Hey whats up everyone i been growing some bag seed (from some really awesome chronic) in a cupboard grow with 3 45watt cfls and with decent ventilation, they are looking very nice and green and healthy and was just wondering going by the pictures i have attached does anybody think i can start to take some cuttings for cloning?? I don't want to put the plants into flowering until i can get some clones and determine their sex, the plants took a while to get going as i transplanted them once and used some shitty soil to start with but now they are in good soil and really flourishing, any comments or suggestions on when i should start to flower would be greatly appreciated...
well if you are wanting to take clones to force flower to determine sex you should do the NOW.. like stop reading this and go now... your not going.... sorry.. wake and bake.. all sorts of stupid.. but im serious about wanting to do that soon.. it takes about a week to root and about 2 weeks to see sex... so thats 3 weeks total to know the sex... you should flower soon too... plants double to triple in size, and because you dont have a lot of space keeping a smaller plant is important...
personally here is what i would do.. take your cuttings and start rooting them today... when they are rooted and transplanted give them 24 hours of straight dark and then start them on 12/12... the 24 hours will help the onset of flowering and speed sexing up by about 5-7 days...
meanwhile you should top of FIM your plants.. something to stunt growth for about a week... after you clones have been in 12/12 for 1 week, which should be about 2 weeks from today, you should put your other plants into 12/12 also... within a week of that, which will be 2 weeks from when clones hit 12/12, you should know all the sexs of the plants you have and can pull the males out even before preflowers show... some preflowers maybe already be showing.. but its not a big deal...