Thread: clones in 10 days/home made bubbler

Zandor guided me, but I couldn't get my sprinkler system together, so I made a bubbler, but instead of just cutting 1' holes in top. I cut out for 5" netpots and used cutouts as covers that I drilled 7-1" holes each in, cut my plugs out of the ol' lady's garden kneepad...I used a 6" stone in the bottom of tub, then put an airstone at the bottom of each netpot.
I gauged my water depth added superthrive 1 capful per gallon
I used schultz takeroot (powder) $4 and miracle grow leafshine $4 (this is the name of the stuff at Wally's for anti-wilt (it work's)........
1o days now and I have 6 rooted clones, one has almost an " of roots, and it was a flowered cutting that was supposed to take maybe 3 weeks, well dispel
that myth...with quality guidance and a little luck...as they say...soooooooo
Thanks Zandor, again and Garden Knowm, I appreciate your input...latewood

Where's the picture?

Glad it worked for you.

To be honest Zandor I don't know how to get the pic's from my camera to the page...having trouble getting my photosuite to work...I have an old hp webcam,but we have been remodeling the home keeping up w/grow and new business startup and I can't find the damn thing...any help or advice would be appreciated along these lines...I really want to show you guy's what has transpired in my G'room...thanks for posting, you shoud be a proud uncle.

clone bubbler has 2 pods w/7 ea. clones...1 drowned 9 of 13 now have roots and the 4 that don't, well one was too mature, woody, big hollow up stem,,, the others I picked 3-4 that did not follow the optimum cutting for clones guidelines, experimenting since this was my first clone attempt...very happy 9 new babies to play with,...
awwwwww they grow up so fast...sorry no pic's...need help setting that up...I am going to post somewhere else in order to try and resolve the pic's issue...latewood

here we go ist try to send pic's

Very nice, I just hope the roots don't grow into the net pot and get caught is all. You could cut the bottom off the net pots and use those only for your cloner. That should keep the roots from being caught.

thanks for the heads up on roots growing in the nets, you know, you see this happening before your eyes and you sometimes miss the little things: blinded by the
beauty of what you see before you! I've got about 3" before they get caught up
I hope to have them all vegged before I run into that problem...

well we are 1 clone short of 100% success rate on this batch....
Bummer I really thought a few people would of commented on my little friend, oh well

looks kewl , especially because it gives me something to compare my lil cloner invention to. not the same but similar method. I took a storage container with about 10" bottom , 5" second level and slightly dommed lid the bottom for th water and air bubbles then the floor of the second layer I cut like 18 1-7/8" holes which I cut off about 2" black Pvc pipe to go snugly into the holes. Inside the pvc inserts I put 3" lengths of the styrafoam water pipe wraps. they fit in the pvc stugly and although round they have a slice on one side with peal off sticky thingys (handy for holding in the cuttings} All this in the floor of the top layer and it sets on bottom part with the bubbling misting water. Lid goes on top for some light but I usually put something to keep it from being all the way closed. Works good for germinating seeds too. If you use rockwool the small squares will fit right in the pvc inserts as will the peat seed starters. works basically the same as yours thanks for the view and Zandor, his word is like gold, nothing but good advice as are a few of the guys heres advice I'm sure.
Imagination is the creator of inventions but it sure helps to have someone give you the basics for an idea, amazing what one uses from around the house to fill in the blanks( garden knee pads for example, thats great ).
Well there ya got a response , lol
Peace bro,
Bill

thanks Bill, I think the whole deal is kinda neat...Yeah I agree, I learned alot and I was on the right track, then I read Zandor and your right, I feel totally confident in his advice...I read him quite a bit before I started posting...then I narrowed down who I could talk to here to build relationships of knowledge...there are quite a few with good grows going and alot of important imformation/concepts being ironed out here. It is funnythough, it seems like there are alot less posters than before, but the quality has gone up for the most part, since I joined anyway, IMHO

here are the clones all in a row, ready to go
1. row of freshly transferred hydro clones 8-1
2. roots! ready to veg
3. check it out
4. nine days later
5. these are alittle windblown

as you see between pic 2 and 3 these roots have grown this far put of netpot in 8 days...
pic...accidentally had the turbo fan on high

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here are 2 updated pix of my root growth...look at all the bubbles
and 2 showing the products I used to clone.
everything from wally's except netpots!!!
I also have an airstone in each pot as well as the 6"
I plan on doing a step by step on this once I have transferred these babies to veg...I like this smaller setup, because I only have to provide for me and the ol' lady, plus I have some seeds to grow...
hope you all like my mini-cloner...latewood
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after 2 weeks early veg, I believe they are ready!

