I know noyhing about cuttings and taking from other plants. or obtaining a mother plant. I was just hoping getting the cabinet some good seeds ordered, plant them, use floros or HID for a bit then switch to the HPS. I have the jorge bible so i will learn as a go that help me with cuttings. Cant i just get some great seeds, plant them, treat them great, cut the top and grow about 7 nice plants? thanks too man!
Sure, you can flower plants that you've raised from seed. However, don't be put off by cloning. Piece of cake- and will both save you weeks and weeks later on and give you assured female plants.
However you go, you will first raise up some seedlings under 18+hr/day light to sexual maturity (preflowers showing at nodes, 4-6 wks).
Now, you can either flower the plants you grow from seed and hope for females (statistically, 50% will be male; feminised seeds go about 60-80% female), or you can take a cutting or two from the seed grown plants and flower those cuttings under 12/12 light to determine sex. Of course, the clone/s will be the sex of the mother.
Once you've determined the plant grown from seed is female, you can then flower the clone/s you made, or you can raise them up as mothers. A mother plant is simply a known female plant from which you take cuttings. You can also either flower the now known to be female plant you grew from seed or you can use it as a mother plant.
If you get ordinary seeds, half will be male. Feminised seeds run about 60-80% female. If you
only raise plants from seed, you'll wait
4-6 weeks in EACH CROP for plants to come to sexual maturity.
However, if you establish a mother plant and take cuttings, you'll KNOW each plant is female. It only takes
7-10 DAYS to get a cutting to set root- sure beats waiting 4-6 weeks for a plant which may
OR MAY NOT be female!
Yes, establishing a mother and taking cuttings is a little bit more work- but in the 4-6 weeks you wait for seedlings to become sexually mature, you could have a crop 3/4 of the way (usual flowering is 8 weeks) to being harvestable buds.
Depends on whether you like smoking dope or watching grass grow.
Or maybe it's the other way around 
