving them General Organics BioRoot as well as Superthrive (in full strength doses) and I am dipping them in DipnGrow. I also foliar spray with either staight water & superthrive or a Superthrive/GH BioWeed mix.

The leaves are starting to yellow and since there are not a lot of leaves I'm worried if I don't give them nitrogen soon I will end up killing them.

What should I do? Should I switch them over to vegatative ferts or spray them with a high nitrogen fertilizer, or should I just ride it out???
 

blade9z

Active Member
Some leaves will yellow and die off, thats normal clones will use its own storage of nute to grow root when they have no roots to gather nutrients. You probably don't need half the stuff you given to the clone (although mild Superthrive will help), the first week just plain water is the best. As long as there are nodes and main shoot is not dead then it will grow.

I was very impatient with my first cloning myself, but my recentt cloning effort all 8 plants lives.
 

ink the world

Well-Known Member
Dont mist them much now, you want the roots to reach for water. Encourage the root system to grow and develop.

I use a bubble cloner w/ water only. I never use rooting hormones or any nutes at all now when i clone. Im getting 100% w/ DNA Genetics hasplant x haze. Heres a clone @ 4 days.
 

Alpha Prime

Member
Wow that growth is amazing!!! You do dip them though, right? If they don't have any hormones, how do they root? and how does a bubble cloner work, is it just a dwc? And Ive heard that the leaves naturally yellow but the yellowing is spreading to the top. They aren't yellow yet but the green is fading out of them and I'm worried they'll die before I can get them over to my other mothers. And when do you take the humidity dome off? Do you do it gradually, letting in more air more times a day, crack it more and more each day, or just take it off all at once?
 

ink the world

Well-Known Member
I dont use rooting hormone at all. Yeah a "bubble cloner" is just basically DWC. I dont use a dome at all, the cloner has enough moisture.

My leaves will yellow a little bit, you'll see in the pic that the tips are yellowing, they seem to do that before and as they start to root.
 
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