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WHEN IT COME TO CLONING I USE TheCapn'S How to clone in rock wool
IF YOU DON'T HAVE CLONEX ROOTING GEL YOU MAY USE : Bonide Fertilizer. Rooting Powder
IT COST $6 THAT WHAT I USE . . . .
Dakini Kush & Waipi o Hapa
TheCapn's - Mix up your water:
a. To the 1/2 gallon of water, add about 5ml of bloom formula (general hydroponics bloom or foxfarm big bloom) to the water, and mix to 250ppm @ .5 conversion. If you don't have a PPM meter, 2ml of Bloom in 1/2 gal of water should be close.
b. 10ml of aquashield or voodoo juice (same thing)
c. optional: add any kind of beneficial bacteria (mycos, etc) If you're not sure what this is, just skip this step!
d. The ph should be between 5.5 - 5.8, adjust if necessary* . If you OVER adjust, start over with a fresh 1/2 gallon, we don't want too many PH up/down chemicals in our mix.
I USED 1.5 GALLONS OF TAP WATER
AQUASHIELD 10mL
Advanced Nutrients Jungle Juice Bloom 5mL
House and Garden Roots Excelurator 2.5mL
Superthrive Vitamin Solution 2 DROPS
MY PPM WAS 259 AND PH @ 6.4
I ADDED ONE DROP OF PH DOWN @ A TIME TO ADJUST PH TO 5.5
TheCapn's- Put cutting into rock wool
a. Clean a toothpic or similar with alcohol, and use it to make a new hole in the rockwool for the stem. I use my plant markers. The stem of the clone should fit snug into the hole. You don't want any air between the stem and the rock wool.
b. Dip the stem of the cutting into the clonex gel. Put the stem in the rockwool. Try to get the part where you cut off leaves, inside the rockwool. Push the stem down into it until it is about 3/4th the way to the bottom of the cube. Don't Squeeze the rockwool cube.
THIS IS WHERE I DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT....
INSTEAD OF DIPPING THE STEM OF THE CUTTING IN CLONEX GEL (I DIP THE STEM OF THE CUTTING IN SUPERTHRIVE AND THEN INTO THE ROOTING POWDER) WORKS GREAT ......
Trim off any excess leaves
The plant has no roots to feed the leaves, so if you have too many leaves, the clone may suffer.
TheCapn's- Put the clone inside a humidome
You don't need an expensive humidome. You can use a regular seed germination tray or two plastic containers as you can see in my picture. You can mist the inside of the dome with pure water if you want. If your clones are wilting now, you took too long to get them set in rockwool and put in the dome. Don't worry, they should perk up after they get in the humid dome.
Wait two weeks for roots to pop out the bottoms of the work wool cubes. When you see lots of roots, you can take then out of the humidome and transplant.
More information:
* If the branch you take has a "woody" stem, meaning the stem is hard, and more brownish color than green, these take much longer to root. Also, cuttings taken from higher "hollow" branches
* I crack up every time I hear people on youtube say, "Air-eee-ate your water." As if this was a 3 syllable word.
* If you don't have a PH meter, using this recipe with distilled or RO water should land your PH close enough and there is no need to adjust it. Also, it is not possible to "PH" water. "PH" is not a verb.
THANKS + REPS TO TheCapn . . . . .
THIS IS WHERE I DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT....
I PUT MY CUTTINGS IN THE DARK FOR A PERIOD OF 24 HOURS. . . . . . . .
Dakini Kush #3 & #8 + A FEW OF Linda's GRANDKIDS.......
IN THE DARK THEY GO...... I PUT THE TRAY WITH A DOME IN A BOX AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE AIR I LEAVE THE VENTS HALFWAY OPEN AND I SPAY THE DOME WITH THE SAME WATER THAT I USED TO SOAK THE ROCK WOOL CUBE
IF YOU DON'T HAVE CLONEX ROOTING GEL YOU MAY USE : Bonide Fertilizer. Rooting Powder
IT COST $6 THAT WHAT I USE . . . .
Dakini Kush & Waipi o Hapa
TheCapn's - Mix up your water:
a. To the 1/2 gallon of water, add about 5ml of bloom formula (general hydroponics bloom or foxfarm big bloom) to the water, and mix to 250ppm @ .5 conversion. If you don't have a PPM meter, 2ml of Bloom in 1/2 gal of water should be close.
b. 10ml of aquashield or voodoo juice (same thing)
c. optional: add any kind of beneficial bacteria (mycos, etc) If you're not sure what this is, just skip this step!
d. The ph should be between 5.5 - 5.8, adjust if necessary* . If you OVER adjust, start over with a fresh 1/2 gallon, we don't want too many PH up/down chemicals in our mix.
I USED 1.5 GALLONS OF TAP WATER
AQUASHIELD 10mL
Advanced Nutrients Jungle Juice Bloom 5mL
House and Garden Roots Excelurator 2.5mL
Superthrive Vitamin Solution 2 DROPS
MY PPM WAS 259 AND PH @ 6.4
I ADDED ONE DROP OF PH DOWN @ A TIME TO ADJUST PH TO 5.5
TheCapn's- Put cutting into rock wool
a. Clean a toothpic or similar with alcohol, and use it to make a new hole in the rockwool for the stem. I use my plant markers. The stem of the clone should fit snug into the hole. You don't want any air between the stem and the rock wool.
b. Dip the stem of the cutting into the clonex gel. Put the stem in the rockwool. Try to get the part where you cut off leaves, inside the rockwool. Push the stem down into it until it is about 3/4th the way to the bottom of the cube. Don't Squeeze the rockwool cube.
THIS IS WHERE I DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT....
INSTEAD OF DIPPING THE STEM OF THE CUTTING IN CLONEX GEL (I DIP THE STEM OF THE CUTTING IN SUPERTHRIVE AND THEN INTO THE ROOTING POWDER) WORKS GREAT ......
Trim off any excess leaves
The plant has no roots to feed the leaves, so if you have too many leaves, the clone may suffer.
TheCapn's- Put the clone inside a humidome
You don't need an expensive humidome. You can use a regular seed germination tray or two plastic containers as you can see in my picture. You can mist the inside of the dome with pure water if you want. If your clones are wilting now, you took too long to get them set in rockwool and put in the dome. Don't worry, they should perk up after they get in the humid dome.
Wait two weeks for roots to pop out the bottoms of the work wool cubes. When you see lots of roots, you can take then out of the humidome and transplant.
More information:
* If the branch you take has a "woody" stem, meaning the stem is hard, and more brownish color than green, these take much longer to root. Also, cuttings taken from higher "hollow" branches
* I crack up every time I hear people on youtube say, "Air-eee-ate your water." As if this was a 3 syllable word.
* If you don't have a PH meter, using this recipe with distilled or RO water should land your PH close enough and there is no need to adjust it. Also, it is not possible to "PH" water. "PH" is not a verb.
THANKS + REPS TO TheCapn . . . . .
THIS IS WHERE I DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT....
I PUT MY CUTTINGS IN THE DARK FOR A PERIOD OF 24 HOURS. . . . . . . .
Dakini Kush #3 & #8 + A FEW OF Linda's GRANDKIDS.......
IN THE DARK THEY GO...... I PUT THE TRAY WITH A DOME IN A BOX AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE AIR I LEAVE THE VENTS HALFWAY OPEN AND I SPAY THE DOME WITH THE SAME WATER THAT I USED TO SOAK THE ROCK WOOL CUBE
. . . . 
Positive vibes from the West 
CROUTONS 
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