Up cycling waste for cloning (Taking cuttings)

About 20-25 years ago I got into cloning some plants to give to friends. I kept having trouble with them drying out and dying while I was otherwise occupied with life / work. That's when I started using plastic bottles as cloning chambers. Usually 2ltr bottles. I would cut them about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom and fill that with soil mix and put my clone in. Then saturate water it in note the bottom does need drainage holes. Then I sprayed the leaves good with more water and put the top 2/3s on and made it fit as close / tight as possible. Come back in a week to two weeks and the clones were ready to have the top removed and transplant shortly there after.  My success rate using this method and a little clone X gel was real close to 100%.

What sorts of things do you or have you upcycled for growing?

Mineral tubs and 1/2 55 gallon plastic barrels make decent planters too.

I should have added this in the initial post but DO NOT put these in direct sun, inside / filtered light only or they will cook.  Comfortable room temperature is about perfect. Sometimes I use a seed starting  heat mat if it's a little cool.

Our house where our daughter lives has a beautiful Bermuda grass lawn that I planted all from coastal Bermuda runners.

Similar to you I took old plastic bottles full of water, stuffed as many runners into the bottle as it would hold, and waited a few days for the runner to get roots.

Then I would dig a shallow trench, fill the trench with runners, cover and water them in.

the next day I would repeat the process.

I have a sub irrigated grow table at my yarden.
The cutting in it are mostly from pruning one of my Bartlett pear trees:

Here are a few humidity domes I'm using over at the yarden.
Each is over an inverted, bottomless bucket filled with compost and surrounded by leaves.
I think they mostly have blackberry cuttings.