Esqueje or a clone is a plant of identical genetic characteristics to those of the plant from which it has been obtained. The plants from which they obtain esquejes call plants mother. Basically the system consists of cutting a plant piece and causing that it takes root, as normally the grandmother does or did with the geraniums…
The culture from clones has numerosoas advantages. We know that those plants are female. In addition their resistance, its rate of growth and its prodoctuvidad are greater than the one of the plants of seeds. In this way a plant can be maintained alive indefinitely, by means of the clonación of its clones.
When one begins in the culture is learned much more on the plant cultivating from seeds. But for the become fond of cultivator and the professional, the clones are a tool of irreplaceable work.
How to do esquejes of marijuana?
- To do esquejes it is needed precise scissors that they make a clean cut in the stem of the plant, or a blade (with which is due to watch not to slice a finger).
- Hormones of rooting. One is a product that stimulates and accelerates the process of formation by roots of the plant. They exist in several forms: in dust, in liquid and gel. It has biological and chemical.The hormones in dust form go well, but it is necessary to take many precautions in its aplicaión. One is due to put, very very little polvito. By far taken care of of not plugging the base of the stem, because it would cause that the water did not arrive at the leaves and its death. It is enough with putting very little dust, only 1 cm. around the base of the stem, and to shake the excess.
With hormones of taken root in liquid or gel more satisfactory results are obtained and are of much more easy use. With hormones it saw in liquid form must prepare the dissolution. With single gel hormones the base of esqueje must be greased slightly.
- Esquejes, devoid by roots, cannot absorb water of means. Reason why a favorable factor to the fast taken root one is a high humidity (around the 70%-80%). For it an old aquarium or a great box of plastic transparency can be prepared. Tabién ideal mini-conservatories are sold to maintain a high humidity during the taken root one of the clones. Mini-conservatories with heating in the inferior part also exist, or a small thermal carpet can be acquired which is very useful, since a temperature of between 20º-25º stimulates the formation by the new roots.
- Also it favors taken root of the clones a light not very hard. They are possible to be done in a corner of the interior moved away of fluorescent the direct light of sodium or under type grolux. Case of using fluorescent ones must be located to a distance of between about 25,35 cm.
- Average of taken root. Small ideal rock wool buckets can be used 4×4×4. Or at the most small tiestos better, of between 5-8 cm. The one that the receiver of esqueje is small favors fast taking root.
Way of coming
In order to obtain first esqueje of a plant the end, a piece of between 7-10 cm. must be cut. They are possible to be made greater; smaller also, but it is not worth the trouble. They must be cut of inclined way, must stand out the leaves of its base.
Once tenenmos esqueje prepared we left submerged it in water 24h. - 48h., so that it is hydrated. They can be left under the light where you are going them to take root
Soon We applied hormones of taken root of the described way.
We introduce esqueje in taken root means of, and next we watered means. In the wool of rock and fiber of the Coco it must be watered with lukewarm water of between 20º.25º, with pH of 5,8 and one EC of between 0.3-0.5 ms. With single water also they take root, although they tend to yellow a little and soon they recover as soon as they are transplanted. At the outset they require very little food, and when they begin to develop to roots a little more.
A very effective option to stimulate the taken root one is to underneath deposit the rock wool dices in a tray with a clay bed expanded of about two fingers and a water finger. In such a way that when the wool bucket is dried the plant notices that down there is water and that stimulates to develop its roots to him looking for it. If underneath one is located esterilla heating engineer the taken root speed of he is greater.
In very fine crowd or land of seed plot very crushed and spongy, mixed with pearlite, also they take root. We must make a fine Earth hole, with something fine, to introduce the stem and to tighten the Earth of around smoothly so that the clone is left subject.
Irrigation: Esqueje does not have to be always just watered, because it causes that the entrerrado stem rots. Teiene that to cross a cycle of humidity and drought in order that the root looks for the humidity of the bottom of the tiesto. It is necessary to give the right water degree them, only the experience says whatever. Generally every two or three days.
A good system to provide food to the clones is to pulverize with a solution, very very tenuous of installment to foliar, once every two or three days. Normally it goes well to once pulverize them with water to the day, specially the first days, since the lack by roots disables the water absorption to them that route.
Fotoperiodo for esquejes of marijuana:
Esquejes can become to 24h. of light. But it happens that many varieties can bloom when they detect a change to 18h. of light or less. For that reason he is recommendable to do esquejes with fotoperiodo of 18 hours. Esqueje just taken root is young still to put it in period of flowering, and after it is taken root it recommends minimum a vegetative period of how two weeks. It is another reason to do esquejes to 18h. Another solution if it is wanted to accelerate the process is to do esquejes with 24h. and soon to give a period them of growth of also 24h. during ten days like minimum.
It must remember then, that if the plant notices a significant reduction of fotoperiodo enters phase of fñoración. The East Indian detect any change more precociously, while the sativas take a little in realizing more.
Temperature:
The ideal temperature for esquejes is of 24º. The suitable humidity round in winch 70%-80%. A high humidity favors fast taking root
Taken root time of:
In optimal conditions some varieties can take root in only 4 or 5 days, the normal thing is between one week or ten days, but usually they do it in for of weeks. If the roots cannot be observed, esquejes usually is taken root as soon as the superior leaves show clear symptoms of growth.
* Some varieties take root with greater facility.
* The plants with an excess of nitrogen are something more difficult to take root healthful plants are always easier to take root.
