will my clones finish flowering faster?

Hello,

I took clones from some white satin plants I had going, the original mother took about 65-70 days to finish from switching to 12/12,

my question is with the clones that where well rooted when I switched to 12/12 will they finish in less time than 65-70 days?

anyone with experience please your thoughts,

thanks!

patjack said:

Hello,

I took clones from some white satin plants I had going, the original mother took about 65-70 days to finish from switching to 12/12,

my question is with the clones that where well rooted when I switched to 12/12 will they finish in less time than 65-70 days?

anyone with experience please your thoughts,

thanks!

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Hey Pat....

Great question... I am curious what people will say... I am noticing that

Subcools, Pandoras Box, Jack the ripper, Space Queen and Querkle... appear to be flowering about 10 days ahead of schedule.. when they were grown from seed they needed about 60 days of flowering and now it lloks like they will be done in 50 days...

iloveyou

no they will take the same amount of time as the original plant. Why would you think they would be faster?

I don't know ganjababy. I guess my thought would be that they don't have to take as much time to start pumping out the flowering hormones because they are older, but again I am not sure, this is my first go around with clones, I had never done it like this before, although now that I have I can see all the wonderful benefits.

Also, my ws clones are about 5-6 days away from 65 days and they seem to be further along, than when I flowered the mother

Thanks!

By cloning you've gained sexing them and around 2 or 3 weeks growth (depending on size of clones), if you put them into flower now you will have nowhere near the yield the mothers will have. In SOG, yes you'd put them into flower now.

Flowering time is genetic, and clones are genetic copies.

HTH

I would say that given all factors were exactly the same, a clone is going to act exactly like her mother plant. A clone is an exact genetic replica. That's kinda the shit deal with clones, your strain never improves.

Now what can improve is your technique. You have more experience now with that specific strain and how it reacts to your setup. You will most likely have less problems with the next grow, and have a better understanding of the nutrient levels that your specific strain, in your specific medium, can handle. This may help the plant finish a bit quicker.

I have noticed that some clones don't like to flower when they're too young. Transplants of mine have taken EXTRA time to start flowering if I haven't given them enough veg, sometimes over a week to show sex, while the more mature mother got all kindsa hairy within 2 days of 12/12.

thanks for all the great feedback everyone!
it is much appreciated

I guess like always I am trying to harvest to soon ( I am a greedy sob) I will suck it up and wait the appropriate amount of time, but boy do I hate waiting, It's pretty funny I was just waiting for a good solid "go ahead chop em early" so I could justify my urge to go chop chop chop. Sometimes the truth hurts...

patience is a virtue I am working on... slowly