Can I Take a Clone from This Plant?

Dreamy

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I have 10 plants this size, I want to get them outside but I want to determine sex before I do that. From what I can gather, its suggested to take a clone from the plants and put them on 12/12 to determine sex. I want the plants in the ground in 2 weeks. Can I cut a clone off this or is it too small yet? There about 3 weeks old and about 6-7" tall. TGA Plushberry is the strain.

 

bajafox

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If you throw her into 12/12 she should stretch enough in the next week or so, then you can top it and clone the top. IMO.

So far she doesn't look ready yet, let her mature some more
 

dancpu253

Member
You should clone when your plant is in the Veg stage. You can identify this when your nodes start to alternate or when your plant has long enough secondary branches to do so. Its is possible to clone using a single Fan Leaf and secondary branch as long as you can slice them off together allowing the fan leaf intact to the stem , Must use cloning gel or powder when cloning such small cuttlings.
 

GrizzlyAdams

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Holy God, why does no one give a descriptive answer?

Look dude, to clone you need a growing tip. Not a leaf, not a 'branch', but a place of continuing new growth. Cloning is essentially a transplant of newly grown material. Branches keep sprouting more and more growing tips the longer they're in veg.

Right now, that plant has only one fully developed growing tip. The top. You can see two per internode for a total of 4 developing. The tiny light green leaves? Those are going to push upwards and sprout more and more the longer they go. Once those are grown out to having some small leaves of their own, they're ready to be taken.

Remember, growth is exponential. Two tips will grow four more, then four more, etc. Those four will grow eight. Mother plants stay in vegetative partially to prevent flowering (obviously), but primarily to increase the amount of potential clones.

This will seem very basic once your plants develop a little more if its a bit muddled at the moment. It doesn't matter when you choose to take the clones, the question you have to ask yourself is how many you want. After you know that, just allow the plants to get there baby.

Good luck,
-Grizz
 
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