Rooting clone on plant before cutting

Gonna try rooting a clone before cutting it anyone do this with success?

Yes did it lots back in the day, it's called air layering . Didn't know you could just stick it in water back then lol.

Im such a noob and just starting out just trying to increase my odds cause they seem stacked against me...

My favorite cloning method is to,,,,,

Remove my clones from the bottom of the plant. Clone taken high off the plant are higher in N and that makes them take longer to root.

I place those cuts in a cup with willow water as needed and set them in the back half of my veg room. They get NO direct lighting put on them. They simply get the ambient light in the room.
They do not get yellowing leaves like direct lit clones do. Old school is the rule here.

Roots in 10 days and into solo's and direct lighting - they take off like mad!

my fastest rooters have been the very tops I've removed. other than that I'm an opportunist often and see no difference in where a cut is taken assuming healthy and thriving. when I'm in a hurry and need a copy at the same time tops is my choice if I can.

I swipe my scalpel in bleach then cloning gel before I make the cut when cloning. Using a syringe I insert a drop in the hole of a rapid rooter moistened and gently squeezed(like the directions say) make a final cut, I try to leave a barb at my cut and scrape gently and insert into the hole.I mist it once and dome it vented off to the side. I add water to the plugs (in jello shot cups) when top is dry and usually see roots in a week or so. as long as they're standing up the next day they will be a success here.

I've been doing well with root riot cubes, still pretty much the same as you Chem, don't seem to matter where they come from. Used to do whole house clone factories . I use a rusty razor blade and used res water now and typically 6-7 days and there in the rocks lol. R

Knowledgeiskey said:

Gonna try rooting a clone before cutting it anyone do this with success?

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if you don't know what a diy bubble cloner is...this method is for you, also the fastest laziest method I know off, I use it at least 2x per season on the odd gem

best for you to know little baby roots don't like the light

keep it damp

good luck

cut clone
dip in and leave in gel for 10 min
place in root riot and then under dome with side lighting
roots in 4/5 days 100% of the time. done it this way for years
I take from the bottom as I like to keep my tops for buds

That's really cool. I'm going to have to give it a whirl on my moms!

let us know how you get on!!! never seen this before :S

Its been a week and iv noticed some white root like growth on the stem where the rooter is i got impatient and took rooter off then rewet it and rewrapped it now ill let sit for another week then cut. This clone is a revegged clipping from a early flowering plant will keep updating. Thanks a bunch for the hasty informative replys

vostok said:

if you don't know what a diy bubble cloner is...this method is for you, also the fastest laziest method I know off, I use it at least 2x per season on the odd gem

best for you to know little baby roots don't like the light

keep it damp

good luck

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I have never did this method but did read about in one of Ed Rosenthal's books. Is that a peat cube, and do you use any rooting additives? Do you scrape the stem any or split it? - Thanks in advance!

Wow this is awesome, Good luck man!

GrnMonStr said:

I have never did this method but did read about in one of Ed Rosenthal's books. Is that a peat cube, and do you use any rooting additives? Do you scrape the stem any or split it? - Thanks in advance!

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Yes a rapid rooter peat cube, no addatives no scrapping, just distilled water sprayed daily. I took another clipping from a bottom shoot yesterday off a cali og kush/haze feminized which has already started to have a dank smell at 2-3 weeks old very excited for this strain

GrnMonStr said:

I have never did this method but did read about in one of Ed Rosenthal's books. Is that a peat cube, and do you use any rooting additives? Do you scrape the stem any or split it? - Thanks in advance!

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this method is called 'air layering'(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layering)

in which the grower scrapes the bark, lightly or rub with sandpaper

so as to expose the cambium just under the 'bark'

paint a little household honey

then seal with quality soils.. rapid rooter/puck is good

avoid letting the bark or rootlets getting to the light

keep wet

with luck and practice you should be up and running in about 10 days

good luck

What you show in that picture I have done, but never like what he's doing up on the plant. I didn't realize it was sort of the same concept.
I had 1 plant spread over to a second pot with the stem scraped up and dug into the second pot with the tip sticking up and it rooted in there, 2 pots 1 plant just like the pic, the plant kept trying to stand back up int he beginning so just like the pic, had to use U shape coat hanger to hold it down.. was experiment about more roots = higher yeild. Unfortunetly, that experiment was cut short and that grow had to be shutdown never finished. In a soil bed, I always had ideas about running one plant over and over again to the side forcing it to make more root balls if ya know what mean. Awesome shit, maybe!