I read a tutorial,from where i cant remember,it was about cloning in perlite as a hempy method…it intrigued me…
You take a cut,do the dip and place it in a clone pod/puck/rockwool…then he takes a solo cup,puts a hole in a third of the way up,fills with perlite until water flows out of hole,use a long scewer to put a hole in the medium and put the clone in where the cut end is just about at the hole,just above,water again to set the perlite and thats it…
I have been thinking of this,but instead of perlite,id like to use promix/perlite/worm castings…basicly a seedling mix,no hole in the side of the cup,just the clone in rockwool planted in a solo cup…
I think this would work well.when the roots start they immediately have a medium and food.
I have always not had the greatest success rate taking cuts.
Have you tried aerocloning?
No,but ive been looking at them…
Id like to build one,but getting the parts isnt easy
I wanna try this because it eliminates the need for the first transplant.saves a bunch of time
A few tips on taking clones. Use sharp brand new razor blades. Clean them to remove oils that they are covered in to prevent rusting. I take small clones 2 sets of leafs above soil line and one set below that gets cut. You should be cutting at a quarter inch below the leaf intersection at a 90° angle. These things matter a great deal for faster rooting. also, you should consider a clone dome with just Rockwool. PH balance your cubes by soaking them in PH 5.6 water. This lowers the pH in the rockwool cube down to something more tolerable for the clones. Wait til you’ve achieved roots at the bottom of those rockwool then transfer into the solo cup you had in mind. This should greatly improve your success. Make sure you keep the dome on and open the vent after three or four days ( the trick being don’t lose too much moisture before they root it’s difficult to replace before they actually root so use a dome). You should have roots between 2 to 3 weeks at the bottom of the rockwool depending on the strain. Stick to a blue light spectrum with low ppfd thats great for rooting clones. Sounds like you’ve got everything figured out just fine tune it a bit. You got this no problem and your success rate will go too 100 percent !!! Cheers !!!
Edit - These clones are different ages and strains. Very easy to up pot rockwool and solo cups into everything.
Since I find rooter sponges a bit expensive for my needs, to use every time.
I use them, if I must keep a strain alive.
However, there are time that, I need just one cutting to clone.
When I cut the scrub, the lowers right after they go into flower, first week, I’ll label them, then put multiple cuts, in a small 3 ounce cups, with wet perlite, holes for drainage, for as many as 6 or more, prepared scrub cuttings, into cloning gel, then into a pre poked hole, in the perlite.
After they are in the cup, I pack down the perlite, so it’s nice and tight in there.
I then slide the 3 oz cup, into a larger cup, maybe a 20 ounce size, with drainage holes also.
I set them in a 10/20, on a heat mat, set to 80 F, for 7 days, then turn it off.
Add a dome over them, and I like to shade mine a bit, with some screen.
I feel reduced light helps to blow out roots.
I also add a few drops of Morbloom, that I use in flower to the solution to keep the perlite damp.
Easy as it gets, it’s ugly as sin, but it pretty reliable as any other cloning technique, I’ll use if needed. It is another option, not the best buy a workable way.
Their are ready to start the process.
Up close.
Couple of weeks later.
I remove the inner cup with an old hemostat, plave the cup into a prepared solution, of a some Rapid Start juice and water.
I then roll and jiggle them to loosen the packed down perlite, as if you lift them out you will tear off roots. Found that out water cloning.
Not great but those 2 will make it.
My other cup ready, gave up, a few more.
Then into 4" nursey pots with my medium mix.
So the first 2 were SuperSliverSourThiaNevils, are in my veg area.
The last 6 Australian Out Backs, with a mulch topping, heading to the veg area.
The cups get cleaned and reused, the perlite gets filtered, and reused.
So, ugly but effective, for me and my needs.
webe
I laid out our clone SoP here:
It has evolved over several years and gives us near 100% success rate.
This is the cheapest/easiest way of cloning…parts are available at Walmart & Dollar Tree…no need for domes and no overthinking…
I love your cloning sop and setup especially the urban cultivator
Make a little rooting cube out of some soil or coco that you already have on hand I like to use my AC. Infinity propagator and just fill the cells to create a little sponge.
Poke a little hole in the medium, dip the cutting. In some rooting powder, stick it in. Keep everything moist sitting on a heat Mat. Good to go in 7-10 days doesn’t get much easier than that. Everything is already on hand for growing. Anyways, except rooting powder and for a couple dollars, you can get enough to last you a few years. Just don’t contaminate your top that it comes in.Put it in something else to dip✌️
I used a method similar to your perlite set up but with bubbling water and didn’t like results. If you’re going hydro use rockwool, soil use coco coins. If not living soil prep mother with phos fertilizer day before. Take healthy cuts with scissors, place in cup water. Remove or trim large fan leaves. Submerge end of clone in water. At a node, underwater, cut with razor at 45° angle. Dip in gel: hormex, Olivia’s, Athena, ect. and place in medium. Place in humidity dome. Mist everything. Place under cloning light on heat mat. Aero cloners work well and can be built with a tote, hydro pump, and mister manifold from supplies from home Depot, but the above protocol has proved the most reliable and is the SOP for most commercial ops (they don’t cut underwater though).
Im going to Go with @Philcuisine on this one.The one i made cost me around 45 bucks most expensive thing was the pawfly air pump i got a good one and the 4inch round airstones were like 20 bucks i think for the pair on amazon.Gets roots in about 8 days and uses plain tap water nothing else.No hormex powder to clonex none of that expensive shit its a waste of money i dont even ph the water No algae with the tinted tape twords the window.I spent money on clonex solution,gel,Hormex #16,Hormex rooting solution to have everything fail.I build this cloner and i have 8 out of ten either popping shoots or stacking white noduals the other shit would take me weeks to see a shoot
just recently built an aerocloner… was easy getting all the parts from amazon and bought the tote, tube of silicon , pipe and fittings at the local hardware store.
Took me pretty much a day to assemble, clean up and have running
filled it with 10 gallons of RO water, 1ml of bleach, 2.5ml per gallon GH flora Micro and 5ml per gallon GH flora bloom.
I wanted to add some clonex liquid but it hasn;t arrived yet.
despite that , I got roots in 7 days from putting in the cloner… no rooting hormones used.
@SHSC-1 That’s a really well built sprayer manifold, man. Super professional. Big up.
How many cuttings do you fit per setup? That price makes it tempting, as long as you can fit enough in to be similar to a DIY cheap
I have three they are 12 spots each, three systems fit perfectly in a 2x2.
that’s just a bubble cloner eh?
my brother uses a diy bubble cloner and swears by it.
I’m going to build one of those too just to compare and have more space to root clones. So simple but obviously very effective.
