My homemade cloning machine
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Comments (6)The first ones I did, I just put them directly into soil. I use a 2-liter bottle cut in half with drainage holes and good potting soil. I keep them inside under lights in the basement. It rooted in about 3-4 weeks. Tip cuttings were taken in the fall. Now, I use a cloning machine and get them rooted in less than a week. I'm betting they would root in water, but I haven't tried that....See MoreNow what?
Comments (25)Go for it. If you have any questions, shoot me an email. I figured it out as I went along, but I tend to be more technically minded than some. I do wish I could come up with a better method for holding the cuttings. Some things don't like being enclosed in the foam rollers and rot. I've taken to just sticking them in the holes and hoping the leaves hold them up. When the leaves get wet, that causes other issues. And remember, as with any indoor propagation, sterile medium and tools are VERY important. I clean everything with bleach. I change my water about once a month right now. In the summer when I fill every hole (67 in my current chamber), I'll have to do it once a week....See MoreCloning Machine - Mister, Bubbler or Deep Water Culture?
Comments (3)Fawnridge, thanks for your reply and photos. Pretty cool setup! However, the cuttings I will have are pretty small - probably 1/10 of the size of the ones in your photos. I was thinking about a mini bubble cloner - the DIY type made in a Sterlite storage container - for rooting small cuttings. For now, I want to make it as simple and inexpensive as possible because I'd like to start using it tonight, LOL! I may consider your design down the road. Thank you for posting! Carol...See MoreQuestions re: Homemade Cloning Machine
Comments (7)Hi, he posts a lot of the winter sowing forum, has been busy with his hoophouse. Last post I can find from him is Feb 14, 2010. He posted some pictures of his hoophouse and has lots of seedlings he's going to try to plant but it may be too early. I pinged him on the winter sowing forum directing him to my question on the longer thread about the cloning machine on this forum as I have some questions, too, now that I'm about ready to start setting a smaller one up. Sorry I can't answer your questions, but I'll take a stab at them. The roots can't be allowed to dry out, and the bubbler probably agitates the water to generate more mist, may have other benefits. I saw a thread where somebody added a bubbler and finally got a clematis to root (quite awhile ago and may have been on the rose propagation & exchange forum). I tried the same with my clematis cutting and failed (bought a bubbler/bubble stone), but didn't use any rooting hormone (all I have is powder and didn't know how that would work with water surrounding the bottom of the cutting in the water in that method). But I have no idea about the depth of the water or chamber. Normally when you root cuttings, it is under grow lights or shade outdoors. Even though they don't have leaves, at some point they will try to leaf out and need light. If you put a dark cover over it, it might not be good, not saying I know for sure because I don't. But if that is the only covering you can rig up, you can always cut out "windows" in the top and sides and cover with clear plastic. Probably easier to just pick up two translucent storage containers that match. I'll have to study the photos again, as usually leaves need to be kept misted because that is the only way they can absorb the water they need while severed until they form roots able to take over. There was another good idea when we were showed how to prep 2 liter bottles for winter sowing. Cut them all the way around 5 inches above the bottom, cut an inverted V in the top section about 5/8" wide at the bottom and extending up about an inch, doesn't have to be precise. Then the top can be squeezed so that it will slide into the bottom. I was going to try to root another rose cutting using that method and leave the bottle cap on. For winter sowing outdoors, we leave the caps off. What I'm leading up to here is that somebody posted a photo on a different thread but in WS'ing than the one I'm linking to about how they root in those bottles using some medium that is brownish, looks like a mix I special ordered. Canadian Sun Gro #2 if you can get it is supposed to be good. Sorry I don't know where that photo is. That cutting had leaves, and I'm sure rooting hormone was used. Usually you strip most of the leaves off but the top ones. But one of the points of using a 2-liter bottle is to allow light in and the humidity keeping the leaves able to absorb it. I've rooted rose cuttings, not a good success rate but got most of the ones I wanted. Often they will drop all their leaves, then I'll wait awhile and see a node(s) starting to swell. Sometimes it leafs out and sometimes it just stalls, then has been in my setup too long and rots. But when they do leaf out, they need light. I hope token will show up and is ok. Here is a link that might be useful: Thread on WS forum, You ok down there Drippy and GGG?...See Moregardener365
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