Okay ive been searching for a cheap insert for my DYI cloner, like a piece of circular foam instead of wut im running right now but that neither here nor there. K lets get started on your cloner bro...uve got the tubs with intact fitting lids 1st set done
2 . go buy 2 10'' fish tanks air stones, appropriate amount of air line, and 30gallon rated fish tanks air pump. $20 bucks
3. buy 2'' net pots (however many site u need), and hydroton rock, (like lava) from the hydro store or online $20 bucks
4. drill a hole under the lid say in a inch where it wont interfere with the lid opening and closing. run your airline to the bottom of tub, where u need to pre silocone the airstones down to the bottom so they wont float.
5. take lid off, and use ur net pots to trace cut-outs with a marker on the lid. If you have a router whamm router that shit out. if not i found a cheezy dry wall knife works great. Not an exacto blade, a dry wall hand saw feel me?
6 simply insert entire net pots flush into cut outs, and fill with lava. (this is the part you can modify, if lava and net pots arent your thing you can probably figure something else out. Im runnin with net pots cause i had a whole box of em doing nothing, but the roots will get large , so they make taking them out of the net pots fucked if your going into soil after rooting. so I just transplant the net pot right into a soil container leaving the hydroton rock intact.
7. Once everything is set and siliconed air stones are dry, fill up your res. how this works is you want your water line 1 inch down from the bottom of your stems on your clones sticked thro the net pots. I didnt get this part at first how water was supplyed for this operation, but really its simple. the air pump creates so many bubbles they reach the surface and exploid, finnaly misting the stems with hightly oxgenated water. (my spell terrrible sry).
8. Take a bunch of clones....use ur prefered cutting method, dip in a rooting gel, and gently put in2 net pots. NO need to alter ph to desired grow ph. Thats right ph as high as 9 is fine. it doesnt matter. plant doesnt need that lower 5.5 or 6.5 for soil until it has grown roots. no supplements needed in the res either. thats at ur own discretion as far as adding nutes or superthrive...this system literally works without nutes or ph'd water.
9 Give them 10-14 days you'll have roots...i found that side lighting instead of direct gave me roots faster. i used 24/7 light
i hope that'll get u in the right direction, my essay's arent that great sry bro
Oh yes, trust me, I've more than considered it. I've got two of them (33 gallon)sitting around clogging up my space at that. Being I'm a neat freak, just goes to show my intention to go that route soon. LOL, I want one of them just for a tomato plant.
