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That's a big pot for a little plant. If your temps are on the lower end of the spectrum, your soil may be staying wet for too long, 'choking' the tiny plant. How long does it take for the soil to dry out?(to about 75% dry)

Yeah man, time to go air-cooled. I know it's not cheap, but just about the only way, other than going with different lights. Air-cooling + drawing cool air from outside,(on a seperate line) may be able to get your temps down to where you want them.

You can do whatever you want with a clone, as you would a plant grown from seed. The main difference, is that the clone is older, the same age as the mother plant it was taken from, and already sexually mature. The only thing I would advise against, is topping a plant that is weak, because it'll...

Sounds like your plant has been through some stress, and has mutated, causing that weird growth. It'll still be okay to clone, but,...the clones will have mutations too. As for cloning fems.....sure, it's a common practice. I do it all the time, without any problems, as do many others.

Agreed, there's no way to tell, in those pics. While it looks a little young, it might be showing preflowers already, so get those better pics, and we might be able to identify it for ya.

Nah, you just had some really crappy luck, bro. Look on the bright side.....the odds of it happening again, are slim to none.lol :wink:

What you have done, is going with 12/12 from seed, which isn't a bad thing, it just keeps the plant as small as possible, because it forces flowering from the beginning. You eliminated veg, which would've been 18/6(or up to 24/0), which would've allowed for a bigger plant, because they won't...

Yep, 12/12 is the accepted schedule for flowering, and works very well. Also agreed,....the dark period should be completely dark. The more light leaks you have, the more you are asking for problems.

^Exactly. I was concerned when he used the words "a bunch", because I know how tempting it can be, to remove EVERY leaf that seems to be blocking light, once ya get chopping.lol

Depends. I've done this at mid/late flowering, and it effectively stopped bud production. Granted, I got carried away and cut a shitload, but the results were airy buds, and a long finish time, compared to the other plants in my grow. I got into this discussion yesterday, and another member that...

That all depends on what ya mean by "good enough"? If '0' was no light at all, and '10' was a 1000 HPS, your setup would fall around a '4', in terms of effectiveness. Yes, you will get some decent smoke(if ya have them positioned close enough), but you won't compete with a better system.

^Agreed, and it's likely the reason for the yellowing. You stated that you've been watering alot, so either you've washed nutes from the soil, starved the plants of oxygen(keeping them wet too long), or the soil is simply running low on nutes, naturally. It's possibly more than one of those...

Um....wait til ya order again, and get regulars?lol :wink:

Well, ideally, you'll want to take your best male, and use it to fertilize your best female. But, since you have no way to test out the smoke of the females, til it's too late to pollinate,....it's a crapshoot. Well, it's a crapshoot anyway, I s'pose. When ya get your seeds, pick the female you...

^Very true, I wasn't thinking about that. One disaster with the little ones, and you're screwed, now that ya mention it.

^I agree with ya there, but in the case I'd described, I'd just fucked up a few of my own plants, by getting carried away chopping fan leaves. Trust me, the difference was dramatic, compared to the plants next to them. Then, I tried to warn my buddy, but he wouldn't listen to me til he tried it...

^Yep, works pretty good if ya keep things staggered by 5 weeks. When getting started, ya start enough to fill half your bloom room, veg for 5 weeks, take your cuttings, then move the plants to the bloom room. Then, 5 weeks later, ya have new plants vegging, ready to take cuttings, then move...

Well, my buddy thought the same thing, after reading about it in High Times, and when I gave him some of my clones, he tried it. My plants and his, were the exact same age, about the same size, except that he removed all the fan leaves during flowering, both using same soil and 600 HPS. Well, my...

That is exactly the way I've done it, since the beginning, and never had a problem. Granted, I haven't been doing this for a looong time, but have around 15 grows under my belt, which is respectable, i think. I take my clones from the lower sets of branches(which I trim off anyway, in early...

They're not worth harvesting, unless ya plan on collecting some of that pollen for making seeds.