I know traditionally people use the top4-5 inches to clone, what i wondered is can you use another part of the plant? The preflower leaves grow just like the top with the fan leaves growing out just like your plant starts out, wouldnt it grow roots too? Do i have to sacrifice the top? Couldnt i use the side instead? I'm going to try this out and see if it works unless someone here knows for sure it doesnt. Thanks

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it can be 3,4 5 inches, depends on how big of a clone you want of the end of any branch,... not just the top shoot on the plant,...... any new shoot,... there are people who cut 10,20 30 clones of a plant at one time,....

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you know i think instead of re marriage, i'll just find some woman who hates me and buy her a house!

yeah thats what i was thinking, common sense i guess but i didnt know if it was already a known thing or not, i know using the top is the strongest and best but i figured id at least try to clone this sexy bitch i got without cutting the cola

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I clone from the bottom all the time.. *shrugs*

awesome, i hate that all the cloning vids or instructions refer to the top of the plant and not to any shoot or bottom shoots etc. So when cloning in soil...is it basically the same as growing a plant? Or are there more specific things i should focus on? Right now i have the bottom shoot, i cut witha blade peeled back a bit of the outer layer spliced it about 1/4 inch put it in some soil watered and threw a cfl on it, good? Or is there more or a better way using soil im not buying anything else lol i just figured if i could clone i should since i already know its a girl and by the time shes done being harvested the clone should be able to start flower. My thing was i wasnt growing more than 1 at a time because for 1 plant first offence its 6months prison and i was ok with that, but im NOT ok with doing years for owning more than 1 ya get me?

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Side shoots can be cloned, and often have a higher success rate.

You can clone in a cup of water. Just change the water daily and make sure the area which will grow new roots is kept dark, the cup of water needs to be light proof. Lower lighting and higher ambient moisture will make the cloning process less stressful for the cutting.

Look into bubble cloners. They're an easy and very successful technique.

This video is dead on. Does not miss anything. If someone can't clone after seeing this video, something is wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iimHkskETg

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you can clone in water but its prob the slowest way,... but dont buy any fancy cloning gels or solutions, they are mostly crap,... go to the nearest garden place and get a 3$ packet of roottone,..... heres what i do.... first when plants are young i top them anyway just to make branches for clones, but when i clone i try to laeve the top 2 for colas , but when you top little branches are ging to shoot out all over the plant, down to the dirt,.... second i dont use peat pucks,.... instead i use little peat cups the 2.5 inchers and fill them with pro mix, pearlite, worm castings mixed,.. i also mist the cups and soil with a lite mix of b-1 and maybe a couple drops of root66 in a sprayer, also use this to soak the soil down in the peat cups so im cloning into wet soil,..... then when i cut the clone i dont cut before the node,... i try to slice right through it so the end of the clone has two leafs right on the bottom of where the cut is, pull or snip the leafs off and dip in the roottone, put in the wet peat cup and press the soil in tight to hold it up and i trim all the fan leaves in half,.. then i drop this whole peat cup with clone into a 20 oz clear slurpee cup and cover with the domed lids that come with it,... put a piece of clear tape over the big hole and use a hot needle or nail to melt a couple tiny holes for just a little breathing, and if it looks like the humidity is low i can squirt a little water in,.... about 6 to 8 days later in have roots coming out of the peat pot which you can clearly see through the slurpee cup and lust lift the whole thing out and put it in dirt

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you know i think instead of re marriage, i'll just find some woman who hates me and buy her a house!

Clonex is totally worth it. 20$ and you get a lot. i use gel.
but if you wanna do it in water you really should get some vitamin b-12 and b-1, b-12 is most important.
you could even use dissoluble b-12 tablets like for people. i did. great results. mine were 1500 mlg i think.
it'll really help.

ok well, lol...remember i'm new at this. so i took a cutting from my girl at the bottom 45d. angle with a new blade after cutting from the plant i cut just below the nodes to release the supposed air bubble, i flushed the mg soil a couple times with 7ph distilled water then pressed all remaining water out before putting it in a tiny cup i was going to use, i added less than a drop of superthrive to the water when i was flushing, poked a hole in the middle to slide the clone in and everything looked great "i want to do this in soil" So anyway i put it under a cfl and went back to look at it less than 1/2 hour later and all the leaves had bent over and under and the stem bent too i was like WTF how could that happen so fast? What did i do wrong? Maybe the clone was too weak or something?

So I ended up drying it out next to a light bulb and smoking it since it had a few pistills and OMG it was weird it tasted so good almost flowery or fruity and wasnt harsh to smoke, i have smoked leaves before but this tasted different, i didnt get high from it obviously but i didnt want it to go to waste either and was quite a pleasure to smoke, thats got me a little excited since this was a bag seed lol

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