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One of the easiest ways to get popular and it seems their plants from cuttings.
The concept is to take a sprig from a plant "donor" or "mother" and make the environment favorable for this development and its roots give rise to a new plant.
This technique allows to obtain plants with the same genetic characteristics of the mother and thus operate power leaving a choice as to quality, size, cost and type of plant that we're going to grow.
Also the use of cuttings from plants growing Advanced allows to shorten the time and get faster harvest.

The type of cuttings can vary from plant to plant (depending on the kind we're going to take hardwood cuttings, semi-woody, herbaceous, leaf, root or succulent) but generally it is an apical branch with leaves, stem and at least one node.

Let's see how: you will need to sterilize the material.
After that, soak the substrate (eg rockwool cubes or peat tablets) with water pH and EC calibrated and squeeze gently.
The temperature is kept constant at around 20-25 degrees and humidity will have a stable value around 80%. To achieve this ideal propagation environment we can help with a heating pad and a plastic Serretta .

The cuttings should be from plants in good health and already grown, but are not the flowering stage.
The stem should be able to support the leaves without bending.

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General rules

Whatever the technique, please make sure you follow some basic rules.
-Size of containers: try to cram the plants is never productive.

Containers should be sufficiently large to allow good root development. Compress or limit this growth would lead to lose of course a part of the potential of the plant.
Root hairs are responsible for most of the absorption of nutrients and the consequent development of the plant.

-Drainage: The roots are very sensitive and susceptible to blight. Ensure their adequate ventilation is essential.
So make sure that ducts and trays we have the necessary slope, that the tubes are always free (possibly applied filters) and that the drain hole of both systems at the lowest point possible.
Where practical, vessels used on the network to allow air circulation and encourage root growth.

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It 'available in' ​​Download area the pdf article 'Introduction to the CFL and the importance of high-denomination of the power factor in indoor cultivation', produced in collaboration with Italgrow.

This is an interesting study carried out following the visit to the Chinese factory that assembles the compact lamps then distributed in Europe (from which the video in this same post).

The comparison with experts and analysis on lamps as standard courses have led to a series of technical improvements to improve the quality of productions certainly the next few years.

To read the article online CLICK HERE .

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