As a cloning medium…

Cloning allows us to take the advanced age of a mother plant (ideally, just prior to flowering) and generate several, ready-to-go copies. You can then take those copies, vegetate them for a much shorter period of time, and push them right into flowering. Meanwhile, you’re growing more clone-able branches on your mother plant for another round of cuttings.

Sounds simple, no?

Well, it’s not. We all have our preferred methods for cloning. I’ve tried cloning in plastic cups with plain ol’ high-PPM, high-PH tap water. I’ve tried cloning in soil, in coco plugs, and even medium-less with an 8-cell Daisy Cloner. None of these cloning attempts came even close to the success of the Rapid Rooters in a seedling tray.

My new recipe? Dip my cuttings in Clonex, shove into Rapid Rooters, insert into seedling tray with a heating mat beneath and a humidity dome on top. Fin.

I’ve gone from a 50% rooting success rate of my cuttings to a 90% rooting success rate. Not only that, I’ve hastened the time for rooting. Previously, my cuttings in straight coco-fiber would take three weeks or longer to root—if at all. With the Rapid Rooters, I had root sprouts from 50% of my cuttings in 5 days. In 2 weeks, 90% of my cuttings had advanced, ready-to-plant root systems.

As a seed medium…

Rapid Rooters provide a great seed medium. Insert a seed or three into the pre-cut seed hole, insert into seedling tray, and wait. The RR’s nutrients will not burn your seeds and will accelerate their fledgling root systems beautifully.

As an added bonus, AeroGardeners can use Rapid Rooter plugs. You simply cut down the size of the RR plug, insert it into the AeroGarden plastic seed pod, and insert your seeds. Not only are they much cheaper than AeroGarden’s replacement grow sponges, but Rapid Rooters will rapidly root (pun intended) your seeds.

A good root system is the basis of a healthy plant. With GH’s Rapid Rooters, I saw not only success, but FAST success. My seed starts and cuttings have never been happier or more successful than in RR plugs.

Thank you General Hydroponics!

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