Requirements:

Propagation box consisting of drip tray, seedling tray, and clear propagation lid with adjustable vent holes.

The Turbo Cloning Kit
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• 1"(25mm) rockwool cubes, 3" (75mm) rockwool blocks
• Fluoro lighting
• Timer
• Grow solution 1/4 strength E.C. 1.2 pH 6.0
• pH control kit
• Jar of luke warm water
• Hormone Gel of powder
• Sharp blade
• Scissors
• Small fan
• Kitchen paper

Using the best flowering plant you have take your cuttings from low down spindly material that hasn't flowered as much as the growth higher up. You can take your cuttings up to day 35 of the flowering period. The low down material is older and woodier therefore the cambium layer which is the growth layer in the stem is better formed than in your green stemmed material. The small flower on your cutting will die back and new vegetative growth will appear when your cutting is reintroduced to a twenty (hours) on, four (hours) off light cycle. Without having any effect on quality or yieldover an infinite amount of time. In effect the same plant can be kept alive for ever. By using the two-tier technique.

Pre soak 1"(25mm) rockwool cubes in a quarter strength grow solution E.C. 1.2 pH 6.0 place your cubes onto your seedling tray in preparation. Cut whole limbs from low down on your plants immediately place the limbs into a jar of luke warm water; this will lessen the overall shock to the live material and stop embolism. Aim to take no more than 30% of the plant for cuttings to lessen the overall shock to the plant, which still has to flower off.

Take a limb from your jar of luke warm water, with a pair of scissors make a cut between the nodes. Depending on the size of the limb you can make your cut from between nodes 2 and 3, 3 and 4, or 4 and 5. Trim the side limbs from the bottom nodes. Cut the large leaves in half to reduce the cuttings size. Now you are ready to make your final cut.

Where you removed the side limbs from the bottom two nodes, make a diagonal cut at about 60 degrees. The result will resemble an old-fashioned quill pen. Immediately after making the node cut, dip the exposed end into luke warm water. Then dip into hormone gel or powder; use sparingly as too much can have an adverse effect on your clones growth. Insert your cuttings into 1"(25mm) cubes. Place it so that it just grips. Don't press it in too far, as you want it just standing upright. Oxygen is essential at the root producing area therefore a light grip works best.

Once you have taken your clones gently cover with a propagation lid, vents closed. Cover the top but not the sides of the propagator lid with a single layer of kitchen paper and place under fluoro lights. Fluoro lights are very cool so get them as close to your propagator lid as possible, within 2mm leave the lights switched on constantly for the first 72 hours, (three days). After 72 hours remove the kitchen paper and then place the lights on a timer set to 20 hours on, 4 hours off.

The result you are trying to achieve is your cuttings on day 5 looking as good as the day you took them. If you achieve this you will obtain very fast initial root growth. The first thing a healthy clone will do before any foliar growth is to push out a healthy root system. Healthy roots are thick white and hairy, sick roots are yellow to brown and of a withered appearance.

Within 12 days open the vents and on day 14 remove lid. Trim your plant of any dead or damaged material and then introduce your 1"(25mm) cubes to 3"(75mm) blocks which have been pre soaked in a grow solution E.C. 1.2 pH 5.8 - 6.0.

If started off in a Turbo Tank, by day 25-35, the cuttings will have grown vegetatively and pushed out a fair sized root system. The trick is to time it right so that you have a fairly well established plant above ground with a good root system below.

Bearing in mind you can always cut above ground growth off if it becomes too big for your propagator. Damaging your roots can slow down your growing procedure considerably and in some cases promote a bonsai flowering effect.