If you want to salvage clones gone bad
Take partial leaf from aloe plant you will use as rooting agent.
Remove the clones from water and scrape off the “bark” from where it would be in soil down to bottom of cut paying particular attention to where the nodes were and stick it in the middle of the aloe leaf and get all that good growing goo on the stem and stick it in seed starter mix and mist the leaves couple times a day.
Aloe saved a couple of clones I had tried with a cloner bucket that wasn’t making roots. cuttings of many plants will root in just water like budbrother stated.
Also what’s left of the aloe leaf you mush and mix the gel goo into some water and water them with if after putting cutting in soil
Just did 12 clones this way 100% success rate
Many paths to the same destination
Edit to add when I took the cut from plant I immediately stuck it in aloe leaf to keep air out of cells than I removed and scraped bark and then stuck back in aloe leaf and then into hole in soil.