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Section 2<br />
Cloning<br />
and Rooting<br />
First, we highly recommend you work this out<br />
with a hydroponic store professional. Without<br />
measuring your grow space and knowing<br />
exactly what you have to deal with, and what level of<br />
work or study you're willing to put in, we can't make a<br />
recommendation.<br />
That said, most often you'll start with a clone, cut from a<br />
plant you'd like to reproduce. This is as simple as cutting<br />
a branch off the plant you'd like to mimic, and then<br />
dipping the cuttings in a rooting solution and planting<br />
it.<br />
After you plant that clone, you'll begin the process of<br />
moving it through bigger and bigger containers to give<br />
the roots space to grow. What might start out as a clone<br />
in a dixie cup full of soil could eventually grow into a<br />
monster plant that lives in a 15-gallon container.<br />
Again, this all depends on how much you're growing<br />
and what kind of space you have.<br />
As far as what you can do to help your plants grow<br />
through this period, you only need to manage a few<br />
things:<br />
1. Your plants' stress level<br />
2. A base nutrient solution<br />
3. Rhizosphere supplements<br />
If you cover those factors well, you'll be setting yourself<br />
up for big time success. In the following pages, we'll<br />
tell you about the solutions we've developed to address<br />
these key aspects of growing, and why we think they're<br />
so great.<br />
18 Section 2 - Cloning and Rooting | Advanced Nutrients: "How to Grow <strong>Bigger</strong> <strong>Buds</strong>"