Oh you don't need to listen to me on the cloning stuff. I seem to be at odds with most people on that. But different methods work in different people's hands. I don't cut my leaves in half either. I will say that over the years I have propagated many different types of plants by cloning, and they were all very different, some you can snap off a branch and chuck it in a glass of tap water and voila! roots! Other times it's like open heart surgery. I'm very much still learning with Cannabis just like you.