Monster Cropping before 14 days of bloom

[Ckbrew]

Try adding some juice squeezed from a fresh aloe leaf to the water. It has hormones that will simulate root growth.

 

[Chipmunk]

I hope so. If I get roots, should I feel like that was the biggest hurdle? What say you Gator? This would be my 1st clone grow.

 

[Chipmunk]

And your opinion also ckbrew

 

[Ckbrew]

Yes, getting the roots to grow is the goal of starting clones. Once roots start the plants usually survive.

 

[Chipmunk]

I thought that would be the case. Today I noticed some slime build up starting on one of the clippings. I rinsed it of with water and added 1 drop of H202 to 1 cup of water and put the clipping in that solution in hopes to kill the infection and hopefully not burn any other plant tissue. I do change water daily to keep the clippings oxygenated and help from getting an infection from stagnate water. I am wondering if adding the H202 with every water change would help prevent any infection and also give the clipping a little extra oxygen from the H202? There could be a fine line to walk doing that because of the chance of burning other plant tissue but it could be a good option.

 

[Gator]

@Chipmunk yeah, getting roots is the biggest hurdle, especially if you aren't using an air stone and a air pump, keep going, sounds like you're going to have roots soon

 

[Chipmunk]

I hope so. I actually thought about using the aerator from my minnow bucket to aerate with.

 

[Gator]

Battery operated?? It'll work for a little bit, but your going to need batteries

 

[Allotrope1000]

Hi, Chipper.
I like the science behind your rooting soltion. Makes logical sense to me.

 

[Chipmunk]

Hello Gator and ckbrew. I have my monster cropped clippings under 25watts of very diffused light and 18/6. If these clippings get roots after 5-6 weeks does that mean they have reverted back to the veg stage successfully at that point or will the clippings have to show a new vegetative growth pattern first? Provided they stay alive after getting planted in the soil of course. I realize the clippings have to do two things, root and revert back to the veg stage.

 

[Ckbrew]

The roots and bloom/veg are two different things. If the clones are in bloom they will have to revert back to veg to get any size out of them. Then flip back to bloom when ready. How far into bloom were they? If it was full boom the buds will stretch out into nodes. Kind of a neat process. Just because they have roots does not mean they are in veg. Is that an answer to your question?

 

[Gator]

I agree with @Ckbrew

 

[Chipmunk]

Yes, that answered what I was looking for. I knew the clipping had to accomplish two things, the roots and reveg. I thought maybe since the clipping had spent 5-6 weeks under an 18/6 light schedule that the reveg process had started just based on time. The plant was in 14 days of bloom and had budlets. I guess the reveg starts when the clipping is planted and is starting to get new growth? It looks like the H202 and water mix may have taken care of the slime building up on one of the clippings.

 

[Gator]

@Chipmunk by4-5 weeks you should have roots,I use an oxy cloner and get roots in about 3 weeks, the kratky method works, but takes too long in my opinion

 

[Gator]

Roots don't like light

 

[Gator]

Damn,why didn't anyone catch this, you need to keep light away from where you are trying to grow roots bro

 

[Allotrope1000]

The no light on the roots idea makes good sense. I will comment that five years ago, I cloned some Malawi Gold photos in a transparent, clear, 16 oz Solo cup. Clones rooted and grew out fine.