What Is The Best Way To Clone Plants? Rapid Rooter, Rockwool Or Other.

I would love growers both novice and master growers to provide some input, thank you!

i would say you need to find which way best works for YOU. ive tried cloning just about every way i can think of and some ways i cant get a single plant to root and others i can get every plant to root without even a single leaf yellowing. i made a little dwc hydro cloner that works best for me. just put the clones in, fill it with water, and plug it in. easy as that. rockwool cubes in a very shallow dish of water using rooting gel AND powder has worked good in the past for me as well but would recommend the DIY DWC hydro cloner if you have a place around 70% you can put it. dont want the water in it too cold or too warm and 70% ambient temps is what ive found to work best while using it. hope that helps!

Oh this is a dark art for sure.

Cloning is kinda like sex, Do it right and she'll give you everything you want. Do it wrong and she'll die.

wait... okay... so not exactly like sex.

take your clipping, dip it in rooting hormone, stick it in rock wool. Place the rock-woolled clone into a humidor with perlite soaked in a mild nute solution spread out across the bottom of the tray. About 1.5cm should be sufficient.. Clip off about half of any large fan leaves. Cut right across the leaf. Cover the humidor and put it under some cool floros. I use a Sun Blaze 24 with 4 54w T5s. In a couple days you should see roots that look surprisingly similar to the first shoot when the seed germinates.

after after a few more days the lil cuties will be ready to veg. takes about a week to two weeks.

lemme know how it works out for ya.



peas

MW

the medium rockwool/jiffy/rapid/soil is not so relevant imo
its how you look after them during the rooting phase that makes the difference
clones do not need any rooting gel/powder to root, but it will speed things up when using a dome/propagator

if you use the dome/propagator method, its best to always keep the humidity high
keep the ventilation slots closed most of the time
a small amount of water at the bottom of the propagator will take care of humidity
when the clones are first taken you can spray them with water, but after this its better to not spray them very often the humidity of the dome is enough to take care of their watering needs
keeping the leaves dripping wet all the time delays rooting
you should get around 100% success in 10/14 days

if you want clones faster then buy or build an aero cloner /bubble cloner this should also give 100% success but in 7-10 days
often these systems will root very quickly with no rooting gel

peace

ummm, I don't know what anybody else does, but for me I've tried rockwool and pete pellets in humidity domes, and had no fucking luck, I have a 6 slot 1 gallon dwc with neoprene collars and literally every clone I put in it roots without any rooting agents,chemicals, powders, gels, or Honey. I just cut take a razor blade split the stem, make small slices and put in bubbling tap water with no pH Up or Down, A week or 2 later they have ROOTS!

growingweed said:

I would love growers both novice and master growers to provide some input, thank you!

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robs rock wool and settop box and cfl 23w method would be the best method out there

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I use coco that has been in my worm/vermicompost bin, so it has all that good bacteria and fungus action going on. I take a scoop of this and mix it with some perlite. The cut goes right into that with a plastic sandwich bag over it. I get near 100 percent success this way with roots in less than a week.

dannyboy602 said:

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This right here. Just build or buy one. Well worth the investment. Just set it and forget it. Before that though I found I had the best luck with perlite as a rooting medium.

I'm an advocate of the cloning bucket...5 gallon bucket with 8 hole lid and foam pucks...submersible pump with a sprinkler head manifold...3/4 cup of Olivia's cloning solution and water...no humidity dome needed and roots appear in 5-10 days...works for tomatoes, flowers, peppers and weed...g/l

Have tried them all and still go back to Root Riot,,,,,,

So then, you see how the field has adapted to everything out there....we all have our favorite method.

I must say the person answering with the most correct answer........drolove.......Do what works for YOU.....Try a few and use the method that worked the best.....A rooting compound? I use one, others don't. What brand? For the most part they contain the same thing in the same amount.....I don't have as good a luck with Olivia's as others do. They don't have as much luck with what I use.
So try a few of those too (most of them make a small "try it" package).....

The one thing I am firm on. I don't like water cloners where the roots are under water, with only air pumps circulating water.....Works ok for "woody" plants like trees and then that is harder then "soft" plants....

Spray cloners are good. I have used them for hydro applications. Not so much for soil, never cared for them for that.

Go forth and find your best method.

Doc

P.S. Please take note of how Dannyboy's clones look......That is common(the light green, feed me look). Don't start cloning and get that look and comeback saying....."My clones are turning light green, what is my problem?"
Once they have rooted and are in their growth media,,,,get nutrition from what method they will get it from......They will recover and grow very well..

Hey Who....i got that pic off the net...not my clones buddy...my shit is 100%.
It was an illustration for illustrations sake. And the "feed me look" is not common...the only thing common is your lack of basic botony.

Hi all.... New here. I've always had good luck with solo cups. One for your clone, one (clear) one for a humidity dome. I leave the top cockeyed a bit to let air in at the bottom. Clones taken from a hungry plant always root faster too. (Why root if they have lots of food stored in the leaves?) I just use promix dampened with a little neptunes seaweed for a medium and some root hormone on the cutting. Cuttings taken during the stretch seem to always root faster too. Then I set them on a heating mat underneath the canopy of the big girls until they root within a week or two. Keep your medium warm and they'll root fast.

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Hey Who....i got that pic off the net...not my clones buddy...my shit is 100%.
It was an illustration for illustrations sake. And the "feed me look" is not common...the only thing common is your lack of basic botony.

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You see this is the problem with this forum. Dannyboy, if you read what Dr. Who actually wrote, he didnt diss your method at all. He was simply telling the original poster that if you use this method, dont worry about the light green of the leaves, and when you transplant them they will recover. And then there you go launching into some attack about his "lack of basic botany". We are all adults here, why don't we help instead being immature like that.

When im wrong im wring. I reread who's post and humbly apologize for jumping to conclusions. Ima sit in the corner for a minute. Thx for pointi g out the error of my ways

dannyboy602 said:

Hey Who....i got that pic off the net...not my clones buddy...my shit is 100%.
It was an illustration for illustrations sake. And the "feed me look" is not common...the only thing common is your lack of basic botony.

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Sorry D!
Ass-u-me(d).....my bad! (on the pic)
I say that around here,,,that is all together too common........I don't get that look either (in root riots). Just attempting to keep the masses calm and focused....
To be more detailed on that "look". Watch your pH and nutrient levels closely in hydro applications.

Thanks to jcurtis for the defend and to you for the apology! I didn't take it personally ...... It is easy to get miffed around here...NP

Doc