Cutting topped branches for clones

[rimbaegeus]

I just took a round of clones from my mother plant, and it happens that some of these were forked branches; branches I had pruned at a previous date that ended up growing twice as many shoots. The result is I have some conventional clones, and some clones that are shaped like the letter "Y" (one stem with a fork in the stem were it splits into two, with a top on each one).

Has anyone done this before? Will it yield a plant with two main stems or will one become dominant?

rimbaegeus Reviewed by rimbaegeus on 12-20-2007. Cutting topped branches for clones I just took a round of clones from my mother plant, and it happens that some of these were forked branches; branches I had pruned at a previous date that ended up growing twice as many shoots. The result is I have some conventional clones, and some clones that are shaped like the letter "Y" (one stem with a fork in the stem were it splits into two, with a top on each one). Has anyone done this before? Will it yield a plant with two main stems or will one become dominant? Rating: 5

[scagster]

Why didn't you just cut above the fork, leave a node, so your mother plant will produce more clones for you next batch? The idea with mother plants is to get as many grow tips on it as possible.

[PharmaCan]

Your main stem will remain dominant. But you do start out with a bigger, more robust plant once it's rooted.

Scagster - mother plants need aggressive pruning or they get too big. If one did as you suggest, the mother plant would soon become too tall, the lower growth would all die off and you would be cutting into hollow stems much of the time.

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[stinkyattic]

If the two tops are about equal size and are left with about equal amounts of leaf matter, you'll end up with a multi-stem plant and they will grow about the same.
This is what I often do when I am chopping up an old mother to regenerate her- I take a forked clone so that the new mother will have a greater abundance of bud sites exposed to the light.

[rimbaegeus]

Thanks for the help