DankBudzzz
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I'm thinking about taking some clones from the lower branches of my plants that are one week into flower as a few have turned out to be male. Would the clones root on 12/12 light cycle or would they need 24/0. Thanks.
You say that you are into flower, so you need to up your light to 18/6 or 24/0. Not doing this will 1 make it hard to root and 2. stay in flower. Taking a clone in flower is easy, just be patient they tend to take longer to root and switch back to the veg state.I'm thinking about taking some clones from the lower branches of my plants that are one week into flower as a few have turned out to be male. Would the clones root on 12/12 light cycle or would they need 24/0. Thanks.
Good question! Only one way to find out! Try it and see if it will work?Im ok with the clones staying in flower, I have lost 3/9 plants which were femmd seeds and turned out to be male for wahtever reason so I was thinkin on taking asome lower branches from the female keepers and having 6 or so small individual buds along with the rest of my plants to increase yield. Good idea?
No. the plant will produce more than if you take a bunch of clones and root them and then continue to flower the clones and mother plants. Now if you wanted to clone them and revegg the clones thats a great idea, your next generation will be ultra bushy and work great to take new clones from. heres the idea......you take lets say 4 flowering clones, revert those to veg. by the time the mothers are finished flowering out your clones will be ready to go into the flower room after rooting and vegging, now about 2 weeks before your mothers finish flowering and you put those first clones into flowering take off 4 more clones off each of them(as you master cloning you can reduce it to 2 if you want, but for at first take more than you'll need so youve got a little extra padding in case something goes wrong) and root and veg those clones as the new mothers flower, now keep doing that and you will have started a nice perpetual grow that will ensure youve always got a fresh supply of plants on hand.Im ok with the clones staying in flower, I have lost 3/9 plants which were femmd seeds and turned out to be male for wahtever reason so I was thinkin on taking asome lower branches from the female keepers and having 6 or so small individual buds along with the rest of my plants to increase yield. Good idea?
So taking from flowering plants will take longer to root then cuttings from a veg'd mom?No. the plant will produce more than if you take a bunch of clones and root them and then continue to flower the clones and mother plants. Now if you wanted to clone them and revegg the clones thats a great idea, your next generation will be ultra bushy and work great to take new clones from. heres the idea......you take lets say 4 flowering clones, revert those to veg. by the time the mothers are finished flowering out your clones will be ready to go into the flower room after rooting and vegging, now about 2 weeks before your mothers finish flowering and you put those first clones into flowering take off 4 more clones off each of them(as you master cloning you can reduce it to 2 if you want, but for at first take more than you'll need so youve got a little extra padding in case something goes wrong) and root and veg those clones as the new mothers flower, now keep doing that and you will have started a nice perpetual grow that will ensure youve always got a fresh supply of plants on hand.
Lime73 flowering plants do take longer to root but once they are in veg again they explode in growth including roots. Cloning for sex allows a mature plant to show sex before you begin the flowering process, but the poor little plant if allowed to continue in flower while trying to grow roots also, very hard on the plant.So taking from flowering plants will take longer to root then cuttings from a veg'd mom?
We can clone for sex? So why not try to clone for flower? Or do roots stop growing during flower?
roots grow during flower, but those little branches aint gonna yield much if you keep them in 12/12, they will root and then keep on flowering right where they left off and not really go through a good stretch more vegative phase of the flowering cycle where it really gets bigger and all that since it already went through that phase already so youll end up with little popcorn buds on a cutting. if you take the clone before the stretch phase of flowering it will benefit from the stretch phase of flowering and explode in growth like normal and get much bigger during that phase. That is one strategy, the other is to revert to veg these clones and then veg them out and let them get fairly big and then re-flower them. These plants are amazing for lsting and scrogging as their branching is incredible. Your better using your cuttings from a flowering plant one of those 2 ways.So taking from flowering plants will take longer to root then cuttings from a veg'd mom?
We can clone for sex? So why not try to clone for flower? Or do roots stop growing during flower?
Yes your clone will root in 12/12I'm thinking about taking some clones from the lower branches of my plants that are one week into flower as a few have turned out to be male. Would the clones root on 12/12 light cycle or would they need 24/0. Thanks.
You can veg them for about a month under thatOk the thing is I only have one grow room and it's one week into flower. The only possibility would be to throw them under 4 23 watt cfls I have but I don't know how long they would be good for under there.