So, I searched for an answer for this, but I did not come back with many results...
I recently tried my hand at cloning. I took 5 cuttings on Aug 1 and all of them took (lucky me!). I really did it half-assed and used no humidity dome or warming pad or anything. All I did was to mist the leaves at least once a day, sometimes twice. Also, this was from bag seed and I had no idea of sex, so I waited until sex was showing in the flowering stage.
I just clipped them, dipped them in water, then dipped them in the rooting hormone powder and stuck them in a potting soil-filled plastic party cups (red, if that's necessary info). After two weeks of 18 hour vegetative lighting (cfl's), they finally seemed like they had taken root and it looked like growing tips were emerging at the tops. I transplanted them on the 14th to full size pots. Since then, it's been the same lighting, temp, etc.
So, all that being explained, my problem is that the new leaves that are growing look mutated. They look like giant first leaves with 1 or 3 fingers on each leaf. You know how the tiny little leaves look when they first emerge from the seedling? Well, they look like that except enormous. By enormous, I mean in comparison to the smaller 5 fingered leaves of the original cuttings.
It's like it reverted back to the seedling stage but has way too much stored energy or something. My question is: Is this normal? In all the examples of cloning I have found, no one has mentioned reverting back to the seedling stage with fewer fingers per leaf or anything like that. No pictures I have seen look like that either. I wish I could get a pic up for you all to see, but my adapter is lost and I haven't picked up another one yet. Anyone have any experience with these symptoms of cloning?
I recently tried my hand at cloning. I took 5 cuttings on Aug 1 and all of them took (lucky me!). I really did it half-assed and used no humidity dome or warming pad or anything. All I did was to mist the leaves at least once a day, sometimes twice. Also, this was from bag seed and I had no idea of sex, so I waited until sex was showing in the flowering stage.
I just clipped them, dipped them in water, then dipped them in the rooting hormone powder and stuck them in a potting soil-filled plastic party cups (red, if that's necessary info). After two weeks of 18 hour vegetative lighting (cfl's), they finally seemed like they had taken root and it looked like growing tips were emerging at the tops. I transplanted them on the 14th to full size pots. Since then, it's been the same lighting, temp, etc.
So, all that being explained, my problem is that the new leaves that are growing look mutated. They look like giant first leaves with 1 or 3 fingers on each leaf. You know how the tiny little leaves look when they first emerge from the seedling? Well, they look like that except enormous. By enormous, I mean in comparison to the smaller 5 fingered leaves of the original cuttings.
It's like it reverted back to the seedling stage but has way too much stored energy or something. My question is: Is this normal? In all the examples of cloning I have found, no one has mentioned reverting back to the seedling stage with fewer fingers per leaf or anything like that. No pictures I have seen look like that either. I wish I could get a pic up for you all to see, but my adapter is lost and I haven't picked up another one yet. Anyone have any experience with these symptoms of cloning?
