One last comment before shut eye. I see these videos and picks of people cloning and it all looks so easy. I grew up gardening have experience with cloning, grafting, air layering and and so on. But I haven't done any of that for 20 years. (I was a young teen helping out). This one momma has really tight node spacing and three small leaves per set. Shes about a year old the guy said. And grows all twisty and weird. I pruned her up a bit to help her out. Although he new growth is a healthier green with much larger leaves and node spacing, a bit straighter too shes been per-flowering since I got her I'm pretty sure. Even had some crystals on the leaves and got smelly. But that's subsided now for the last 3 weeks or so.

Anyways the point to that was is genetics and strain a big factor to how picky they are toward cloning?
The fact that I'm having to clean off so many nodes to get something long enough to work with. seems like that could be a big deal, what do you think?

okay I'll fill in more info tomorrow and I'll likely make more sense too. ( no promises) .gotta sleep.