Let me start by saying I am brand new to this…I am posting this here for both my own reference as well as for others to see how I do it. I give full credit to @Hellraiser for most of what I know.
Now that’s out of the way, I’m going to document my cloning experiments here, I’m making it “perpetual” as this will be on going over time, so come lean with me!!
Here is my cloner, it’s the EzClone 16 I love how sturdy and thick this is, plus the marked grid makes it really easy to keep track of what plant is where, it’s under an HLG135 Bspec on 24/0 schedule:
Ooh ooh i pick #3 as the pepper plant lol. Looking good. I need to make me a manifold like that for inside my cloner. Let me know how it goes with roots getting tangled up in the manifold if it does or not. Was gonna buy a manifold to put in my homemade cloner yil i started to think about roots knotting aroind the manifold then rippong roots and all. So i put a half inch hose goong aroind the perimiter of the bin and drilled a bunch of small.holes in the lone for sprayers. Works great and hose is on the side walls so bo tangles. Ill b watching to see i wanna get a nice cloner now i see how it works and does a way better job than a cup and bubble stone lol
They seem to be turning black at the cut site. I cleaned and sterilized everything just before I put them in there, and I cleaned the trimmer with alcohol in between every cut, as well as not letting them sit out after I cut them any longer than the amount of time from when I cut it off and trimmed leaves etc and then straight to the cloner.
Ok, time to trim up one of the mothers, both the top and the roots. This is a watermelon punch clone that was originally planted in Nov 2020, and then that was cloned sometime mid Jan. I have kept her right around 12” tall the whole time, and have successfully taken 2 clones from her for friends. This could have gone a little longer, but I wanted to experiment some, so here we go:
Here is the start after a little defoliation and trimming