In the Lab with Doc Bud

Doc Bud;1635628 said:

gittergreen;1635572 said:

I notice you leave a lot of leaves on your clones and do not trim the tips like most (me) I have tried it that way on a few and they were the one's that didn't make it. I have read in a couple of grow bibles that trimming the tips let's the plant concentrate on growing roots and not so much keeping the leaves up. I know you can't tell me why my clones failed that were not trimmed without all the details but what are your thoughts on this? To trim or not to trim that is my question!

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Taking clones:

I'm into teen moms....I don't keep mother plants, I take cuttings from plants when I prune them. Sometimes it's just a topping, other times it's topping and taking the lower 2 or 3 branches.

I look for woody, stiff stemmed cuttings, not soft ones. The High Brix creates very strong stems, so this isn't really an issue, but the more woody and stiff, the better....so to speak.

I cut them from the plant, place them into a cup of water with GH rooting formula and then further trim them up before sticking them into the Rapid Rooters.

I trim all fan leaves except the top most fan leaf, which I usually trim off about halfway. This leaves the young, new growth at the apical meristem, and one hacked up fan leaf, which I pinch off in a day or two. The leaves you're seeing on these clones grew while they were rooting!

This never happened before I went High Brix. I think it's 100% due to the health of the cuttings when they're taken, and the spraying with "Stress," which has plant growth regulators (natural) and a broad spectrum of trace minerals.

I put them under the dome, and pour the water the clones were soaking in into the tray. I ignore it after that...except for spraying. I don't bother looking for roots. After a couple days the plant starts growing and when it really starts pumping out leaves, I know I'll find nice, white roots sticking out of the cubes.

If I have room for them under the T5....I'll transplant. If I don't have a place for them, I nip off the roots and put 'em back under the dome.

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