Cloning with coco

simply_slide

simply_slide

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Might be ditching this rockwool thing. I have had to throw 4 of my 10 clones out. I have only had 3 of the 10 showing roots through the RW.

There are some other factors I may need to address like...I have no heat mat and the temp is around 74 consistently. I know I should be keep the rooting zone around 80...but hey, it was a trial anyway.
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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I took some Royal Gold Tupur coco mix out of the bag, stuck it in some party cups with holes all over them, put tap water on it, made some trimmed cuttings with dirty scissors, jammed the cuts into the cups, and ignored them. They took ten days but every one rooted. There are many ways to clone successfully, and despite my dirty scissors cleanliness is important from my experience. I do it differently almost every time, just for kicks.
Right now I do this:

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A little pump brings water up to those drippers and they root in about five days. A modified rdwc bucket I had laying around.
 
Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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simply_slide said:
Might be ditching this rockwool thing. I have had to throw 4 of my 10 clones out. I have only had 3 of the 10 showing roots through the RW.

There are some other factors I may need to address like...I have no heat mat and the temp is around 74 consistently. I know I should be keep the rooting zone around 80...but hey, it was a trial anyway.
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agreed. I'm over RW. Shit stays too moist.unless you aero clone and wrap it in after the fact.
 
simply_slide

simply_slide

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Airwalker16 said:
agreed. I'm over RW. Shit stays too moist.unless you aero clone and wrap it in after the fact.
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Yeah, I pulled the 3 out of the cubes (cause, well you can just tell if they have rooted or not) and scraped the steam a bit more and stuck them in a different hole in the cube...well see, lucky my mother plant of the strain I'm try to preserver is making a comeback back ( I over fert by mistake). So if these clones don't make it I'm not going to sweat it.

I'm gonna buy a heat mat and see what I can do with these cubes cause I have like 20 left, so I might as well try something different and maybe more controlled. But over all once I'm done with these cube, I'm sticking with coco.
 
bryangtho

bryangtho

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I was given something called starter soak from my shop to try. It is used for cloning in coco or rockwool as the name says you just soak the coco with it and squeeze all excess out. You still use clonex and he said to water the clones with starter soak every 3 days. I have done 2 just to see how it go' s he said the will be ready to go in 8 to 13 daysDSC01155.JPG
 
Airwalker16

Airwalker16

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I'd hold off on drippers. Roots getting that much water get"l "content" and literally just stop growing to search for water. That's WHY I'm done with them and have switched to rapid rooters.
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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Airwalker16 said:
I'd hold off on drippers. Roots getting that much water get"l "content" and literally just stop growing to search for water. That's WHY I'm done with them and have switched to rapid rooters.
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I keep reading that, but twice now I've had good roots with that setup, in five days flat. I also have no allegiance to that silly setup and will eventually buy an EZ Clone machine, or maybe just stick to jamming cuts straight into a coco mix.
 
simply_slide

simply_slide

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bryangtho said:
I was given something called starter soak from my shop to try. It is used for cloning in coco or rockwool as the name says you just soak the coco with it and squeeze all excess out. You still use clonex and he said to water the clones with starter soak every 3 days. I have done 2 just to see how it go' s he said the will be ready to go in 8 to 13 daysView attachment 3765146
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That's sounds like a waste of money, if you are still using a rooting hormone of some kinda, plus this stuff and getting roots in the same amount of time you would without it...sounds like a scam to me. If you got roots in say, like 4 to 5 days...that would be a legit product haha
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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simply_slide said:
That's sounds like a waste of money, if you are still using a rooting hormone of some kinda, plus this stuff and getting roots in the same amount of time you would without it...sounds like a scam to me. If you got roots in say, like 4 to 5 days...that would be a legit product haha
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I got roots in four days flat with my contraption, put them in Sunday night, just checked them and they are rooted as of Thursday afternoon.
 
Skunk Baxter

Skunk Baxter

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simply_slide said:
Another option so you can check for roots, and what I have switched over to is using clear cups inside solo cups so you can just pull the clear cup out and see without disturbing the plant.
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I use exactly that same trick, and I love it.

For cloning in coco, I use a mix of about 75% coco pieces and 25% coir. It retains moisture very well, but doesn't get soggy - provides good aeration and keeps the cutting nice and healthy. It usually takes a week or 10 days before I get roots that are visible on the side of the cup, but I can usually tell within 3 to 5 days when a cut has sprouted roots just from the look of the leaves.
 
simply_slide

simply_slide

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Skunk Baxter said:
I use exactly that same trick, and I love it.

For cloning in coco, I use a mix of about 75% coco pieces and 25% coir. It retains moisture very well, but doesn't get soggy - provides good aeration and keeps the cutting nice and healthy. It usually takes a week or 10 days before I get roots that are visible on the side of the cup, but I can usually tell within 3 to 5 days when a cut has sprouted roots just from the look of the leaves.
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How the leaves look is a great way to tell. And using coco chunks is a great idea. I'll have to try that for sure.
 
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