hey everyone you're here with mark boutwell at perfectgardens.com
so today you're going to learn the three secrets to getting the best clones from
your aeroponic cloner every single time this
video was inspired by one of our youtube followers mr boyd he asked what
should the perfect timer setting be for the best results with the same timer
as shown in this video i would recommend most likely to have a
15 minute on 15 minute off cycle although there are a
few other factors i would highly recommend you consider
prior to just going with that blanket answer of a 15 minute on 15 minute off
cycle the first secret and thing to consider
is the temperature of the water the reason why the temperature of the
water is the most important factor to comprehend and understand is
because the rate the bacteria multiplies based upon the temperature
warmer the temperature the faster the bacteria is going to multiply
just like how when they learned the importance of
washing your hands after an operation because
of pathogens being transferred from one patient to the other
you have to kind of take that into consideration when you are
getting clones you are doing a surgical operation
you are exposing the plants to bacteria very quickly
and the temperature of your water and the speed at the rate the bacteria
multiplies and the speed of the new roots coming
off of the plant is incredibly important if
the bacteria takes hold first you're going to get pithium or some type
of issues although if you get the roots going first and the
plant can begin to defend itself you're more than likely going to
get some successful clones the temperature is going to come
from three places the ambient temperature in your broom
the temperature off of your light and the temperature off of the water
pump and that's where we go back to saying
that the answer isn't as simple as just saying 15 minutes on and 15 minutes off
because the pump is not the only thing that's generating heat
if you have a warm ambient temperature or you have
light that's fairly close to the cloner and it's heating up with your clone room
you're most likely going to get pithium no matter what just because
of once again the rate the bacteria multiplies
and the likelihood that the bacteria took hold
and gave your plant some type of disease before the plant began to put out roots
so it is so important to keep your water between 55
and 65 degrees anything higher i guarantee you're going to get right into
pythium anything lower than 55 degrees your
plants are going to get a slower growth and you're
probably going to fall behind in the production numbers you need for your
operation so how do you control the ambient
temperature of your room first off you have to ask yourself what type of
environment is inside your grow room and outside of
your grow room is there insulation some of the things
that you can do to control your ambient temperature
is get an ac for your room or if you're living in a colder
environment make sure to have enough adequate air running in
your room and exiting outside of your room and
in obviously early vegetative growth they're not going to be producing
any odor so odor control is not going to be your focus here
it's going to be temperature control next is the heat coming off of your
light there's not much you can do here except
if you're using a high intestine discharge light like a 250 watt or a 300
or 400 watt or something along those lines
you might be able to back that down to a t5 a 6500 kelvin bulb
if not just try to use the lowest setting on your
high intensity discharge light you might want to use a light diffuser
or just make sure not all that light is penetrating down
on the casing of your clone system heating up the water inside your cloner
and last but not least is your water pump
make sure to just put it on a cycle and you're going to want to know your grow
room if you have complete control of your
environmental conditions and you're not using outside air to cool down your
environment and after a few times you run your
aeroponic cloner basically you're just going to keep
testing the temperature of your water throughout the day and throughout your
cloning process measuring your metrics and keeping track
of it and if things are getting above those 65
temperature or below 65 just adjust something in your grow room
to get it to that ideal growing temperature
for the cloning process secret number two
is clean water there are two ways to get clean water throughout your entire
cloning process you can use a hydrogen peroxide
process which basically oxygenates the water
and it doesn't allow bacteria to grow the second is using a product that i
recommend called drops of balance drops of
ions is an ionic sulfated mineral product that reverts
man-made chemicals back to sulfated minerals so
you're not just cleaning the water from bacteria with drops balance but you're
also adding trace minerals into your water which is kind of giving
a very light nutrients you can also use drops of balance in
conjunction with the hydrogen peroxide so if you want to use the hydrogen
peroxide to kill all the bacteria make sure you
have a clean sterile environment and then add in drops of balance at that
point once again you're just adding minerals to your
water which will be a light micronutrients for
your clones which i would recommend just because i have seen
the hyphae development start earlier when i use the product drops of balance
versus just using the hydrogen peroxide to sterilize the water environment
last but not least is your light cycle what do you put on
18 6 which means 18 hours on six hours off
or a straight 24 hours when using the cloner i personally recommend
running your lights for 24 straight hours
the reason why is because your leaves do the photosynthesis
but they store the energy in the root system
and because you've done your clones and there's no root system for the first
five to seven days there is no backup battery
so in my viewpoint you kind of need the light to continuously keep producing
energy for those clones by doing that it's going to keep sending
the signal to the plant that it needs to store energy in the
roots which in my viewpoint will help encourage the plant to produce
roots so that it can do its function which is
store sugars in the root system in my viewpoint when you put the light
on for eighteen six for six hours the plant is not
signaling to itself in my viewpoint to produce roots because predominantly
the plant does grow at nighttime so it will then take the
sugars from its root system and process them to
grow but because you don't have a root system
in my viewpoint i wouldn't be encouraging the plant to grow
i'd be encouraging the plant to produce roots
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