Wilting Clones.. Plz Help..

hey everyone on RIU. i have an issue that came up yesterday morning with my newly planted clones.

the strain is pineapple express grown in soil with organic nutes. anyway i just cloned 5 babies and i noticed that they started to WILT right after i put them in the humidity dome with a heating pad under for warmth.

is this normal? i have cloned bagseed, first grow, and that never happened. so i am wondering why now. i have them under cfl's for lighting on 18/6.

they are sleeping as we speak so i cant take any pix till 4am when the lights come back on.

plus REP for helping out me n my youngins .

have a nice night..

bump.. can take pix if ya'll wanna see them..

yo dude spray with a real light foliar feed and for fu@k sake keep lights on 24/0 till rooted and u will be good

Same situation with me. I used rockwool medium. this was my first time. My cubes were wet, i think they needed to be damp. Also i sprayed the leaves and cubes. Definitely wont spray the leaves next time. As long as cubes are damp, and hood is humid, just gotta be patient I guess. Only be worried with yellowing, curling I guess. Good luck! Def go with ledgrowing tho, 24/0 till root!

what medium are you using for clones?

Drella said:

what medium are you using for clones?

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i have two of them in jiffy pellets and three in str8 soil. i wanted to try that and see what happens. they are inna humidity dome with a heating pad under them.

puta nice ammount of water in there, like fill the bottom, and also put like 2 ml of H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) to keep it clean, as well as oxygenated, than heat pad to like 80, and keep as close 100% humidity as possible, dont spray leaves, only the hood, EVERY time you move the clones, even bump them you disrupt their process, you gotta let them sit by themselves as long as possible... h2o2 helps.

Never heard that before shrubs first, Water on the bottom presents a whole new problem, mold and bacteria, true, h202 for disinfectant, but why introduce a new possible problem. I respect everyone has their own way, but if you dome it, humidity will be fine. Even if your dome is a 2 liter bottle, (DIY for life, LOL). Just saying if you put water on the bottom, and move the dome, which you will i feel it opens a whole new door, that you don't need if you have a dome already. maybe i'm wrong, just wanna hear your reasoning.

Idk any mold that will grow with H2O2 in there. And the hood keeps it 100% humidity... Ive done it plenty of times, I dont even open it once until 7 days later, and i have roots... there arent any problems... Go to a local grow shop, and you can get 33% h2o2.. Done and done

Shrubs First said:

puta nice ammount of water in there, like fill the bottom, and also put like 2 ml of H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) to keep it clean, as well as oxygenated, than heat pad to like 80, and keep as close 100% humidity as possible, dont spray leaves, only the hood, EVERY time you move the clones, even bump them you disrupt their process, you gotta let them sit by themselves as long as possible... h2o2 helps.

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the peroxide wont hurt the ones in the jiffy pellets??

Although i'm rooting in 50/50 Canna coco and Roots Organics Soilless Coco mix, so idk, that might change something?

howhighru said:

the peroxide wont hurt the ones in the jiffy pellets??

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No in small ammounts, like 2-4 ml a gallon, you are fine, it adds oxygen, roots love oxygen.. Microbes and living microorganisms dont.

I see shrubs first, a no hands approach. Sittin in the water, you avoid spraying 1-2 a day, and disrupting the clones. Great approach and pro advice! +rep and scribed to your journal, even though i don't do hydro, but your setup is legit. thanks for your input for us newb cloners!

Just wanted to suggest cloning in a different medium...try using rockwool with a clone gel and a nice cloning solution. Its nice and compact allowing you to fit 10-15 inside the dome and holds the moisture you need to produce roots...and 24 hour lighting is great....good luck!

Hey not a problem, I love receiving and giving any help

fureelz said:

Just wanted to suggest cloning in a different medium...try using rockwool with a clone gel and a nice cloning solution. Its nice and compact allowing you to fit 10-15 inside the dome and holds the moisture you need to produce roots...and 24 hour lighting is great....good luck!

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i have some 1.5 inch rockwool cubes n i wanted to use them but never have b4 n dint wanna fuck shit up. but i was told i could clone in them, then transfer them into my soil/soilless medium?????

Shrubs First said:

Hey not a problem, I love receiving and giving any help

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ya thanks, plus rep for u also..

Yeah dude, but check out my thread in plant probs. Got wilting, but now yellowing or dying. hope it helps. I feel confident they'll perk up. Just make sure your cubes are damp, not wet. I might be wrong, my clones might be too big, check it out and let me know what you think!

when i clone i just root gell them put them in a packed down soil thats airated and spray distilled water on them, i also take clones 21 days into flowering on the mother because this highly increases chances of survival due too the cell wall that produces roots is matured and that plants priorty is on the flower which converts to a node in no time at all. the white hairs literally convert into leaves, ive done research on this and have done ti myself so i know its legit, also ive had very few deaths with cloning, when they dont have a dome they can be much closer to the light aslong as you wet them with distilled water and a drop of dishsoap mixed in it works great, at least for me it does. and the extra lights helps it convert alot quicker.
thats my input. hope it helps maybe for future cloning or maybe you would like to try it as an expirement to test my claims. Be my guest.
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Good advise Gfarmer, always have extra cuttings for experiments, +rep for sure!