Cloning, old skool

[wassily]

The night before I took my last bunch of cuts I had this little pot half full of

potting mix and perlite that I'd pulled a cpasicum seedling from. So I cut a

little branch off my mum plant, using only blunt dirty scissors, then I cut

the bottom off on an angle, holding it in the air, not under water. I shoved it in the pot and covered it with glad wrap. I poked 6 holes in the top with a poker and put it in a saucer of tap water on the window sill. 3 weeks later it has heaps more growth than my scientificly cloned cuttings, has a massive root system for the amount of time and it never even looked like it was going to go the tiniest bit yellow. Just an observation, but man it seems to work so much quicker than the hydro method. Shame I grow in hydro.

[pipeman]

good stuff vaz. maybe the medium wasn't the only factor, maybe it was light too? how much light do use in your "scientific" cloning? I've read that the weaker the light the easier the clones take.

[wassily]

Well, I clone under 40 watts of tri phosphor flourescent tubular silica based light emitting devices. I run 24/0 though. I tried a dark period but it didn't seem to make a difference. I don't genereally lose many clones,

but I must say they sometimes get a little yellow. I think I often hold off on

giving them a feed a bit too long. Plus I don't spray them under the hood.

I think that light on the window sill is brighter than the flouros though.

Depends on the weather.

[Guest BudWaver]

tri phosphor flourescent tubular silica based light emitting devices

 

HUH?

 

[pipeman]

you know what question I'm gonna ask now...how does Stinky Pete clone? Does he use tri phosphor flourescent tubular silica based light emitting devices as well?

[wassily]

Stinky Pete has a nice big sunroom that looks out onto bush so he generally clones under the big halide in the sky. However, he does not use litlle rockwool blocks. He uses the 4 inch ones and pokes a hole

in em with a nail, or sometimes a bit of fence wire that he's been picking his teeth with. Then he sucks the excess moisture out of the block and spits it into the barbie. He only grows lik 4 plants at a time. But they is big plants.

[wassily]

Sorry Budwaver, I was being 'scientific'. I meant them grow lighty power glow thingy flouros.

[Guest BudWaver]

hehe kewl....

 

Yeh.... stinky pete going nicely.....

 

I also use 4 inch cubes...that way I know when roots have hit the bottom of one of those they are very well rooted.....and will survive....a nuclear winter....

[wassily]

Weaker the light the easier they take you say pieone....I have mine at the to of my dome, it's the usual size. What does everyone else do? Maybe that's why some of mine go a bit yellow. I've read it can be a sign of too strong a light.