when to clone?

Stelthfire3

Stelthfire3

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I have a 45 day old indoor timewarp plant and I wanted to take a clone to see if it is female, but I don't know when to clone or what too look for that shows me when its a good time, I know your supposed to clone befor flower so I wanna do that soon
 
dtowndabber

dtowndabber

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First of all, clones exhibit the same dna makeup as the mother. If you are cloning from a girl, it will be a girl. Boy to boy same thing. 2nd right now is perfect!
 
Sand4x105

Sand4x105

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I have cloned a plant as young as 19 days old... Clone of a clone... here's something I wrote up on how I clone... .............................................................................................................................................This is how I do it:

My Cloning Technique…
Wash my hands with rubbing alcohol…
I then select a great little branch, between 2” and 6” [long], with at least two nodes to go under medium…
My Medium is: 50% MG Seedling Soil/20% Vermiculite/30% Perilite…Percentage may vary…
Cups-Dixie or equal I like the 12-16 oz kind, holes in bottom…
I cut branch off with a very sharp razor blade or equal…
I re-trim cut to a 45 degree just below the node to be under medium…between the two nodes to go under medium, I pull off growth, and shred it carefully…from one node to another…
If you use snips of any kind you may experience clone loss…If you loose one-two out of ten, and you use snips, that is why… Spring/Summer/Fall I loose zero %, even with one node under, and trying to clone an ugly stick, it still roots… This technique is idiot proof, cause at times… am an idiot…
I remove any extra leaves, and trim remaining leaves to fit the inside of a Dixie cup…
I take my medium, and use a fine spray bottle with water and Super Thrive and mist my medium [mist medium, not clone]…
I then take a wood skewer and make a hole in middle of my medium for clone cut, hole is just slightly larger than clone shaft…
I then spray the soil mix a few times again…
My cuttings have been ‘soaking’ in a mixture of Water and Super thrive [Super Thrive has been proven to add to rapid root growth…and that’s about all]
I now take cutting and Dip it in my [active ingredient] Indole-3-Butyric Acid powder, covering up to where I plan on putting it under soil…
The hole in soil is just larger than the cuttings to be put in soil…
The clone is then inserted into hole, and medium/soil is compressed against the inserted branch…and I continue to compress the medium around inside of Dixie cup as to not let there be any air bubbles between soil and Clone powder/clone gel…
Sometimes I do 3 or 4 at a time, I’ve done up to ten clones at a time…
The clone in soil is now watered again, with the water super thrive mix they were soaking in before insertion…
I now take a clear 10 oz plastic cup and notch bottom [you do not want air tight] and use it as a lid on top of my clone cup…
I now put them on my clone rack two inches from under Aquarium grow lights, with some 22 watt CFL’s 4-6” in front of them…
Day one- Mist soil 1-2 more times, some times clone droops, I use skewers and tooth picks to prop up…if it happens
Day two- Mist two to three times the soil only, not the plant!
Clear dome stays on for one week/seven days only off for spraying soil…
Day Eight- they are put under brighter/higher wattage CFL’s and watered daily [twice if dry] with a nice water soluble fert at 25% strength…
Days 8-14 Water as needed…
Day 14-20 ready for trans plant…

Good Luck man, like I said, fool and idiot proof... cause well, at times I am....
 
Sand4x105

Sand4x105

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So clone, now... and be careful... cloning is the 'funnest' MJ thing I do except smoken it...Haaaaaaaaaaa you could get hooked
 
Stelthfire3

Stelthfire3

Member
Sand4x105 said:
I have cloned a plant as young as 19 days old... Clone of a clone... here's something I wrote up on how I clone... .............................................................................................................................................This is how I do it:

My Cloning Technique…
Wash my hands with rubbing alcohol…
I then select a great little branch, between 2” and 6” [long], with at least two nodes to go under medium…
My Medium is: 50% MG Seedling Soil/20% Vermiculite/30% Perilite…Percentage may vary…
Cups-Dixie or equal I like the 12-16 oz kind, holes in bottom…
I cut branch off with a very sharp razor blade or equal…
I re-trim cut to a 45 degree just below the node to be under medium…between the two nodes to go under medium, I pull off growth, and shred it carefully…from one node to another…
If you use snips of any kind you may experience clone loss…If you loose one-two out of ten, and you use snips, that is why… Spring/Summer/Fall I loose zero %, even with one node under, and trying to clone an ugly stick, it still roots… This technique is idiot proof, cause at times… am an idiot…
I remove any extra leaves, and trim remaining leaves to fit the inside of a Dixie cup…
I take my medium, and use a fine spray bottle with water and Super Thrive and mist my medium [mist medium, not clone]…
I then take a wood skewer and make a hole in middle of my medium for clone cut, hole is just slightly larger than clone shaft…
I then spray the soil mix a few times again…
My cuttings have been ‘soaking’ in a mixture of Water and Super thrive [Super Thrive has been proven to add to rapid root growth…and that’s about all]
I now take cutting and Dip it in my [active ingredient] Indole-3-Butyric Acid powder, covering up to where I plan on putting it under soil…
The hole in soil is just larger than the cuttings to be put in soil…
The clone is then inserted into hole, and medium/soil is compressed against the inserted branch…and I continue to compress the medium around inside of Dixie cup as to not let there be any air bubbles between soil and Clone powder/clone gel…
Sometimes I do 3 or 4 at a time, I’ve done up to ten clones at a time…
The clone in soil is now watered again, with the water super thrive mix they were soaking in before insertion…
I now take a clear 10 oz plastic cup and notch bottom [you do not want air tight] and use it as a lid on top of my clone cup…
I now put them on my clone rack two inches from under Aquarium grow lights, with some 22 watt CFL’s 4-6” in front of them…
Day one- Mist soil 1-2 more times, some times clone droops, I use skewers and tooth picks to prop up…if it happens
Day two- Mist two to three times the soil only, not the plant!
Clear dome stays on for one week/seven days only off for spraying soil…
Day Eight- they are put under brighter/higher wattage CFL’s and watered daily [twice if dry] with a nice water soluble fert at 25% strength…
Days 8-14 Water as needed…
Day 14-20 ready for trans plant…

Good Luck man, like I said, fool and idiot proof... cause well, at times I am....
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perfect! thanks haha the details are appreciated. will any branch with 3 nodes work? (aside from fan and woody branches?)
 
Stelthfire3

Stelthfire3

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its indoor, so I can set it to 12/12 whenever I want it to bud, but I thought the sex is visable after flowering starts, I can take a picture if someone can help to identify, because I think it still looks a little juvenile
 
SOMEBEECH

SOMEBEECH

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No,they can show sex under 24/7 strain depends alot,Like the other posters said with there days of vegging.Thro a pic up?
Beech
 
kinddiesel

kinddiesel

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usually cut clones right before putting the plant into flower, because your going to cut most of those small branches off the bottom any ways, can use those for clones, and its not a waste, one thing to keep in mind its summer time if your cloneing area is over 75 f don't bother to try to clone because I will not form roots,
 
SOMEBEECH

SOMEBEECH

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[h=1]I got 100percent with temps in the 80s.

60 for 60 on last, RH at 70-90 and temps from 80f-85f
Beech[/h]


 
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