Pepper Cloning Race – Aerated vs Stagnant Water
Pepper Cloning Race – Aerated vs Stagnant Water
In this video I will be cloning plants in both still and aerated water to see which cuttings perform best. We’ll be monitoring the root systems of these plants to see if adding aeration will lead to faster rooting times.
I’ll be propagating pepper plants in this video and would love to hear how you think these findings might apply to cannabis, basil, tomatoes and other popular plants. Let me know your thoughts on aeration in the comments below – Are you a Kratky or DWC fan?
You can find the cloner I used, the Skunkbox, here:
https://skunkbox.co.uk/
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lmao had to smack like. the intro was hilarious. "People love bubbles’… "well the kratky method sounds stupid then" lmao omg.
the split technique, does that work with other plants in general, even cannabi?
Did the tree cloning work?
Did you add anything to the water
i use my fish tank
I can always get roots 2 weeks faster with the bubbler If not 3 weeks
The cooker is handy for sure. But you would have better success if you cover the roots from light and add hydrogen peroxide to provide oxygen
Not to be a downer as I appreciate you sharing your work, but your results may be invalid as light was allowed to hit the root zone of the jar cuttings. It may not make as much of a difference with peppers, but it definitely delays root formation in tomato cuttings. If chloroplasts receive photons they want to photosynthesize and grow, i.e., not put out roots. Darkness and moisture trigger root growth.
you should retry the experiment but put the clones in a dark container for the non aerated version in case the light exposure stunted root growth.
You have other rooted plants in the Cloner. These are putting minerals and hormones into the water. This is not how trials are done.
I propagate my tomatoes all the time in trying to propagate a pepper plant now
Would like to see u try 2 cuttings with 45’s with single split and split the 2 cuttings opposite of each other. Would also like to see if different length splits would make a difference. Great videos thank u
If you’d have a cloner "machine" with a dome I’d say the process would have been even faster. First three days no air circulation – from there a bit more every day.
I enjoy your experiments. I’d like to see you do something where you try and root in carbonated water or maybe a carbonated water feeding vs non carb water feeding and compare growth for a week so as not to run up your costs. Since plants love Co2, they should love some bubbly.
you need to try to root African Blue Basil plant which is a perennial
I love water bubbles ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎
Great video, Sir. My airpump is quite noisy and I only leave it on about 1hr/day for my Kratky. Do you have any data of how long it takes for oxygen to leave oxygenated water?
What kinds of Pines are those
Great video! I made my own cloner following your idea. Thank you. Wondering if I need to change water in the cloner?
Are these kept in a dark area or a lighted area?
Propagating trees from cuttings without grafting to root stock is a bad idea… unless you plan to keep it small and supported. They need that taproot for stability.
that seems like a really tiny stone.
I’m wondering if it is the light that is deterring root growth, more than the lack of aeration
lol this video brought me here lol 🤣 https://youtu.be/J9FePoZj0Kg
Another nice video. I really like your videos and the comparisons you do. I usually comment from another account; this is the account I upload content from. Anyway, I just uploaded a video on cloning 2 days ago. It’s not as nice or polished as your videos but it does represent another way of cloning plants. I watched a video on commercial cloning which looks to have been filmed in maybe the 90s and seemed legit and wasn’t selling products so I tried that method. It’s very scalable and relatively cheap, especially as you add more cuttings to the system. It’s worked great, so I made a video of how I implemented it. Please forgive me if it’s not kosher but I’ll try to put a link here to it. I’ve cloned 9 cannabis (hemp), one tomato, 2 jalapeno, and 4 sunflower (broken seedlings) cuttings with the setup so far. Yesterday I put 37 crape myrtle cuttings on the same system and we’ll see how those work out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Mj6Q8iCVU
A water pump (with venturi) would be quieter. As long as the water surface is agitated, oxygen will mix in. Now im wondering if humidifier/mist would work. Im waiting for my humidifier machine to be delivered soon. In the meanwhile, in gonna try water propagation with very shallow depth, like 1cm, just barely covering the open cut. Perhaps that way the root gets more oxygen. Attaching a water bottle feeder would keep the water depth constant. One question, does the way of cutting the bottom affects root growth? Would larger exposed wound be better? (Ignoring infection)
Air is a must is you can’t fully regulate the water/room temp.
I see in your comment below your tree cutting failed. Still would like to see and learn from what you did. Working on some maples that I pruned some suckers off of earlier this fall. So far a couple of them still have green leaves, so maybe!?! Great channel, love the content, good job!
I’ve been following your channel for a while. You inspired me to clone some house plants which have been thriving for more than a year now.
Does light play a factor?
Did you have any nutes in any of the waters?
Great video, and thanks for sharing all of your learning forays.