Anyone Ever Tried This? Crazy

oh it works alright. its just too much trouble. thats why people dont do it on a regular basis

This is what i know from the third grade lol. If you put a ball of mud around a tree branch and snap it off a few weeks later it will have started to throw roots. Then you can take that and plant it. So i think this method would work for MJ. But instead of a ball of mud i would take a one inch rockwool cube, cut in half, half way threw. then put it around where you want the roots. But support it somehow cause it will be kinda heavy for a small branch

Sounds like someone should try....

How about putting some soil in one of those plastic ball things you put in the washing machine then putting the end of the branch in there. Once its got it's own roots lop it off and plant it, you'd have to support the soil somehow though because the plant would snap. Probably a rubbish thought but im just bouncing ideas of you guys.

some wet sandy stuff in pantyhose... keeps it breathing.

interesting.. I wonder if you can chain it.. like ..
(MainStem) -- branch -- scrapped-off part with soil covering -- branch
.. once roots start forming in center, drop that section into a larger pot of soil but keep it all connected, wait for the end of the branch to grow longer then do it again to have..
(MainStem) -- branch -- roots(Mother) -- roots(CloneA) --branch(A) -- scrapped-off part with soil covering -- branch(A) .. ad infinitum!
hahaha

any pics of tis process anyone?

I've seen something similar happen naturally when rabbits chewed through some outdoor stalks early in the summer, not quite severing them.. The grower just left them be and he ended up with roots coming from some cracked side branches laying on the ground.. They grew up LST style, but had multiple sets of roots.. It was almost like how strawberries clone themselves with crawler branches..

what if the severed end was not planted, but a rockwool cube was placed on the end of it? would it start to root that way? would weight be too much of an issue?

primalworks said:

what if the severed end was not planted, but a rockwool cube was placed on the end of it? would it start to root that way? would weight be too much of an issue?

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dude, that's a great idea. and i think it would work. in my opinion.. just by the logic of it all..

I would say to be cautious of this method as if you cut into your mother plant ad start opening wounds and adding the potential for rot and mould you stand a risk of the whole mother plant dieing.
I am not saying it doesn't work because it does,just be careful if you try it as there is no better way to cause a plant infection than air layering.

If you chuck every cutting straight into a bowl of water you will find that over 90% of your clones live anyway.
The main reason that clones die is from either rot or the fact that some clones when they are cut end up with a small air bubble in the stem.
Dropping all of your clones straight into water helps to stop this problem.

natmoon, how long do you leave your cuttings in just water? until they root?

primalworks said:

natmoon, how long do you leave your cuttings in just water? until they root?

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No.
You put them in a bucket of water as you are cutting them off and leave them in it just whilst you work with them i.e. whilst you are dipping and planting them

With cloning gel I usually snip, gob, slice, gob, plant.. But I've had fine success doing everything absolutely ghetto style too, so I don't know how much difference it makes..

thanks natmoon, I'll try that!

Hi All.
I'm sure the guy was talking about something different than air layering, which by the way is usually only used on plants that experience problems taking cuts the usuall way.
Air layering does work fine, BUT it is usually only used on the more woody part of the plant, (one has to strip PART of the "bark" away and then wrap some kind of moisture retentive material around to stimulate rooting at that point, due to the lesser amount of moisture the plant can now draw).
I've only ever done it on Ficus (and a good while ago too). but I don't see how it wouldn't work on weed, but the plant would need to be a mature mother, I'm sure taking multiple small cuttings is a more efficient way.
BUT I'm sure the guy meant planting the cut end of the branch to get more roots on the end of the branch to help uptake, IE more roots.
This couldn't work though, could it???? surely the sap/moisture will only travel one way in the plant/branch, and that is UP to the leaves that are transpiring away the moisture???

Nice to see poeple are thinking about things for a change though.

Toodle Ooo

Like I said, I've seen plants toppled in the bush that had grown extra root sets.. Branches that were damaged, and laying on the ground grew roots, and other side branches grew vigorously towards the sky while the main stalk arched across the ground.. Rabbits accomplished that..

Nature will always find a way to evolve. I find this interesting, and wonder if i could do it on an auto flowering strain??? autos cant b cloned ( @least not in my experience or research)

Never the less good info.

There was one guy not long ago who had some credible info on an auto cloning attempt.. I gave him rep, but I can't remember who it was.. Apparently though he was able to stretch a few weeks out of clones via topping, and was trying to get a perpetual method going..

This is quite cool. If sombody had the time they could make a huge creeper of sorts covering the whole garden, be it indoors or out, could revolutionise the scrog method perhaps..