Planting presprouted Romaine seeds

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15 day old Romaine Seedling Transplant

Removing Domes on 4th Day Bubbler

Trying to remove domes and trn on one 14w T5 over bubbler cuttings.

Preparing Floating Raft for 3rd Batch Lettuce

Attempting to root Lilies

6 inch Lily cuttings in Jiffy 7 (peat planting pelets) with Quick Clone rooting gel.

My Attempt to Clone Lilies from Davao

Tita Ems just got back from Davao today and brought this beauty. I'll be attempting to root them on Jiffy 7 (peat pellets). I seem to have lost the snapshot I got of how it looked like when it arrived. But the top portion with all 5 flower buds which I left out can be seen here.
 

 

The lowest portion of the stem was badly damaged from the florist stripping the leaves off. I managed to get two 6 inch cuttings each with 3 leaves from the bottom end discarding about 5 inches from the original bottom end. I then cut them with a blade at a 60 degree angle according to some forum discussions on cloning that I recently read. I've also applied a coat of "Quick Clone" rooting gel on about a couple of inches from the cut and inserted it into the Jiffy three quarters of the way in. Put them in a Ziploc baggie to maintain moisture and humidity.
 

Another view of what was left after harvesting a couple of cuttings

Bubbler Cloner on Smaller Container

I've decided to try some drastic changes on my bubbler cloner. First mod - smaller container. My original container was a 12L plastic box. This one holds only about 3 liters of water and is roughly only 10 cm deep. Second mod - new air pump. I'm also trying a more silent air pump (though it seems to have much less volume output than the original pump I used). Third mod/change - more than one cutting per site. Here it is populated on all 6 sites with 3 fresh cuttings of Thai Basil each site. I did put plastic cups on each site as humidity domes - the cuttings seemed to be wilting quite quickly.

I also need more clones of Mint and Genovese Basil. There was another tiny plastic box lying around that I use to bottom water some small pots. I decided, I'll give it a try despite it holding only a little under 2 liters of water. So I did three sites with Mint and the other 3 sites with Genovese Basil. The mint cuttings had super tiny leaves so I decided to overpopulate each site with 7 cuttings each but did still just 3 cuttings on the basil. I only placed humidity domes on the mint since the basil seemed to be holding up quite well.