Cloning Chance of Success

I am experimenting with cloning. Never tried before.

These are a few days old now. Just cut them at 45 degree angle, took the bottom two leaves off, & cut the ends of leaves off some.

They live in this humidity dome. No clone gel used, just cut and straight into cups of tap water. Just experimenting.

What are the chances of success on this? I have root gel, and all proper gear, but just trying with a couple males that had to be thrown out.

Trim those larger leaves and you probably have a 100% chance of success - no reason why they should fail - maybe take a bit longer than if you used rooting gel, but they should root OK.

I am planning on doing more tonight from females, these were just practice.

Next time would be it ok I went from rooting gel to soil ?

Should be fine.
If I could make a suggestion ... make your cut a bit closer to the node, they seem to send roots out better close to the nodes.

I use gel then stick the clones straight into Jiffy peat pellets and a week later the roots poke through the side of the pellet andthey are on their way.

You have to keep in mind that the cutting needs air as well as water; they have to breathe.

I, personally, haven't tried this method (I clone in 100% perlite--works wonders), but I would suggest that you air-bathe them for a few minutes a couple times a day. Otherwise, your chances of stem rot are high.

I'd say your chances are ok.

Also, I really don't see the point in trimming the leaves back, you're just losing food that it can live off of while it roots.

~ooli~

Thanks everybody.

I just checked on them again and I cant believe my eyes. All of them have roots, really small ones, but visible.

I cant believe its this easy to clone. All I did was cut and place in water, havent even changed it or anything. Going to leave them in there forever to see how long they last and how well they do or do not. No plans to take them out of the cups, just an experiment.

Update.

It did work, I transplanted to soil and plants grew upward. Because they were all male, I just yanked them now and threw them out. But after observing the roots in the soil for 5 or 6 days, the plants had really developed a little root system and needed quite a tug to just pull them out to kill them.

Good experience cloning, but will have to wait for some females to practice on next.

Cloning MJ is very easy with many different methods. Cloning gels and powders are not needed for rooting, but speed up the process. The fan leaves should always be cut in half to reduce transportation losses during the rooting process. This also allows more air circulation between multiple cuttings and reduces the likelihood of getting powdery mildew infections because of poor air circulation. There is plenty of food left in the leaves for the plant to survive until rooting occurs. This is standard practice used by most commercial propagators.

As Grumpy said, cutting near a node is better than leaving a long section of stem. Roots are formed both inter-nodal and at the nodes on MJ, but the most vigorous rooting usually occurs at the nodes.

Clones will easily root in any well drained medium used for propagation.