Clone Speed vs Plant Strength

GrowinDad

GrowinDad

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Maybe a bad title but best I could come up with. Trying to get thoughts on whether a slower to root and get growing clone is an indication of a weaker, less stable, lower yielding end result.

I run a small Cab for veg and a regular tent for flower. Under how I have been doing things, plants end up in veg a little longer than I want and space in the veg area gets precious, basically because I have been cutting clones as soon as I am moving the plant to flower.

I usually end up with one or more clones than I need. So the "extra" tends to be one slower to take off. I am thinking of using it as a mom so that I can cut clones about two weeks after her "sisters" go into flower. But I don't want to be using a weaker plant as mother obviously.

Make sense?
 
brodietheconeking

brodietheconeking

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GrowinDad said:
Maybe a bad title but best I could come up with. Trying to get thoughts on whether a slower to root and get growing clone is an indication of a weaker, less stable, lower yielding end result.

I run a small Cab for veg and a regular tent for flower. Under how I have been doing things, plants end up in veg a little longer than I want and space in the veg area gets precious, basically because I have been cutting clones as soon as I am moving the plant to flower.

I usually end up with one or more clones than I need. So the "extra" tends to be one slower to take off. I am thinking of using it as a mom so that I can cut clones about two weeks after her "sisters" go into flower. But I don't want to be using a weaker plant as mother obviously.

Make sense?
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I had this problem,I got rid of clones and popped seeds of in my little veg cupboard when I hit week 4 of bloom in my other cupboard
 
bulletwithwings

bulletwithwings

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GrowinDad said:
Maybe a bad title but best I could come up with. Trying to get thoughts on whether a slower to root and get growing clone is an indication of a weaker, less stable, lower yielding end result.

I run a small Cab for veg and a regular tent for flower. Under how I have been doing things, plants end up in veg a little longer than I want and space in the veg area gets precious, basically because I have been cutting clones as soon as I am moving the plant to flower.

I usually end up with one or more clones than I need. So the "extra" tends to be one slower to take off. I am thinking of using it as a mom so that I can cut clones about two weeks after her "sisters" go into flower. But I don't want to be using a weaker plant as mother obviously.

Make sense?
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Just cut twice the clones your going for and only pick out the strongest ones once they root. That'd what I do. That way there are no laggers
 
greasemonkeymann

greasemonkeymann

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Dr. Who said:
Dad, to answer the question.
No,,,,I have had the "slower" rooting plant end up being very normal in all other aspects of growth, once rooted...

It would be a fine mother...

Doc
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GrowinDad said:
Thanks @Dr. Who That is what I was after :-)
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I agree, the cloning speed has very very little to do with the plants overall vigor. Some strains are reluctant to root, some aren't.
BUT the donor plants health has a lot to do with the speed, I've found.
In other words if the donor plant is having issues growing healthy, the cuts typically take longer to root, and/or may have a lower rooting%.
Gotta remember it's the same plant, so if it's pissed, it's pissed. Those plants take longer to root sometimes.
Depends on the strain though, I've grown probably over 50 different strains in my life, and for example, the blue dream is one of the easiest strains to clone, regardless of it's health. I've even cloned a set of bluedreams with russet mites before,(fuckers), still rooted in less than a week...
 
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