So we have all our medium prepared and only slightly wet waiting in the tray for the cuttings.
So now we get our clone donor, it is important to be selective when choosing your cuttings. The bottom branches make the best clones, unless the plant is to be used solely as a mother I would take no more than the bottom 3 sets of branches for clones, because I am flowering these plants i'm going to remove the whole branch at the main stem.
After cutting this off, I will just throw them in the bucket of water, for its somewhere to keep them and they won't dry out while you are working.
You should have some branches that look a little like this
When you have taken all the cuttings you wish to from the plant, then its time to shape the clone.
I'm sure some of you do things differently to me, but this is how i do it and it works, so why change it.
I normally like to leave only the growth tip plus 1 leaf. So I will remove everything else.
So now I have something that looks like this.
Now underwater I would make a 45 degree cut on the stem. The following image is just an example.
So now we have done all of that we should have a clone that looks around this size.
The reason why I do it like this is because there is less to keep alive, keep the stem short and they wont be able to flop so much and make you panic yourself into killing them.
I then use the scalpel tip to create more potential root growth points. I do this by scoring the outer green skin near the 45 deg cut that was just made. Roots are going to come out of these minor cuts.
When I have done that i will put the stem into the clonex and make sure the stem is sufficiently dipped. I leave it there while I prepare the next one.
Once I have prepared the next one for clonex, i put the dipped one into rockwool.
Then I just work as a process until all the clones are done.
