clones being crushed?

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.
 
Fire One Up said:
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 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.
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all things i had to learn the hard way haha. thats life though :P the more shit i mess up , the more i learn from it lol
 
Amen to that.
when I first started when I was 18 I bought the same prop tray I'm using the dome from now, 11 years later. I had to cut holes in the tray and put it into something because I rotted all my first seedlings leaving them in standing water. A fan over the dome helped but I still had to lift the dome two or three times a day, and I killed off the second set by under watering. The third set got mold on the leaves because I cut back on opening the dome, then I got some hydroton and peet cups to try more of a wicking method.
Now I do the same thing, but I grow hydro instead of dirt. I put a 3.75" net pot in the tray and put about a half inch of water in it. I use hydroton to give my rockwool cube an inch above the bottom of the net pot, so about half inch above my water. The hydroton holds enough water for the rockwool to wick up what it needs, but I can't possibly over water and it stays wet as long as I have any water at all in my tray. Then when I see roots coming through the hydroton the whole 3.75" gets buried in a 10 inch netpot in a DWC bucket.
evolution ;)

edit - I still life my dome once a day if I remember to and blow on the plants tho, and if they have any issues I PH adjust some seltzer water and put it in there for them. They fricken looove it.
 
do i need to pop holes in the dome?
im gonna send sum pics out tomm so you guys can let me know what you think
 
DSC02767.jpgDSC02768.jpgcouldn't really hurt I guess, but you can pick up a prop dome in pretty much any nursary, and likely even walmart for under 7 bucks I bet.
 
yea they need a way larger tray for sure, I bet half of thats restriction and the other half of them laying down all funky is stress.
I put cuttings that are 8 inches of main branch in my 12 inches of avalable space, so the branches and leaves are commonly up against the side of my tub. Those little ladies are jam packed ;)
No worries tho on the original question, they won't snap, they'll just get stressed out from rapid humidity changes and possibly root rot from being in there longer than they might've needed to be.
bottom line tho, they need something bigger for now ;)
 
i just took the lid off them and ill hope for the best
where is the best place to take cuttings? the tops? i always take them from the bottoms unless i top a plant then i try to clone the tops but still no progress
 
anything healthy, I try to take them off the bottom unless I'm topping as well, or snap a limb supercropping. If the bottom ones aren't very healthy looking I wouldn't take a cut tho, just wait it out until you top or take a side shoot off one of the larger branches
 
yeah im gonna buy a larger container and try em again i got a couple more starting and when i take the tops of them ill try again
thanks guys
 
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