How to make Cannabis Clones Easily
Which Branch to chose? How to prepare your cuttings?
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Today we’re going to cover one of the easiest ways to do a cutting with a Cannabis plant. Once that’s done we’ll look at how to chose the branch(es) to be prunes and transport them.
Weed, being such a resilient plant, make cuttings pretty easy to make. Newbie success rate is of about 50%, so if this is your situation prepare 2x more cuttings than what you need 😉
Here’s what we’re going to cover:
How to make a Cannabis clone
As we started to say in the first paragraph, Marijuana is a very resilient plant so making cuttings off of her isn’t a very hard to make cuttings off of them.
In this section we will share how we’ve come to clone our strains. It’s pretty simple and straight forward, without using much more than water and the power of nature 🙂
To make it easy we recently made a 30second video to easily clone
Step 1 – Prepare everything you will need
When you’ve cut the branch from your plant you’re going to have to act quickly, so it’s definitely a good thing to have everything prepared before you get started. Lets go over what you need to clone your strain
Equipment used to clone here
- A pair of sterilized scissors
- Water
- Plastic wrap, better cut couple squares before hand so every is ready when needed
- Cup, preferably small and made of glass
- And of course, branches than you can cut (see how to choose your branch)
Step 2 – Cut the branch
This is pretty self-explanatory, you’re going to want to cut the branch and than place it quickly into water.
Here are a couple things you should be careful for:
- Sanitize your scissors or other cutting tool. You want to limit as much as possible the possible contact with germs.
- Cut the branch at about a 45° angle and close to the main stem.
- Remove most of the foliage : As you can see in the picture here, we’ve removed almost all the foliage. She really doesn’t need much here to root, the most important is for her not to sweat.
Step 3 – Place the Stem in water
Until the cutting start developing some roots you need to keep her in an environment with 90-100% of humidity so that they don’t sweat, if your plant sweats without a root system, she will dry out and most likely die.
With time the way we have come to do this is by placing plastic wrap on the top of a small glass. While letting the light through for photosynthesis it seals and preserves the humidity, just perfect.
4 clones ready for the grow tent
Step 5 – Place the cutting in the grow room & wait 🙂
Which Branches to Prune to make your clones?
You might think that it doesn’t really matter which auxiliary branch you decide to prune in order to make your cuttings but it really does.
The branches lowest to the ground contain the newest hormones but also most rooting hormones. These 2 factors will strongly increase the chances of success of the cloning operation.
Cloning is one of the most traumatic things that a plant can live. In order to survive they must quickly adapt, change their whole chemistry in order to start producing roots and survive. The newer the hormones, the better chances of success.
It’s also important to note that smaller cuttings root much quicker than thinker one’s since they need much less energy to sustain themselves and focus on root growth.
The Bottom branches contain the newest hormones
Recap :
- Make your cuttings from the bottom branches
- The larger the cutting, the longer it will take for it to develop a root system.
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What do clones need to survive?
Humidity, humidity and a little light. The most important thing is humidity levels to reduce sweating until she has started developing some roots.
This is why we remove so much foliage, less foliage is less possible sweating, as she doesn’t need much energy, a small amount of foliage is enough for her to photosynthesis enough.
What light schedule should i set for my clones?
Clones are still in the vegetation phase so you should keep a 18h light, 6h dark light cycle.
It’s important to have a timer here, you don’t want to add extra stress linked to fluctuating day/night hours.
How To Transport Cuttings
Transporting freshly cut cuttings is actually pretty simple once you know how to do so, although you need to be pretty quick, the longer the trip the more chances the cuttings won’t survive.
In order for you to maximize your chances we’ve grouped these couple steps together 🙂
1. Prepare your materials
So the materials for this are pretty simple, all you need is:
- A pair of scissors in order to remove the branche(s).
Don’t forget to disinfect the scissors before using them in order to prevent bacteria transmission. - An air-tight jar. Fill this jar about half way in water.
With this you’re ready to get your cuttings to go!
2. Placing the cuttings in Water
As soon as you cut the branches off the main stem you want to place them in water. As we said in step 2 of cutting making, it’s crucial that you do this quickly so that no air bubble places itself into vein.
3. Closing the Jar and Transport
Once your branches are in the water, close the jar and place them in a dark environment.
Once this is done you’re good to go!
The quicker you’ll get them into the block of rock-wool the greater the chances of success.
Alright folks that’s all for this one!
Until next time, be safe and grow easy
Couple words about the grower
This article was written by Plant Lover, Free the Tree's founder and a passionate grower of Cannabis, as well as all other plants.
Mostly from the city, I work on my computer all day so about 4 years ago, on my off time, I started growing to have some more green in my life.
I never imagined I would fall in love with botany and discover so much about this plant. Since then I keep learning everyday, meeting new awesome people of our community and grow constantly
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