Cuttings question

[Smidge34]

There is a ton of info out there and it all conflicts, so I thought I'd ask here. I have taken my first cuttings off of a pot plant ever and currently have 2 taken 9 days ago, 2 taken 6 days ago and 2 taken 4 days ago. I put the two oldest in their own dome at day 6 and have been removing the dome for ever increasing stretches the past 2 days and have seen no stress yet. Currently, they have been out of the dome for over 3 hours, with no wilting or other obvious signs of stress. My question is how do you gurus proceed from here? Roots aren't visible through the pellets yet, so I'm kind of interested in when to transplant, when to introduce to more light, etc. Thanks in advance gurus!

BTW, long story short, 2 days ago I accidentally pulled one of the clones taken 4 days ago out of the pellet. So, it had been dipped in hormone and placed in the pellet all of 2 days, but there on the end was a tiny root still intact. I immediately stuck the tip in water and it seems to be doing fine. Sorry for the fuzzy pic, but my iphone 5 I used doesn't focus for shat. Still, you can see the two little roots starting to protrude. Pretty cool and tells me the others should be in good shape.

 

[Garden Boss]

Heres my recipe:
Soak rock wool cubes in 5 gallon bucket of 5.5ph water
Mix Power Clone (botanicare) in water, pour that into rock wool tray.
Place cubes in tray. Let em soak up. Poke better stem holes in cubes.
Take clones split ends of stems, and cut a few fingers off a leaf.
Spray Anti-Wilt on them.
Place on heating pad seedling mat.
I use a fluorescent t8 shop light (nothing fancy) 18hrs.

I don't use humidity domes or leave stale water in the bottom. I get great results. I also water with luke warm water as they dry. Good luck

 

[Bud Tipps]

You can give them more light once they start to have roots, about a week after taking the cutting. I wouldn't transplant until roots are coming out the bottom.

 

[Gordo1959]

Gordo here, Take a cutting, trim lower leaves and shoots, scrape lower portion of stem, cut bottom at forty five degree angle, dip in water, dip in Rapid Root powder, place into rock wool round plug. Keep moist with spray bottle. Transplant when the white roots show. So far so good, I've got three clones growing right now.

 

[vostok]

Google bubble cloner for a 98% return on your efforts, and can actually make you smile unlike the above attempts that we have all done!

 

[Smidge34]

To be perfectly honest, I've spent hundreds of hours studying the rooting of cannabis and though I appreciate suggestions on which technique you use, what I'm specifically looking for is more on the line of how to handle them after the fact. I plan on trying several methods over the next few months and settle on one. Just looking for a little nudge in the right direction with these cuttings already rooting in medium. Thanks for replying.

I'm really intrigued with just sticking a cutting in plain old water, keeping it in indirect light and watching it root. I mean, I've watched my mother and grandmother root cuttings that way my entire life and the only reason I can find using rooting hormone and medium is to speed up the process. I remember my grandmother breaking up willow tree branches and soaking them in the bottom of her container of water used to root and claimed it helped them root faster. I thought it was cool as shit that in only two days my rooting hormone had already caused tiny roots to form on the cutting I have in plain water.

 

[Merlin34]

You can take clones, toss them in a cup of water, indirect light, and they will root like any other house plants. I just did it for fun a while ago as an experiment. No Ph,d water, no hormones, no clone gel or powder. Just plain old water. Took about 2 weeks to root. I flowered it out with my regular clones and it yielded the same. Everyone wants to make cloning hard. Its not.

 

[Smidge34]

I've set the two to the side of the grow lights and about 6 inches below. I'll keep a close eye on them, as these pellets dry out fast. I cut the bottom out of some styrofoam cups to set the expanded pellets in to help keep circulating air from drying them so damn fast.

 

[NorthernMan]

You can take clones, toss them in a cup of water, indirect light, and they will root like any other house plants. I just did it for fun a while ago as an experiment. No Ph,d water, no hormones, no clone gel or powder. Just plain old water. Took about 2 weeks to root. I flowered it out with my regular clones and it yielded the same. Everyone wants to make cloning hard. Its not.

Most people read up on how to do things before trying and when looking at info on cloning there are lots of ways and techniques. For the most part I think we make it complicated to be assured success. If we clone a house plant and it doesn't root, no big deal, just try again.

With our precious weed nobody wants to waste a cutting, therefore we do everything possible to assure success and then there is the time factor. Nobody wants to wait longer than they have to. using hormones speeds up the process and most have an anti fungal component. Yes we make it harder than it needs to be but sometimes failure is not an option.

If you had someone willing to give you one clone only of a strain you can't get again, most of us will do everything we can think of to assure ourselves of success. Overkill? Absolutely but failure is not an option.

 

[michaeljdumpout]

T8 nothing fancy....yup

Heres my recipe:
Soak rock wool cubes in 5 gallon bucket of 5.5ph water
Mix Power Clone (botanicare) in water, pour that into rock wool tray.
Place cubes in tray. Let em soak up. Poke better stem holes in cubes.
Take clones split ends of stems, and cut a few fingers off a leaf.
Spray Anti-Wilt on them.
Place on heating pad seedling mat.
I use a fluorescent t8 shop light (nothing fancy) 18hrs.

I don't use humidity domes or leave stale water in the bottom. I get great results. I also water with luke warm water as they dry. Good luck

 

[mr sunshine]

Just chop your plant into pieces and throw them in a pool come back in three weeks works every time.

 

[Garden Boss]

Just chop your plant into pieces and throw them in a pool come back in three weeks works every time.

Ah yes, the old "Chop & Chuck". A classic

 

[Smidge34]

Well, one started to get a little wilty after three hours in veg room, so back under dome they went. I've read Jackberry was a slow rooter, taking more than two weeks to protrude roots. I will not flower the original 6 until I have a well-rooted cutting of each that is growing. At that point, I'll start to flower until finished, keeping whatever phenos I want as mothers for outdoor and indoor runs, so success is critical, at least on the future females. I wish they would preflower for me, but they are fairly slick.

 

[TWS]

I don't put much thought into cloning , I used to have to try harder till I got the hang of it. I don't have a dome and root in rockwool. The heating pad in the winter helps. I use rooting powder,scrape the stem and soak my cubes in kangaroots http://foxfarmfertilizer.com/index.php/item/bush-doctor-kangaroots.html . I'm phasing out soil except for a few mothers. with the cost of cubes I think I will make a water cloner. I always take a few cuttings of each just incase some don't root but they all always root and I end up with to many.

 

[Smidge34]

I'd have to have a humidity controlled room with a good humidifier to not use a dome, as I'm sitting at 76 degrees and 17% humidity in my living room right now and it hasn't seen 30% in a month, but I hear you on not thinking about it too much.

 

[TWS]

That's pretty much the same here.

 

[Smidge34]

Well damn. That's all I got, lol. Wonder if that is why they were fine in low light for 3 hours, but 2 hours in veg room and both were going down hill, one a lot worse?

 

[TWS]

what light was your vegg room ? I use fluros until I see roots.

 

[TWS]

oh, sometimes they will wilt for a day or so too.

 

[Smidge34]

CFLs and they were like 6 inches below and to the side. There's air moving in there and though they weren't dry-dry, the pellets weren't their usual dampness, which helps create a little humidity dome around the plant itself, lol. You know how peat is and yeah, I figure I'll introduce them over a few days and keep them from getting too dry, but damn, soaking wet is bad too. I just need to get through this rookie rooter stage, get my system dialed in and not give it any more thought than germinating seeds.

Thanks me for the replies.