How to clone autoflowering plants
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gangjababy
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you can't clone autoflowers.
you would have to make seeds.
you would have to make seeds.
gangjababy
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I doubt it, but you can always try.
learing the ways
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auto flowering plants are unclonable, because they grow by age once theyve harvested they die off, impossible to regrow. your best bet is growing a male for seeds.
learing the ways
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i cant see ther being a problem as long as you have sufficient light for them, and that they have enuf room to grow, and make sure they all in seperate pots 2.some may grow better than others but that could just be the strain nothing to worry bot too much i wuld say.
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I know it sounds like a contradiction in terms, but I have found a way to successfully clone autoflowering (Ruderalis) plants with a reasonable amount of vegetative growth returned to the clone.
After realizing the age-determinance of the autoflowering plants was entirely hormone regulated (similar to the photoperiod determinance of Indica and Sativa), I began to play around with certain factors of my cloning technique.
After about 3.5 to 4 weeks of vegetative growth nearly all Ruderalis' will show sexual characteristics. The most important aspect of my technique is quick identification of sexual characteristics formation. It's paramount to take your cutting at the earliest possible moment.
If you don't already know, it's best to take any cuttings from the lowest point of your plant. This is because the hormone levels of the old growth are much more stable than those nearer the apical meristem. Well, this characteristic is doubly important with Ruderalis clones, as it literally serves a dual purpose. The lower branches haven't yet received the signal from the top that sex has been determined and to start bud production. It's only a small window of a few hours that you'll have to take your cutting if you want to do this properly.
Root your cutting under 24\7 light of full spectrum and low intensity before transferring the rooted clone into your grow medium. Once established you can pour on as much light as you can provide and the clone will grow vegetatively for about 80% of the parent's final size, producing bud at the same percentage. The physical age of the clone may be twice as large as it should be, but the flowering time is the same as it is from a seed.
rocpilefsj
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Pics or it never happened lol! A clone of an autoflower plant is the same maturity/age as the plant you took it from, I do not understand how you can get it to flower in the same amount of time as from seed. I would really like to see it though to prove me wrong.
Duku
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I just tried to explain to my homie that its not possible to clone. He does not get it.
He gave me some nice top shelve seeds. Come to find out they are also auto's
5 boys an 2 girls and he wanted to clone the girls.
Let him know if he wants to wreck the yield just try cloning.
He gave me some nice top shelve seeds. Come to find out they are also auto's
5 boys an 2 girls and he wanted to clone the girls.
Let him know if he wants to wreck the yield just try cloning.
crosscountrykush
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I have never grown auto's but I know someone that does.
You can clone an auto just like any cannabis plant. Yes you want to do it early as the auto is still in veg.(Keeping light on 24 hours will help prolong this a tad bit)
Only thing is you cannot keep a mother plant of an auto.
You can clone an auto just like any cannabis plant. Yes you want to do it early as the auto is still in veg.(Keeping light on 24 hours will help prolong this a tad bit)
Only thing is you cannot keep a mother plant of an auto.
buddy bud
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yea i cloned my big bang auto check out my grow
michaeljdumpout
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never any good time
Systema
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Looks like you know a lot! Thanks for all the details!
Systema
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How many time you can regenerate it and harvest?
Haven't read all the posts here but get the general gist of things.
I understand that if you can clone an AF it's not a true AF. Might be wrong; I've never tried it.
But I've never tried it because for me cloning is irrelevant.
I like to force male flowers from my best plant after harvest and self pollinate it.
I just leave all the lower leaves and all the chunkiest lower buds (no need to be greedy and harvest it all, I'll have more in two or three months.)
I assume the genetic material in the male and female flowers is identical as it comes from the same plant and so the resulting seeds exhibit almost no variation from the parent and are guaranteed female (I've not yet produced any males and for several generations my plants are all much the same)
Anyone else regularly produce new plants from self pollinated plants seed?
I understand that if you can clone an AF it's not a true AF. Might be wrong; I've never tried it.
But I've never tried it because for me cloning is irrelevant.
I like to force male flowers from my best plant after harvest and self pollinate it.
I just leave all the lower leaves and all the chunkiest lower buds (no need to be greedy and harvest it all, I'll have more in two or three months.)
I assume the genetic material in the male and female flowers is identical as it comes from the same plant and so the resulting seeds exhibit almost no variation from the parent and are guaranteed female (I've not yet produced any males and for several generations my plants are all much the same)
Anyone else regularly produce new plants from self pollinated plants seed?