Tomatoes! You only need a few seedlings to start and then take cuttings. If you take cuttings every summer you can hold over your best plants and have tomatoes all winter and get an early start in the summer. When I've cloned tomatoes in the spring they were blooming within a couple of weeks.
how many here clone?
Any cloners here? I havent in a few yrs but I used to have a nice greenhouse at my other house (moms house now, my new greenhouse is still a plan on paper). I used to clone everything. 2 plants of each flower i had (i used to have a sea of flowers around... dunno really why I dont anymore) i kept in the greenhouse all winter and then cloned as many new ones as i wanted in the early spring. Most all my flora on the hill is something I cloned from someone elses yard or pinched out of a garden someplace. I even cloned trees, buit that takes a long time. At the point where I was getting good at cloning woody shrubs, I moved and the clone lab ceased to be. (but I know everywhere I walk I see my cloning handiwork)
I'm interested to know if anyone else was a rabid cloner. I had a vast collection of cloning pods (clear 1 liter pop bottles cut in half do form small bell jars, they work great) and always had all kinds of plants rooting in there. I would get carried away, I had clones of stuff i didnt even want or like. (I couldnt help myself)
Any other mad cloners?
(first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem!)
I'm interested to know if anyone else was a rabid cloner. I had a vast collection of cloning pods (clear 1 liter pop bottles cut in half do form small bell jars, they work great) and always had all kinds of plants rooting in there. I would get carried away, I had clones of stuff i didnt even want or like. (I couldnt help myself)
Any other mad cloners?
(first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem!)
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Ammonia will raise it and baking soda (calcium bicarbinate) will lower it... Or maybe it's the other way around... It's one or the other.wilderness1989 said:Does anyone here clone and if so can you tell me how to regulate the pH in the water without buying expensive additives? :cowboy:
Thanks I think it is the other way around.Dahc said:Ammonia will raise it and baking soda (calcium bicarbinate) will lower it... Or maybe it's the other way around... It's one or the other.
I used white vinegar to lower it. :cowboy:vinegar is a weak acid. Use it to make pH lower.
baking soda is a weak base. Use it to make pH higher.
So, if your water pH is 7.9, add some vinager to get it down to 7.
If your water pH is 6.1, add some baking soda to get it up to 7.
(7 is neutral).
With soil people usually use sulfur to acidify (lower pH) and lime to do the opposite (raise pH).
psst--CN, I like your 'sound-eye-of-Horus' avatar.
baking soda is a weak base. Use it to make pH higher.
So, if your water pH is 7.9, add some vinager to get it down to 7.
If your water pH is 6.1, add some baking soda to get it up to 7.
(7 is neutral).
With soil people usually use sulfur to acidify (lower pH) and lime to do the opposite (raise pH).
psst--CN, I like your 'sound-eye-of-Horus' avatar.
:help: PH and cuttings? Maybe I am lucky and my soil/water is already in the zone. I don't worry about PH at all...just take the cuttings and put them in a pot or flat with new potting mix, water well and cover with plastic until leaves appear. Interesting, and I was pleasantly surprised to see this thread again.
Thanks to everyone for posting so many cool ways to clone plants! Who knew?! LOL
LQ
Thanks to everyone for posting so many cool ways to clone plants! Who knew?! LOL
LQ
I have A question, If you would help, Is there A booklet/ phamplet. That can give insites on the subject??? If so can you guide me to where it can be found. I was instructed about 25 years ago how to do it, But never got to put it to the test. Thank you.
www.dipngrow.com This is the stuff I use.It even works on hardwood cuttings including fruit trees.I use it mainly for Exotics.It is NOT organic!But it works on everything.-
Whoa! CN, tell me there's no resurrection of the dead -- this is one old thread!
Seriously, I never thought of what I do as cloning. Now I feel like a Mad Scientist! BWAhahaha!
I have been cloning my patchouli with mixed results.
After reading this and a couple of other threads, I am seriously considering cloning my tomato plants. No need to ferment seeds and start all over.
It seems that cross-pollination would no longer be an issue as well...
