Hello everybody,
Sorry for being just new in this forum (don't know if its the right place to post first). I just made my profile to post about cloning autoflowers. I'm a lazy gardener that test all lazy stuffs like for example making own soils with only nearby ingredients. So like I felted lazy dealing with all the precautions that need the pollination of only one branche in a flowering autoplant I decide to clone them for seed.
I did research on forums and newspapers and as everybody what claiming the same and the contrary I just tried to clone some and it works.
Procedure was simple :
- Just after seing the sex I cut the two lowest branches (which were the only enought long for cloning)
- Dipped the freshly cutted tip in fresh aloe vera gel (Don't know if its really interesting but I had it anyway) and planted in pot with pure sphagnus soil on 8 top centimer and rich soil mix at the bottom (in case it roots, the clones would have food very quickly)
- Cutting was put in 20/4 light under V2 isled growing bar (a french maker that work on perfect specter for growing light, the growing light is said to particurlarly stimulate root formation)
What I seen :
- First sign of rooting (growing light green leaves) was caught after 14 days - in fact root reached the bottom of the pot.
- Photos of clones and mother was taken 22 days after cutting
- From six clones just three seem to grow (And it was the biggest cut)
- The biggest is now 12 cm tall and growing fast --> maybe stretching already ?
- The mother plant is the one that is yellowish on the middle and left of the photo (ph fluctuation due i think to the ash solution I gave it two weeks ago) yes the plant shape is modified by guiding to fit in this 90 cm height locker. Strech is finished and plant are 25 cm from light source - i'm lucky!
- Mother is a time of the photos is finishing third flowering week.
Conclusion :
- Cloning is possible but i could only get few clones before mother began to stretch and bloom (this period of cloning can may be extended with particular varieties)
- The clones haven't followed the flowering clock of the mother. Seems more like it paused it until enought rootstock is done ?
- The mother has done a X3 X4 strech so the varietie and capacity of growing/strectching before blooming may change cloning ability (you have to get some enought long lower branches before cloning ! and how many can you get ?)
- I don't really think it is interesting for production but I will pollinate the clones and see if i can get seeds from the clones and weed without seeds from the mothers.
- It may be interesting for home breeding (cloning all female and pollinite with selected male, keeping the seeds from the clone taken from the mother with best caracters).
- Let's see how much time the hormone rythm has paused now by finishing both blooming and compare !
PS :
Varieties are Auto haze x Auto Gambian
and Sour spyder x Auto haze.
Will send photos in further times to show the future of these clones.
