I've had great success with my cloner this season.  Most varieties rooted without issue as long as they were viable from the start (I had a few Black Jack's which did nothing, but the source threw them in for me and we both expected very little).

I'm winding down, but if anyone has cuttings they want me to drop into the cloner I'd be happy to give it a try.  You'd ship me the cutting and I'd pot it up and you'd pay shipping back to you.

My 'fee' would be one rooted cutting so long as multiples rooted (if only one of a batch lives, it goes to the sender, not me).  This assumes that it's a cutting I want <g>.

Thick green cuttings seem to work well as do dormant thick cuttings.  Slender cuttings don't seem to have enough energy to take.

Please respond if there is any interest.


Andrew

Nice deal Andrew! Will you keep this offer extended for a while? I don't have any cuttings at the moment that need rooting but since the cloner works well on active growing cuttings, I may take you up on this in the future.. :)

What kind of cloner do you have? I tried a root spray bucket system and had no luck. I'd love to hear about one that works.

Paul,

I put mine together with parts from Home Depot and Amazon.  I'm using a really big tote so that I could have more surface area on the lid to do cut outs.  I could have drastically increased the number of holes, but I was uncertain how much rigidity the lid would have remaining.

I did a lot of reading on the pot sites since those guys seem to have cloning down to a science (since for them it's money and not a hobby).

For figs, my reading indicated that the 5 gallon bucket system was doomed from heat buildup - there just isn't enough water to keep the temps down with the pump going full time.

Most people seem to use the XL Commander tote which has a yellow lid and predefined squares for cutting.  I'm using a 54 gallon RubberMaid Roughneck tote.  During the winter I had a heat mat under it and used that to bring the temps up a bit and then mostly left it off.

I'm going to try to clone some raspberry plants just to see if it works.  At some point I'm going to shut the cloner down and clean it out; I just don't know when.



Andrew