Cloning and auto flowers--anyone know how to do it?

I know that many people say you cannot clone auto flowers, but others say yes, it can be done. I realize that it's perhaps not ideal, esp compared to cloning other "regular" plants, but it can be done. I have seen some threads in this section with some good details about how to do it, but I must have forgotten to save them, because I cannot find them now. And I've searched and searched and searched, to no avail.

So if anyone has info or experience, or even a link, on successfully cloning auto flowers, I'd really appreciate it.

FWIW, here's why we are interested in it. Not so much to save time as much as avoiding having to create a seed run, thereby having to pick out males, etc, and avoiding having to order again.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer some tips on this.

And if you're one of the nay-sayers? Thanks in advance for not trying to talk us out of this. I've been asked to find this info, and I know I have seen it here, so that's what I'm looking for--not opinions on why it should not be done or isn't worth the time and effort.

Thanks!

copy this into a google search

site:www.rollitup.org clone auto flowering plant

should get you this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e:www.rollitup.org+clone+auto+flowering+plant

tinyTURTLE said:

copy this into a google search

site:www.rollitup.org clone auto flowering plant

should get you this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e:www.rollitup.org+clone+auto+flowering+plant

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Thank you so much for sharing that info with me. How clever! Too bad the search engine is not too good on this site. Now I know how to search it via google.

Great idea + rep!

aloha, aunty here. i have 3 auto dwarfs going outside with one more week to go. when one of my other plants sprotted balls, i took a branch outside and beat the shit out of one of the dwarfs. now that one has seed pods. but, its not over, i thought that i would have auto seeds but there iare some real akamai dudes on the "Hawaii Growers" thread. check it out. they said now i nead to back breed or what ever!! gonna let my nephew handle that. hey, good luck on you season, aloha

Aloha Auntie--thanks for the reply. Sounds like you did some breeding and are attempting to create auto flower seeds via crossing some autos with regular-sized plants? Back breeding? Greek to me.

We're just winging it with the auto flower clones atm. Seems there were too many options, opinions, etc, and no real consensus (I did, however, find a good way to search this site . . . see above.

I would like to try making some seeds myself, but if/when I do, I think i'll just stick to some male/female mix of the white russian auto seeds I've now got. I found info . . . forget where . . . on how to do that, and it'll get you a lot of seeds from just one bud, one branch. Sounds like a winner to me.

Aloha!

I'd like to see someone tackle the advanced breeding of regular strains given the automatic flowering treatment. I have a fondness for the autos since they are pretty much the hardiest plants I ever raised. I currently have a dynamite Free Dinafem Blue Widow regular strain i cloned and am in love with but want to cross it w the automatic Hindu kush I have a seed batch going on right now...I fig I can start that fresh generation of seed, get male pollen and pollinate the blue widow the auto hindu kush and keep the automatic flowering offspring and try to make it fully stable....does this sound like the way to go anyone? If I'm hijacking the thread I apologize but this is new cutting edge stuff people can use to auto their fave strains AND have solid genetics in transferrable form. Looking forward to the responses.

Jizzmaster0 said:

I'd like to see someone tackle the advanced breeding of regular strains given the automatic flowering treatment. I have a fondness for the autos since they are pretty much the hardiest plants I ever raised. I currently have a dynamite Free Dinafem Blue Widow regular strain i cloned and am in love with but want to cross it w the automatic Hindu kush I have a seed batch going on right now...I fig I can start that fresh generation of seed, get male pollen and pollinate the blue widow the auto hindu kush and keep the automatic flowering offspring and try to make it fully stable....does this sound like the way to go anyone? If I'm hijacking the thread I apologize but this is new cutting edge stuff people can use to auto their fave strains AND have solid genetics in transferrable form. Looking forward to the responses.

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I thought that the automatic flowering characteristic was part of the Cannabis ruderalis' genetics. So, you would cross a strain of your choice with Cannabis ruderalis (Lowryder, Short Rider, what have you) and start working in the genetics that you want while still keeping the autoflowering characteristic of the ruderalis plant.

Not sure if thats how it really works...but I suppose it makes sense to me. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Well as far as I know if any offspring show the auto flower trait I can inbreed them if im lucky enough to get a male and female and that should get me onto stable ruderalis flowering but then there's no way to tell, at least not quickly, what positive traits they get from the blue widow reg strain and the kush parents as far as budding and height etc etc. Could be a rather lengthy process and a huge headache...im sure in another year or 2 there will be more high quality ruderalis genetics than one can make at home so I won't sweat it...just a thought. Im lazy so hell with the breeding program, i gotta get my perpetual down to a science first!