Bonus all around!
Pony!
Seriously, I never thought of what I do as cloning. Now I feel like a Mad Scientist! BWAhahaha!
I have been cloning my patchouli with mixed results.
After reading this and a couple of other threads, I am seriously considering cloning my tomato plants. No need to ferment seeds and start all over.
It seems that cross-pollination would no longer be an issue as well...
Bonus all around!
Pony!
Hey Pony;I do root suckers from really healthy,robust plants which allows me to multiply healthy or rare plants.However since I live in a frost free place I have grown tomatoes over the winter and into the next season.They do Not produce the same quality of fruit the second season.The exceptions to this are eggplants and peppers.I have both from last year and they are producing even better than they did the first year.-
Well I used to be a cloning "nut", but life intervened and gave it up until recently. Right now I'm rooting cuttings of impatiens, coleus and geraniums to keep over winter. In early spring I'll take cuttings from these and have several plants for little money.
Maggie
Maggie
I'd like to salvage some elderly heirloom pear & peach trees. Can they be cloned, or would I be forced to graft them?
Has anyone ever tried "layering" for propogating woody shrubs, trees, etc? that is my next adventure.
I am an avid cloner. I have a 50 spot gro-cloner. I only have a couple of acres here but my garden would have cost so much more without that cloner.
With my gro-cloner I can root a new plant in about 7 days.
I am an avid cloner. I have a 50 spot gro-cloner. I only have a couple of acres here but my garden would have cost so much more without that cloner.
With my gro-cloner I can root a new plant in about 7 days.
Look on the bottom of the tree to see if it was grafted to begin with. Don't know for sure, but my gut tells me you may need to graft it onto another rootstock. You can definitely clone the tree but whether or not it will produce fruit I don't know.kenuchelover said:I'd like to salvage some elderly heirloom pear & peach trees. Can they be cloned, or would I be forced to graft them?
Yes. Works well and low labor. I do azaleas, indian hawthorne, crepe myrtles, gardenias, lantana, and verbena. Most do well and it is almost fool-proof. I pull the branch down, scrape away a little of the bark and put that scratched part on the dirt. Put a brick on it and walk away for about 6 months. May work a little better with a stack of leaves on top to keep it moist there.jasper said:Has anyone ever tried "layering" for propogating woody shrubs, trees, etc? that is my next adventure.
I am an avid cloner. I have a 50 spot gro-cloner. I only have a couple of acres here but my garden would have cost so much more without that cloner.
With my gro-cloner I can root a new plant in about 7 days.
Thanks for explaining that. I have some great lantana here I could use for my education.
I have ornamental cherry trees too and have to figure out how to do it with those. As they can't be bent to the ground I have heard there is a way to make a cut and pack something in the opening, then it's wrapped for a long period of time. I know that sounds sketchy as I have not investigated it all yet.
I have ornamental cherry trees too and have to figure out how to do it with those. As they can't be bent to the ground I have heard there is a way to make a cut and pack something in the opening, then it's wrapped for a long period of time. I know that sounds sketchy as I have not investigated it all yet.
Hey Jasper;That is called grafting.Taking a new groth bud or branch from another cherry tree and grafting in on to a mature tree to get other varieties on one tree.-
Actually Zebraman there is a technique that propogates while still attached to the original stock plant. I will make a point of finding it online some place and posting it here. The name of the technique is just not coming to me at the moment.
If I understand correctly grafting is taking one plant and "attaching" it to root stock that will grow better in a particular environment.
I will find it and post it here tomorrow hopefully
If I understand correctly grafting is taking one plant and "attaching" it to root stock that will grow better in a particular environment.
I will find it and post it here tomorrow hopefully
Wher can I see a gro-cloner? I googled it with no results.
http://www.bewellhydroponics.com/home.html
there is the link to the hydroponics store in my area. go to the shopping tab and it is listed.
i believe they actually have a video on it at the site.
there is the link to the hydroponics store in my area. go to the shopping tab and it is listed.
i believe they actually have a video on it at the site.
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