Rooting in Water Cloning

HazednConfused

HazednConfused

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I know things along the same lines as this post have been posted elsewhere in the forum, but I figured I'd show my cuttings rooted in plain distilled water. I took four cuttings from my two largest plants (unknown strain) when the (hopefully) mothers were one month into veg. The progress picture was taken today, nine days after popping these guys in distilled water in a glass cup. The roots started to show as little white bumps a couple days ago. One clone's roots are protruding pretty good right now, while the others' are barely showing the white bumps. So I'll probably pop these in some coco loco in about 5 days or so. I keep them in my grow room with the same 12/12 light schedule as my flowering plants; I just keep them in a shaded area. Thanks
 

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outlier

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That's how I've been cloning for 30+ years. More efficient/effective techniques absolutely but goes to show it ain't rocket science :bigjoint:
 
HazednConfused

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potpimp said:
Very healthy looking plants but you could have shaved off a week of time by using a rooting hormone.
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Yeah, I was thinking about a hormone, but I was wasnt going for speed; really just trying to ensure that I'll have a couple more females if one of the two plants was a male (which I think one is :cuss:) At least my bigger plant showed it's lady pubes yesterday so I'm excited about that. Other plant looks like it might have some baby nuts growing lol.
 
HazednConfused

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Here's those same two clones a day later. The roots are really taking off now. The other two clones' roots are barely starting to protrude. Day 10
 

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bryan oconner

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you know you may want to google distilled water and cloning and see..ds . its the very worst water you can you . I have read .
 
HazednConfused

HazednConfused

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bryan oconner said:
you know you may want to google distilled water and cloning and see..ds . its the very worst water you can you . I have read .
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I highly doubt using distilled water is the worst water to use for cloning. It's probably the best lol. All four cuttings rooted fine. Although, I did throw two away because they were found to have came from a male.
 
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bryan oconner

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later when I have time . I will find that article about using distilled water . for you . we all will learn some thing about water
 
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bryan oconner

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did some research on distilled water . my information is 3 years old and is out of date . there is a lot of mixed reviews about using distilled water . its so bad some people mix half distilled and half what ever water . so today there is no wrong or right answer for using distilled water . 3 years ago it was not suggested to be used . that just tells us wow how things change . and some people will not lollypop there plant or trim a few leaves off to get extra yield .
 
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bryan oconner

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we have to change growing techniques like changing under wear now a days . well some of you only change your soiled underwear yearly !
 
Gregor Eisenhorn

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I've been cloning tomatoe cuttings for a few years using plain old tap water. You just have to remember to change it out every few days and apart from that, let nature do it's thang. :D

It takes around 10 days to fully root as well, so not that bad.
 
tyke1973

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HazednConfused said:
I know things along the same lines as this post have been posted elsewhere in the forum, but I figured I'd show my cuttings rooted in plain distilled water. I took four cuttings from my two largest plants (unknown strain) when the (hopefully) mothers were one month into veg. The progress picture was taken today, nine days after popping these guys in distilled water in a glass cup. The roots started to show as little white bumps a couple days ago. One clone's roots are protruding pretty good right now, while the others' are barely showing the white bumps. So I'll probably pop these in some coco loco in about 5 days or so. I keep them in my grow room with the same 12/12 light schedule as my flowering plants; I just keep them in a shaded area. Thanks
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Great way of cloning,if i'm on one of my holiday's and i need clone's this is how i take them it ,takes all the misting and stuff out the way,i add the juice of a aloe vera leaf blade to the water stir in then add clones,or clone x works too.All ways full the cup with water a day before you need to use it to get rid of any chrorine,and other stuff in the water,or use shop bought mineral water,but its un needed,we get too carried away with all this,we drink it straight from the tap,but make a big thing about putting clones in it,
 
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