How To Clone A
Marijuana Plant
Clone is a slang term amongst
marijuana growers that means to propagate by rooting a
cutting from a mother plant.
The reason growers root cuttings
from a mother plant is to get a consistent quality. A
cutting from a mother plant once rooted and grown properly
will produce the exact medicine every time. Of course there
is always a limit. Some plants or clones last longer than
others and some have been passed around for over 30 years
and still exist today.
Cloning or rooting a marijuana cutting isn't that difficult
once you learn how. I
like to use a simple approach to cloning. Since I grow in
soil I don't need a fancy aero cloner. I don't use rooting
hormones or other rooting agents either. All you actually
need to clone successfully is a Jiffy7 pellet, a clear
Rubbermaid type container with a sealed lid, a cutting and
some ph corrected water.
Soak the Jiffy7 pellet in cool PH corrected water until it
swells to it's maximum capacity. Once the pellet swells out
to it's max size insert 2 nodes of the cutting into the
pellet. Make sure to keep 2 nodes in the pellet. I have
found this to be a crucial success factor. Nodes are the
points where the leaves attach to the stem.
Squeeze the pellet tight so
there is absolutely no air on the stem. When I do it the
pellet looks like a large Hershey Kiss.
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