Cooked my clones on day 6

Hi guys my first post here been a lurker for a while. So I am using a seahawk cloner have been using it for about 6 days with a uvb 10.0 light (a spare light I had for my pet lizard). Last night after a couple beers I thought I'd try and find a better light for the situation (even with tiny roots appearing on a about 5 clones already) so i found this blue work light lying around, looked perfect, it's a fluro and it fit so nicely on the dome as pictured. Woke up this morning roughly 12 hours after I initially put it on there and my clones are all looking fucked. So I'm gonna use the uvb light and see how they go. I hope some pull through especially the ones with roots already. Should I continue to use the lizard light or go buy a better fluro? I haven't grown for years I used to clone with great success in rockwool cubes and with a small aquarium light. The uvb seemed to doing a pretty good job. If it ain't broke don't fix it is the massive lesson here and I really should have let these babies run their course before changing anything. Thanks for reading!

A regular house lightbulb would do fine. Clones need very little light until they are rooted.

OK cheers for that, also dome or no dome at the moment and should I foliar feed with some superthrive?

Sycoactiv1 said:

OK cheers for that, also dome or no dome at the moment and should I foliar feed with some superthrive?

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and no they don’t need super thrive at this point.

Thanks alot mate

Was it too much light or did the bulb produce too much heat?

Too much heat I think it was at least 30 Celsius....

They all survived BTW this is later on that day they look much better now, the water was low it took 1 litre and the mist was corrected, keeping a closer eye on them this week. Oh and I reverted back to the uvb light as it seems to put out a perfect amount of heat

Sycoactiv1 said:

They all survived BTW this is later on that day they look much better now, the water was low it took 1 litre and the mist was corrected, keeping a closer eye on them this week. Oh and I reverted back to the uvb light as it seems to put out a perfect amount of heat

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A big thing with clones is keeping the light the correct distance away. The "blue " light may have worked fine if further away, but the uv flouro must have less output and worked better for you. Interesting to see someone use uvb for cloning too, thanks for posting!

A rule of thumb with clones-- you want the light close enough to let them root, but not too close where they try to grow instead of rooting
and yes water level is important af

Nizza said:

A big thing with clones is keeping the light the correct distance away. The "blue " light may have worked fine if further away, but the uv flouro must have less output and worked better for you. Interesting to see someone use uvb for cloning too, thanks for posting!

A rule of thumb with clones-- you want the light close enough to let them root, but not too close where they try to grow instead of rooting
and yes water level is important af

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Thanks for the input bud I think it's pretty good atm

Has anyone tried incorporating co² into their clone dome

Nizza said:

A big thing with clones is keeping the light the correct distance away. The "blue " light may have worked fine if further away, but the uv flouro must have less output and worked better for you. Interesting to see someone use uvb for cloning too, thanks for posting!

A rule of thumb with clones-- you want the light close enough to let them root, but not too close where they try to grow instead of rooting
and yes water level is important af

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Yeah I tried looking up about uvb light being beneficial for clones or not but couldn't find anything on google. I'll check for root growth again tonight but don't expect much due to the setback. I'd say with the high hood the bulb would be about 200mm to 300mm away from the gal's.