Why is this one clone falling behind

One of my four clones is starting to fall behind in growth significantly. All 4 clones are getting the same mix of nutrients from the same reservoir, in the same amounts as all the others?
This is the one going slower


this is what the rest look like:
All topped on the same day

Are all the clones from the same plant?
Did you take the clones yourself.........or did you buy them?

FlowerPower88 said:

One of my four clones is starting to fall behind in growth significantly. All 4 clones are getting the same mix of nutrients from the same reservoir, in the same amounts as all the others?

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A few more details might help.

From my own experience sometimes even taking multiple cuts of the same plant I’ve had variable outcomes. Some root strong, rarely but has happened where maybe one just shrivels and dies in my oxycloner. It could be a number of reasons contributing. Environment, the way it was cut, etc. just take another cut and hope for the best.

I’m Spartan. Seedlings. Young plants. Cuttings. Older plants too but they don’t usually get tossed because weaklings don’t make it that far here. They fly and fly right or they die. There’s too many plants and too many seeds to screw around with wimpy anything.

Take more cuts than you need. Select the most vigorous and uniform from the bunch. Toss the weaklings or slowest to root.

waterproof808 said:

Take more cuts than you need. Select the most vigorous and uniform from the bunch. Toss the weaklings or slowest to root.

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Agree with this. Took 160 cuts and picked the best 120 for my grow. Narrowed that 120 to the best 104. Used 5 for mothers and one was lagging big time so I culled it.

MickFoster said:

Are all the clones from the same plant?
Did you take the clones yourself.........or did you buy them?

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All from the same plant, I took them myself. Environment is, temp 77-82F day 70-74 lights off. RH is 60-70 consistent. I have 2 clip fans at different levels an in-line fan exhausting out the top and fresh air in thru the bottom

FlowerPower88 said:

All from the same plant, I took them myself. Environment is, temp 77-82F day 70-74 lights off. RH is 60-70 consistent. I have 2 clip fans at different levels an in-line fan exhausting out the top and fresh air in thru the bottom

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Growing is a numbers game, only the strong should survive. If you keep the weaklings around you will have more problems than they are worth. Sick and weak plants attract pests and are a pain in the ass to deal with. You’ll have to cater your watering specifically to that plant for it to come out good. That might work for you but I like to mix one nutrient regiment and water everything once over and be done.

if i want half a dozen clones, i take 14 or 15 cuttings. one or two might not make it, then i pick the six best and trash the rest

This ^^^^^^

Yeah I took a closer look at it today and it definitely looks like a little nute burn on the new leaf tips. So if I cull that clone, I do have 7 new cuttings I took today, so in 10 days I’ll have good enough roots to put in cups. Then a week or so for it to really root, it’ll be a whole month behind these 3, should I just go on with 3?

I decided to just water that plant last and I will dilute its portion of nutrients, not too much extra work. I was going to cull it, but this morning it had a substantial amount of new growth so, now I’m ready to learn my lesson of why we don’t baby sick plants firsthand lol

i have a perpetual grow going, where i keep ten-twenty seedlings/clones in veg, and ten plants in flower all the time. when i harvest one, i put my biggest clone in its spot, one out, one in...when i get down to about 8 in veg, i take more cuttings, and cull them as i go.
this makes it kind of hard for me to give advice about whether it's worth it to put a plant in your tent that is a full month behind the others, if you intend to harvest them all at about the same time. i guess i wouldn't. i'd use the extra space to do some LST and optimize my yield from the ones i do have ready

I’m going to play it by ear, if it turns around and doesn’t give me much trouble I’ll keep her, but if it is a pain in the ass by this time next week it’s gone…this is my first run on what I’m trying to make a perpetual grow, so I just don’t have the plants in veg right now that I will in future. And thank you guys for the tip of taking quite a few extra clones, now that I’m about 15-20 clones deep, I can see the variation in vigor in different cuts, or at least the slow starting on some.