Hey, I'm new here and this is my first thread. I apologize if I didnt properly induct myself by posting in the "noobie" section..but anyways..
I saw an interesting technique used by the green house seed guys on one of their "Arjan Haze" sativa strains where they took a clone and threw her under a 12/12 cycle..no veg. The results were amazing. If this is possible to achieve by say a home grower (which I assume makes up the majority of this forum) it could greatly reduce the time and height it takes for a sativa to harvest.
My question(s) are:
Is this realistic for a home grower?
Is this (sativa) strain specific?
If so, why is it not a praised practice?

Here is the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDfUY39fBc

Also check out their Arjan Haze #3 for all you sativa lovers.

abudsmoker has a great post on perpetual harvest's, and he dips in his two cents, saying that is how he does the majority of his clones. It looks sweet. Check it out.

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How would I go about finding that particular post?

This technique is an old and easy 1.Indoor growers use it in limited space grow areas.I use similar tech to early sex plants.I pull early clone from my big plants and label it corresponding to its original donor.I get the clone rooted about 3-5 day then toss it into 12/12 light.In 3-8 days it shows sex and if its a girl so was its original and now you have a confirmed female mom to yank your crops clones from

It would have helped, had I known the correct thread starter! Its acctually by Al. B Fuct

if you go towards the top right hand side of the screen there a search option, click it the click advanced and you can search for almost anything!

heres the link

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Hey, thanks

No problem. Info good? Need anything else?

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A) Yes
B) No
C) It is standard practice - it's called SOG, Sea of Green.

Let's clear up a few 'potential' misunderstandings here.

Putting clones into flower as soon as they've rooted is standard practice for people who have access to clones - the majority do not - which is why this practice might be new to you and not widely practiced. You can ONLY do this with clones - not plants from seed - most people grow from seed and not many have the resources to keep 'mother' plants where clones come from.

Why can you do this with clones and not from seed? You can do it from seed, but you won't get as good results from seed as you do from clones, principle reason being, clones are a lot more 'hardy' than new seed seedlings and most importantly of all, clones take on the 'genetic' age of the mother plant they're taken from, seed plants don't.

Why is the age of the mother plant important?

Plants should be flowered when they reach sexual maturity, flowering seed plants before 6-8 weeks vegetative growth have passed means you're flowering them before they've reached sexual maturity. When you flower a clone, as I said, it takes on the age of the mother plant. So if the mother plant is 8 weeks old - so is the clone. So the clone is ALREADY at sexual maturity despite only being a couple of inches tall and READY To be put into flowering regardless of it's size.

The most important reason of all is because the older a plant is, the more Cannabinoids it produces. A 12 week old plant will produce more Cannabinoids than an 8 week old plant, and an 8 week old clone will produce more Cannabinoids than a plant grown and flowered from seed.

So, the bottom line is this - clones can be treated as sexually mature plants, and can be flowered almost as soon as the clones have rooted - with no loss of potency that you would get if you tried to flower a seed plant before it was sexually mature.

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That about sums it up for this subject, thanks.

Info was perfect.

Thank you for that brilliant explanation. I never thought of a mature mother plant fulfilling the potential vegetative growth of the clone. I always thought of mothers as just donors, or maybe it was clones as tiny babies. Thanks again!
What a beautiful plant.