Mid flower clones

Primo2133

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Anyone else like to take clones after flowers have popped? Like week 3. The rooting takes longer, and reversing to veg takes longer but the growth after is insane. Why top when this causes your plant to grow like a hedge? My plants just continue to divide and make more tops!
I had to. The only way to keep it alive. Only had one healthy female. The rooting takes up to 10 days longer and if you are not patient you will give up. The growth is good though. But the damage it does to a plant you want to flower is something you have to accept. You can slow a flowering plant down to a stall if you have to keep cutting on it. Sometimes you run out(of something to smoke) and have to though. Or get frantic you will not have cuttings that root. I know this is off of your main point but how much longer it takes to root is something of note. And that it will still happen is also something to note. The amount of time it took for them to root is my addition to the topic. It took forever. But the clones are off the hook.
 

1dude1seed

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I love growing out monster cropped clones! I typically take my monster cropped clones once the plant shows sex, if growing out reg and not feminized seeds. The damage to the now flowering plant doesn’t mess them up too bad in the early stages of flowering. At least from what I’ve noticed, hasn’t caused me too big of an issue.

Once they root and hit my Hempy rez, they just flat out explode in growth. Sometimes crazy, insane, weird growth.

They do take a fair bit amount of time to root compared to regular clones, in my experience. Well worth the wait.

This is all things I’ve noticed with my setup and my minimal experience (I don’t grow trees, or many of them. Just supply myself utilizing 2-3 plants per run, at a max).
 

calvin.m16

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I "monstercropped" before after realizing I forgot to clone a new plant. It took I think 3 months or something for the damn thing to go back into VEG I forget the strain but I wouldn't do it again if I could help it. I don't think that it ever came back to what it was when I first grew it so it ended up getting thrown out. Big noob move possibly but I ran out of room.
 

1dude1seed

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It took I think 3 months or something for the damn thing to go back into VEG
Damn, that’s a long ass time. Mine root in a few weeks then start to resume veg growth a few weeks after that. Maybe around a month and a half from cutting the clone to veg growth.

Next time I’ll actually keep track of it. My sense of time is sometimes way wrong though:eyesmoke:
 

calvin.m16

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Damn, that’s a long ass time. Mine root in a few weeks then start to resume veg growth a few weeks after that. Maybe around a month and a half from cutting the clone to veg growth.

Next time I’ll actually keep track of it. My sense of time is sometimes way wrong though:eyesmoke:
I only experienced it once with 1 plant so results may vary. Also there are other factors like I give my veg 18/6 vs 24/0 maybe 24/0 would've reverted it back quicker.. Not sure.. Maybe one day I'll find a need to do it again and see.
 

HydroKid239

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I have had some pretty different growth to say the least with a revegged clone I used to sex out a plant.
I never topped it, or prune anything for 2 months. Nothing but growth coming from everywhere. There used to be more branching from the bottom, but they didn’t make it nowhere near the tops. However the lowest branch out of the stalk reaches all the way up. It’s weird, but I’m cool with that. FD7BFD71-45B0-4572-A2B1-C4D67B76B1A1.jpeg
 

ProPheT 216

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I have had some pretty different growth to say the least with a revegged clone I used to sex out a plant.
I never topped it, or prune anything for 2 months. Nothing but growth coming from everywhere. There used to be more branching from the bottom, but they didn’t make it nowhere near the tops. However the lowest branch out of the stalk reaches all the way up. It’s weird, but I’m cool with that. View attachment 5157566
I want to try to top or FIM my clone this time just to see what breaking the main stems dominate cola does for the rest of the shoots. Topping to me is worth it because the plant seems to divide up its energy better afterwards. So I'm hoping my colas will be bigger if I top or fim
 

Hiphophippo

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I’ve never really done any cloning and it’s something I’d like to get into. Good luck prophet it makes sense to do it while in flower it would go through a idle stage and then take off. I think after this grow I’m going to get closer box I’ve looked at them a few times.
 

calvin.m16

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I want to try to top or FIM my clone this time just to see what breaking the main stems dominate cola does for the rest of the shoots. Topping to me is worth it because the plant seems to divide up its energy better afterwards. So I'm hoping my colas will be bigger if I top or fim
I do a really haggard version of "Mainlining" I chop all but 2 branches off the plant early in veg and base the whole plant off 2 branches vs a bunch of different ones, you end up just topping it as it grows and you'll get a lot more symmetry even if you're not tying stuff down or using stakes.
Example of how it turns out.. I'm basically topping more than mainlining but my initial topping I only let the plant grow off 2 equal branches and chop away all the others.
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HydroKid239

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I do a really haggard version of "Mainlining" I chop all but 2 branches off the plant early in veg and base the whole plant off 2 branches vs a bunch of different ones, you end up just topping it as it grows and you'll get a lot more symmetry even if you're not tying stuff down or using stakes.
Example of how it turns out.. I'm basically topping more than mainlining but my initial topping I only let the plant grow off 2 equal branches and chop away all the others.
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Some gorgeous ladies there :weed:
I tried mainlining once. It kinda sucked because I didn’t know the plant wasn’t going to do much of a stretch. That goes with everything I’ve ran so far. Something different every time isn’t helping me get any closer to maxing out yield for my space.
This particular plant stayed so damn squat lol you wouldn’t believe it was a 120 day veg.. well looking from the top anyways. There’s plenty of pics in my journal. I skipped to the page right at the flip if you wanted to check out my munchkin of a plant.
 

calvin.m16

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Some gorgeous ladies there :weed:
I tried mainlining once. It kinda sucked because I didn’t know the plant wasn’t going to do much of a stretch. That goes with everything I’ve ran so far. Something different every time isn’t helping me get any closer to maxing out yield for my space.
This particular plant stayed so damn squat lol you wouldn’t believe it was a 120 day veg.. well looking from the top anyways. There’s plenty of pics in my journal. I skipped to the page right at the flip if you wanted to check out my munchkin of a plant.
Thank you, yours are looking great as well. Yeah mainlining definitely adds a couple weeks to veg time depending on how stretchy of a plant you have. Those 4 particular plants are Gorilla Breath and double in size during stretch phase. I had to quit using veg nutrients in early flower because they would outgrow the lights. lol
 

calvin.m16

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@HydroKid239 I think that tying down encourages horizontal growth, I switched to using stakes and just tying the branches apart and moving them every couple weeks or adding in more, stopped the plants from growing so stubby. Netting is the best way to do it for me. I legit just top the shit out of them after doing my "haggard mainline", then I move them to flower under the 2 layers of netting and weave them through 6" squares.

They start out like this, a lil taller then go to flower and I keep lights at a set height so they reach for them during stretch.
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