Quote Originally Posted by VILE420
Should I even take a larger bottom branches off to try and clone?
I think your talking about fan leaves here. Fan leaves will not clone to the best of my knowledge. The architecture of a soon to be cut clone will be about 3" high in the form of a "Y". Trim off all lower leaves and leave all the small top growth. I also usually trim back a lot of the bigger top leaves as well as I have found that the clone needs very little leaves to start rooting. The more leaves it has the more work the clone will have to put into attempting to keep those leafs alive, instead of just rooting like it should. Take a look around on Google and look at the shape of their clones. You start off with that, not grow to that. This means you don't try clones with single leaves, branches with only one leaf, that sort of thing. Look for the v notches at the ends of your branches and from there go back about 4" to find the locations of your cuts.