Fire One Up
Active Member
root rots easier to avoid if you can keep the cube or stem of the cutting out of standing water, and if you're cloning into soil you need to put holes in your tray and put it into a litter box or something so it has drainage. Also if you're cloning into soil, you want a fan blowing over the top of your dome when you're not around and you have to watch your water cycle alot more closely. You're only dealing with an inch or two of dirt so there's a pretty fine line between drowning/underwatering.
fun tip with any kind of soil cloning is to put an inch of hydroton in a peet cup and then put your dirt and seed or cutting in. The peet acts like a wick to pull water evenly through your dirt, your clone tray isn't full of soil and any rotting or mold should localize if you have too much dead matter in your soil mix (hopefully it'l only happen to 1 plant, instead of an area of your dirt or all of it).
a little caution with peet cups tho, you really have to tear off the walls of the cup when you plant or it'l have the opposite effect and work as a wick pulling water from your roots and trying to dry them out where it makes contact.
fun tip with any kind of soil cloning is to put an inch of hydroton in a peet cup and then put your dirt and seed or cutting in. The peet acts like a wick to pull water evenly through your dirt, your clone tray isn't full of soil and any rotting or mold should localize if you have too much dead matter in your soil mix (hopefully it'l only happen to 1 plant, instead of an area of your dirt or all of it).
a little caution with peet cups tho, you really have to tear off the walls of the cup when you plant or it'l have the opposite effect and work as a wick pulling water from your roots and trying to dry them out where it makes contact.