Nice work.
They like warmth and moisture.
Fwiw.
Dome on. I root my clones around 80f. Temp inside dome.
Keep dome misted - no spraying the plants necessary.
Every day, wipe dome dry, mist and put back in place.
Start opening dome vents after 4 or 5 days.
Looks good. Yes, I suggested peat pellets, but Grodan works fine, especially if you plan to go hydro.
BTW - when I used to use Grodan, I would place extra Grodan fiber around the hole to protect the rooting stem from light and help lock in moisture. I honestly donāt know if it was necessary, but it worked for me! You can get the extra material from the corners.
Awesome I appreciate the info. They had rapid rooter pellets in the bags but no trays to hold them up so I went for the grodans.
Will I have issues going to soil this route? Didnāt even realize that haha.
@GramTorino thank you for that. I have always seen people mist the plants directly as well but I will do your method as it seems cleaner.
Shouldnāt be a problem to place the Grodan in soil, as long as you donāt allow it to stay saturated. If so, it could cause issues with your stem rotting.
Well I always failed making clones and had envy from you guys with your constant success 
, so tried a different approach.
Iāve got a seed starter with sponge-corks and water I use for germinating. I made a hole across the cork, dipped a straw in Clonex, put the clone inside straw and then the cork and finally pulled out the straw:
and even if they look fragile they all rooted:
so its a mix of Clonex and water but without mixing them, as it has been wisely said. Hope you will have success with yours, mineās were an experiment and as I wasnāt expecting to succeed they are now in window shelves ā¦ 
Wow that looks so awesome.
I love all things DIY and I am really digging that setup.
I am kind of in the same boat where I took clones a week or so just to see what happens. Now if they were all to root I will have to find something to do with them haha.
Also it looks like we are running the same fabric pots. I picked up a 5 pack of those in 10 gallons for a great price and have my outdoor in those.
I had them in 5 gallons, but there were too big so I bought 1 gal and 3 gal. Roots are more oxygenated and donāt roll around. For me itās a mistery, when I transplanted a huge clone form 1 to 3, there were no roots at all ā¦
Iām harvesting now their āmothersā so having more of the same strain doesnāt make me very happy, which makes me think how far can we go with this hobby!
Wow thats pretty nuts. I wonder why that is.
They look real happy and healthy though!
because of the air pruning in the airpots , the root mass has a different structure , instead of visually spiriling around pot endlessly , when the root tip reaches the edge of the airpot it is air pruned and stops , this sends message to plant to fire out more roots
While both root masses may be similar in volume the airpot roots will have many more tips , thus better performance kind off
: )
That makes sense.
Are smart pots/air pots the same as the spiky looking pots?
I always see those and was unsure if they did the same thing.
Yes , both air prune : )
Thatās why I only transplanted that one! 
, now it became a monster and flipped her:
so I will keep the rest in 1 gal and see what happens, after watching the solo cup contest I think everythingās possible.
Back to the topic, I think that having their feet in water and the stem in Clonex embedded media helps, will keep trying that way ā¦ 
Edit: Thanks @ifish for the explanation, I think I will stick to them from now on 
, my root structure was already fuzzy as they came from water media 
I thought as they donāt have yet roots they feed over the leaves, so it is good spraying them also, perhaps someone can enlighten us ā¦ 
This is my goto techno writeup for clone theory.
In a nutshell, high humidity air prevents moisture from being sucked out of the plant.
Snippetā¦
What the logic behind this step? Is it a sanitation thing?
Yes. I admitā¦its me assuming the chlorine in my tap water can be of some disinfectant help.
Also found that misting fresh tap on dry plastic dome leaves a nice fine even mist. Vs drippy unwiped.
Air exchange once or twice a day canāt hurt.
That was a very informative write up.
What you say about humidity and absorption makes sense to me.
Just out of curiosity, what lighting do you guys run over your clones?
I use a couple of these for rooting small groupsā¦
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercial-Electric-3-ft-1-Light-30-Watt-Equivalent-White-Integrated-Utility-LED-Shop-Light-with-Power-Cord-SHOP-3X1-840-HD/305059320
(good for under vehicle doing oil changes too - lol)
