Old_SSSC_Guy
incorrigible reprobate
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Up until recently I thought I cornered the trophy for "Worst Cloning Person of All Time". Over the years I tried just about every hormone and technique on the market and always felt I must be missing something. High humidity/low humidity, warming mat/no warming, distilled water/tap water, 18 hrs light/24 hrs light, clonex/rootone/olivias, in-sync with moon phase/moon ignored, blubblers/no bubblers, rubbing buddha's belly/no buddha - nothing worked for me. Very few descriptions of cloning on the net or in books that I didn't try at one time or another. Even got 2 fancy misting cloners which were supposed to need distilled water only. Should have bought beer instead.
Really bothered me, especially when the finest grow master I knew who's entire cloning advice and technique was: "I cut them off and stick them in the dirt. They grow". Last month I finally broke my cherry and got a whole tray of cuttings to burst roots; 3 strains, all but one of 15 cuts lived, used 3 different rooting hormones. All rooted like fuzzy little weevils and all are now growing happily. Did it again a couple of weeks later and had an 85% success rate, with which I can live.
I think maybe the #1 reason I failed too much was from being impatient. I read so many stories and threads that talked about seeing roots in 7 days that I gave up early almost every time. I'd wait maybe 10-14 days and assume I failed again. This time I waited and tended them for 3 weeks - and it worked fine.
Now that it 'works' for me, could someone hold my hand and give me honest averages from their experience for rooting times? How many days/weeks in do you see root popping through the edges of rapid rooter plugs or small rockwool cubes? Is 21 days a fair barometer of time?
Really bothered me, especially when the finest grow master I knew who's entire cloning advice and technique was: "I cut them off and stick them in the dirt. They grow". Last month I finally broke my cherry and got a whole tray of cuttings to burst roots; 3 strains, all but one of 15 cuts lived, used 3 different rooting hormones. All rooted like fuzzy little weevils and all are now growing happily. Did it again a couple of weeks later and had an 85% success rate, with which I can live.
I think maybe the #1 reason I failed too much was from being impatient. I read so many stories and threads that talked about seeing roots in 7 days that I gave up early almost every time. I'd wait maybe 10-14 days and assume I failed again. This time I waited and tended them for 3 weeks - and it worked fine.
Now that it 'works' for me, could someone hold my hand and give me honest averages from their experience for rooting times? How many days/weeks in do you see root popping through the edges of rapid rooter plugs or small rockwool cubes? Is 21 days a fair barometer of time?