Cloning
A Smarter Way to Select, Store and Process Stem Cuttings
Unlike cloning herbaceous plants, woody cuttings require slightly different consideration. Here’s how to properly select, store and process...
Maintaining a Mother Plant: A Guide to Best Practices & Common Issues
To ensure your mother plant provides vigorous cuttings, you must customize the fertilization schedule. Many growers feed mother plants a...
10 Facts on Gibberellins
Not just a fun word to say, gibberellins are crucial in the natural process of breaking dormancy and other aspects of germination.
Humic or Fulvic Acid: What Kind are Your Plants On?
Humic and fulvic acids are natural, complex molecules that improve the uptake of nutrients in both soil and hydroponics. Sourcing these...
The Benefits of Adding CO2 During the Cloning Stage
Are plants in the cloning stage too small to benefit from enriched CO2?
The Light That Binds: Lighting for Young Plants
Of all the equipment used in an indoor garden, the lighting system is the equipment that should be given the most consideration.
Test Tube Babies
Plant tissue culture micro-propagation may open the door for many new opportunities in hydroponics and computer-controlled agriculture.
How to Grow and Take Cuttings from Succulents
With an extensive range of species, succulents come in a wide array of shapes, colors, flowers, and fruits. They are also great starter...
Caring For Your Mother Plants
Mother plants are stock plants specifically raised to provide cuttings for starting new plants. The cuttings, also known as clones, are...
The Various Forms of Rooting Hormones & Organic Rooting Stimulants
Rooting hormones, either synthetic or naturally occurring, help promote the fast, healthy onset of new roots. Available as powders, liquids...
Cloning 101: A Back to Basics Guide to Propagating Plants
Are you ready to take the plunge and try cloning your plants? These days, the technologies, tools, and techniques are making this process...
Attack of the Clones Tips & Tricks for Cloning Success
For an indoor gardener to have a perpetually successful garden, they must first become successful at cloning.
Cloning for the Commons
Cloning is a satisfying, rapid and economic way to multiply favorite plants, producing exact copies of the parent with the same desirable...
Same Plant, Different Pots
Plants that share the same DNA can be produced, creating on-demand identical twins (almost).
Creating a Clone Garden
Have you ever grown a plant that produced better-tasting fruits, nicer aromas and higher yields than your other plants? If you clone that...
The 3 Stages of a Perpetual Garden
The most successful indoor growers take full advantage of the elevated degree of control over the growing environment by maintaining a...
Perfecting Propagation
Producing clones from cuttings in hydroponics is a great way to yield new, healthy planting stock genetically identical to your carefully...
Cloning Your Plants
Cloning is the best way to grow uniform, pest-free plants. There’s no wrong way to go about it, but some ways are certainly better than...
What’s Your Hydration Status?
Proper hydration is paramount to an individual’s success rate with cuttings. Softwood cuttings are especially sensitive, but semi-hardwood...