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just some updated pix for future reference
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here is what I use in this window for cloning and my home made $10 bubblers used for veg... In the next window are some updated clone pics...

the babes say, "mornin' all

Originally Posted by Zandor

Very nice, I just hope the roots don't grow into the net pot and get caught is all. You could cut the bottom off the net pots and use those only for your cloner. That should keep the roots from being caught.

just for reference...I ran clones in bubbler another week and had no problem with the roots growing in the netpots, it was because of the airstones in the netpots that kept the roots kind of floating. for lack of a better way to explain it...

just keeping up so I can compare the growth.

that looks awesome man, what is the leaf shine for? make them glisten? haha but to be serious, to clone do you top a plant and then soak the stem in some nutrients till they root then keep it in a bubbler or what?

nice plants there man.

Originally Posted by latewood

just for reference...I ran clones in bubbler another week and had no problem with the roots growing in the netpots, it was because of the airstones in the netpots that kept the roots kind of floating. for lack of a better way to explain it...

As long as you are going to finish them in the same net pots that's fine. If you are transplanting them watch out when they get tangeled in the net pot they are are hard to get out with out damaging the roots.

That is what I was talking about.

Peace

DON'T USE LEAF SHINE STUPID. THATS A COSMETIC APPLICATION LIKE "MAKE UP" FOR GIRLS TO MAKE INDOOR PLANTS HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A HEALTHY SHINE. iT CLOGS THE PORES OF YOUR LEAVES. thATS THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I'VE SEEN YET

Originally Posted by Zandor

As long as you are going to finish them in the same net pots that's fine. If you are transplanting them watch out when they get tangeled in the net pot they are are hard to get out with out damaging the roots.

That is what I was talking about.

Peace

thought you were talking about individual clone roots tangling up in netpot, but you meant with each other,,,OK, either way, because of your advice, I monitored them and nothing went wrong.
That is what I am saying, Thanks for your help, this helps the new guy's, ooops and gal's that want to build something for themselves.

Originally Posted by Stormcooker

DON'T USE LEAF SHINE STUPID. THATS A COSMETIC APPLICATION LIKE "MAKE UP" FOR GIRLS TO MAKE INDOOR PLANTS HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF A HEALTHY SHINE. iT CLOGS THE PORES OF YOUR LEAVES. thATS THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I'VE SEEN YET

It does not clog the pores, it is waxy and I just spritz the tops...I've got a tub full of big, fat,
vigorous clones!!! leaves breath thru the underside of their leaves...

Originally Posted by BILL THICK

looks kewl , especially because it gives me something to compare my lil cloner invention to. not the same but similar method. I took a storage container with about 10" bottom , 5" second level and slightly dommed lid the bottom for th water and air bubbles then the floor of the second layer I cut like 18 1-7/8" holes which I cut off about 2" black Pvc pipe to go snugly into the holes. Inside the pvc inserts I put 3" lengths of the styrafoam water pipe wraps. they fit in the pvc stugly and although round they have a slice on one side with peal off sticky thingys (handy for holding in the cuttings} All this in the floor of the top layer and it sets on bottom part with the bubbling misting water. Lid goes on top for some light but I usually put something to keep it from being all the way closed. Works good for germinating seeds too. If you use rockwool the small squares will fit right in the pvc inserts as will the peat seed starters. works basically the same as yours thanks for the view and Zandor, his word is like gold, nothing but good advice as are a few of the guys heres advice I'm sure.
Imagination is the creator of inventions but it sure helps to have someone give you the basics for an idea, amazing what one uses from around the house to fill in the blanks( garden knee pads for example, thats great ).
Well there ya got a response , lol
Peace bro,
Bill

Thanks, Bill