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I do that as well--and it's more to prevent excessive transpiration which could prematurely tax the water intake abilities of the cutting.

Thanks guys. Yeah, I always [gently] scrape the bottom of the cutting before placing it in the root gel. If it's particularly thick I split it down the middle. And falloftroy: I took the pics when the covers where off so as to show the actual plants. Normally they sit under humidity domes...

A couple things that really helped me when I was starting out: Nutes: Look at the leaf area; the plant can only consume as many nutrients as it has the means to use. The larger the leaf, the more photosynthesis and thus more nutrients required. Seedlings need nothing for at least the first...

Okay, I wasn't sure exactly where to post this but I figured it isn't a newbie task so this part of the forum works. I had always been successful cloning using the trimmings of plants about to be flowered. Now that I have dedicated mothers to the process I seem to be failing at every turn...

Btw, roots were spectacular--had used h&g root excelurator. Well that was my initial inclination to just look for the strongest food safe insecticide and destroy EVERYTHING! I guess I'll go that route on the few ladies I have left. I want to sterlize everything around the sick plants. Will a...

I doubt it's an issue with the coir as the plants were only in it for three days and fed only once. So I have sticky traps already for the gnats, I assume these accomplish the same thing. As far as the soap goes, wouldn't azamax nuke them pretty well? If azamax doesn't work, would the soap...

Like I said above, it's COCO COIR!

I'm new here, but I have watched from afar hoping I would never need the assistance of your knowledgeable collective brain, but ... HELP! I think I know what I have, but I need some help in making sure that's it, and a ton of assistance figuring out what to do--what can I save, what should I...