WHO'S HAVING SUCCESS WITH MONSTER CROPPING?

TrimothyLeary

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I used this technique accidentally when I took flowered clones from my first grow. It was definitely a bushy success. Not sure it's going to be a regular method for me indoors but outdoors it may be a good way to go, stealth wise. A monster cropped Ducksfoot would be completely undetectable.
 

jafro daweedhound

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The one benefit i'm hoping to get from monster cropping is being able to take cuts 2-3 weeks into flower and they should be rooted and vegging by the time i harvest my crop and go right into the big room. Then i no longer need to spend time taking care of mother plants in a separate room, just take cuts at the same time every round. We'll see how it works out though, this will be my first time doing so.
You have some great points,
One question, Are you worried about your clones becoming genetically weaker with each successive cloning. Many studies that I have read have indicated that desirable traits including yield, disease resistance, ect, can/ maybe effected as the plants lineage moves further from the mother plant. Have you experienced this ?
Thanks
 

jafro daweedhound

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you should ask him truthfully how long it took from taking cuts to now :) to do that
Cause at the end of the day its all about speed, and power bill expense
think of growing as a business would you do something that cost company more money or would you do it as to save money and achieve same yield
In botany we refer to this as the SET of the crop
S = Space and how it is used
E = Energy - photon loss ect
T = Time and how to improve on crop rotation

I have almost got it right after 30 years, another 30 and I will be there....

Thanks for your info - very interesting...
 

Joe Blows Trees

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I have some clones I took from a few plants ranging from 3-5 weeks into flowering. They're currently in peat pellets rooting. Interested in seeing how they turn out. My revegged chocolope and og kush plants are looking much better than my amnesia haze so I put it into bloom. The other two will get cloned one more time before they get flowered out again. The first set of clones were sold.
 
My first instinct is to tell you what a deuche you are, but I'll move past that. Assuming things about people off such little information you have is quite stupid. I've grown from seed, I've kept mother plants and got my clones from them, blah blah blah. If you get clones from a nursery you still have to take good care of them and provide them feedings etc to reach a good result. Just because you don't germinate the seed, or root the clone yourself until its like 4-6" tall, but you grow the plant the rest of its life, hardly makes you not a grower. GO TROLL SOMEWHERE ELSE DEUCHEBAG, YOUR WORDS ARE IRRELEVANT HERE :)
If u bought ur clone at a store your a weed babysitter. Buying clones is like having red headed step children...u love them but never as much as the ones u got to hold as a baby
 

skunkd0c

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this clone was taken at 3 weeks 12/12 from the seed mother

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i vegged it for 6 weeks flowered for 8 weeks, it yielded 28 oz
i think it helps the plant shoot out more branches when growing them from a semi rejuvenated stage ( what you call monster cropping)
but its also the genetics that made this plant big

peace
 

Bangaman

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i dont know how people think they'll get any grow experiences from buying clones... doesnt make u a grower... nor give u any worthy experience... the nursery grows it... you just take it home... so annoying listening to people who swag off of nurseries come on here spewing advice knowing they dont grow shit... they house sit some plants for a month,
Its called being progressive> You sound like my grand pops saying "kids nowadays will never know what it means to drive a car because they did not learn on a stick shift." why use a dial phone when u have an iPhone? Why learn DOS when u have Windows 10?

Starting with clones means they are smarter than the fool who wasted time with seeds
 

Bangaman

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When I "Monster Crop" I get a lot of skinny branches, all growing out of what used to be a bud site. Too many, too skinny. Growth is unsymmetrical, and unpredictable. I end up cutting most of the "monster" growth away.

When I "fim" I end up with the same situation. Lots of skinny, ugly branches all originating from one "tip." And usually I cut most of those shitty branches away, anyway.

When I just top, I get strong, even growth. Next week I can just top the new growth. This seems faster, easier and less gimicky.

Am I doing it wrong? Are you guys really getting superior results from the Monster Crop?
It sounds about right. I FIM THE Main top at 3 nodes, get a few strong 2 -4 branches under the Main, as soon as the 2-4 branches are long enough( 2-3 inches) I start training them to grow horizontal. Once I have 2 nodes from last FIM point on the Main I FIM it again, I also FIM all side branches that have have 2 or 3 nodes and keep training them all horizontal. I train the resulting water spouts horizontal as well, I do lots of careful leaf trimming as I go along. Eg, i shine a flashlight from the top Maine and work in quadrants cutting any leaf I cannot move to the side that is covering a budding potential water sprout. the end result is an organized series of Menorahs. I am a plant sadist. I bend, twist, and chop my bitches with no fear of hurting or breaking them.
 

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Joe Blows Trees

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Alot of pictures are of clones well established. Here's my first attempt at monster cropping. These clones were taken from my amnesia haze plant at 4 weeks in. They were transplanted today. They both have small roots from sitting in aloe water for a week. IMAG2696_1.jpg

The other clone is from my chocolope mother plant.
 
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