Why do you want to flower it first?

Your only going to stress the plant out.

The better options with less stress are

Keep the mum until she reaches sexual maturity and will show sex during veg, then take as many clones as you can. The bigger the plant is the more clones you will get.

Take clones now and leave the plants in veg, number the clones to the relevant plants and when the parents show sex kill the male plants and clones.

ive been using it and black potting soil 50/50 so far its working well but i know nothing about it and do not know when the soil will run out of nutes

non green im havin trouble gettin the jist of wat you wrote! its just that this plant that im flowering is in the new space i built under my new 400w light and its older than the seedlings.don't know how to do this really?

So the plants already in flower?

How long has it been in flower for?

bout 3 days m8

You could just take some clones now without really bothering it if you wanted to.

dont know weathere its male or female yet tho?

It would be better to lose a few rockwool starter cubes or whatever your gonna use by killing whichever ones are male than to stress out your plant by changing cycles back and forth. Just remember to mark which ones are which

what NGT is saying is:

1. snip a clone off the plant you think will be your mother

2. let it root & force it to sex using a 12/12 light cycle.

3. if it is flowers, you have found your new mother (WITHOUT stress sexing the entire plant)

4. if it's a male, sorry. back to the drawing table.

cheers for the help.... won't i need to veg the clone tho?