What is a Flowering Clone?

[GrowBot]

gm is long gone and will more than likely never be back. i believe that taking clones beyond day 21 of flower is what gm suggested not to do...

[Num]

Originally Posted by aerohead

damn brits??

hey don't tar us all with the same brush lol - u got ur fair share of plonkers too
Anyone who disects a post into multiple quotes & makes smart replies to a helpfull thread is a fool imo & doesn't belong on a public forum. Never mind......

the guy is right - clone in flower, but before pistils start to show imo.
i take the lower branches that haven't shown sex yet.
they will get trimmed off later anyway so make good use of them
any cuts from topping should go into root riot cubes - they make ace plants

the further into flower they are, the longer they will take to veg - patience
best thing about clones taken in flower is u can switch 1212 anytime & they will flower immediately

they def are good in sog as they should all be same size & flower at same time.
Is best if all the clones came from a single mother, or were from an original single clone, to ensure u only have 1 phenotype in ur room - that way the growth & nute tolerance of each plant will be the same = no runts or burnt plants

[GT_NZ]

interesting thread ,one point i would like to raise for anyone wanting to do this is ,to be very careful of mould on the old growth, and pluck off the old bits as they wither and die,the mould seems to thrive on the glandular tricomes
one more negative sorry is that the cutting area ,now the new trunk of your tree tends to be a bit woody and if you grow very big buds like the size of coke cans ,like me ,this will be where it tends to snap giving more potential disease sites .if you tie up or train the branches this wont be an issue
keep on growin

[dhergy]

yes thanks for the info, have a couple of questions for you.lights? do they go back to nthe veg schedule for the new clones,and is there any degrigation in quality do to the stress of returning to the veg light schedule. i have taken some clones from a flowering plant once.it was about 3-4 weeks into flowering. no problem with it, was actually my first attempt in cloning.didnt grow them out was just practice for me.

[GT_NZ]

Originally Posted by dhergy

yes thanks for the info, have a couple of questions for you.lights? do they go back to nthe veg schedule for the new clones,and is there any degrigation in quality do to the stress of returning to the veg light schedule. i have taken some clones from a flowering plant once.it was about 3-4 weeks into flowering. no problem with it, was actually my first attempt in cloning.didnt grow them out was just practice for me.

There shouldnt be any degradation of quality regarding light cycles

[GT_NZ]

and yes lights go back to 18/6 or 24 on or whatever you prefer
i cant see why they wouldnt root on 12/12 but you would get realy small plants with out reveging

[GrowBot]

if you want any kind of yield you need to veg. no root mass equals low yield.

[Mycroft]

What I want to know is a little bit more detail on how you do this.

So you take your clones on day 21, or so. What do you do with the clone? Do you keep it on 12/12 light, or is it switched to 18/6? Do you treat it just like any other clone, veg it for a while then put it on 12/12?

And what about successive generations? Once you create a flowering clone, do you then take clones off it on day 21 of 12/12?

[GT_NZ]

treat it like any other clone 18/6

taking cuttings from a veging mother is best though

[GrowBot]

the whole point to this thread is that taking a clone from a flowering plant will give you a much bushier/robust plant. treat it as you would any clone. the only way to see is to try. do a veg cut and a flowering cut. see which works better for your grow style.

[brokencage]

cuts from a flowering plant would be ideal for scrog. while a cut from a veging plant would be better for sog grows.Cuts from a flowering plant also make for a great mother with many shoots ready for cloning without toping.toping those shoots first will produce many many clones much faster than a clone taken from a veging plant which will need toped several times to produce the same amount of tops.Cool thread.

[DrBudGreengenes]

The pictures below speak volumes for the clones. I've been using them for a long time now and well, I just cant see another way of getting this much out of a plant. Give it a try and see for yourself. Have fun and stay safe, greenmonster714

If ya' don't mind me askin'?
What is the "Flower to Waste (Leaves & Stems) ratio"?

"Gram to light hour ratio"?

"Timetable light hours from Clone to Cut flowers"

Do you belive this method will out yeild a true SOG?

[gonejah17]

Great Thread, Great info. Cant wait to try it.

I think u and dude just had a miscommunicaiton from the get go, and ur probably both cool guys and experienced growers.

Ill let u know when my ladies are ready to try this thanks again for the info

[Mycroft]

To follow up:

I tried my own cutting from a flowering plant. It took 19 days for the roots to show through the rockwool, and by the time it did the plant was looking pretty week and puny.

I'll wait and see how it recovers, but right now this doesn't seem like a great thing. I think I'd rather have a more vigorous cutting that roots faster.

[ziNgerfoR2o]

greenmonster's buds are looking nice, ill go with him =)