Cloning flowering plants

From all the posts I've read, it seems overwhelmingly that people think it's not a bad thing to clone into and during flowering. In fact some claim they end up with heartier plants. So I went ahead and did the experiment and took a few cuttings of some plants I have that are two and a half weeks into flower. I put them in an EZ cloner with Clonex solution @ 600ppm, pH 5.8 and back on a 24 hour light schedule. Do I need to do anything extra or different than I would with any other normal clone, to say, make them revert back to vegetative growth for instance? The plants I cloned from already had developing flowers, what will happen to the flowers on these clones?

excellent question man, i eager await peoples answers, good look to ya hope it goes well, i will av to keep n eye on ur progress somehow to see if u get the desired results !!!

They will take longer to root and could take 5 weeks to revert back to veg. The flowers will quit to develop. In my experience it is a lot faster and easier to take clones in veg. It can be done, but why go through that if you don't have to. I know the success rate is lower. Even if it roots, it could hermie from going back and forth. I have a friend that gave me a 2' plant that was 3 weeks into flower and I had no place for it in my flowering room. After several weeks it gave me lots of new single blade leaves and finally reverted back to veg. It is 6 weeks into flowering now and is the ugliest plant I have ever seen that wasn't dieing.

ooh, ok, I guess I should've taken them during veg. I kinda messed up a little, but thought it wouldn't be a big deal to clone during flower. They really really stretched incredibly and I had to cut the tops just to keep them below the lights. I really hope I don't end up with an entire crop of hermies, that would suck! I'm running an aero setup so everything happens a little quicker than in soil, I guess we shall see. So assuming that the clones do in fact revert back to veg, are you saying that when I go to flower them, they will go hermie on me because I've stressed them? Would the few weeks of rooting and veg give them a chance to de-stress themselves and return to normal?

ive done it before...but like little tommy said, its a pain in the butt because they take so long to revert back to veg....the only time i would do it now is if i was saving a strain or something of that nature....best advice is try to take all ur cuts in veg or very early flower..but again, it can be done... and no, u dont have to do anything diff with them except let them in veg longer

thanks ganja, I've read in some posts that the little white pistil hairs actually turn into branches. That actually seems kinda cool! I budgeted for time in that I'm prepared for a 4 week+ rooting time. I am a first time aero enthusiast, and I made the mistake of letting the plants veg for 2 weeks before flowering last time. They turned into monsters, so as soon as these clones develop any roots, they will go straight into flower. Because they are going immediately into flower, I will have a perpetual cycle of taking clones from plants that are flowering. I hope this doesn't stress the strain. Next time I will clone earlier in flower though, before flowers start to form. I keep one or two small mothers but just as backups, I prefer cloning from active plants.

Clone from them before you put them into flower. What is so hard about that? It would save you lots of grief.

Is your cloner under a second light? Why don't you keep a mother or two in soil?