Using a mother for clones: QUESTIONS

Using a mother for clones: QUESTIONS

Ok so I got this nice mother plant shes been veggin for a while now and I'm at the point of getting ready to take some clones. Now this mother is a clone, so I have no had any problems cloning before. My questions is at what point is a branch beyond making roots?

This mom is about 3 months old with mega growth on each branch, the lowers have that bark like skin on them at the main stalk. I was hoping to clone some of those suckers and wasn't sure if at some point that becomes not possible in veg state?

Any help/advice on using a mom and or branches would be great, first time mom user .... thanks.

As long as the plant is in the vegging you can clone her. Just lightly scrape away the cambium layer and use your normal cloning technique and you should be good. Hope that helps.

It dose help because I thought it would work and I end up with little mini trees as long as they will root like any other clone. But having never done it, I thought I better ask.... just in case there was something I hadn't thought of.... Thanks for the reply!

Not sure how to rep or what ever... so reps to you...

The rep is that little star thing at the lower left of a post.

For cloning, you don't want the 'old' silvery type bark, and neither do you want the soft new growth near a growing tip. You want it green, but firm and sorta tough.

LOL, it's a feel and experience thing, but that will come.

Wet

i think i grasp what ur asking. u get the best clones from the top growth. about five or six inches
if u wanna prune it hard it'll throw out more new growth
u can keep a mother producing for years...

dannyboy602 said:

i think i grasp what ur asking. u get the best clones from the top growth. about five or six inches
if u wanna prune it hard it'll throw out more new growth
u can keep a mother producing for years...

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backwards, bro. theres more growth hormone in the lower maristems.

LOL, top. bottom, you take 12 cuts or so off a bonsai host plant and you're taking top, bottom, sides, whatever ......... It's all good.

*I* like to get a cut with at least 5 nodes on it. Two in the rooting medium, and three above. This is minimum, 4 or 5 above the surface are better for me. But this is a strain I'v been running a bit that has very tight internodes and 5 nodes above the surface only amounts to ~ a 4-5" clone.

Ya know, thinking about it, with the LST/Bonsai thing I got going on, pretty much all the cuts are tops. Side growth is trimmed away and about all the growth is pure vertical. They all seem to root just fine though.

IDK, I never paid much attention. You take your cuts, add a few extra, and go. Most will root, some won't and life goes on.

Wet

Nubby Tubbs said:

backwards, bro. theres more growth hormone in the lower maristems.

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i take 3"-4" clones from the top of the canopy every time, and have roots in 7-10 days in plain water with rockwool cubes with most strains. older growth seems to take longer. as for older growth having more growth hormone, it would defeat the purpose of tipping, because you would be saying that there's no such thing as apical dominance. the top stem is the growing portion of the stem, and that's where the hormones are most concentrated.

hormones are dominate in the plant and can be harnessed through out the whole plant
dominance isn't taken until its forced to (topping clipping ect..)
people feel theirs dominates because plants grow up ( but they do grow out also)
people also feel there is dominace because their hps or mh isn't eqaul to the sun

easterbunny said:

hormones are dominate in the plant and can be harnessed through out the whole plant
dominance isn't taken until its forced to (topping clipping ect..)
people feel theirs dominates because plants grow up ( but they do grow out also)
people also feel there is dominace because their hps or mh isn't eqaul to the sun

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