Issue #663 - Sunday, January 5, 2025 Greetings Fellow Grower, - Start A (Cannabis) Clone Army! It's like a sci-fi movie, except it's real and super easy to do. Today, you'll learn how to clone your favorite cannabis plants with an aero cloner. Believe me when I say that this is the closest we have to doing a
copy+paste on drugs.
- It's a weed time machine...But it doesn't go forward or backward in time. Instead, you can trick your clones into growing as if time was being sped up. You get all the benefits of time travel, but without any of the paradoxical consequences.
- There be beautiful colas out here! I love growing weed and I love looking at pictures of the weed you all grow. There's no joke here or anything, I just really like
pictures of homegrown weed! When you're done reading today's newsletter, hit "reply" in your email and show me your plants!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders, GrowWeedEasy.com
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so." ~Henry David Thoreau
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How to Make Cannabis Clones with an Aero Cloner by Nebula Haze
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Click here to view the full article on GrowWeedEasy.com Cloning with an aerocloner is a way to quickly create a bunch of “free” cannabis plants. The
main idea behind cloning is to cut off a piece of a specific plant then force that piece or “cutting” to grow roots. At that point, you have a new cannabis plant that’s essentially an identical copy of the “mother” plant. That means that clones will have similar growth patterns, bud appearance, yield potential, THC levels, etc. at the plant they were cut from. If you’ve got a great plant or outstanding genetics, take clones to capture that magic for your next grow. We used the TurboKlone Aero Cloner for this cloning tutorial, but the same instructions should
work for just about all aerocloners
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The aerocloner makes cannabis clones. A “clone” is when a piece of a plant grows its own roots. The new plant is a small but otherwise identical copy of the parent plant. Once you have roots, plant in a container and start growing. Clones tend to grow faster than a seedling of similar size. The simplest way to create cannabis clones is to cut off the end of a branch about 7″ long and stick the cutting in a glass of water until it grows roots. The downside to this method is that clones take up to 6 weeks before they grow roots
(each cutting is different). So what’s the fastest way to make a bunch of clones that are all ready at the same time? In many cases, the answer may be an aeroponic cloner. Cannabis cuttings in a hydroponic system known as an aeroponic cloner (“aero cloner” or “aerocloner”) typically create roots within 14 days Here’s a look under the hood. An aero cloner sprays mist around the bottom stem of cuttings. This stimulates roots to grow faster than the cup cloning method. If you don’t move plants to their own containers, the roots can go crazy in a system like this. Ready to get started? Today’s tutorial will show you how to get roots quickly in an aero cloner! How to Make Cannabis Clones in an Aero Cloner Supplies Needed - Mother plant with stems at least 7″ long
- Scissors
- Aero Cloner (either pre-made or DIY)
- Cup of water (to hold cuttings before being put in the cloner)
- (Optional) Cloning Powder and/or Cloning Gel
Mother plant with at least
7″ long stems, scissors, and a cup of water
Step 1: Set up the aero cloner
Follow the instructions that come with the cloner. Typically this involves filling all the holes with inserts, putting the pump/mister inside as directed, and filling with water. Make sure to add water all the way to the indicated waterline. I’ve found that clones are more likely to wilt if the water gets
low. Step 2: Cut off 7-9″ long pieces of stem and immediately put in a cup of water
Each of these pieces will become a new plant. If stems are too short, give plant some time for stems to lengthen. Too-short cuttings take much longer to root and are more likely to wilt. This stem is 7″ long. Perfect! Example of a suitable cutting. Clean the bottom of the stem so it has no leaves, but make sure to leave a few at the top. Immediately put each cutting in a cup of water to reduce the chance of a clone wilting. If you were doing the clone in a cup method, you could actually stop right here! Clones are more likely to wilt like this if you don’t put the cutting in water for a few minutes before adding to the cloner. Why? If oxygen gets into the base of the stem, the cutting wilts due to an oxygen embolism. However, after spending a few minutes in the water the plant produces a protective layer that stops air from entering the plant. At that point, it is much less likely to wilt after being put in the cloner. Honestly, you could run with the information you have now and you'd be successful at cloning in an aeroponic cloner But why stop there? Click Here to finish your training. You'll be a certified clone factory in no time at all! Copy + Paste Your Cannabis Clones Cannabis is a wonderful plant. It's easy to grow, it makes you feel good, and it can make little free copies of itself. And the Turbo Klone makes it sooo much easier to make those little free copies. You just insert some clones, put in some water and turn it on. Then you can
just come back and collect your ready-to-grow clones. It really is that easy! This is another popular aeroponic cloner, the Oxy Clone (Despite the weirdly prescription-drug-sounding name, it's the same thing as the Aero Klone.) If you're into cloning your plants, an aeroponic cloner is the way to go!* *If you're a MacGyver type, you can build one of these yourself... Potency Level: FloatingWe're big fans of potent weed like the stuff they're smoking in the picture below. These days, every breeder claims that their strains are super-strong and have 104% THC, but you don't really know what it's like until you grow and smoke it. We've grown Platinum Cookies ourselves more than once,
and this is definitely some float-away weed. Not many that I've grown recently are close to competing besides Purple Ghost Candy (and I've heard good things about "Fat Bastard").
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight: They're ready for their close-up!
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[No description included] ~Weezy "The strong, silent, type, eh? No worries, these pictures say everything. Well done on all fronts 👍" ~Sirius
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Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – Florida, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- DNA Genetics – Netherlands (with US centers)
- Seedsman – Ships from US & Europe
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and UK.
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages! Check out more resources related to today's main theme of growing weed with a smooth experience. - How to Clone Weed in a Cup of Water (Easy!) - This is the cheapest and most simple way to clone cannabis plants. In a way, it's the opposite version of the tutorial you read today as far as complexity goes. It takes a bit longer to get your clones, but it takes almost no work at all. It's almost too good to be true!
- How to Create a Bonsai Mother for Unlimited Clones - If today's lesson is the "mad scientist" method of cloning plants, and the article listed above is the "low-tech" method of cloning plants, this article is the most artistic version. It really turns cloning into a beautiful art form.
- Picture Guide to Cloning Marijuana - ...and here's old faithful. This is a picture guide to show you how growers have been cloning for many, many years. Here's a pro tip that drastically improved my cloning: Cut the clone and get it into water immediately. Trust me on that one.
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2024 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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