Can I make an autoflowering plant my mother plant?

I bought some auto-flowering pineapple express seeds the other month and i'm in the 3rd week.

1. I wanted to know if I can use this plant as a mother plant and create clones from her?

2. How do I stop the mother plant from flowering?

You can't successfully clone and you can't stop an autoflower from flowering. The best you can do is breed and make seeds.

use colloidal silver or STS to make femized seeds, u can even self pollinate your mother

BluntM8 said:

use colloidal silver or STS to make femized seeds, u can even self pollinate your mother

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You think it's possible to hermie, get pollen, impregnate, and get seeds from the same auto before it's life cycle is complete?

pepsicola27 said:

I bought some auto-flowering pineapple express seeds the other month and i'm in the 3rd week.

1. I wanted to know if I can use this plant as a mother plant and create clones from her?

2. How do I stop the mother plant from flowering?

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No, you can't use your auto as a mother plant.
You can take cuttings. The clones will flower like the mother.
You can't stop the auto's flowering.
IMO- I'd take a couple cuttings. Stress the clones to make them Hermaphrodite. Or get something to make them Hermaphrodite, as mentioned.
Leave your Mother plant flower.

Why chose an autoflowering strain if you want to have a mother and clones?

There are a million strains out there that can be cloned - autoflowering strains are not amongst them.

buy regular(non-feminised) auto's in the future.

topfuel29 said:

No, you can't use your auto as a mother plant.
You can take cuttings. The clones will flower like the mother.

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They may well do. But they also may fail to root, and die. Leaving you with a lower yielding 'mother' plant and no clones.

The entire undertaking, although technically possible, is, in my opinion a complete waste of time.

If you want to have a mother and clones - get a photoperiod seeds. If you want a quick harvest of slightly inferior weed then get autoflower seeds. To mix up the two has no benefit I can see.

brimck325 said:

buy regular(non-feminised) auto's in the future.

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The thread is saying he wants to have a mother and clones. How is that going to be achieved if he follows this advice?

Off topic digression into how to achieve an auto seed run imo.

well its already been said he cant do what he wants , so i offered advice for future reference! i know, its like a fukin riddle to some!

Bigby said:

They may well do. But they also may fail to root, and die. Leaving you with a lower yielding 'mother' plant and no clones.

The entire undertaking, although technically possible, is, in my opinion a complete waste of time.

If you want to have a mother and clones - get a photoperiod seeds. If you want a quick harvest of slightly inferior weed then get autoflower seeds. To mix up the two has no benefit I can see.

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Of course its possible. I really don't think a couple 2-3" cutting are going to make you lose oz.'s of yield. There's all ways the possibility of losing the cuttings, but it's a better option than trying to Hermaphrodite his primary auto. To keep the auto he has going. His only option is to try and make sum seed. Having a short-day plant as his mother plant doesn't help his current situation. It's good advice for the future.

doniboy said:

You think it's possible to hermie, get pollen, impregnate, and get seeds from the same auto before it's life cycle is complete?

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YES. You force pollen asap and you wait until the seeds mature before you chop, obviously. And just like photos, there will be a number of pheno expressions in autos. Many of them may be shit. So, selfing does make sense in trying to lock down specific traits. I believe this statement holds even more truth with autos given the fact that you are essentially trying to outbreed the shit traits of the ruderalis.

BluntM8 said:

YES. You force pollen asap and you wait until the seeds mature before you chop, obviously. And just like photos, there will be a number of pheno expressions in autos. Many of them may be shit. So, selfing does make sense in trying to lock down specific traits. I believe this statement holds even more truth with autos given the fact that you are essentially trying to outbreed the shit traits of the ruderalis.

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If the OP didnt know the answer to his own questions, I doubt he is going to be able to pull this off. Even if it were possible, it would be an extremely overly complicated and backwards experiment.

The answers to the question "Can an auto be used as a mother plant?" is no. The question itself demonstrates a lack of understanding of what a "mother" plant is anyway.

And the second question "Is there any way to stop an autoflower from flowering?" would also be no. Again, the question seems to answer itself.

The solution: Buy some regular or feminized seeds of the strain in question. Then you can have a mother plants and grow out cuttings indefinitely.

If you want an autoflowering plant, youll have to cross the strains that made up the original strain, then cross that with a ruderalis and eventually, maybe end up with an acceptable, stable representation of the strain that inherits the ruderalis "auto-flower" trait. That is just my basic understanding of breeding. I am sure it is even much more complicated

If all goes well, you have the autoflower that you started out with and the inability to keep a "mother"