Question on Cloning

[Chabnoc]

I have never cloned before. As I have read, you have a mother plant which you never take out of the veggie state. If this is true, how do you know it is female, and if not, if it was male, wouldn't you clones also be male? On my next grow, I am thinking I want to make one a mother for clones.

Chabnoc Reviewed by Chabnoc on 03-20-2007. Question on Cloning I have never cloned before. As I have read, you have a mother plant which you never take out of the veggie state. If this is true, how do you know it is female, and if not, if it was male, wouldn't you clones also be male? On my next grow, I am thinking I want to make one a mother for clones. Rating: 5

[bongerstonerd00d]

I'm bored, so I will type this out. You clone your plants while they are in veg stage and you carefully mark them to identify them with the plants they came from. Once you flower the plants you took the cuttings from and you determine sex, then you know what clones to keep, and what clones to shitcan.


b0nger

[GodBud]

LOL @ above statement!

[Chabnoc]

Ok,, I do not think I made myself clear here.. People have been known to keep the same mother alive for 5 years with out ever taking it to flowering stage,, hence, never knowing the sex of that plant. The only way I can see this to work is kind of like throwing dice,, pick your mother plant, take clones, let clones mature, if male, then you know mother is really father.... hahaha.. so they all must all die. Not everyone clones then flowers that plant, some people keep the same plant to clone from for years.

[Scarlet Sky]

Ok,, I do not think I made myself clear here.. People have been known to keep the same mother alive for 5 years with out ever taking it to flowering stage,, hence, never knowing the sex of that plant. The only way I can see this to work is kind of like throwing dice,, pick your mother plant, take clones, let clones mature, if male, then you know mother is really father.... hahaha.. so they all must all die. Not everyone clones then flowers that plant, some people keep the same plant to clone from for years.

yeah, i'm one of them. your answer is right above you babe; bonger was kind enough to show you the light. but you shat on his word.

shame shame

what you do is flower the original, keeping clones. when you determine sex of the mom in flower, you know the sex of the clone. you grow THAT into a mother to keep in veg for years and years.

comprende?

[Tokudai]

Grow a plant long enough and it will show its sex in the veg state. Every mother I have (5 right now) has calyxes and pistils, since the plants are technically so old. They are what you would consider "preflowers" I guess.

[Scarlet Sky]

Grow a plant long enough and it will show its sex in the veg state. Every mother I have (5 right now) has calyxes and pistils, since the plants are technically so old. They are what you would consider "preflowers" I guess.

this is also true; all of mine are preflowering before i'm ready to flower now, no more forcing... my veg room is ahead of my flower room, unfortunately...

[Tokudai]

There's pics of three of my moms, all with clear preflowers. Oldest one is probably ~ 7 months or so. The second pic is a seed from the veg room also clearly showing female.

I don't know how anyone would be able to buy clones confidently if they didnt!

Sky - I guess its better than lagging behind the bloomroom - downtime sucks!

[alwayssleepdeprived]

prune them scarlet...see if you can make a hydra beast ;-) never know maybe you can up your yield haha gl

[Chabnoc]

I am so very sorry if I sounded rude. I did not mean to be in anyway. I do understand that a plant will start to preflower. But I have read of people taking clones from plants before they flower them, not even knowing the sex. This is a dice shoot right? Am I wrong to think that if you do not know the sex of the plant your are cloning from, then you will not know the sex of the clones either?

What I read was something about someone not keeping a mother plant, each time he grows plants he just takes clones from them if he is growing another set of plants. Seems to me it would be best to keep one mother, that way you know the genetics of the plant. And also you would know if it was going to turn into a hermi or what ever..

Maybe I should just stay away from Cloning for a while, and just stick to the simple stuff. Sorry if I should my ignorence.

This is my first grow, I am already thinking about my next grow and have just set my plants into the flowering stage. I was thinking I would get a mother the next batch, but I think I will just wait a few more.

Thanks for all the help everyone.