Anyone experienced with growing clones?

I need tips and adviceon growing clones. Thats really all i have at the moment. The dispensaries here and california dont really have seeds just clones to grow for medicine. do seed plants grow faster that clones? whats a good nute soloution for clones? what temp/light do they like? is growing them similar to growing from seed? any advice?

A plant is a plant. Seed or clone it's still bud in the end

you should try to find Al B. Fuct he knows alot about it, he helped me in a thread two down from here, its called HEY YOU!!!

but yeah, Ive got alot of experience w/ clones......... just not good ones lol

Do seed plants grow faster? It depends on the age of the clones. If the are already rooted and have started their growing sprut (very scientific language) they grow about the same as seed plants.

I would use the same nute or fert solution as you would for seed plants. I use Fox Farm. But not until the roots are very well established. Then at 1/4 strength.

They are similar to growing from seed. If the roots aren't established yet you might want to keep them in a humidity dome and mist the plants. Go to FAQ and then to cloning for more detailed info.

GraF, thanks for the reference.

When you start plants from seed, you must first raise the plant to sexual maturity (about 6 weeks) and then determine sex (another week or so). If female, it can be flowered or used as a mother to make more clones. If male, it's compost. You have a 50/50 chance of getting a female when raising from ordinary seeds. "Feminised" seeds run about 60-80% female.

If you start with a clone, the mother it came from has already been raised to sexual maturity and determined to be female. The clone can then be flowered or raised up to be used as a mother plant.

I know a little about clones. I have been cutting for a few years..

With regard to whether plants grown from seed or clones grow faster than one another, that's kinda comparing apples to applesauce.

A clone is as mature as the mother plant it came from and will grow at a similar rate. A seedling is just getting this party started.

The beauty of clones. No guessing the sex and they are free. Can it get any better?

AND you can replace worn out mother plants with clones of themselves... for years and years, if not forever.

I replace my mothers about every 4-6 weeks with clones taken from those long suffering mothers.

i keep my mothers in a 6'' pot for one year; then i transplant to a 5g pot, and flower it, taking new clones for a new bonzai mom.

clones are great. if only there weren't so many great strains; i'd never touch beans again!

I agree. There are so many new stains to try you just have to break down every now and then and pick up some seeds.

Getting seeds delivered is stressful all by itself tho, mogie. Organising a maildrop, well away from the grow op address, is complicated. Mainly due to that difficulty, I'm still growing Sweet Tooth #4 from the seeds I sprouted more than 5 years ago. ST4 is a very good producer, clones reliably and is reasonably disease resistant.

Guess I am spoiled I just go to my compassion center and ask for them.

When I buy my clones I put them in a plastic cup with a litle water at the bottom and water and wait for about 3-5 days, if i see roots at the bottom grow significantly quick i'll plant em if they grow too slow they stay in the cup till they get long enough. They all have small roots coming from the clone cubes when i buy them.

I prefer clones for the quick flowering ability and guaranteed girls. No fuss. No muss.

...........every now and then I am sure I will crack a bean, though.

Should I vegg the clones when I get them? I heard even in flowering the plant grows alot this is crutial to my small grow box only 4 ft high. they come about 6 inches high when I buy them in the cube. When a plant is in flower phase how much higher will it go untill full maturaty.

c214, if your box is only 4' tall, you won't want to do any vegging. Just chuck them in to flowering straightaway. You really need to find another foot or two somewhere to allow for clearance under your light.

You can flower for as little as 8 weeks but a little better bud density can be had by letting them go a week or so longer.

My clones are about 6-8" tall when they go in to flower and finish close to ~30-36" tall.

You might think about some type of training or pruning to keep the height down and let the plant mature/grow more because if you flower them straight away the yield is going to be very small. Look into something like:

https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=380
https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=382
https://www.rollitup.org/view.php?pg=faq&cmd=article&id=383

thanks alot al i really appreciate your advice. Now i can make the decision to go get flower nutes and change the schedule.

i feel a clone runs it course and after a year im looking to refresh from seed