The Best Methods For Cloning Plants! (Garden Talk #60)

In this episode of Garden Talk, I interview Paul, also known as, Clone Coach. He talks all about best practices for cloning plants in order to be successful. What plants do you like to grow? Tomatoes, lettuce, citrus trees, house plants, carrots, basil, let us know in the comments section below. If you enjoyed this video please click that thumbs up button :)

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★Timestamps★
00:00 - Montage & Podcast Intro
01:41 - Sponsors
02:42 - Introduction
04:59 - Taking Clones From Healthy Mother Plants
07:37 - Tips On Taking Cuttings
09:11 - Why Sterilize Tools Before Cutting?
10:51 - Size Of Cuttings
12:36 - Rooting Hormones
14:14 - What To Put Cuttings Into
18:46 - Water/Medium Temperature
20:14 - 3 Stages Of Rooting
23:14 - Soaking Rockwool & Root Riots & Proper pH
25:24 - Nutrients
26:58 - Temperature & Relative Humidity
28:21 - CO2
30:35 - Lowest Relative Humidity For Rooting
32:21 - Lighting
24:06 - Purple/Red Stems
36:58 - Common Mistakes When Cloning
38:58 - Troubleshooting
40:02 - Preventing Cross Contamination
44:31 - Final Words

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Johannes Bornlöf - An Introduction 4
Christopher Shorooi – Tales

[GardenTalkwithMrGrowIt]

Thanks to Clone Coach for coming onto the podcast today!

[HomeGrowTV]

love coming back and re-listing to this one a few times... MUCH LOVE clone coach & Chris

[twobeards]

I just did a defoliation of a white widow. This was two weeks ago.
I put the cuts right into water then did an angled cut below a node.
The cuttings were dipped in a mix of aloe and honey them right onto a quart pot with soiless medium.( my 10 year recipe diluted with 40 % perlite added. ) I ph my RO water to 5.5 and thoroughly wet the medium.
After a dip in the honey aloe I coat the cut with great white.
Place the clones in the medium, clip the leaves, add a tall humidity dome and a heat mat and wait two weeks.
I did 24 cuts and all are thriving in the grow medium.
I did all my tomatoes like this last year. 4 mothers gave me 24 plants .
Yummy yummy.

[thetangieman]

Cloner Gel in a squeeze bottle is absolute genius. Paul deserves an award for that trick.

[adamgouldiii]

I have used aloe-vera and honey as rooting gel and both worked VERY WELL.

[SoulKiss-tv]

That ketchup gel hack is truly brilliant.

[samartinez]

I've noticed when my veg room hits about 80 to 85 degrees, my clones will root In a few days instead of a week.

[fammunguia]

I feel comfortable in certain stages of growing.... then I watch your videos and realize that I have either been lucky...or I could have been better than what I thought. Thank you again for another great interview.

[edmundnelson]

I took a clone from the bottom of the mother plant (about 3 1/2 inches), shaved the bottom and didn't use any rooting mixture...planted it directly into the medium under a clear plastic cup and now it's nearly taller than the mother plant. Crazy how little you can get exactly right and still have a healthy clone.

[robertmayo]

Aeroponic cloning is the best 💯 % success rate, can't beat it, set it and forget it cloning

[ToddCarlson-hi]

Good stuff here! You have great conversations with great guests. I have subscribed.

[manicmurph]

Man that clone coach is the man! He just answered basically all my questions about what I was doing wrong.

[Enjoy_my_st_Amendment]

Watched several cloning videos and this one was certainly the best for me.
Clipped 4 after studying this video and got 4 out of 4 rooted and growing, took about 15 days to see new foliage growth.

Scrogging them currently, 54 days in and doing really good.

Indoor environment
80F and about 50 to 60%h, organic grow with 2000w equivalent KindLed.
Scrog is 5x5 set at 6 inches from top of 7gal fab pots. As per advice from Northern Scrogger on YT.
This is working well also and easy to LST with the low screen.

[thereignofthezero]

Great idea at the end. That's one thing I will use

[chrishall]

Great Video! I use an EZ CLone 128 Aeroponic System for Cloning. As you said there could be potential issues, but the Rooting is much faster and robust! Also, stop dipping Cuts into the Rooting Gel. Just add it to the Water and mix it a bit. Trust me and save a bunch of time and your results will be even better than dipping.

[comfortablynumb]

Good show! I have tomato cuttings in my kitchen window rooting in plain filtered tap water right now. That works for lots of plants and trees and would probably work for cannabis too. It will root in soil without hormones too. Trimming half of the length of each leaf on a cutting helps because leaves need water and it's difficult to get enough water without roots. I learned that trick from bonsai and it works for lots of plants. Big leaves can be cut off too. The idea is to have a little green on the clones.

[lyfzameme]

I got lucky with making a few clones I grew them outside and landed up getting a massive tree with buds the size of my entire arm

[craigaulenback]

Once again an amazing and informative video. Chris I follow all your channels and I have learned alot through you and your guests. Have been growing for about 5-6 years, been gardening since I can remember. Out of all those years the last 2 years I have learned such an immense amount of gardening knowledge that was just never on my mind before. You are the first Grow channel I watched and subscribed to. Since following your content my gardening skills and final product whether it be fruits and veggies or medicinal have just excelled to a whole other level. Keep up the great work and content. All you beginners out there. Watch listen and learn from Chris and his colleagues! Thanks for everything.

[citygonecountry]

I just wanted to say thanks to chris for doing what u do. You are doing a great job. I hope it pays off. U def put the work in to deserve it

[dagby]

In other words pay attention to your plant and revert back to the basics of growing.
Thanks 😊👍.
I love using a 60/40 of Perlite and worm casting with a touch of honey and root jell.
Been doing that for 20 years. Thank you both great information