DikkiBrd

After three weeks my clone is just sitting there, and with no roots.
She's in a 1" rockwool cube which is placed in a large 1-qt. cup, plastic wrap dome with tiny holes, watered with weak 10-26-10 every two days. (Some people say let it stand in 1/4" solution, some say don't water until it dries out and NEVER let it just sit in solution.) I used Olivia's cloning gel. After three weeks (as of today) she still looks like I just cut her from her sis -- perky -- but NO roots, just swelling white areas that appeared two weeks ago. I spray her leaves with weak Schultz's solution every day.
I'm really frustrated with this rockwool cloning business -- probably more so with myself. ("Oh, I've failed my baby! Where did I go wrong?!?")
Based on this tale of woe, can anyone see anything I might do/might have done?
Does anyone know how to snip a branch, stick it in soil, and clone that way?? I'd be MOST interested.
Sorry--I'm having a bad day.
Thanks,
DikkiBrd

wolfman

Cloning is not an exact cience because results can be influenced by many different factors such as temperature, the strain, humidity, etc.

With my experiences with rockwool, i found no special problem for the clones to root, as long as the cubes were watered when dryed to the touch.

I used a weak bloom solution but only once in a wile, not often

Higher temperatures help with the rooting process but other then that is just a question of time; there is no reason to be sorry cause if the clone is still loking good after 3 weeks, he will probably root anyway, IF you stop feeding her, heehee

Try a search on cloning; i described the process several times already and probably, Lilbuddie and BD also...


wolf

DikkiBrd

IF you stop feeding her, heehee

WHAT? I should stop feeding her? Water only, and only when it's almost dry?

wolfman

You should water the clone only when the soil is getting dry, imagine the soil a bit more watered than you would do to the plants, but not much.

Feed the clones once in a wile, and not regulary, otherwise why should they root?
I like feeding every 3 waterings...


wolf

quantumhydro

yo dude
knock the ferts on the head.only cloning gel/hormone rooting compounds.
Ferts will only slow the process down.
Keep on tokin QHC

kodajake

hi dickibird dont give ur girls fert. until they develop roots.
dont let them sit in water after about 5 - 7 days...
after they root better to let your rockwool be a little dry rather than soaked... (use a nail or something of that ilk to poke a hole in the rkwl for ur baby) clone by taking a clipping from the bottom of ur mama @ a 45 angle (min 2 nodes away from tip) dip in a rooting solution (i prefer liquid) place in ur pretreated rockwool (add b1 super thrive to rockwool water ..10 drops per gal u do the math ) ph @ 6.5 (spray a little club soda if ur gonna spray )