Cloning an Auto-Flowering Strain

I'm doing some research on some different strains that I wanted to try in tissue culture and micropropagation and I was thinking about trying some auto-flowering strains just to see how they react to being tissue cultured.

When looking up some information on whether it would even be possible I didn't really find much information other than some people seem to think that it would be possible for tissue culturing. I figured that if at least cloning is possible then tissue culturing would be too. The issue I have is that when looking up whether auto-flowering strains can be cloned, it doesn't seem to be a very clear issue. About 3/4 of people automatically say that
"You can't clone an auto-flowering plant because the clones will barely root and then it will start to flower."

Yet, nobody ever supplies any evidence for this except regurgitating the same old thing again and again, and the people that have actually tried say that it works just like normal cloning, and then once the clones get to about 2-3 ft tall they start to flower just like the mother.

Has anyone actually tried to clone an auto-flowering strain, or know somebody else that has? If you have no experience and haven't tried it yourself and just looked it up on the internet and saw that most people say it doesn't, please don't respond.

 

From what I've read, in fact they aren't genetically programmed to start flowering at a particular age, but genetically programmed to start flowering once they reach a certain size and produce enough flowering inducing hormones to start flowering. Because to most people they always start flowering at the same age, there is a misconception that it is age that triggers it, but it is in reality size. Most of the time this size is about 2-3 weeks in. As the plant grows its cells are producing hormones, and once it gets to a certain size it reaches a tipping point which triggers the plant to start flowering.

So when you take a clone, the clone doesn't have enough size or mass to produce the required flowering inducing hormones, so it keeps growing until it gets to the right size and starts t flower. The problem most people have with cloning auto-flowers is that they take the clones too late, when the hormone concentrations are already high enough in the tissues taken for cloning, so the clone continues to flower. If the clones are taken early enough then they won't flower.

I've already confirmed this to be true through other sources, and the problem is that most people just read the same misconceptions, but never confirm them for themselves.

 

I totally understand why some people don't want to experiment with alternatives that the majority of the marijuana community shys away from because of inconsistency. The main focus and goal of the majority of growers are results and yields which is understandable. Sometimes the wheel needs to be reinvented, because other wise we'd be driving our cars around on wooden wagon wheels.

Yeah that's what I've heard from most of the growers with experience with auto-flowering strains, a lot of inconsistency.

Could it not be that the buddha is genetically programmed to flower at a smaller size than the GWS. Not all photo-period flowering strains mature at the same rate either.

Like I said I'm not going to be cloning any auto-flowering strains, I'm going to be doing tissue culture which I'm almost positive will work with them, but I was just curious about the habits they exhibited with regular cloning.

 

Yeah if you want some more information about the micropropagation, check out the thread in my sig. I've got some basic information in there, and some links for more info.

I'm just getting started on my first run at micropropagating cannabis. Right now my first strain to try is Blue Mystic and it is currently 9-10 days since sprouting, and I'll be starting the tissue cultures in the next couple of weeks. Just updated the pictures too.