Earliest cloning

[LiquidLumen]

When is the earliest you can take clones off of a newly started seeling- How many nodes does a plant need to have?

 

[tom__420]

You are going to want to wait like three weeks

 

[LiquidLumen]

You are going to want to wait like three weeks

Would it be hard to go from 3 weeks into a SOG and keep the plants under 4 feet with a generic indica strain?

 

[tom__420]

Are you planning on starting a sog off of one mother plant, this newly started seedling?

 

[LiquidLumen]

No, I'm saying if you had 10 seedlings that are about 6 inches tall (2 nodes of growth), and you wait till they are around 5 or 6 nodes (which I'm guessing translates to about 3 weeks of growth), if you snip them at that point and then wait for a couple of days to recover then throw them into 12/12 for SOG flowering, will that work for a SOG with about 2 plants per sq. ft.

 

[tom__420]

I thought that a SOG is when you place clones that are newly rooted and either veg them for a very short amount of time or flower them right away. What you are doing is just flowering multiple plants, there is a difference.

 

[doobnVA]

Whoa, dude... if your plants are 6 inches tall and only have 2 nodes, I think you've got some serious stretching going on.

I've got plants that are 8 nodes high and just under 4 inches.

 

[LiquidLumen]

I thought that a SOG is when you place clones that are newly rooted and either veg them for a very short amount of time or flower them right away. What you are doing is just flowering multiple plants, there is a difference.

No there actually is no difference, and SOG has nothing to do with whether they start as clones or seedlings- it's simply the practice of flowering plants early when they are small so you can cram many of them into a small space, and only focus on producing buds on the top cola- as opposed to flowering larger plants with a lot of secondary growth. The point being to maximize the light onto the large single cola, versus wasting light on secondary buds that are further away from the top of the plant canopy.