Can it be done?

[SantaClawz]

I was talking to a buddy of mine and he was telling me about how his brother snips his pre-mature bud sites off of his plants, puts rooting hormone on them and then grows just the bud. Anyone seen it done before?

SantaClawz Reviewed by SantaClawz on 09-28-2007. Can it be done? I was talking to a buddy of mine and he was telling me about how his brother snips his pre-mature bud sites off of his plants, puts rooting hormone on them and then grows just the bud. Anyone seen it done before? Rating: 5

[Storm Crow]

I do "sexing clones". I cut off a nice section of a seedling and put it under 12/12 to force sexing. The cones "sex" well before the actual plants. The resulting female clones have prebuds all the way along each branch. When they hit 12/12 they go into bud production- immediately! They never get really big, but every branch is filled with buds! I can deal with that!- Granny:hippy:

[SantaClawz]

Yeah, thats believable, but he said that he cut the buds off then they were already pretty big, but not gettin cloudy yet, he said he used some magic powder to get the to grow, which i think he is talkin about rooting hormone. He said the bud would just keep growing and growing...

[Chronisseur]

I can tell you from experience that it is possible to continue bud growth after clipping it from its mother, however, there is absolutely NO point in making life harder than it has to be. Possible? Yes. Reasonable? No.

[SantaClawz]

will the mother grow a new bud, or will this stress and kill the plant?

[Chronisseur]

I imagine the mother would do her best to replace bud spots, but they would be far inferior to the original growth. Do you have an idea you're going to try? I only ask because this is far from desireable treatment, unless you're properly taking clones. In which case, you can find information in reading through the forums.

[stinkyattic]

Chron... ya got some good instincts for a nOOb...

[SantaClawz]

Well I was thinking, it would probally be alot faster to just grow buds, instead of using clones. Keep the mother in flower and clip the buds as the come. Its just a theory, but you should be able to fit alot more buds into an area than clones. And the yeild could be better depending on how big you could grow the bud afterward. Im thinking the buds could use the light more effeciently on thier own then sharing it on a plant, sound plausable? I do know the leaves are what absorb the light, would there be enough on the bud itself to keep it alive? I guess the expirment would be to see if you could get the bud to grow bigger on its own as aposed to on the plant. And yes im a n00b, never grown before, but im working on it, want to get everything right. I definately dont have enough $$$ for this method. I want someone with a better grow and more experience to try this method. :P

[Chronisseur]

I can tell you my friend, NOBODY who knows a THING about cultivation would EVER try this.
There are many more reasons than I have time to explain, why this is just NOT reasonable. I admire your desire to learn, and hope that you can do yourself justice by putting faith into our experienced cultivators PROVEN methods of madness!
....I promise buddy, it's just not worth it!
Good Luck:thumbsup:

[Delta9Haze420]

I can tell you my friend, NOBODY who knows a THING about cultivation would EVER try this.
There are many more reasons than I have time to explain, why this is just NOT reasonable. I admire your desire to learn, and hope that you can do yourself justice by putting faith into our experienced cultivators PROVEN methods of madness!
....I promise buddy, it's just not worth it!
Good Luck:thumbsup:

I feel like **** right now (sorry), so like chron I won't get in to the biology behind why this would be disasterous, but as previously said, it would be. In short, there is no way a bud cutting would be able to survive long enough to propagate itself to the point where taking it from the mother would actually produce a higher yield than if it had just been left on her. Far too much energy is needed for bud growth that just wouldn't be there on a clipped bud - and it would have no way of making any (the flowering leaves are by no means anywhere near powerful enough to generate that kind of photosynthesis). It is a great idea, and would be fantastic if it worked, but if it did, you can bet anyone and everyone who has ever tried to supercrop (or even just grow for that matter) would be doing this to get an explosive yield, and there would be threads on it everywhere to boot. Keep up the good work though, and keep using your head. Sometimes new tricks actually are discovered (FIM is a great example) that become milestones in the history of cultivation...