Do you use a humidity dome for cuttings?

PizzaMan5000 said:

... I find that spraying foliage after the first couple days isn't a good idea ...

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Agreed. I have not had much success either when the surface of the leaves are too wet.

A couple of teaspoons in the bottom of the tray when you first put the clones in to get things humid quickly. But also place 4 - 6 3/4 filled shot glasses of water in the tray to help keep the humidity high once that initial couple of teaspoons dissipate. Then you don't have to worry about taking the dome off and releasing the humidity and warmth that you've built up. Think slow cookers and a good beef stew ... you won't get one if you keep lifting the lid.

StareCase said:

Nope. Must have the lid with vents closed to maintain proper temps and humidity.

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What should be the inside of my dome's temp? I put the heat mat under the cloner and the temp under the cloner may get close to 80F and humidity is like 95%... After 3 days I open the dome a little to lower humidity down to 70-85%.

SnoopyDoo said:

I use a dome for a day. Get damping off or brown spot if I leave the dome on too long. Occasionally, I mist like jonnynobody.

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Can you get damping in rockwol cubes?

Anybody tried aircloning? Take some bark away put dirt around it and wrap it with foil 5 weeks and you have roots.then you remove it from motherplant

Meast21 said:

What should be the inside of my dome's temp? I put the heat mat under the cloner and the temp under the cloner may get close to 80F and humidity is like 95%... After 3 days I open the dome a little to lower humidity down to 70-85%.

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I'd lift the dome and blow on them every 24h in that situation.

I just use a seed tray with perlite sat in a tray with an inch of water.

It's similar to bubbler or aerocloning in that you then don't need a dome. But it's not as quick.
However, they never wilt and never need misting.

I do use clonex. But it's about as simple as can be.

Once they start yellowing on the bottom leaves you know that roots are either formed or about to.

Meast21 said:

... What should be the inside of my dome's temp? I put the heat mat under the cloner and the temp under the cloner may get close to 80F and humidity is like 95%... After 3 days I open the dome a little to lower humidity down to 70-85% ...

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I aim for temps in the low - mid 80's range and humidity in the high 80's - low 90's range. With my set-up in the basement, I am not able to maintain either without a dome.

I use the dome (like above) over a heat mat. The clones go into peat plugs until roots show then I place them in the potting soil. It seems to work for me so that is what I keep doing. I keep everything in high humidity (60-70%)........ even after the soil placement. then I wait until they "establish" and start growing...........
I get root rot on rare occasion when I get the "plugs" too wet..............

PJ Diaz said:

Bubble cloner, with heat mat under. Pool shock. No dome.

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I'm interested in using pool shock in my bubble cloner. What product do you use?

CaliRootz88 said:

I'm interested in using pool shock in my bubble cloner. What product do you use?

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Just the basic HTH shock, nothing fancy.