I read somewhere that you shouldn't cut the buds off from a clone, they will consume the buds and turn it into food/energy, might try that next time.
4x4Turbo Reviewed by 4x4Turbo on . My 3 leafer I lost my last set of clones due to user error, so I decided to take a couple clippings from plants already in 12/12. The crop was about a few weeks into flower, trics were already starting, but my friend and I had no good source for clones at the time. So we picked 2 side shoots that had nice healthy leaves, but didnt have big buds forming. We clipped the bud growth of them, gave the plants a few days to heal from that, then took clippings. One of the clones is slowly struggling along, its Rating: 5