Beer Bottle Cloning for N00bs

So you want to clone your nice plant do you?
And maybe you've been running around the forum, looking up rooting hormone posts, and if it's necessary or not to have rooting hormone?
And then you went onto wondering which medium would be the best, peat pucks, rock wool maybe?

How about instead you rinse out that old 24 of beer bottles you have sitting around the house, and get to work cloning that plant right now? Huh sketchy? Can you calm down for a minute and do that for me? Good!

Simply take a beer bottle
Rinse it out, fill it up with cold tap water
Take your plant
Select a shoot from a true node (one with 2 shoots coming out at the same level)
Cut it on an angle \
Cut off the smaller leaves towards the bottom of the cutting, leaving the bigger top leaves
Place it in the beer bottle, making sure the stem is submerged in water, and change the water ever 4-7 days.

***(I don't even tweak the cutting under water first, but you can, by placing the cutting under water, and rolling the stem between your fingers near the cut to push out any air bubbles that tried to get up the stem, which could kill your cutting)***

You'll have roots in 7-10 days normally. They start off as small white bumps on the green stem, once the white bumps start, you can technically plant it.
Some slime, or web looking stuff is normal by the way. It's really just a sign to change the water!

**EDIT** Forgot to add that brewers make beer bottles brown or green to keep out light, and prevent photosynthesis in the bottle. That's half your job done for you!

Congratulations! You've accomplished what humans have been doing since the dawn of agriculture, cloning in WATER!

I know, it's crazy talk, I mean NO HORMONES!? But trust me, it works, cause the plant makes its own.

Pics provided are of month old heavily abused clones. They've sat in stagnant water for 2 weeks, and then were given a 1/6th strength hydroponic solution for a few days to keep them alive. Then it was left too long and allowed to get calcium toxicity... BUT! They grew roots, and even bigger leaves and shoots!

fucking awesome brother.. + rep

Must give this a whirl..

Thanks guys!
Picked this trick up from some salvia growers back in like 2005-2006... before it was sold in every store, and then made illegal in most places...

Well I thought this must be standard tech among weed growers, but some google searches only yielded a few experiments, or questions about the feasibility of cloning in beer bottles.
This was odd to me, as salvia is much pickier than marijuana in the conditions in which it will do anything, let alone grow... so for salvia growers to have picked up on beer bottles before the potheads. Shameful guys! Shameful!

So I decided to abuse some cuttings, and show you guys the results!

I dropped a Jackpot Royale and a couple of Spacedawgs in bottles about a week ago, they are showing bumps on stems and seem to be doing fine. I'll post pics when they root.

Do you still mist the clones and use a humidity dome of some sort? I just did my first bit of cloning, using just soil in small styrofoam cup. They took without issue, but misted and used a dome too.

brotherjericho said:

Do you still mist the clones and use a humidity dome of some sort? I just did my first bit of cloning, using just soil in small styrofoam cup. They took without issue, but misted and used a dome too.

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Sorry I haven't been on in awhile.

A lot of people mist for clones, I think they need about 70% humidity max, or mine at least start to do worse. So if you are in a drier area then maybe dome them, or if they're in a colder area and you have them close to a fluorescent bulb then a humidity tent would also keep them warmer which is good.

Just make sure your domes have air holes to allow lots of air to pass through, and I wouldn't be misting more then once a day, then I'd probably more mist the dome than the cuttings. Unless I was in a drier area, then I'd mist the cuttings themselves.

Water is a waste product of photosynthesis, and so the plant is always trying to transpire water out of the leaves, if they have any water sitting on top then this process will become inefficient, and water will build up in the leaf.

Good if the plant is dry, bad if the moisture is around 60-70% already.

These though were in a rubbermaid bin with a few fluorescent bulbs, and the lid wasn't on properly, so there was a lot of airflow. No added misting though, just what the plants themselves gave off.

Tight work been looking for a alternative to my ez cloner. Don't need that many clones at once now.

I've had one going for a couple of weeks....tent door flopped open an broke off a lower branch so I jammed it in a beer bottle and change the water everyday. Waiting for the nubs...