Problem monster clones

Onemoji
Onemojistarted grow question 21d ago
Hi everyone, I made monster clones, but it's been a month since I replanted them. They've already filled a liter of pot, but they're barely growing.
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LastinG
LastinGanswered grow question 17d ago
some cuts take a while for the full reveg. i found out for me cutting them back once more will help with normal regrowth
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Ultraviolet_
Ultraviolet_answered grow question 21d ago
Plants generate roots as a stress response and a survival mechanism to seek out water and nutrients. When a cutting is placed in a rooting environment, it relies on hormonal signals rather than external nutrition to initiate this growth. Need to give her an empty medium, nitrogen signals the plant to prioritize vegetative top growth. What we need is nutrient starvation of primarily N, which initiates root growth to search for richer pastures further afield. On top of that, a cutting has no root hairs to regulate salt intake. If the rooting medium contains a high concentration of dissolved salts, the osmotic pressure reverses. Instead of the cutting absorbing moisture, the salty medium draws water out of the vulnerable cut stem, dehydrating the tissue and causing dieback. The medium must be empty, physically supportive, and structurally capable of holding moisture without drowning the tissue; this would be achieved through having a good, diverse, and porous soil composition. Done monsters once, I was also very surprised by how long it took to get back into full veg swing. It really depends on how far into flower you take the cuttings, which will determine how long it takes to convert back hormonally. When I took cuttings 1 or 2 weeks into flower, they rebounded fairly fast, but the ones taken 3-4 weeks into flower took much longer to get going again, this removed any "saving time" benefits of taking the cutting in the first place. The 4 weeks waiting for it to re-establish is 4 weeks during which a decent new seed could have gone strong in the same time frame. If time is not an issue, it's worth trying. Best of luck.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 21d ago
If you took them from a plant that was starting to flower, it will take weeks for them to alter their hormones back into the vegetive cycle. Ease up on the feeding too................patience may see them recover.
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Dechantlover
Dechantloveranswered grow question 21d ago
In my experience clones sometimes take a lot of time to recover and establish themselves. Very high humidity early on helps, but also using only very lightly fertilized soil. If your soil is too rich in fertilizer, the can just stop growing outright and the roots will burn which leads to the slow death of the plant. Best bet is to treat her like a little seedling so high humidity and very little fertilizer. I have never had issues with clones halting growth with that. If that doesnā€˜t help, your best bet might be to cut some new clones and letting them root in a small plastic green house and only transplant them once the plug has been rooted through. I also highly recommend using eazy plugs or similar products as well as clonex, that speeds up the entire process down to roughly a week or two between cutting a clone and it starting to grow again in itā€˜s own pot. On another note, your soil looks a little compact, maybe try adding in some perlite or something to make it a little more airy. Hope I could help!
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00110001001001111O
00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 22d ago
Powering through a revege... Give it a sec. If that damage isn't all carryover, your ratio/concentration of fertilizer+soil nutirents (if applicable) isn't a healthhy mix and needs adjustment too. Smorgasborg of problems, but depends on when it occured. If growth slows, dial back fertilization, too. Matter of balance/harmony. more inputs with slow growth leads to toxicity. Growth may seem slow, but with a shit load of extra branching, it may just be spread out, so consider that possibility too. Consider thinning out some areas of the plant too. "Monster" cropping isn't really a benefit.. it's a problem that leads to congestion in most situations... You still have funky leaves that don't look right, so it's not even 100% back into vegetative phase, yet. When new growth looks normal, i bet it looks healthier, too.
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