Just realized that the links weren't working for the pictures, so I'll try this again.
Any advice, comments are welcome. Also is their any way to clone this far into a plants life? Or can that only be done earlier on?
Thanks again.
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Just realized that the links weren't working for the pictures, so I'll try this again.
Any advice, comments are welcome. Also is their any way to clone this far into a plants life? Or can that only be done earlier on?
Thanks again.
very difficult, if not impossible to clone a plant that is budding. plus the added stress during budding = less yield and possibly it going hermie on you. If you NEED to clone, I suggest not stripping all the leaves when you harvest and leave the main branches intact by just taking the buds off them. Then you can put the remaining plant under 24/hrs of light in hopes to re-veg it. I've seen it done, never tried it myself.
If I am understanding correctly you have a little over 100 watts of light in there. I would think 250 would be the bare ass minimum you would want to use for that space. I run a space about 1/2 that size and my flower light is 600watt. I veg my clones to about 6" in height on over 250 watts of T5's which is likely what that long light will turn out to be. Also, soft white is good for one thing and one thing only, reading books. Try using a 6000k spectrum for vegging the plants and then when you switch to 12/12 use 3000k bulbs and lots of them if your not going to be buying a large over head HPS light. Forget the equivalent numbers: 26watts = 100 watts. BS. Look at the amount of power going into the bulb, count those watts and don't stop till your well over 250. Everything else looks good. Just watch the heat with all the new lights you will need to be adding to get bigger plants.
Sorry, this is simply not true. I'm not saying it's ideal to clone during flower but it's quite possible and has been done many times.
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Originally Posted by shibbysurfrider
using standard cloning methods you will be able to root cuttings from any stage of the plants life.on flowering plants use the lower , airy bud branch tips after removing most flowering parts. don't worry about hermies.....the clones won't start growing again for 10+ days and will be in a separate room in a clone chamber
The OP is looking to take the best part of his plant and clone it so that only the bud grows and nothing else. The OP does not realize that the bud he is looking at is fruit. Bud like any other fruit or vegetable needs more then just the branch it's growing on. See how some of your leaves have no bud at all? The big ones are called fan leaves and they serve as a pump to get water and nutes up the length of the plant. Without fan leaves, your plant wont be big tall and healthy. That is an example of what it is I'm talking about. You wont be able to just clone the fruit.
Can you clone while in flowering? Yes, the plant can be cloned and if you were to maintain the same light schedule you would even find that the clone will produce some fruit as well. I did this experiment once and had the cutest little 3" tall plant I have ever grown. I wish I had taken pictures of it: I grew it in garage inside a 3" "u" shaped pvc 90 degree angle. I discovered that net cups will fit perfectly into 3" pvc pipe. So I filled it with water, no bubbler or anything. The roots grew down the pipe into terribly nasty ass water with dead bugs actually mingled into the roots...lol. Yet that little clone kept on producing trics. I guess it was getting whatever nutrients it needed from the leaves that started to fall off pretty quickly. I ended up with a tiny little Christmas tree covered in trics, but it worked. The lesson was even though you may be flowering, your not going to be flowering much, because the plant wont grow. It wont produce new roots or leaves in near the abundance needed to produce fruit. You need to grow the plants up, let them develop root systems and then start producing fruit.
One technique you could consider might be to maintain the plants from here on out. When you harvest, take only what you need and leave the rest. Then restart flowering again and instead of needing to grow new vegetation and roots, it will already have everything set to go. Most people find this system to be a pain in the ass though and would rather just grow new fresh plants each time instead of trying to keep the same ones for long periods of time.
Back to cloning: if you do take a clone during the flowering stage, just turn the lights back to 18/6 for that clone and within a week or so, it will begin to convert back to the veg cycle instead of the flower cycle.