How to maximize mother to get clones

flogger

flogger

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I have a plant I started from fem seed and want to grow this as a mother plant to take clones from.

She is looking decent so far with the execption of the occasional burn mark from the leaves touching the CFL's.

What can I do to make sure I get enough parts of the plant to take cuttings from? Should I "pinch" the top, and would that make more areas to take cuttings from?

Also, when would it be time to take cuttings? How many nodes should I include in a cutting, for cloning?

I don't want to stress her too much.

She is growing in a bubbleponics setup right now.


BTW: This is my first grow from seed and I have to owe the sucess I have so far to all the RIUers for helping me.

Thanks in advance for your responses.
 

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Stonefish

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flogger said:
I have a plant I started from fem seed and want to grow this as a mother plant to take clones from.

She is looking decent so far with the execption of the occasional burn mark from the leaves touching the CFL's.

What can I do to make sure I get enough parts of the plant to take cuttings from? Should I "pinch" the top, and would that make more areas to take cuttings from?

Also, when would it be time to take cuttings? How many nodes should I include in a cutting, for cloning?

I don't want to stress her too much.

She is growing in a bubbleponics setup right now.


BTW: This is my first grow from seed and I have to owe the sucess I have so far to all the RIUers for helping me.

Thanks in advance for your responses.
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WOW - that's a bushy girl:clap:

I'd say you could start taking clones now if you wanted to. Start with the bottom branches...as long as it is a growing *tip* and not just a leaf, you should be able to clone it...I like to get them when they're around 5"
 
flogger

flogger

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Yeah, it is bushy. She grew really compact which is great, I think.

I will start to find some 5" long parts to cut. There should be a few on there.

Thanks for your response.
 
flogger

flogger

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So there are no suddestions on what I can do to my young mother plant to increase parts of it to create more cutting branches. Pinching or anything like that?
 
stonedar

stonedar

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most pruning techniques are to make a plant bushy, that things already a shrub. cut some clones, its not too early. take more than you need. I'd leave the top growth alone this time. take some of the lower sucker branches off too. how long til you want to take more clones? if not for a month or so I'd chop and chop, in a bubbler it'll regrow fast. If you haven't cloned alot take extra it's good practice and you can throw the ones that don't grow as well as the others away. good luck
 
flogger

flogger

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stonedar said:
most pruning techniques are to make a plant bushy, that things already a shrub. cut some clones, its not too early. take more than you need. I'd leave the top growth alone this time. take some of the lower sucker branches off too. how long til you want to take more clones? if not for a month or so I'd chop and chop, in a bubbler it'll regrow fast. If you haven't cloned alot take extra it's good practice and you can throw the ones that don't grow as well as the others away. good luck
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I have never cloned before. I want to take a lot but don't want to stress the plant. And I also don't want to make it look like a charlie brown christmas tree either by taking too many clones.

When I am rooting clones, do I leave it on 24 hour light or should I do a 18/6 schedule?
 
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flogger said:
I have never cloned before. I want to take a lot but don't want to stress the plant. And I also don't want to make it look like a charlie brown christmas tree either by taking too many clones.

When I am rooting clones, do I leave it on 24 hour light or should I do a 18/6 schedule?
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I do 18/6 like a foot and a half under a single T5 grow bulb. I take cuttings of growing tips 4-6 inches and throw them in my Daisy Cloner. Roughly 10 days later I plant them. Get like 80-90% success rate each time. If I spent more time Im sure I could increase that rate but the mom(s) re-grow and are ready to take more in a week or two anyway, so it's really not worth the effort. By just taking cuttings regularly, the mom plant will split off in many directions and progressively offer better/more sites to take cuttings from. Don't worry about cutting too much really. As long as you leave maybe 30% of leaves and growing tips, the plant will come back better than before.
 
caddyluck

caddyluck

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I leave mine on 24/7 , remember to leave a node or two on the mother branch so you can continue growing new shoots, she really NEEDS to be thinned out
 
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