I have cloned and grown from clone but I have never received a clone via mail. Just wondering what you guys like to do once received, other than keeping isolated until everything checks out.
I have one showing tomorrow and want to make sure I’m over prepared.
-How do you like to harden off? How many days? How much fresh air per day until hardened?
-Do you feed or water with anything special? Aloe Vera water?
-light intensity to start?
-Anything else?
She’s coming from a good source and imagine she’ll be equipped with a led for transit.
Thanks 
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Ahoy Captain!
How ya treat it upon arrival depends, IMO, on how it shows up and other factors.
If it is well rooted/all sealed up/wet/humid…I’d be prepared to stick it in a tray/dome situation. Spray the inside of the lid…maybe the tray if you need the humidity like I do here in CO…but don’t spray the cut. Sit it off to the side re lights…don’t blast it. Let it acclimate slowly by opening the dome vents/etc. over a period of a few days. If you go too fast it will probably wilt/show you.
If it comes open air…just sit it off to the side, keep an eye on it, and ease it into play.
fun stuff. Good luck
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Awesome, thank you amigo!
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I much prefer growing in CO, to growing in humid MD. A lot less problems with humidity.
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Good info already. If you don’t have a dome or it’s decent sized and it doesn’t fit underneath, a 2 or 2.5 gallon ziploc works too. Easy to pop it into a Solo with your medium and then a Ziploc over the Solo too.
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I had a good one that I’ve been searching for arrive yesterday.
I just put it directly to on a heat mat under mild LED without a dome, it wasn’t humid inside the shipping package. Looks great today.
It’ll be isolated until it passes muster.
Good luck!
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I usually snip the very end of the stem off to start a fresh callus in water and i put the cuttings if unrooted in a glass of tap water for two days to rehydrate changing the tap water everyday 2nd day i take cuts scuff up the stems with a plastic knife and dip in Hormex number 8 rooting powder and into ph’d grodan blocks to be put in a humidity dome temp set at75 degreeS with lid closed up untouched for 5 days.5th day instart to open up vents a crack at a time and i lift the lid off for 5 min and let it breath then i pop dome lid back on and every other day i open them vents up a slit bigger than the last popping lid off for a couple min longer than the last to start to break them off slowly I usually see roots in about 9 to 12 days.I can get roots in just plain tap water in about 3 weeks changing the water every day with fresh tap water if i pop a couple in a glass.Actually last 8 cuttings i did were in plain water.Cuttings are blowing out of solos now
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Whats a good IPM technique for clone intake that can realistically handle most unwanted pests that may have hitched a ride.
EDIT: I have been testing the Tissue Culture protocols that use some combination of 70% alcohol soak for a few seconds and/or a 3% peroxide soak for a few seconds and then a 10% bleach solution soak for 10-15 minutes with plenty of rinses with distilled water after the fact. Most of the cuts that I am testing on seem to have severe leaf burn.
So I am doing some testing with different combination of steps and bleach solution strengths and time in the solution. I’ll report back if I find anything useful.
