Pre LollyPopping Question.

Im going to lollypop a bit of the under branches wyle she still has 3 weeks in veg left
I dont want to throw away the cuttungs their a good size and have noone to give'em to
My question is if i lollypop and keep a few of cuttings as clones and flower them in 3 weeks wen i plan to bloom my plant will it be a problem and or waste of time??
i ask because im sure they wont be the same height as my plant and wont get as much light penetration, and dont really want to have bukets lifting my clones to even canopy height with the rest.
Thanks for reading guys

DankkAbuser said:

Im going to lollypop a bit of the under branches wyle she still has 3 weeks in veg left
I dont want to throw away the cuttungs their a good size and have noone to give'em to
My question is if i lollypop and keep a few of cuttings as clones and flower them in 3 weeks wen i plan to bloom my plant will it be a problem and or waste of time??
i ask because im sure they wont be the same height as my plant and wont get as much light penetration, and dont really want to have bukets lifting my clones to even canopy height with the rest.
Thanks for reading guys

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why don't you keep the clones and veg until your flower is ready to harvest then throw them into flower?

Im actually gonna close up shop after this next harvest till i settle into my new home im planning on moving in a few months
so i figure id try and grow a few more plants
but i dont know if itll be a waste of time due to height diffrence and light not penetrating as well as with other plants

Were there's light bud will grow man
..stick em in, you'll get more bud then if you don't regardless of light...
but if the only reason you don't want to raise em too same level as rest of canopy is because pots on buckets looks ugly.....think about growing again.....

That makes sense
and i dont want to lift with bukets because i am going to scrog

DankkAbuser said:

Im going to lollypop a bit of the under branches wyle she still has 3 weeks in veg left
I dont want to throw away the cuttungs their a good size and have noone to give'em to
My question is if i lollypop and keep a few of cuttings as clones and flower them in 3 weeks wen i plan to bloom my plant will it be a problem and or waste of time??
i ask because im sure they wont be the same height as my plant and wont get as much light penetration, and dont really want to have bukets lifting my clones to even canopy height with the rest.
Thanks for reading guys

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Well, hmmm. To the point, I'd say, flowering 3 week clones is not worth it for yield. I've done it. But, I don't like the term. People get the wrong idea about that. The industry term is pruning.

What I have been doing is selecting the dominate branches as they veg out. And I simply don't allow side branching. I don't allow subdominates from the main stalk either. I pinch off all side growth as soon as it starts. I just go over them every two weeks or so.

Then when I get to Bloom I have a very open bush with long cola branches that can be held up to the light. I use blue painter tape mostly,

Then when I move them to bloom the last thing I do is sacrifice 3 or 4 of the very bottom straggly ones, "will never amount to much."

Those are clone candidates, big time. The rooting auxins down low like that are stronger. Those go into cycle and come out in 16 weeks as more BUDS.

i'm in agreement with lemon king..buckets are gonna be no matter what..it's part of grow..you can't get away from it..you'll see.

BTW, I'm not saying I am a successful cloner. But, I have tried and tried. I can't get to 20% success yet. But, 2 plant give enough to root at least 1 or 2. And I only start 2 plants each month.

My best luck so far is to use the cloner I made up. But, you know, some will root in an RO water glass on the window sill, if I use a humidity dome.

A cloner with a gentle spray, but that only comes up halfway wetting the shoots, not all of it, works best for me. They don't seem to need the dome.

I can get them to root, in a tray, like I believe Sky does, but, I can never get them hardened up without the dome before the roots fails.

All about technique, with a sharp, sterile blade cut to harvest, then straight into water, then second cut, under water, for no stem air embolism, etc. And pop into a warm water cloner. That may get 20% for me. So, I have no advice yet on this.

Yea im just gonna clone the cuttings
i got three good ones

Yeah, no hurry I hope. I have been at this for 30 months now and have success in every phase but I only just got my system going, in Nov. That is me working my setup.

So, finally next month I will have 4 x 4 ft tall bushes with a couple of dozen cola tops to harvest and 4 more pairs, spaced a month apart after that. And so on.

Nice!
good luck with your garden brrotha