Can I take my clones and then flower right away??
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chb444220
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ughhh.. ive wrote out this reply 3 times now.. and firefox has crashed on me 3 times in a row now!!! lol.. sooo ok.. ill try again.. 1st off... are you using a rooting gel/powder?? you can start them pretty soon.. but deff not that soon.. you will wanna wait like 3-5 days before you switch the lights to 12-12.. just to give them some time yo recover.. and grow their own roots.. and be strong enough to stand up straight.. and say you take like 10 clones... not ALL of them will make it.. well they might.. but chances are you may lose 1 or 2.. soo just remember that.. but just take the clone.. use your rooting mix.. and place it in some soil.. you will want to start off in a small container... 12-16 ounce cups work great... even an 8 ouce cup would work just fone.. and just mist them with regular water like 3 times each day for a few days.. keep the lights on either 20-4 or 18-6... w.e. you choose to do.. and let them grow for a few days.. just till theyre strong enough to stand up straight.. and have a descent set of roots.. it may take up to a week.. but im sure youll be able to tell when therye ready.. could you maybe put up some pics when you do it?? sooo we can see how they look...
also.. you may already know how to do all this.. and i might just be wasting my time telling you all this.. lol.. but im gonna anywayz.. just to be safe.. make sure when you take your cutting.. make sure you cut at a 45 degree angle.. use a sterilized razor blade if you can.. that works best.. and then lay the cuttin down on a paper towel.. and make 3 very small slits into the very bottom of the cutting... not the very end where you made the cut just just above it.. make 3 slits at a 45 degree angle one right about the other.. and keep them close together.. maybe like 1 cm apart.. this will help make the clone root alot faster than if you didnt make the slits..
and as far as the nutes.. the soil your using (unless its organic) should have enough nutes in it to support the clone for about a week or 2.. since its soo small you will not need to add any flowering nutes for a little while.. soo after about a week at the most.. you can switch the lights to 12-12.. and then a week after that.. you can start using the flowering nutes.. at 1/4 strength .. then after a couple more weeks.. you can go up to 1/2 strength.. then wait a couple more week.. then go to 3/4 strength.. then a week after that.. go to full strength.. and then 2 weeks before you decide you gonna harvest.. stop using your nutes and flush your plant....
wow.. sorry.. just realized how long of an answer i gave you.. for a pretty short and simple question. =-( i tend to do that... ALOT.. when im high.. lol. soo i apologize.. well.. i hope i at least told you ONE thing you didnt know in this short story i just wrote you in response to your 1 sentence question.. lmao.. good luck man.. if you can post up som pics once you take your clones... and let us see how theyre coming along..
also.. you may already know how to do all this.. and i might just be wasting my time telling you all this.. lol.. but im gonna anywayz.. just to be safe.. make sure when you take your cutting.. make sure you cut at a 45 degree angle.. use a sterilized razor blade if you can.. that works best.. and then lay the cuttin down on a paper towel.. and make 3 very small slits into the very bottom of the cutting... not the very end where you made the cut just just above it.. make 3 slits at a 45 degree angle one right about the other.. and keep them close together.. maybe like 1 cm apart.. this will help make the clone root alot faster than if you didnt make the slits..
and as far as the nutes.. the soil your using (unless its organic) should have enough nutes in it to support the clone for about a week or 2.. since its soo small you will not need to add any flowering nutes for a little while.. soo after about a week at the most.. you can switch the lights to 12-12.. and then a week after that.. you can start using the flowering nutes.. at 1/4 strength .. then after a couple more weeks.. you can go up to 1/2 strength.. then wait a couple more week.. then go to 3/4 strength.. then a week after that.. go to full strength.. and then 2 weeks before you decide you gonna harvest.. stop using your nutes and flush your plant....
wow.. sorry.. just realized how long of an answer i gave you.. for a pretty short and simple question. =-( i tend to do that... ALOT.. when im high.. lol. soo i apologize.. well.. i hope i at least told you ONE thing you didnt know in this short story i just wrote you in response to your 1 sentence question.. lmao.. good luck man.. if you can post up som pics once you take your clones... and let us see how theyre coming along..
