How To Take Cuttings - 4 Minute Guide to Clones and Cloning

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If you want to make dozens of copies of your favourite plants then check out this quick, four minute guide to taking cuttings (aka clones) and discover just how easy it is to propagate plants from stem cuttings. We use Kaffir Lime as an example.

[richardinman]

This is by far the best quick and most thorough cloning video I have found yet.... I have always said, Rapid rooters, but I use locally sourced honey instead of gels, same domes, yep, fixing to cut a few hundred Jamaican Passion Flower Vines and maybe 25 Giant Passion Flower vines.... A+ video!

[benchan]

Bro, I like the TECHNICAL and SCIENTIFIC way u do yr stuff. Also, yr stuff r CLEAN and NEW. This lets me SEE very clearly what/how/where u r doing the critical things u r showing. Also, yr corny humour makes the topics interesting n sometimes cracks me up :) . GREAT STUFF U R DOING, MY FRIEND !!!

[michaelgibson]

I have decided to go through this entire library, taking notes like a class. Comment on Getting Better Seedlings when I get there.

[titangaming]

Im just gonna make a Great clone army of plants for the republic.

[ossian]

For most flowers, you can take the cuttings, put them in glasses of water (indoors) and they'll sprout roots within a couple of weeks.

[intensepar]

So chill and easy to watch... miss this :-)

[Lemonz]

This seems really expensive. :)
Most plants don't need this kind of care when cloning. I clone almost all my plants, and I just stick them in soil or water. I clone _Buxus sempervirens_ (common box) quite often, and I just remove a small branch and stick it in soil and have a success rate of around 60%, which is fine as the mother plant grows quite vigorously, and there is no shortage of branches to clone. :)
But yeah, some plants are difficult to handle! If the plants I clone are rare, I'm more careful as mistakes aren't really an option. :/

[mark]

Normally I just stick alot of cuttings in to a large pot and leave it outside, works 60% of the time. Queen Elizabeth rose and fuschia mostly. It's wet here so they never really dry out.

[joesmith-ntfm]

I used a rusty fish knife, a piece of black styrofoam, a fish tank bubbler and air stone, tap water, two weeks later I had roots... 4 months later I was chiefing the queen sheba

[Zhaturianvisionz]

I typically use individual clear cups with a sandwich bag covering and clone directly in coco peat mix soil.

[c-bird]

Everest, u are the man! your a human encyclopedia on being productive in the garden. AWESOME! Question- can I use rapid rooters that I have been stored away for about 4 weeks? or should I throw them away? thanks again dude, keep the lessons coming!

[davideubanks]

Pure honey works to dip also. Works better than almost any dip or powder.

[adamsloan]

Wow! I didn't even know this was a thing. Not really a farmer. You did a wonderful job explaining it to someone like me who knows absolutely nothing of the subject. How do you know which specimen you wish to clone.

[amandaharrison]

Thank you for posting this! What about the heat mat underneath the propagator, though? Would you recommend using it if the station is indoors with a T-5 Flourescent bulb on it? I'm thinking of putting the propagation station on my kitchen counter underneath the bulb. The average room temp would be 65 - 75 degrees. thanks in advance.

[charlottehendricks]

loved the video, I'm closing honeysuckle. im using rooting powder and big plastic bag over my small pot. can't afford the other stuff. this worked on Gardenas.

[JonRBermudez]

Best channel ever! How long before the rosemary rooted? Like the newest video.... How about harden off and transplant video?

[KratomTheTree]

I used this method with Kratom. Works extremely well

[rain]

Is this only for hydroponics or can you plant the starter into a pot or garden bed?

[pandarama]

this is a great video. I have been doing cuttings of many different plants for 30 years and the only thing i would add to this video is if one was using a cutting dome and suggest that when reusing the trays and domes too make sure they sterilize them with a bleach or hydrogen peroxide solution or you will inevitably get fungus and stem mold that will surely kill off every bit of hard work you do. different plants have different resistant levels to this when it happens and in fact many types of plants are better off with out a dome. Dry woody plants do better with a sterilized dome where as it seems soft stemmed  fast growing plants like huhum mary jane are more vulnerable to stem rot from using dirty uncleaned domes and trays.  either way if you reuse a dome and tray make sure you sterilize them.

[cannanostra]

Hello Everest ... I am a follower and hydroponic grower for 20+ years .. in all those years I felt I was working with very good tap water and didn't use much of reverse osmosis and now ... I SEE THE LIGHT ... lol .. wow it's amazing and changed the grow game for me big time . It went from a specialty unit that wasn't highly necessary to one of major importance when growing hydroponic and organic . Question tho . Since getting the hydrologic reverse osmosis I used it in soaking rockwool for clones . I didn't add cal mag the first time and did the second time to a lower 80-90 ppm of cal mag . Finding that my success rate is way way lower then before with reg tap water . What would you suggest for clones and rockwool soaking . Would ya use the cal mag in initial rockwool soak and to what ppm and ph would you recommend ? Love all the videos . I'm working at the 3rd grow shop now since growing commercial hydroponic basil for local market and restaurants . Learned alot myself . Most people can't . And anyone that shows up at the shop with questions on growing and where they can learn ... I say youtube follow just4growers ! Keep it up buddy