Hey Dennis,

Are you using city water?  Just wondering, since I am on a well and I can usually see "stuff" in the water right out of the tap.  I am going on the theory that it strengthens my immune system, but may have some biological activity the new cuttings are sensitive to.

Dan

Yes like the fig eating Hulk!  Try to take my cuttings and see what happens!

  LOL!!

     You know, Dan...   I'm to the point of being willing to place money on the fact that Dennis happens to live on the down-hill end of a toxic spill that prevents all forms of micro-biologic growth.   As for me, I've had at least one cloner running cuttings non-stop since before Christmas.   And I've had a total of one fig that set roots and lived.  I've murdered so many other cultivars with this death machine, that the House of Ficus has my picture posted on a Wanted Poster for genocide.

Yes. I am on city water. And actually our water is the best I've tasted in my travels. Lived in the Atlanta area for 7 years. The water there was the worse!!! No joke!

I don't up pot until the roots are 1.5" or greater.  Those are nice baby roots on that Panache.You can see that they're totally different than the lenticels on all the other plants.  Having lenticels show is completely normal.

And here are the final result! All 64 DONE!

Winner winner chicken dinner. Kinda awesome!

Nice!  It is hard to argue with results like that.  Good job!

Congratulations, it looks like your back is feeling a little better.

Good job Dennis. Those roots look nice

This is amazing, I wish I had this talent and equipment.  Great work!

BUMP

Dennis,
Maybe you are not seeing my comments but here is an update of my third most succeful batch . Up-potted and Moved inside my greenhouse. They are growing like nothing ever happened.

bump

Have a clone king 24 how much Hydrogen Proxide do I need in it if any?

Teaspoon every 3 days.

What is the purpose of the HP, not Hewlett-Packard.

Some mighty impressive roots Dennis, I think I might have to give this a try with some throwaway cuttings next season so I can get the jist of it

I will be doing this again this year, but will be using PURE H20. I think either the hydrogen peroxide or more likely the clonex caused the slime on my cuttings. I had better luck towards the end when both H202 and clonex were probably not viable anymore and water was more neutral. That was my experience at least.

It keeps the bacteria away.

I took the time to read all 396 messages here. What a great thread. My local grow store wanted me to build one, they build their own for own use as well as sell commercial ones, but I was a little reticent and am not amazing with hand tools. Good to know they work with figs and 5 gallon bucket ones are a no-no. Thanks to all!
Devin

I've tried a variety of techniques (but I'm no expert).

I liked Root Riot cubes (last year's best new thing); I got great density and good results.  As I moved rooted cuttings out I found that the remainder dried out quicker and it was harder to maintain humidity.  I found that once I moved the cuttings to cups the cubes made it harder for the roots to really take off.

I built my cloner as an experiment.  In terms of density, there's no comparison - I get 50 or so in a space that would have held hundreds.  But I found that I got great rooting.  If I were rooting 400 Brown Turkey cuttings i'd use Root Riot.  If I were buying expensive, hard to root cuttings I'd happily throw them in my cloner.

Andrew