fishwhistle1
Well-Known Member
I will preface this whole story with the fact that I am very stoned right now but!! I have been thinking about cloning the plants that I have started this year for outdoor. The reason being is that I want to ensure the plants I am putting out are going to be female (starting from regular seeds). So have been reading a lot about cloning on here and it seems to be a difficult task ( or time consuming) from what I've been seeing. I have cloned in past years by just taking a cutting and putting it in a water bottle full of rain water. Works every time but takes so long. The idea is to get them rooted and put them directly into 12/12 to get them to flower (don't care what happens to them once they show), but would like to do this before the end of May before they go out. I am thinking of main lining a few this year and have topped them already. I am going to clean everything up under the topped area once the shock has subsided and they start some significant growth on the new tops. So I have been looking at the small side branches on the bottom thinking great that's were I'll get my cuttings. Then it dawned on me (in a haze of weed smoke) why don't I cover up some of those smaller branches with soil with just the tips coming out of the soil and see if the plant will grow the roots for me. Then I can come back a little latter and with some careful excavation and cut the branch off (hopefully with some roots attached) and transplant into a new home. Was watching a nature show some time ago and saw a guy dig a trench with his foot bend a branch from some wild shrub and bury it in the trench still attached to the main plant and inferred that would become a separate plant after some time. So you tell me I am a raging stoner or did I have an epiphany
