Step By Step Fail Safe Method of Cloning... Come on... Clone with me

Newbie Cloning ... The easy way...
But Sand... There are over twenty steps below...that doesn't sound easy???

If you are not "into" or "down" with details skip this...if you have a short attention span... skip this...However if you want to learn to clone cheap... this method is 'Fool Proof'


The non technical way...The Easy way... Step by Step Fool Proof Clone Method [for Newbies, and those that have trouble cloning]


No doubt, there are other ways to clone... So, if you ever wondered:

"I wish I could clone..." it's way more easy then this Thread sounds...

Seriously easy... Pretty soon... You will get 100% success rate as I do....


I'll Assume you have a nice two nodes to go under medium, and three or so nodes above medium clone...


Area Prep:
If you smoke, use rubbing alcohol on your hands... or use rubber gloves...
Clean area where you will preform surgery...
I use a 'Kitchen' style cutting board...
Sharp scissors, A razor blade or Exacto knife...
Spray Bottle [fine mist spray]
Cloning powder...
Wooden Skewers...cut to 4" and 6"
Miracle Grow Seedling Soil...
Perilite...
Vermiculite...
Super Thrive [use eye dropper 3-4 drops in spray bottle]
Red Solo/Dixie/Party cups...drill 5-10 1/4" holes in bottom
Clear cups...trim as needed to fit inside red cup top..invert .
notch bottom of clear cup where it will come in contact with red cup [air gap]



1-Mix up 50% MG Seedling Soil/25% Perilite/25% Vermiculite = Medium

2-Mix Super Thrive into Spray Bottle fill with good water

3-fill Red Cup 1/2 way up with Medium

4-fine mist the soil--20 squirts of mist

5-push 6" wooden skewer into middle of medium

6-fill remainder of cup 3/4" from top

7-spray mist medium 20 more squirts...

8-Twist skewer spray a few more mists so skewer pulls in and out...

I have cut clones off plant with scissors...
Then I re-cut with sharp blade at 45 degrees...don't skip this...
I gently pull off any small growth-roots come out of these growth areas...
If shaft of clone to be, is hard, I scrape...
After I have pre-cut my clones and they are soaking in a water/ST solution
I have found Super Thrive seems to help my rooting...
My Cloning Powder [all the same] is readied for clones to be dipped into
[I bang jar of powder upside down so it stays in top and gently pull off top
I lay it on its side at a slight angle]

9-I take clone from soak, and handling real easy, I try to handle the fan leaves/shaft of clone
Never touch the open membrane on end of clone...

10-Dip membrane end into clone powder...

11-Pull out skewer from one of the Red Cups...

12-Gently drop into skewer hole your powder tipped clone...

13-Gently compress the soil around the edge of cup towards middle...

14-Tamping down damp medium all around shaft of clone without touching clone...

15- Sometimes [90% of time] I trim leaves on new clone to fit under clear top
gently cut leaf in an arrow shape to fit...

16-Sometimes [75% of time] I use 4" long skewer to prop up clone if flimsy
Like a T-Pee holding the top from falling over...

17-I mist under clone on medium a little more now that clone is seated

18-Once Clone is in Medium, trimmed to fit, propped up, I put the clear dome on top...

19-I then put them under Aquarium Lamps [within 3" of dome] 23 watt CFL's will do

I clone in morning so they get at least 12 hours after clone in medium... more time under light first day is better...
Day 2- I take off dome, wipe the condensation out, and re-mist medium two or three times...
NOT MISTING CLONE OR LEAVES
Day 3-7 same as day two, with dome off a little more each day
If Leaves droop, I cut off droop... so, I cut tips of leaves off all the time...
Day 7 Dome comes off you prob have roots...I now put clone under 50 watts + of CFL for a week or two before Transplant...


You have a plant... It has a couple of branches on the bottom, that will yield nothing anyway...
Why Not practice your cloning art...
For under $10.00 you are on your way...
Good Luck !!!
My next Cloning is Friday Morning...2/7...
around 6 per week... so yes... clones of clones...

