Oh ya guys, both my hydro air layers have rooted out already. I guess you could call it a success, lol.
Going back a few weeks ago to the punctured bag. Well, when I went to put on some flex tape (no bs, I eventally did!) I noticed my huge glass reptile aquarium up in the house had a vertical silicone seam pop and start leaking, and flooding out my laundry room with gallons of water by the time... Anyways, I spent 4-5 days messing with getting a whole new tank setup for my turtle (the priority), and that particular hydro layered clone was completely dried out the whole time. I was like wtf, why is the universe giving me leaks like this suddenly?
So fast forward a week, and I finally slapped on a few small pieces of flex tape over the hole\s, which was caused by the small sharp & broken hydtroton pebbles falling out, and also the plant vibrating\compacting them against the bag from the air bubbles shaking everything. Go figure... Filled it back up, and it seemed to hold water again, and ever since!.
I also realized that you need to
crank the hose clamps down maybe an eighth to a quarter turn every few days or so, because the branch/stalk gets softer over time, causing really slow leaks if you don't. Take note!
Things were going good again, and I re positioned the whole plant so the larger dwc layer clone was more upright, because its the one I want to keep the most. Kinda messed up and let most of the hydroton fall out, but I got to see how the roots were doing on the weird girdle job I did. Unfortunatley it wasn't as far advanced as I had hoped, but I also had the thing hanging at a bad angle, and the bag sagged so low most the time it barely got saturated, also due to slow leaks. Got the clamp tightened back down and I was able to fill it way better with no more slow leak. I was scared to crank the clamps too hard at first, and risk snapping the branches, but now I'm more confident! Tighten them often!
Came back to check like 3-4 days later, and then the big one had a @#$ing leak too! Had lost all the solution for a few days at the least. lol. Then I realized my trucks water pump is leaking too in the same day, and needs to be replaced. MAn!
Slapped on some more flex tape, and filled it back up too, just like the other one days before.
Been a few days since then, and no more leaks since.. Definitely some huge setbacks along the way, but I learned quite a bit, and have solid ideas for the next runs that should be 99% problem free!
Gonna veg them out a bit more while still attached to mom, while I fix all the other leaks in my life! Got some nice roots going finally, even after dying off, so I can't complain!