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The Sterile Disposable Scalpel (#10 Blade) is a grow room essential for plant propagation. Its curved cutting edge ensures smooth, precise incisions for taking large, high-success cuttings. This surgical-grade sharp tool provides clean cuts, reduces stress, and prevents disease transmission in hydroponics.
Achieve professional-grade results in your grow room with the Sterile Disposable Scalpel (#10). This essential hydroponics tool is specifically designed with a #10 blade (curved cutting edge) to maximise your cloning and plant propagation success rate. This shape allows for smooth, precise, and longer, sweeping incisions crucial when taking large or difficult cuttings. The surgical-grade, ultra-sharp blade ensures a perfectly clean cut every time, minimising trauma to the plant tissue and providing the best possible surface for rapid rooting. Using a sterile disposable scalpel significantly reduces the risk of transferring pathogens and guarantees accuracy for trimming and grafting.
We strongly recommend always sterilising your work area and blades, even with a disposable item, using a dedicated sanitiser like Silver Bullet Mist to ensure the highest standards of hygiene and disease prevention in your operation.
Key Benefits of Using a Scalpel
- Optimised #10 Blade: Features a specific curved cutting edge ("belly blade") perfect for longer, sweeping incisions ideal for taking precise, large cuttings and detailed grafting.
- Maximise Strike Rates: The razor-sharp blade delivers a clean, surgical cut that encourages rapid cell development, leading to a higher percentage of successful clones.
- Minimise Disease Risk: Each scalpel is individually packaged and sterile, eliminating the risk of cross-contamination between different mother plants or batches.
- Reduced Plant Stress: A clean slice heals faster than a crushed stem from dull tools, ensuring quicker recovery for both the cutting and the mother plant.
- Precision Trimming: Offers superior accuracy for delicate tasks like making final cuts, removing lower leaves, or detailed plant trimming.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why use a sterile scalpel instead of household scissors or shears?
Scissors and shears, even if sharp, use a crushing action that can damage the delicate plant cells at the cutting point. A sterile scalpel makes a single, clean slice, ensuring the vascular tissue is undamaged. This clean cut provides an optimal surface area for applying rooting gel like Clonex and accelerating root formation.What is the best technique for taking a cutting with this tool?
For best results, use the scalpel to make a quick, clean cut at a 45-degree angle just below a node (the point where a leaf meets the stem). This angle increases the surface area for the rooting hormone and exposure to the rooting medium. For a step-by-step guide on how to take cuttings have a read through our blog post: The Art of Propagation: How to Take Cuttings Like a Hydroponics Pro.SKU: 1140Free delivery on orders over £60*
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