....for a return of 20-35% consider bubble ponics/bubble cloning/ or even aero cloning, for a 98% return ...at least for me anyways ....lol and is fun ...google for more DIY systems or blow a fortune on an ezy cloner ...lol

thanks for the very easy sounding clone method ,i plan on doing some later,can you do clones that are already in flower?
and reveg them

Yeah, they've always been that way.

That is pretty much my method as well! I premoisten my mg starter and perlite mix (haven't been adding vermiculite myself). Instead of a dome, I take a baggie and put a slit in it, mist into it, and place over the cup. I tend to do mist once a day for the first 10 days or so but maybe I shouldn't. Nonetheless, I normally do about six at a time and usually only one fails. And that tends be because I cut the stem too short or something.

In short, sound method!

Needlessly complex. Cut the branches off the plant and stick them in rockwool starter cubes. Put in humidity dome. Water rockwool cubes when they start to look dry. 100% success for many years.

No Superthrive, no hormones, no misting, no need to double-cut, just use mild strength nutrient solution for the cubes. That's it.

bluerock said:

Needlessly complex. Cut the branches off the plant and stick them in rockwool starter cubes. Put in humidity dome. Water rockwool cubes when they start to look dry.

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This is the next level... Newbies try my method and Growing Dad's... first then graduate

Seriously... I have cloned just under 100 plants since November 1....2013...
100% lived and grew out...
You can grow with cubes, and Bubble cloner... those are the next step in Cloning......
Cubes are for the next level of grower...
You are the next level... this is the 100% Newbie method...

So, come on Newbies... Take your Non-Auto MJ plant and get a clone going

brownguy420 gots a easy way of cloneing shows it on his youtube chanel thats the route im takeing

It's all good... I don't really watch Youtube on "How To"...
But to each his own....

I can't comment on "His Way"....
If you are a Newbie... and want to grow...
Seriously, cloning my way, is much easier than growing from seed...

Once you have cloned 4 or 5... You'll want to clone more and more...
Every day I could clone... except...
What would I do with 50-60 clones growing at one time....

So, now I limit myself... to just six per week....

bluerock said:

Needlessly complex. Cut the branches off the plant and stick them in rockwool starter cubes. Put in humidity dome. Water rockwool cubes when they start to look dry. 100% success for many years.

No Superthrive, no hormones, no misting, no need to double-cut, just use mild strength nutrient solution for the cubes. That's it.

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this is how i do, except i stick it in clonex gel before I put in root riot cube. I have a strain that will bust roots in 4 days.

chuck estevez said:

this is how i do, except i stick it in clonex gel before I put in root riot cube. I have a strain that will bust roots in 4 days.

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When you are a newbie... and you have not cloned before ....
It can be scary...
When a Newbie starts... the reason, I say start cloning in a soil mix, is if they stay in soil as the medium...

If you are going to go any other medium, the 'Complex' easy step by step should not be used...
If you plant on staying in soil...
The Cubes do not transplant as easy as my MG/Perilite/Vermiculite Medium into a 'Soil' medium...
This step by step method is fool proof if you follow it...

The rest of you that are experience cloners and growers there is always a better way, with more experience...
You grow and learn....

This clone method is for Beginners and Newbies...

So Newbie... Try it ! No not you... the Newbie hiding behind you....

So... I cloned 6 plants on 2/8 and now they are doing great...
Week later... I cloned another 6 plants...

Cloning is easy... just print out step by step directions, and start making a forest of MJ Trees....

Clone the easy way from soil to staying in soil...

So, on Feb 8th... I cloned 6 this way...
on Feb 15th... six more...
On Feb 24 ...6 more...
Then today ...6 more...

So, since I wrote this, I have cloned various plants 24 times...

Dig it?????? !!!!!! ....

I switched from soil to coco and i have a couple in waterfarms so i clone in rockwool about 98 percent success rate

Yes... Rockwool much easier to clone to Hydro...

If You are a newbie... and plan on staying in soil...

Just try this method... It's so easy...