Advice for cloning.

So this is my first year back into growing. I currently have a few plants that are from seeds that I have been saving and two clones that I got from a friends friend. They are currently 6 weeks into flower and the sunset serbert just loves the conditions of where I am in SoCal. I was wondering if I can clone the sunset serbert clone at 6 weeks into flower? What would I have to lookout for aside from the traditional cutting and cloning procedure to plant in veg if any? Thanks

custodio214 said:

So this is my first year back into growing. I currently have a few plants that are from seeds that I have been saving and two clones that I got from a friends friend. They are currently 6 weeks into flower and the sunset serbert just loves the conditions of where I am in SoCal. I was wondering if I can clone the sunset serbert clone at 6 weeks into flower? What would I have to lookout for aside from the traditional cutting and cloning procedure to plant in veg if any? Thanks

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Anytime ive done this the outcome wasn't as good as if it wasn't flowering in a jam I've done it though I've learned my lesson to many times I clone everything now way before flower

I thought so. It's my first round and I don't have access to others. This plant did so well on all bases for me. Great dense buds, good trichome production, and high yield. I just can't let these precious genetics slip through my fingers. At this point I'm going to take plan B which is putting it 24/7 under the mh after I harvest. I'll clone whatever comes up first from the cut mother. I'll log it and post as I go along. I think that's a safer route

It can't hurt to go ahead and cut a few clones off it now. It will at least give you a head start on that revegging. Your scenario is one of the only reasons to clone in flower. They will be weird and goofy looking and may not recover. Or at least will take awhile. I had a shiskaberry once I got from a guy and i had that thing in veg for 3 months and it still was producing trichomes and some single petal leaves. Finally I said to hell with it and killed it. It was wasting valuable plant count space.

When I'm cutting something that late into bloom, I always take a few extras. I just took some cuts off a friend's outdoor plants last month, and they were about 6 weeks in. It took 3 weeks, but out of 7 cuts, 2 survived - 1 from each plant. And I usually get right around 100% strike rate.

A lot of people prefer simply to reveg, but that takes much longer. You have to wait several additional weeks for the plant to finish its flowering cycle, and then up to several months before it reverts to veg. If you take cuts now, yeah - they may be a little harder to root, but once they do root, they won't take anywhere near as long to reveg, because they weren't as far into bloom. In some strains, they might be revegged before the mother is even harvested, and that gives you a big headstart on getting the plant back into production.

If I were you, I'd do it. Revegging the original plant is not always a sure thing. I'd take several cuts now to cover your bases. Unless you're worried about plant count, what's the harm? if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Edit: Keep in mind, though, that some plants are harder to clone than others, and all plants are harder to clone in flower - and the further into flower you are, the harder they get. If you're going to do it, I'd do it now, because Week 7 will be harder than Week 6.

I prefer clones taken in late flower. They grow bushier

Your totally right. Nothing to loose, and I didn't fully lollipop them. even saved a few very small bottom branches encase I had to late clone. Thank you for that insight it makes more sense. The sunset serbert has passed with flying colors this season despite having only fox farm ocean forest and just water and occasional bottom juices of my earthworm garden.

custodio214 said:

Your totally right. Nothing to loose, and I didn't fully lollipop them. even saved a few very small bottom branches encase I had to late clone. Thank you for that insight it makes more sense. The sunset serbert has passed with flying colors this season despite having only fox farm ocean forest and just water and occasional bottom juices of my earthworm garden.

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Oh, you do that too? That's a trick I've been using for years. Whenever I'm growing from seed, I almost always leave a few of the sucker shoots at the bottom on the plant in case it turns out to be a killer pheno and I want to reveg (or even clone, if it declares itself early enough to get decent cuts.) That's paid off in spades a couple of times, with plants that looked perfectly ordinary for the first few weeks and wound up exploding in frost the last couple of weeks.

I'm still keeping a white rhino clone that, the first time I grew it out, I thought I was going to have to throw it away because I thought it had mildew - it was just covered with white powder, and I freaked when I saw it. Looked a little more closely, and holy shit! Those were trichomes! It was like somebody spraypainted it like one of those old-fashioned flocked Christmas trees. I hadn't taken cuts, but I'd left the bottom branches on, and it revegged very nicely. Been running it ever since.

Oh, and you're more than welcome. It's been nice chatting with you.

On the subject. cloning in first week or two of flip. How are the effects. Thanks

ChemPro said:

I prefer clones taken in late flower. They grow bushier

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There is an old bald geezer on youtube from Canada who says the same thing. He has quite few videos. Looks like an older Brian Eno and does electronic music like Eno.

I'm late to the party here. So is cloning in late flower also called monster cropping or I'm I out to lunch. Anyway I took a cutting from my blue dream one day before harvest using a diy aero cloner made from a coffee container with a 3" netty plain water and a air stones , a root riot cubes hydron. Three weeks later Ohh some harmoom powder.
Peace out Bare

Bareback said:

I'm late to the party here. So is cloning in late flower also called monster cropping or I'm I out to lunch. Anyway I took a cutting from my blue dream one day before harvest using a diy aero cloner made from a coffee container with a 3" netty plain water and a air stones , a root riot cubes hydron. Three weeks later Ohh some harmoom powder.
Peace out Bare

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There seems to be about 5 things that people call "monster cropping". So who the fuck knows? Lol

I would say taking clones in late flower is called "taking clones in late flower" lol

Gquebed said:

There seems to be about 5 things that people call "monster cropping". So who the fuck knows? Lol

I would say taking clones in late flower is called "taking clones in late flower" lol

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Yeah but MONSTER cropping sounds cool lol
Although it could be called the slowest way to clone.
Or how to waste time or how to waste space in the grow room or whatever Idk .
It was just a experimenting with a diy cloner and I very surprised it worked for me.