Help Cloning/Flower Technique

[jjng5]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to decide what process I should use to determine the sex of my plants and clone them. I have 12 healthy plants in veg (5 of which are Blue Mystic from Nirvana). My largest plants are about 4/5 inches tall with many sets of leaves. They are all growing and I have began to transplant them into larger containers. I have two areas (one for veg and one for flower) and am trying to decide how to go forward.

Should I allow the plants to reach about 7/8 inches tall and cut clones from all of them, flower them until they show sex while keeping the mothers in my veg room? Should I force all the plants into 12/12 to show me their sex and then take clones and reveg the females? If anyone has advise for me I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Mycroft]

What I would do personally, and what I have done in the past, is to take two clones of everything when you begin flowering, very carefully labeling them so you always know which plant they came from, then destroy the male clones at the same time you destroy whichever plants of your grow are male.

[Enuff4All2Share]

I just saw this in Ed Rosenthal's guide:


(... upon planting a germinated seed in it's own pot...)

After a few weeks of growth, a branch is
clipped from each one and marked. The clipped
branches are kept in a jar with water and a few
drops of houseplant fertilizer, then placed under
a regimen of 10 hours of light and 14 hours of
uninterrupted darkness. Within 7 to 10 days the
plants will grow flowers, indicating whether
they and their clone mothers are male or
female.

This is the fastest claim I've heard of. How it pans out in practice...



E4A2S

[jjng5]

So I should go ahead and attempt to clone one of the larger top leaves or a lower middle leaf? At what age do you think I should take a clone to determine sex?

Thank you!

[Enuff4All2Share]

If you wanna flower your clone, I'd take one that you aren't gonna miss, from a sight that wouldn't develope into a significant bud.