What’s up DGC?!
Today I thought I would bring to light a new (for me; the technique is a hundred years+ old) method of cloning cannabis.
All you are going to need is a mother cannabis plant and an Aloe plant, any kind of aloe will do!
- Grab a cup that can hold the amount of clones your going to be taking
- Simply snap an inch to two inch piece of aloe off your plant and squeeze out all of the gel into the cup
- Fill the cup with water (tap is fine) and mix thoroughly with a whisk or fork.
- Take your cannabis clones (any method you prefer)
- Place the clones into the solution and soak somewhere with moderate lighting (I use the floor of my veg tent) for 12 hours.
- Once done soaking, remove another 3-4in leaf of aloe.
- Take the cuttings one at a time, and with light vigorous motions move the base of the stem up and down inside the aloe cuttings, make sure the cuttings rooting area is fully coated with aloe. One aloe leaf can do 20+ cuttings!
- Place the cuttings into rockwool or peat and care for them as usual!
That’s it! I have had around an 80% success rate with healthy clones, and there are plenty of growers who’s rates are nearer to 100%. The number one thing to remember is to not skip soaking the clones, as this time is spent soaking up precious salicylic acid!
Enjoy,
-Kyle
Good stuff. Yet another reason to keep a big ol’ aloe plant in your veg room.
Thanks for sharing your technique! I’ve been wanting to keep an aloe Vera plant for this and other reasons
My girl wont be happy when i start gutting her plants!
Defiantly gonna try this soon got a huge aloe that this will be perfect for
Running an experiment now with 6 different recipes/methods, all using sunleaves starter plugs. 1. Aloe Only, 2. Aloe + Recharge, 3. Aloe + Recharge + Scraping the bottom of the stem of it’s very outside layer. For 4, 5, and 6 they are the same but instead of Aloe I’m using Clonex.
The Aloe side all looked like they weren’t even cut off the mother, the Clonex side definitely looked like they got cut off the mother with a little wilting from day 1 to 5, at day ten all of the Aloe clones have roots and only 1 of the Clonex clones has roots. All were the same stains and each of the methods had three clones run… (Stupid plant counts). Tomorrow I’m going to take a closer look and transplant the strongest and take some pics of the results.
Have you noticed any issues with different types of aloe plants? The specific aloe that my girlfriend had worked great, with almost 100% success, but the aloe that I have growing at my house has had abysmal results.