Blueberry cloning issue

iloveit

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For some reason Im having great difficulties cloning Blueberry in rockwool, at the moment Im cloning in root riot which works great although it take 2 weeks to establish roots.

Take a look at the pic...
This is what happens every time I attempt to clone in rock wool what are the curly branches & bent stems an indication of?

 

420024

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Its most likely stress. Don't worry just keep the humidity high and let them go. Believe me my first batch of clones looked far worse than that but I ended up having a 100 percent success rate.
 

iloveit

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Its most likely stress. Don't worry just keep the humidity high and let them go. Believe me my first batch of clones looked far worse than that but I ended up having a 100 percent success rate.
They usually take 2 weeks to form roots in root riot cubes so Ill give this RW clone 3 weeks, the humidity is at 85% rh with the dome on.
 

420024

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Yea, mine took about 3 weeks, they looked really bad. 1 of them actually bent all the way over and was facing the ground for a while but ironically they are in their 5th week of flowering right now and that one is the tallest, healthiest plant. Just a heads up, the way I did it was straight from Jorge Cervantes Grow Bible. If you dont have this book, I highly recommend it. I am a second time grower now and that book saved the day more than a few times. But anyway, I also noticed that the smaller clones seemed to do a lot better, a lot faster. I took from the lowest part of my vegging plant on the last 2 i did and they ended up overtaking the bigger clones I took which were about the size of the one you have in the picture. I cut the last 2 clones about an inch below the 3rd set of leaves and then cut off the 3rd set of leaves(lowest set). I then had about 1 1/2 inches of stem from the leaves down. Then I took a sterilized razor and split the stem at the bottom about 1/2 inch long and scrapped the outer layer of the stem off for that 1/2 an inch(I mean very carefully and lightly, hardly taking anything off. Then I just dipped them in "Clonex Rooting Compound" and stuck them in a rock wool cube that I had soakin in "Olivia's Cloning Solution" adjusted to 5.8 PH. Another thing that I did on my current set of vegging plants was I started giving them Flora Nova Grow at 150 PPM(Flora Nova Nutes are what I use all the way through)after the first week because they all were rooting well and man they took off. I only did this as a test because the book says not to give clones any ferts early because it can kill the root hairs but I figured 150 ppm couldn't hurt because my water here is 230 ppm; I do have an RO filter now but I didnt when I started from seed and I watered the seeds with it and the plants did fine). I hope this helps because I know how it feels when they look like that but now I have all the faith in the world that I'll have good success with cloning because they went to hell and back and are doing outstanding right now!!!! ;)
 

420024

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Oh, and i forgot to tell you that I kept the RH at about 85-90 in a cloning dome with a 65W CFL Flood light about 1 inch from the top of the dome. :)
 
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