I decided to take clones off all my plants today. Some of them are so small I don't even think it will work. I want to find out how small is too small though, so might as well. And I like to make my plants bushy and branchy so even if they fail I won't be too disappointed. I'll just consider it pruning and try them again later when they have bigger branches. I don't know why some of them are so much smaller, and one plant seems to have a P deficiency. They are all in the same soil, but I have a feeling that Miracle Gro soil may not be mixed very well. There are mushrooms always popping up after I water, so I'm pretty sure they are seriously being cheap and cutting corners.

I like to cut my clones right above the third node, and when they have at least two nodes to go into the clone. No other reason than a superstition regarding the number three, and it has never failed me so far. This time I am expecting some failure due to using clones much tinier than any I have worked with before. Also I am using a jiffy tray with all eight clones inside instead of putting each clone in it's own pint glass. (I used to use a beer glass with a rocks glass nested in the top as a lid.) If one of them gets a mold, it may spread to all of them, and if that happens I will go back to the beer glass method. But I will keep my fingers crossed, because I don't want to be delayed the several weeks that would cost me.

Time for pics!! The first one is all the parent plants in their regular home in my closet. Next we have a top-down view of the mommies and daddies in my bathroom, ready for surgery. The third picture is the clones in their peat pellets, and I continued the theme of having four in spring water and four in tap water. I labeled the jiffy tray along the side so I will always know which clone was from which parent. The fourth picture is of the clone tray in their cabinet. The light fixture has two switches one of which controls a 23 watt cfl reptile uv light, which I will leave off until they root. I am starting them at 12/12 because the main point right now is just to sex them, although a nice j out of it would be a good bonus. :jointsmile:

Any comments or suggestions please reply! Thanks everybody! I'll keep you updated when they root or rot.