I was looking online at stuff to look at stuff and saw these devices that are attached to a stem or branch of a plant, it’s packed with peat/soil, rooting gel is added to plant, a few weeks later it is full of roots. here is a pic as I am not sure if a web link is allowed:
I’ve always used rockwool cubes for clones since they hold water so well and are easy to deal with.
The devices you’ve found are kind of cool. If you strip a node of the secondary stems or leaves, then roots will eventually emit from them if you have soil or coco in the device and keep it wet. You can then just cut the stem below the node you rooted and viola, you have a rooted clone. The only question I would have is if the plant is actually capable of holding the device up and steady. A little ball of wet soil is going to be heavy.
true. maybe tie it to a larger branch of the plant for support.
A herbaceous jock strap.
I laughed way too long about that.
That got a chuckle out of me too.
Howdy
I have bought some of these but have never used them, will get around to it one day.
You could accomplish this with some sarrandwrap and a little tape… 
@OldBuds yep, done that before, I just havent had the best luck. I have tried plugs, water, soil…at best I hit about 30%.
@Hashtonbutcher lemme know when ya do.
@peachfuzz when you do that, do you have to darken the wrap around the roots?
If I find another golden plant, want the most fool proof ways of keeping it going.
Back after a couple years to doing clones myself. I do mine in a DIY bubble bucket. Got roots on one of them in 5 days this round, another the day after. The other 2 of my 4 are lagging. It’s my understanding that successful cloning depends just as much on the condition of the mother as it does the clone environment. The 2 that took off were first node branches and the 2 laggers are 2nd node branches, which kinda illustrates that point a little bit I think…
I’ve used Clonex gel. Seems to work fine, but then again I don’t do a whole lot of cloning any more.
I live in the north east. I have not a lot of time for cloning.
Fun to do.
Those are for a technique called air mounding. Yep, plastic bag and tape and soil/peat work well too. The deal w air mounding is the roots won’t form if the area is bathed in light. Opaque rooting media or opaque cover is needed to work.
In my opinion, air mounding is specifically for rooting “woody” stems on more treelike bushes and trees. These things can take 4-6 months to callus and root out. When taking woody stem cuttings as few as 2/10 will root. Very few. Air mounding makes the woody stems root on their own time and ensures a viable clone. Like 3-4 months later. Think apple trees and cherry trees, not tomatoes and cannabis.
Cannabis (annual fruiting plants in general) will root this way. But it roots faster and easier with thin end shoots. Why take a fast simple method and slow it down by going for the thick woody stems usually used for air mounding.?
You would have the same effect by bending down a tall shoot till it hits the ground. Setting a brick or rock on it, then dropping a shovel full of dirt over the brick. Have the live shoot up out of the soil. It will root and grow an independent plant in 2-3 weeks…
Very interesting. My brother has fruit trees I’ll have to let him in on this secret.
Thank you for this information…
Ok, let me get this straight in my very foggy brain. I can grow a plant and put another pot next to it, bend over a branch till it touches the soil in the second pot, bury a brick on it and it will make me a new plant?
I’m imagining a whole new idea (to me) of a perpetual grow from a good mother.
Howdy @TransplantedFarmgirl
Come across my root pods today and thought I should try them, had them for over two years 
So I scraped my clone around stem with razor then applied cloning gel.
Packed root pod tightly with coco coir and water crystals then soaked in water.
Applied to clone stem and closed it up. 11/28/2023
Will keep you posted on progress.
Woot woot 
heck yeah I love a good science experiment!! @Hashtonbutcher thanks for being the guinea pig 
Howdy All @TransplantedFarmgirl
Merry Christmas 
So it has been about a week now and am starting to get roots 
I will be using these more often now.
Will update progress.
Exciting!!!
I like the idea of using these , I don’t have to worry about using heat mat or cutting back leaves or using cloner.
Should have 100% success this way.
Can’t wait to see how it goes
