Who say's you can't clone during flowering? (w/pics)

[GreenphoeniX]

I've just made this thread purely because I get F'd off at people saying it's not possible to take clones from a flowering plant, it may be improbable for some, but it's not impossible by any stretch of the imagination.

These clones were taking from a plant that was 4 and a half weeks into flowering (out of a total flowering time of 8 weeks). It did take them almost 4 weeks to start actively growing again and produce the new shoots, but like I said, it's just to prove that it is possible to clone a flowering plant.

I did these clones purely because someone in a thread a month or two back said you can't do it, so naturally, I had to do it

Cheers everyone!

 

[bigblue]

Nice work!

 

[GreenphoeniX]

Thank you ma'am

 

[DryGrain]

Cool. I've got 8 clones I just took from some ladies about 2-3 weeks into flower. You say it will take about 4 weeks for new growth?

 

[daydrops]

awesome work. would you mind providing any quick tips on your method?

thanks.

 

[DOVESPRINGSGROWER]

nice mayn i will now be taking clones i never did cuz the hype of you cnt take clone during flowering

 

[caddyluck]

nice, 4 weeks that's dedication! well done

 

[ontariogrower]

I've takin clones right at harvest man I thought this was common knowledge most of the time it does take along long time its just cause the plant has to revert back to veging oh by the way teh lower on the plant the faster they revert back to vegging

 

[raiderman]

4 weeks thats perfect for the person using hps lite
and a forecent set up glad i found this . im going to do it to my mr.nice g13 hashplants.4 weeks kind of gives it time for the big one to fini.before bringing it in.thanks.

 

[PurpleHazeJohnny]

I should try that...

 

[GreenphoeniX]

Cool. I've got 8 clones I just took from some ladies about 2-3 weeks into flower. You say it will take about 4 weeks for new growth?

Took mine about 4 weeks. May take more or less time. But I find the clones are a lot more hardy than the clones taken from vegging plants, i.e they don't seem to wilt or rot off as easily, but tis a much longer wait till you get that growing action! haha.

awesome work. would you mind providing any quick tips on your method?

thanks.

The same as I did it here: https://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/102940-greenx-how-tos-how-clone.html except taken from a side shoot of a flowering plant instead of the top of a vegging plant

I've takin clones right at harvest man I thought this was common knowledge most of the time it does take along long time its just cause the plant has to revert back to veging oh by the way teh lower on the plant the faster they revert back to vegging

Trust me, it's not common knowledge by any means. I've never done it right at harvest but then if you look at my plants, there's not a lot of cloning material to take em from by harvest haha, e.g:

Might have been able to get a clone or 10 off that second plant if I really wanted to. I usually remove the bottom 1/4 - 1/3 of growth on my plants anyway, and as mentioned by ontariogrower earlier, the lower on the plant the clone is taken from, the quicker it will grow because that's the last part of the plant to develop and mature when flowering so it's got the lesser amount of hormones to revert back to vegetative hormones.

Just to be clear, it is easier to clone during veg, but it can be done during flowering for whatever reason you need to. If that's the case, also look into revegging, also known as; rejuvenation, regeneration, reveg and some other names hahaha

Cheers all!

 

[Thraxz13]

I have a N.L. that I couldn't seem to get clones off of during veg, Two weeks into Flowering I took 3 more and they all rooted!!

The little ones are five weeks old since I cut them, the one on the left (Flowering) is the mother, I have had that baby since February, I had her in hydro then outside for part of the summer..I tried to get cuts off her a few times during veg and they wouldn't root..Flowered her and took those cuts and they rooted? Crazy, I thought but I am very pleased as she was my last one of that strain..

? how long into flowering do you think you can still take cuts? Because I have another female that I have no seeds from and couldn't get any clones off of, Shes five weeks flowering, think I could get a cut to root now?

 

[GreenphoeniX]

Any time's a good time to at least try to take cuts haha.
Some fella said earlier, he's taken cuts right at harvest that have rooted.

I say give it a try and let us know what happens!

 

[0849]

dude yeah you totally can, jorge cervantes even goes over that in the indoor bible nice work and don't let the man get you down

 

[bobman]

why would want too. yea its easy but they are going to fucked up for a while and u r going to see some weird growth.

 

[GreenphoeniX]

why would want too.

Because when people tell me it can't be done, it's like a personal challenge to prove them wrong! haha.

 

[Seamaiden]

Green, I've got a question. I've got all my outdoor girls flowering right now, one's about six weeks into it, the rest only showed sex about a month ago. I took a batch of clones off all as soon as they showed sex, and lost a few over the weeks, and one "female" trannied out on me so I had to kill all the clones of that strain. So, I took some new clones before I went out of town last week.. err, week before this last week. I lost all but one, and one of the ones I'm most interested in preserving is having some rot issues at the bud site. I've propped open the cover and just been more diligent about misting, but I was wondering whether or not you've ever had issues with the bud tissue going bad and killing the clone. And, if so, what do you do to combat the problem.

Because I only have a couple of other clones that are rooted of this one strain I'd kind of like to take a couple from her lower branches, but do worry about their bud sites rotting.

I rooted my first batch in soil, second batch was done in peat pots in a proper seed tray (not scavenged food containers with no holes punched in them, and cut up toilet paper rolls to make tiny paper pots), and I'm sure that batch would have taken had I not gone out of town (Dave wasn't kidding when he said he as a brown thumb).

Thanks.

 

[GreenphoeniX]

If the clones have leaves on them then you can do your best to cut out the bud to stop it rotting, I've never had problems with this but that would be my guess at a solution, I don't mist cuttings taken in flower so that may also help, and although I haven't done any extensive testing, in my experience clones from flowering plants can be kept at a lower rH than vegging clones, but that could be wrong, like I said, I haven't tested it.

The plants I showed earlier are actually very difficult to clone in veg state but seemed to be a lot more hardy and resistant to problems when the clones were taken in flower, very strange.

I'd say to avoid rot in the clones simply don't mist them, give them plenty of fresh air at least once a day (do not put a fan on them though!), and if you still have problems then try cutting out some of the bud if possible.

I'm really tired so if that's not answering what you asked then let me know and I'll try answer you tomorrow haha.

Cheers mate.

 

[GypsyBush]

Just to share my flowering clone picture...

14 days from one pic to the other... 2 weeks into flowering...

Cheers...
Gypsy...

 

[mared juwan]

This is definitely true. I've cloned plants three weeks into flower myself. In fact, that was my first ever attempt at cloning and I got 7 of 8 to root. It also didn't take that much longer, 18 days instead of the usual 10-14. Now, whenever I grow from seed I don't bother cloning every plant in veg then switching the mother to flower to see which clones are males and must be destroyed. I switch the mothers to flower, wait a week for them to preflower, THEN take my clones.