Cloning question

If you clone before you flower, on a plant started from seed, how do you know if you're cloning male or females? I've read cloning after flowering is a bad idea, but if they haven't started flowering, you don't know the sex of the plant you're cloning.

Do you just clone, keep track of what plant it came from, and then ditch it if the "mother" plant turns out to be male?

rambler420 said:

If you clone before you flower, on a plant started from seed, how do you know if you're cloning male or females? I've read cloning after flowering is a bad idea, but if they haven't started flowering, you don't know the sex of the plant you're cloning.

Do you just clone, keep track of what plant it came from, and then ditch it if the "mother" plant turns out to be male?

Also, can you clone from a clone?
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Cloning should be done BEFORE flowering. It can be done whilst flowering but the chances of it rooting are drastically reduced and the chances of the plant turning hermie greater.

You can judge the sex from the pre-flower (which can be difficult I appreciate). Alternatively, as you guessed, you can just take a small cutting, root it and put it straight into flower to find out the sex of your parent plant. Needless to say, good labeling is essential.

You can clone from clones, it's fine and as long as you maintain the health of the mother plants, things should be a-okay! Also... most people clone their plants PRIOR to flowering to make sure that it is in fact a female.

Not everyone throws out their males... For example, I am having a hell of a time finding male pollen or even a male clone from a strain that I like, which is preventing me from breeding it with another strain that I like... If people didn't just throw out their males, I probably wouldn't have been dealing with this issue for so long... Either way, trash can it, or not- your decision.

Sweet. Thanks.

One more question.....how long, on an average, does a clone clipping take to root and be healthy enough to plant?

I'm trying to get my timeline down so my clones are ready to flower after a few weeks of veg about the time my others are done flowering and ready to harvest.

grow - seems I've gotta spread some love around to others before I rep you again.

thanks, though.

rambler420 said:

grow - seems I've gotta spread some love around to others before I rep you again.

thanks, though.

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Hehe... people run into that issue a lot. Don't worry about it

rambler420 said:

Sweet. Thanks.

One more question.....how long, on an average, does a clone clipping take to root and be healthy enough to plant?

I'm trying to get my timeline down so my clones are ready to flower after a few weeks of veg about the time my others are done flowering and ready to harvest.

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I let my clones go about a week after roots hit the outside of the rapid rooters... Sometimes I go longer... really just depends on what I plan on doing with the plant. The roots are pretty sturdy... keep them moist while receiving light nutrients and out of direct light and they will just continue to grow.