DirtySouth said:
I put them into an opaque container of plain water to keep them healthy until I have them all for rooting. It keeps them alive and in good health. I change 3/4 of the water each day with the base of the cutting never leaving the water.
Stonybud, are you inducing air to the container? Kind of a bubbler? Or are you just lettin em b in the water? How long does this take to root? Any hormones on the stem?
Do you just clip and place in the water? Many Q's I know, it's just been takin so long for mine to root,I need a better plan of action. I know your the man, please help a brother out. Thanks in advance!
The first stage of this is to only reserve the cuttings for a mass planting.
The initial container is filled with only water to put the clones into an environment that keeps them alive and healthy. No roots are intended in this step.
After several cuttings spanning 2 or three weeks, THEN I put them into my rooting machine with the aeroponic spray containing rooting hormones.
No air is needed in a short glass of water. the surface of the water provides enough oxygen to make the cutting live.
Sometimes, enough cuttings can't be taken at once. This is a way to keep cuttings alive until enough are collected from a host plant or plants.
Cuttings can survive for 3 to 4 weeks using this method prior to rooting. During that time, I can take cuttings using the 30% rule and harvest cuttings from the entire plant, 30% at a time with a week between cutting harvests.
The cuttings are NOT intended to root during the first "Holding" step.
By doing it this way, the cuttings all stay on nearly the same stage of development. When transplanted after rooting, they're all the same size and have the same amount of root formation.
After 15 days in my aeroponic rooting chamber, ALL of my clones have roots from 12 to 15 inches long.
I use the Botanicare Cloning Machine. It's worth every dime of what they charge. I've purchased the supplies to build a much larger one for my LED experiment. I'll need 128 clones per/crop, per/8 weeks for that.
Do you understand now?