DIY Bubble cloner or propagator for seedlings

lee1000

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I made a cloner today. Really simple to do.

40 litre plastic box with lid. Drilled some holes for the nets to sit in. Instead of throwing away the plastic discs I cut out, I decided to cut out another smaller hole in them so that those collars can fit inside them. They fit inside nice and snug. This will allow me to clone without having to use any medium. I'll also drill a little hole in the collars so the stems don't get pinched I will start some seeds in a propagator using peat pellets (Don't like using rw) and once rooted, cut the thin netting from around the roots, rinse in distilled water and then transfer them to the box I just made today.

Doing it this way, means I don't need to use those clay pellets. The collar holds fine and will be easy to transfer into the DWC buckets seeing as though the nets I use for the young 'uns will be the same I plan to use throughout the whole grow.

I'll use a 6w air pump with 4 outlets and use 4 air stones.







The clear lid is obviously from an old propagator I don't use anymore and fits great but would only be used for seedlings as the lid would be too low for clones to go in there.

The holes that the air tubing slots into were already there. I'll probably glue some 1/2" PVC piping to the sides so the air tubing can run right down to the bottom and it wont get messed up with any of the roots when it comes to transfer.
 

lee1000

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That looks like a neat setup. Wish I could use that many clones, well, and veg them for a month or so, I'm a little bit limited with the space I have. I see you are using spray nozzles. I was going to go with them originally but I decided on just getting a decent air pump with lots of air stones attached and in the drink. Should do the trick.

I'm setting up a new room as soon as my girls have matured.

Got the buckets and pumps and just invested in 30m of Diamond Reflective sheeting. It's gunna look like Buck Rogers bedroom when it's finished (Minus the skimpily clad space vixens8))
 

intenseneal

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Those are both really nice cloners. I made my own as well for u der $20. It does cutting and gets the job done and fast. Still need to paint it black.20160101_233707.jpg
 

lee1000

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Is that just the one air stone in there? Looks like it could do with a couple more but yeah, easy enough to make ain't they?8-)
 

vostok

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Once you actually commit to growing this weed,

you will note several minor changes on your part

1: you don't actually put seedlings into this device

2: the dome cover is not required

3: germing seeds in this is a great start,
more so if germing more than 200+ seeds at a time

4: No heating method is apparent or mentioned,
one can only suppose the heat is supplied via pump friction..?

after building more than a dozen bubble cloners over the last 10 years
I'd be suspect that this container ain't water proof

...you can prove me wrong

good luck

ps you can never have enough bubbles
here: https://www.rollitup.org/Journal/Entry/cloning-bubbler-n02-11-2009.28758
 

LOFT

Member
Building one of these soon hopefully but not sure about something
When you put cuttings in do the stems sit in the water or above and get splashed by the bubbles?
 

INF Flux

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does this method work for planting a seed istelf new grower so looking for out of ordinary ideas
I built a bubble cloner a while back and put some seed into netting and then into one of the cups, just to see if they'd go, they all germed. Hardly a scientific experiment but as a proof of concept it worked.
 
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