clone question

just a quick noobie question about clones, i have never cloned in my life and i never really hear to much about them so i was just wondering. do clones finish the same time as your mother plants would finish? or would it be a week or 2 later they would finish?

the whole point is to grow it over time , and it takes a week or 2 to even start to take root and grow a little bit. It is harder to do both at once than to just veg , flower and start over again planting seeds.
If you are going to clone it and go back into flowering you might as well leave the branch on the mother plant. If the plant it came from was flowering it takes another couple weeks or month to re vegetate so its easier if it comes from a plant thats vegetating. when making clones get it done quick, dont let the cutting dry up. then you can basically water it (and mist the leaves) and it should survive usually.

clone is an exact duplicate of its mother. so yes, once it is of the size you want out of veg it will have the same flowering period.