cloning questions

IME it depends on your cloning method of choice. I use a bubble cloner and I am able to take good clones as soon as they reach about 3 inches or so. Just beware that if the plants are not yet sexed you might just be cloning more males. good practice either way. I usually let the clones sit in the bubble cloner for a little over a week, then transfer to my veg dwc for about a week and a half or so. They grow just enough to give me a few clones each before i throw them in the flower room. I also like to take a clone every now and then and put it in some soil to use as an acting mother if the others don't produce any viable clones in time. hope this helps.

3 inches? mine are about 5", but i don't see anything but fan leaves. i'm 3 weeks from when i put the seeds into rockwool, with 3 more weeks before they are scheduled to move to flower...

this is them at 4am this morning..

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oh and i'm using an aeroponics setup similiar to the stinkbuds design that i had already built when i stumbled across his thread, but with 3.75" net pots. i germinated in water for 24 hours, then in a wet towel for 2 days, plugged them into the 1" rockwool cubes in a tray for 10 days or so, and transplanted them into the system on the 24th. i am almost finished with stinkbuds veg table, and will be building the cloner to be ready for 3 weeks after that, and the first flower tray with his design 3 weeks after that.

By far the easiest and most hands of method.

Bubble cloninng....

rockwool was just used for the seedlings... the clones in the future will go into neoprene collars and into 2" net pots, as stinkbud designed.

the grow area has a 600W MH conversion in a vented hood with glass bottom centered over the grow table and clone table.

the flower room has 2 600W HPS in the same style of hood spaced over 3 flower tables. the cloner, veg table and flower tables will be designed after the stinkbud how-to.

each hood has a 6" duct fan pulling the air through the hood and pushing it down the vent. there is another 6" duct fan at the end of the system, pushing into a carbon filter.

I didn't read Stinkbuds perpetual harvest method but I do run a perpetual grow. Before you begin, you need to asertain which plants will be your mothers. Then take clones, root them and then veg them (if so desired) or go straight to flower like I do. Then let the mother either revegitate new growth for the next batch of clones or have another set of mothers to take clones from for the next step of your perpetual. It's rinse and repeat. Then it's up to you to setup and get into a routine and time line of clone harvesting and rooting that will dictate the time line between your perpetual harvests. It does take practice and patients because not everyone is on the same knowledge level or has the required skills at the begining.There are a lot of variables to consider doing a perpetual grow like how long it takes to propagate clones, veg time (if any) flowering time, amount of time between clone harvest and regrowth on mother for next clones harvest. It will most likely take several grows to get every thing to fall into place. And in the future if you purchase new seeds, save yourself some time and trouble and go with feminized seeds.

i will be purchasing quality genetics in the near future. as of now, probably blueberry and white rhino. right now i'm growing bag seed. i just want to make sure the operation runs smoothly before i go trying to push $100 worth of seeds through it.

stinkbuds setup seems to make perfect sense to me as far as the timeline. i have never cloned before so i'm slightly uncertain of what i need to look for. for instance, i know that you can't pick just any branch and cut it and expect to get a good healthy plant. you need 3 nodes, which i'm uncertain my plants will produce in the next 3 weeks.. i mean, if you don't clone fan leaves, what is there to clone on a month old seedling?

I use clonex gel in a seedling tray that is heated. I have had only one strain that consistantly doesn't root within 7-8 days. But in your case with your 3 week old plant, to me it looks like you have the light right on top of it preventing it from stretching a little to give you branches to cut for clones. If you raise the light a little and let it stretch some you should have plent of plant to take clones from.

shadow. stinkbuds plants have branches to clone from in veg because they themselves are clones and that means they are actually older than 3 weeks. the clones branch sooner than a plant grown from seed. the first plants you grow from those seeds you should let them grow for a while and then clone them and flower them to see which ones are female. kill the males then start cloning off the moms your left with. when you have those clones you can start stinkbuds cycle.