Kdoe420
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I was talking about flowering my mother plants, sorry for the misunderstanding... and yes I think that was the longest reply I have ever gotten!! but the thing is my mother plants have had a rough life because i'm a newbie LOL but I know I will do better next time around!!! I want to take some healthy clones from them and start over... but I do want to flower my mother plants right away to see what I can salvage from them... but the question is can I flower a freshly cut mother plant and get the same results as if i didn't cut them at all?? i'll attach a pic to give you an idea of what they look like.. they are about a foot tall some alittle more and are 6 weeks old!!
chb444220
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oooo.. lol. ok.. and yeaaa you can flower them now.. they will be fine.. you deff wont get the "SAME" results as you would if you didnt cut them at all.. because each clone you take/took off would have had a bud growing from it.. sooo say you have 10 bud site.. and u take 5 clones... youll only have 5 bud sites.. but u can def flower them now.. you will still have the main cola... which will produce some nice buds.. and idk wat u mean about them not looking that good cuz ur a noob.. they look pretty good to me man... lol. your doing a good job.. youll be happy with what you get from flowering them.. but remember.. theyre gonna get alot bigger.. they say 2-3 times as big.. 3 is very unlikely... but i would say they will double in size.. sooo be prepared for that. lol from what i see in your pics.. you still have plenty of bud sites on your plants.. soo youll have plent of bud.. Good Luck!! just wondering... are you planning on doing a journal?? if you have the time to you deff should man.. id love to see how these ladies turn out once you start flowering them.. but if u dont got the time or patience to make a journal its fine.. what strain are they anywayz?? just wondering.
Jeffdogg
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Kdoe420
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Yeah I started a journal already but its not that well put together... and NO i'm not doing as great as you might think... I noticed today that alot of my leaves are looking like they are burned... i'm going to repot them in bigger pots then take 1 clone from each plant.. switch my nutez and start on 12/12... if anything goes wrong such as they all turn out male/herms or they just die, i'll start germinating the Master Kush and skunk #1 a friend gave me.. problem with these seeds is they are all in the same bag so I have no way of telling whats what... i'll post pics later tonight when I get them repotted...
Kdoe420
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but wouldn't this mean the flowering clone would take along time to switch back to a veg state?? and wouldn't this affect rooting?? you have me very curious about this, can you tell me why this is the best time to take a clone??
Jeffdogg
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Just inexperienced is all, and its usually little details like that that people neglect to ask and messes em up. Remember theres no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid answers
Dr. Indica
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That's just nonsense
The blind trying to lead the blind
Clones are taken during veg. Flowering plants will root faster, but then they require a 2 - 4 week period to revert back to vegetative growth. Big waste of electricity. You should be growing with feminized seeds, unless you have a breeding program going. There is no excuse for growing bag seed, especially when there are so many feminized strains available. Culling males is a waste of time, money, and space. Go to CVS, get you a $100 yellow gift2go gift card and order some good seeds and your program will be more successful.
chb444220
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hmmmm... idk if its just because im really fucking high.. but im havin a hard time understanding that question... =-/ if you want to know the sex of one of your plants... just take a clone from that plant.. and 12-12 it.. and see what it turns out.. if its a female.. then your whole plant is female.. if its male.. then your whole plant is male.. if you 12-12 the whole entire plant.. you will have to wait 2-3 weeks for it to show sex... and then yes.. you will have to wait another 2-4 weeks before it will fully go back into veg mode.. 4 weeks is pushin it.. i would say closer to 2... 3 at the most.. just take clones and flower them and see what the turn out.. and go by that.. not sure if that helped.. cuz like i said.. that question kinda confused me. lol.
Kdoe420
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The problem with taking a clone to determine sex at this stage is in the last couple of days my plants are growing like mad for some reason.. some are just hitting 2 feet!!!! I didn't top them and I don't want 5 or 6 feet tall plants!! so tonight i'm starting my 12/12!hmmmm... idk if its just because im really fucking high.. but im havin a hard time understanding that question... =-/ if you want to know the sex of one of your plants... just take a clone from that plant.. and 12-12 it.. and see what it turns out.. if its a female.. then your whole plant is female.. if its male.. then your whole plant is male.. if you 12-12 the whole entire plant.. you will have to wait 2-3 weeks for it to show sex... and then yes.. you will have to wait another 2-4 weeks before it will fully go back into veg mode.. 4 weeks is pushin it.. i would say closer to 2... 3 at the most.. just take clones and flower them and see what the turn out.. and go by that.. not sure if that helped.. cuz like i said.. that question kinda confused me. lol.
Dr. Indica
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I have 2 clones I took from a flowering plant 2 weeks ago, didn't have room to clone it while it was vegging. Those 2 clones have yet to show any signs of vegetative growth 2 weeks later. They rooted without a problem though. I highly suggest Rootech cloning gel ( made by Technaflora), it makes roots explode from your clones.
Dr. Indica
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Yes it will take time to switch back to vegetative growth, just like it takes about 2 weeks for flowering to actually begin once the lights are switched to 12/12.
I would order some feminized seeds, so by the time the plant your growing now is done you will have good seed stock for your next grow.
Other than that, what you will want to do is take a few clones from your plant, the tips of the lowest branches are the best place to cut from. Then you will want to veg. them and keep a clone as a mother, and keep that mother in veg. all the time, this will be where you get your clones from on a regular basis. If you don't have a lot of room, you can take a new mother from each set of clones and flower the previous mother......then you're on your way to not running out of bud anymore.
