Congrats @Uncle_Al does this mean there’s still hope for me?
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Yes there is hope, I had been trying since 1998 to clone with many,many failures
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I think it’s great that you nailed it so randomly. I’ve read around the innerweb that some strains are just nearly impossible to clone? I’m not experienced in enough grows and especially in strain variation to know or have any knowledge of that, but you my friend are really on to it now.
Huge HELL YEAH!! - from the back of the bus!
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I had a KC-36 in my youth that I went 0/4 at cloning, and that’s the only plant I’ve ever had that beat me. An auto-cloner probably would have done it, but cup-o-dirt seems to be good enough 99% of the time.
Congrats @Uncle_Al on your unintentional success 
May your future attempts be intentionally successful, and may you have clean underwear every time you succeed.
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Thanks for that I have been with clean drawers all day
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Here it is a few days later and I have another clone having taken root, so that’s two now . I have three more sitting in water they have been in water three days tonight I put them in soil and see if this becomes a trend instead of a fluke
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How much you keep clones in propogator? When I can plant them in soil?
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You can take them from the propagator to dirt when there are some roots to work with don’t need a lot just some
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Then roots come out of rockwool?
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If you’re in rockwool don’t remove it plant cube and all
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I know that I don’t need to remove it, but I need to plant it to soil when roots starting to go through cube?
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Yup that’s when to put them in
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Appreciate that uncle 
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I transplant once I see roots coming through the rockwool cube (or jiffy 7) I transplant the whole cube into a cup of soil, this is now in the damping off phase, ready to come out of prop after been slowly acclimatized to lower humidity 
On average 5-10 days from taking the clone, by day 14 I want them out of props and completely damped off, used to higher temp and lower humidity, ready for transplanting to its final pot.
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interesting, i call that hardening, n damping off is a disease that’s killed one of my seedlings. i was planning on putting my cloner in my tent with no dome, there’s room under the canopy lol
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If you have a particularly hard strain to clone, look into a technique called “air layering”
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It’s something like this, only on the plant. Correct @nfhiggs? Take the first layer off then wrap the stem/stalk.
Just doing alone as the photo shows, DID NOT work for me.
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I’ve done it with maples, never though to try with cannabis.
The very brief summary for anyone maybe interested: air layering is a cloning technique where you leave the clone partially attached to the mother while the roots form. With trees, you do this by cutting away a strip of bark maybe 75% of the circumference of the branch you’re cloning. Apply rooting hormone, and then secure a moistened, rooting-appropriate medium around the cut with a plastic bag. Secure bag to branch and wait patiently.
Sounds like it could translate well to our little green friends, I think I might have try this for fun 
Edit: and @Kalgrae says “… not so fast” 
Still might try it on a very lanky probably-male to see what happens.
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I’ve had pretty good results from my cloning method. See if it’s suitable for you:
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Using 2" rockwool cubes, soak them in PH 5.5-5.7 water only
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Remove cutting from donor using razor blade, cutting at a 45 degree angle (into a cross-sectioned triangle point)
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Using the razor blade, make some tiny score marks around the base of the cutting, store in PH 5.5-5.7 water until needed
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Remove rockwool cube from water, allow to drip excess water
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Using a small pipette, pump 1.0ml of rooting hormone into the hole in the top of the rockwool cube, ensuring it’s saturated by pushing the pipette past the pre-bored hole and into the cube.
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Remove cutting from water, insert stem firmly into the cube, give it a gentle squeeze to ensure the cutting is in place and will stand on it’s own
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I then transfer the cubes into a starter tray, and into a basic (home made) propagator which is sprayed with PH 5.5-5.7 water daily (misted into the top of the lid). My clones sit under a 28W full-spectrum LED for roughly 5 days before I first notice root growth
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I tend to see the remainder of the grow through via larger rockwool cubes in dual hydro trays, pure lazy setup as it’s low maintenance during veg, aside from the water changes as I’m not using a feeder barrel
My easy method has never failed me yet, I’ve been cloning for years now and have only ever lost one or two clones to my own stupidity, which was usually selecting unworthy donors 
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Welcome @Hayz! Thanks for contributing.
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