my clones all look dead...

blunted1588

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so ive made clones before like a year ago, and i didnt remember exactly my technique for this batch i made about 2 weeks ago. i havent seen a single root, theyve been in the same tent that my veg plants flourish in under 24 hour light. theyve got some leaf curl going on, looking kinda yellow, and i have no idea why they arent surviving. theyre in a freshly purchased domes. ive been spraying them and theyre domes a few times a day, is that too much? the spray has some anti wilt, hygrozyme, and some neem oil cause i was spraying the vegging girls with neem and ive been using the same spray. did they get too much neem or too many nutes? did i maybe not put enough cloning gel on them when i cut em? ive been ph-ing the water but sometimes when the color is already changed due to anti wilt stuff, etc, its hard to tell if its perfect. but maybe it could be a ph problem? sorry to ramble, just trying to show all the info. any tips?
 

stumps

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Nice thread. lol I tried to do cuttings in soil. never had any luck. I have fair to good luck with the bubble cloner.
 

jats

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Hey Blunted,,,, it sounds like you have been over zealous with the spraying.... I don't even use cloning gel, I use this other stuff ((plant starter for stimulating root growth and stopping transplant shock))... I have a 95% success rate... My secret is I only spay the foliage on my fresh cut clones for 2/3 days.... then I only spray the dome to keep the humidity up and only use water the whole way through... after I stop spraying the foliage I start feeding each clone small amounts of water to the roots (or where they will be) about 8/12 drops a day ,,just enough to keep the plugs damp ...then after about 8 days they start to show the roots and get transplanted ,,,some take 14 days but they almost all survive and thrive ...
I think you went wrong with too much foliage spraying... they will not grow roots to search for food if they are being feed through the leaves,,, I hope this helped :blsmoke:
 

Pipe Dream

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They probably don't need the dome anymore. After about one week start removing the dome and see if they can support themselves for a little while. If they start to wilt, get the dome back on and spray it they should come back and than try again until they can support themselves.
 

i81two

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I dont use a dome at all. The watersprays up from the bottom and the roots go wild. Maybe a little clonex.
 

Jonus

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i havent seen a single root, theyve been in the same tent that my veg plants flourish in under 24 hour light.
Clones that take longer than 2 weeks to show roots can often have diseases from using a non-sterile cutting instrument, or sometimes this can happens when plants come from a mother that was already in flower or too high in nitrogen.

the spray has some anti wilt, hygrozyme, and some neem oil cause i was spraying the vegging girls with neem and ive been using the same spray. did they get too much neem or too many nutes?
Since clones only ever really to be foliar spreayed with water with a pH of 6.0, anything else you put in them is overkill, killing them.

What clones need is warmth, sterile environment, a little light, low co2/air, and a lot of humidity (which doesn't mean dowsing them with water all the time).
 
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