The best cloning medium. Rockwool? Rapid Rooter plugs? Oasis cubes? Gordan cubes?

Hello RIP. It will be my first attempt at cloning in a few weeks, so I was hoping I could get some feedback on experiences using the different choices of mediums to clone, and maybe some good tips on anything else related to cloning? Please all comments/info/opinions/reply's greatly appreciated! Thank you

i use jiffy peat pellets and they dont work that great. going to be building an aeroponic cloning system soon i heard thats the best way to go. have heard good things about rapid rooter plugs

RetiredMatthebrute said:

i use jiffy peat pellets and they dont work that great. going to be building an aeroponic cloning system soon i heard thats the best way to go. have heard good things about rapid rooter plugs

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Ok thank you! But why do you say they dont work that great? Have you used anything else other than the pellets? I was considering using the rapid rooters since I got clones that were on the plugs and they had awesome root structure. Thanks for the info!

Water. Plain tap water in a lightproof cup. Change water every few days to make sure it's oxygenated. FUCK peat plugs with any sort of binding or netting. These POS will NOT degrade and your grown plant (if it makes it that far) will begin looking sick and then die, regardless of intervention.

Water. Whatever did our grandparents and great-grandparents ever do to take a cutting and clone it before all this whiz bang expensive crap that doesn't work any better? Water in a cup.

hotrodharley said:

Water. Plain tap water in a lightproof cup. Change water every few days to make sure it's oxygenated. FUCK peat plugs with any sort of binding or netting. These POS will NOT degrade and your grown plant (if it makes it that far) will begin looking sick and then die, regardless of intervention.

Water. Whatever did our grandparents and great-grandparents ever do to take a cutting and clone it before all this whiz bang expensive crap that doesn't work any better? Water in a cup.

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Ok thank you, and you make a perfect point! Water is the old faithful way. I will definitely consider doing at least a few in water and others in some type of new school stuff, just for shitz n giggles, and to experiment and see the differences of each method. Thanks for the info!

I use rapid rooters with dome and mat. If you use plugs make sure that you get good contact with the medium. And yes Harley's method work.

I tried them all and ended up using 2-inch jiffy pellets.

Most of my failed clone attempts failed because the stem stays wet, gets soggy and collapses. Maybe because the jiffy pellets
are darker, they are easiest for me to see how wet the media is.

BigSteve.

hotrodharley said:

Water. Plain tap water in a lightproof cup. Change water every few days to make sure it's oxygenated. FUCK peat plugs with any sort of binding or netting. These POS will NOT degrade and your grown plant (if it makes it that far) will begin looking sick and then die, regardless of intervention.

Water. Whatever did our grandparents and great-grandparents ever do to take a cutting and clone it before all this whiz bang expensive crap that doesn't work any better? Water in a cup.

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question, do you pH the water?

Awesome thanks guys! I think I will try a few different mediums to experiment on the best one! I will use simple H20 with light nutes, rapid rooters, rockwool cubes, and oasis cubes, if its not the same as the rockwool. Thanks again everyone for the useful info!

I've used RW.. ive used RR.

I prefer RR way more. I like the way RR holds water

With both.. my technique is same. I let dry out before watering.. so not watering everyday. And i water by soaking the RR in about 1/4 in water in a tray for roughly a minute or so. More than enough.

The New Jim Jones said:

question, do you pH the water?

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No, sir, I do not. It's just city tap water.

lol.. me neither. But i'd say most people should pH their water.. unless you use RO or sit it for 18 hrs or so.

I have a bit of an idea as to where harley is LOL.

how long until roots show?

I did my first clone run in a little ghetto clone box with rapid rooters, and out of 5 clones, all five rooted within ten days. Seedling mat would have probably increased that.

PEAT PELLETS use them they are the MOTHER FU*KING SH*T happy growing

I use Fox farm light warrior mixed with a pinch of fox farm ocean forest and put it in the bottom of cut off Styrofoam cups , pre soak my medium with a 1/4 strength solution of thrive alive b-1 red,give them a dip in some rootech and then straight into my cake box from publix. roots sticking out of the pots in 12 days

Awesome thanks for the reply guys! I want to try ALL the different ways now! Lol. I will eventually try most methods and see what I like best. But for now I think I will try 3 different mediums. Rapid rooters, rockwool cubes and the O.G plain water method. I will place all three types inside a humidity dome with a heat mat. Lets see which roots faster and more robust!

Garden weeds said:

PEAT PELLETS use them they are the MOTHER FU*KING SH*T happy growing

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agreed! i also use them with great results, i did buy a aero cloner for smaller batches though

Garden weeds said:

PEAT PELLETS use them they are the MOTHER FU*KING SH*T happy growing

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The net and gauze covered ones ARE shit. Pieces of shit. Root stranglers if you don't remove that shit and the boxes say ZERO about doing it. Peat Plug Plant Killers. Use Root Shooters and never look at at a peat puck again. New puck users - remove that fucking net or gauze when you transplant your seedlings or LOSE that bitch just as she starts growing. Promise ya.

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agreed! i also use them with great results, i did buy a aero cloner for smaller batches though

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Well I just got a new glass from McDonald's. And my tap water is back on after our big power failure. Mine was $1.29 (rip off for carbonated water) and I snagged 8 extra lids for 8 new clones. How much is that little aerocloner?


BTW my cloners worked non-stop during the days the juice was off. My DWC that I JUST built and put a flowering clone in? Pump that bitch every hour for a few minutes with a double action air pump we use camping for air mattresses.

I transplanted a FLOWERING plant after transplanting her, thinking about it, digging her up, taking her to the sink and bathing her roots until all traces of organic were gone. Put her in a net cup, filled it with horticultural grade pumice and put her in that DWC filled with RO water. PPM zero (from a hemodialysis water treatment room) at start. 4 ML each of Sensi Bloom A&B, 1/4 teaspoon Beastie Bloomz and 2 ML Bud Candy (scared to put molasses in her). PPM 450, pH 5.5 by METERS that are pro quality and calibrated, temp 65.

next AM she was smiling so PPM increased to 600 PPM and so on until 4 days post she is at 990-1000 PPM, pH is 5.6 after adjustment. She smells like her mama.

BS to "you can't transplant flowering plants". Done it hundreds of times in all types if situations. have some died? A few. 95% easy have made it.

BS to "don't touch the roots". I have worked in Level I trauma center surgery including neurosurgery and seen the human brain and many parts of the central nervous system hundreds of times in 30+ years. A plant ain't it, ain't got one and responds like, well, a plant! Trust me.

BS to clone systems when water and a glass do it. But hey - the folks that make them and sell them don't see it that way and they need jobs.