My First Attempt at Cloning a Scrawny Crystal

[Homebrew Harry]

I had asked about cloning in a thread that @kgranger had started. Here is my attempt step by step in case anyone would care, ha.
1st I filled a clear 9 oz cup(with drain holes) with perlite, wet it down, and bored a hole.

 

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Next I sanitized my scissors and knife with alcohol

 

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Then I took my cutting. I removed a set of leaves with scissors. I then scraped the stem and node with a sharp knife to rough it up a bit.

 

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Before cutting it down in length, I submerged it in water...

 

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Then into the rooting powder...

 

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And here she is all watered in. The coffee cup will keep it stable and if I have to go away, I can put a little water in there that will get wicked up.

 

[Homebrew Harry]

I took this cutting from the 3rd bine that came up. Some friends want cuttings and I want redundancy so I plan to take as many cuttings as this bine will give. Now if my Centennial would throw some more shoots !

 

[SkipperHops]

Please post rooting updates! Been considering doing some cloning in order to replace a few plants that were killed over winter by some sort of rodent, so I'd love to see how this goes!

 

[T Murph]

Nice work Harry

 

[Homebrew Harry]

Hey, thanks. Today 24hrs later she was standing right up.

 

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It's been 5 days and she's still looking good...

 

[Homebrew Harry]

My Centennial is finally making some shoots. They are low on the only bine. I'll be trying to clone this one very soon...

 

[Homebrew Harry]

After 9 days the Crystal still looks good. The Centennial gave up her first cutting yesterday. Some kind of bug had been munching on her. The leaf on the left has damage...

 

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Spider mites got to them so I thought I would check for roots since I had to trash them. As you can see she was making roots. I have more started. I posted this so @SkipperHops could see the result. Cheers guys.