Cloning by 'layering' techniques

[earth girl]

High grobros! Did you Know...?
You can develope clones while they are still attached to the mother. This eleminates the need for humidity domes or misting, thus reducing the chance of molds and fungi. It also allows much larger clones with thicker foliage. You already have a developed plant, instead of some pale scrawney twigs.
The basic principle is to create a rooting site on a branch, then provide it with a clump of medium kept moist until roots form. Then it may be severed from the mother and treated as a transplant.
Uncle Ben over at cann.com Ezine has an article describing the method step-by-step.
The technique is a popular horticultural devise, and may also be found in any comprehensive gardening manual. It is certainly my favorite!
earth girl{8^D

[Storm]

Good info earthgirl.

Great link too, i've done this with palms when they get too lanky, slit the side, dab some rooting hormone on it and wrap plastic around the area.
makes sense for mj too! Kewl :bongdude:

[smotpoker]

i've never tried it with marijuana before, however i've had success cloning fig tree's w/ air layering. I girdled the stem, removing the phloem layer. Then i tied black plastic around the cut much like a cone joint. then i fill it tight with wet peat and tie it off. 4 weeks later i have a nice root ball and a new plant.

[Tiberon]

This is something I will be practicing now. Good thread EG :bongdude:

[Green Goblin]

Good shizzle for sure lady!

Happy Growin' :pimp:

[smotpoker]

heres a pic of the fig clone i took with air layering techniques.

[Storm]

Too cool :bongdude:

[web420]

Heres a image I found on ebay

http://www.420genetics.com/images/clone.gif

[Kiwi]

Hmmmm very interesting. Styrofoam cup maybe.
My question would be does it speed up the cloning progress, and can you do it on a flowering plant.
Experimentation is in order! :smoke2:

[earth girl]

The cup around the girdling is exactly how I finally overcame the intricacies of tying the rooting medium to the branch. I use little plastic Dixiecups around airlayering sites, and for gound layering, I bend the rooting site down into a cup of medium, with a hairpin to restrain.
In my opinion, the method is at maximum effeciency after regeneration. You can airlayer one of the crazy pom-poms which develope from immature buds retained at harvest. Once you have a rootball established, and transplanted, you can go into 12's. This makes a handsome bushy bouquet of thumb sized nuggets. Or veg it out to produce many cuttings of similar size for sog.
eg {8^D

[llIndigoll]

^^word^^
I like the idea, but I'm curious about success rates and how much prep the donor plant needs before/during the process; ie: nutrients, humidity, etc.

[BrotherBuzz]

Hi EarthGirl for those of us who don't know where is this "cann.com"?

[Mr.Wakenbake]

I posted this on GK yesterday. And from what I have read there is a lot of people who use this method for clones, and I hope to make it mine.:thumbsup:


http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/ornamentals/airlayer/airlayer.html

[Stash]

interesting read

[nogoodnamesleft]

layering is also a popular way of cloning salvia divinorum plants

[Skunky]

hey smotpoker that greenhouse looks almost exactly like the one at my school, So is that your work place or school or what? You wouldn't happen to be somewhere in Texas would ya?