my point is they shouldn't be flowering until they are getting less than 12 hours of light per day.....and you shouldn't be able to tell male or female until then..... and people say it can but done but i wouldn't take cuttings from a female after flowering starts.... look for the green man video on these forums it explains alot .......

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yeah i seen that mr green grows chronic vid. well my understanding is that to take cuttings you need to have cuttings to take, thus the plant should be mature enough. wat confuses me is that for the plant to be mature enough means pre flowers must have happend. ie u know wat your taking m/f. so as long as i havent started to flower i can take cuttings if mature enough. anyway i think il take another look at that vid just to get the basics down so i dont screw everything up.

i think my plan was to take cuttings as soon as i had a female to take cuttings from, but to get a decent amount of cuttings i will need to vegg for a while longer, during which i may as well start a pack of seeds off then take cuttings from the origional mothers and then send the lot into flower once my seeds have pre flowerd. that would work right, but i will have to wait a while for the mothers to mature??? and then i could make a seperate room to veg out my cuttings and take cuttings off everyplant i have now and find out wat sex they are that way then take cuttings, like on the dvd mr green.

i want to take the quikest route if possible, which to me is as follows.

1. vegg my plants for another 2-4 weeks till i can take cuttings
by which time i will of leeched the males

2. veg the mothers and the cuttings for another moon
hence a bigger mother for extra yield.


3. send the mothers/cuttings into flower


does this seem plausable...

also if my plant has pre flowerd is it too late to take cuttings. if so then how can i take cuttings at all. because all plants pre flower right. so u should take cuttings b4 pre flowers??? but then how do u get a decent sized mother without it growing pre flowers. i thought pre flowers happend without a light cycle???

anyway sod it, il get more info on cuttings then decide wat to do. thanx

theres a few auto flowering strains ya know...and he is growing bagseed.

He can take cutting from a mother plant......he wouldnt be flowering the plant he is taking clones of.....and even if he did he could still veg it for a bit afterwards and then flower it and it would have a ton of bud sites.

Yes when plants reach maturity they will show their sex in 24/0 alot of the time, but not always.

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kool so i can do wat i was gonna do then and if i train the mothers and topp or fim em i could end up with pleanty of bud sites i might even scrog the mothers to maximies the yield. but i stil cant understand how i got males after only day 12 but maybe those 3 were fast maturers either that or they got stressed from either temps or transplants. well just av to wait n find out

SCROG or LST is very effective.

I am LSTing a plant right now

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yeah i want to do a scrog iv got the net offa babys cot so i could do a couple of plants under it i guess. maybe even the mothers would do nicley.then i could veg out my cuttings while i train up my scrog. but i dunno about useing a mother s for a scrog? anybody scrogged a mother b4?