This is my second grow and I all set to drop cuttings but I am freakn cause the moms are so old (7 months in roughly 18/6 only).

On my 1st grow, thanks to this site, shouts to Latewood and Hardon of old - my mini cab scrog yeilded 4+oz. One plant. But my cloning attempt then failed cause I approached it way too much on the cheap.

Sprang for a Julia Jade Garden $150 rig this time.

But god dammit my head is spinnin this hour from not knowin how radical I should trim back the nodes on these secondary branches.

Like I say, the growth at the tips is bud-like thick. They are budsites. I understand this.

But for clone cutting purposes - am I to understand that I have to reduce the foliage -- ??always?? -- down to just a few top leaves?

Or can a cutting actually sprout roots even if it's got like 4-6 new sprouty like nodes left goin-on when you place it into the cloner's neoprene wafers

The big question seems to be about - how to combat transpiration if I don't have a humidity dome on the cloner, and if I'm gonna have these very tight 5 nodes on average, at the tops of my 3" clone candidates?

Sorry for bandwidth faut pas but.... even Cervantes book was useless on this detail.