Some cloning gels and other cloning products have artificial dyes, fungicides, water, beneficial microbes, “organic” rooting compounds, or “secret ingredients.” Some cost $5 a bottle at Home Depot others cost $25 a bottle at the hydroponics store. Or the IBA is not properly configured in base materials, so it’s rendered ineffective. Others contain IBA- but only in very small (perhaps ineffectual) amounts. In actual fact, there are many differences in price, effectiveness, and components between brands of rooting products. Marijuana growers assume cloning gels and powders all have pretty much the same ingredients, especially a “rooting hormone” plant growth regulator (PGR) or “auxin” called indole-3-butyric acid (IBA). Sometimes they use the same bottle of cloning gel, and one batch of clones fail, while another one succeeds.
Or, they report cloning gels that rooted close to 100% of even marginal marijuana cloning material. Some marijuana growers report using cloning gels or powders that didn’t generate any roots at all. I’ve experienced problems with marijuana cloning, and sometimes I’ve blamed it on the gels or powders I used.Īt other times, I’ve gotten 100% or near-100% cannabis cloning success, and I gave the gels and the powders credit. Marijuana growers also complain that cloning gels and powders are unreliable, aren’t “organic,” or are overpriced. Of these choices, the most popular is to dip cut clone ends into hydroponics cloning gel or powder (sometimes known as rooting powder).īut marijuana growers are arguing about the value and effectiveness of cloning gels and powders. Put saliva or honey on the ends and then plant in soil, soilless media, or aeroponics.Put them in water only, and then put them in soil, soilless media, or aeroponics.Put them in water that has plant/rooting tonics (such as willow extract) and/or other growth factors (such as nutrients and Roots Excleurator).Dip them in cloning gel or cloning powder.
Today, we’re talking about what you do at the very moment you’ve cut your marijuana clones from their motherplant. Cloning is absolutely crucial for marijuana growers but it takes skill, experience, a good motherplant, and the right tools/materials to get the top marijuana cloning success rates.
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