How to Clone Autos, Maybe

This is from the book Biology, by Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg. I took some captures from page 807. Though this discusses tobacco plants, it might work with auto strains to keep them from flowering so you can use them as clone mothers. The auto strain would be like the day neutral strain in this book. You would just connect the two stems as shown and keep both plants under long days.

It's the upper right paragraph which gives the scenario I mean. The tobacco plant was long day instead of short day so it's sort of the opposite of with Cannabis. They kept their plants under long nights whereas we would keep them under long days. It's also possible that the short day strain would autoflower, which might be useful for outdoor plants.

Reading up on this a little more, it appears that you would want to remove most of the leaves from the auto. That way they can't exert a flowering effect on the photoperiod strain. Hopefully, Cannabis will act like tobacco but I really can't predict the outcome.

May as well grow photo IMO

BionicΩChronic said:

May as well grow photo IMO

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Yeah, unless you wanted to put a bunch of auto clones outside. Or suppose you got a particularly great auto pheno.

You cant clone AUTOS - they are genetically programmed to flower and will not reveg.

“Once you pop ’em you can’t stop ’em” As the saying goes :

Autos have a genetically limited life: from the moment the seed germinates it will progress through its short vegetative stage and speed onto flowering. As the “mother” plant won’t be big enough to take a clone until she is around 5 weeks old, once you have added a week whilst the clone roots, the clone thinks of itself as 6 weeks old and upward vegetative growth will have finished. Despite being tiny, the cutting will finish flowering at the same time as the mother more or less , and would hardly be worth the trouble.

Look into regular photo strains to MANIPULATE ( light schedules , mother , reveg and other stuff. You cant turn off the Ruderalis gene that is part of the autoflower.

Budzbuddha said:

You cant clone AUTOS - they are genetically programmed to flower and will not reveg.

“Once you pop ’em you can’t stop ’em” As the saying goes :

Autos have a genetically limited life: from the moment the seed germinates it will progress through its short vegetative stage and speed onto flowering. As the “mother” plant won’t be big enough to take a clone until she is around 5 weeks old, once you have added a week whilst the clone roots, the clone thinks of itself as 6 weeks old and upward vegetative growth will have finished. Despite being tiny, the cutting will finish flowering at the same time as the mother more or less , and would hardly be worth the trouble.

Look into regular photo strains to MANIPULATE ( light schedules , mother , reveg and other stuff. You cant turn off the Ruderalis gene that is part of the autoflower.

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Suppose you're right. Best to keep them separate. Lot less trouble.