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Wax Daub & Dip Rooting Experiments

Love to hear about your experiments!

Just wondering how this eliminates the humidiy dome (or other methods of regulating humidity) for the young plants? 
How do you maintain the 65-80%  RH (or whatever works for you)?
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Originally Posted by pino
Love to hear about your experiments!

Just wondering how this eliminates the humidiy dome (or other methods of regulating humidity) for the young plants? 
How do you maintain the 65-80%  RH (or whatever works for you)?


Hey Pino.  Well, my theory is the wax sealing the whole cutting eliminates the need for humidity cover.  I've never really been concerned with humidity anyways since last year's single node experiment.  They seem to grow fine without any cover and the ones under the T5 fixtures now are as well.  

I do have some vented cup lids over some single node cuttings in sand now, to keep from having to surface water them. The sand wicks ok up to about four inches height which is the sand depth in the grow bags and the cuttings are right under the surface. When they show activity I'll remove the lids. 
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Resurrecting an old thread, hoping to see how this experiment turned out!
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Originally Posted by figoffrandy
Resurrecting an old thread, hoping to see how this experiment turned out!


The cuttings rotted under the wax. Anaerobic asphyxiation. 
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I got the cuttings in wax from Europe in 2016. All cuttings later rotted.
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Thanks for the update, sorry to hear about the rot. I think (as noted in this thread previously) a breathable alternative like parafilm would get the desired effect
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