Do All Cuttings Produce TOP KHOLAS????

[Garden Knowm]

chuck the top?
why not use it as a clone?

[harmonicminor]

yeah If I want to take the chance of it being male :-)

[Zandor]

genetically though a seed grown plant should have the biggest cola

A clone is just that a clone. It's an exact copy of the plant it was taken from.

the primary branch is the one with the huge fan leaves and has the biggest bud

Not always true, the fan leaf size is how the plant regulates the international temperature of the plant. You can find large fan leafs growing where the plant needs them to grow.

any clone can have a primary cola as well but this will always genetically be secondary growth unless the clone was made from the top of the seed grown plant which then will have the potential for a bigger cola than its mother

Not correct a clone is just that a clone. A clone by definition is an exact copy of the plant it was taken from. Nothing more nothing less it's a copy.

doesnt matter to me though I always top the plants and chuck the top

Then you are tossing a good clone to bad for you.

The main cola is where the plant gets itâ??s instructions from. That is where the plant stores the antioxidants that control height and some other elements of the plant growth. Every clone will regenerate those antioxidants once the roots have good growth and the plant is growing on itâ??s own. By cropping the main cola and removing those antioxidants allows the side branches to catch up and it also keeps the plant shorter and bushier.

Thought I would clear up a few things for everyone.

[dboy]

Zandor:

Not always true, the fan leaf size is how the plant regulates the international temperature of the plant. You can find large fan leafs growing where the plant needs them to grow.

Does heat stress result in increased number or size of fan leaves?

Another question. If you top a plant as usual, but end up with three main branches instead of two...what happened?

Thanks

Dboy

[Zandor]

Yes heat is the No 1 cause for a female plant to turn hermie and heat will produce very large fan leaves.

Not sure what you mean by what happened? Cropping can produce 2,3 or even 4 stocks it's not totally out of the question. Once the antioxidants are out of the picture the plant can grow a little wild. I have a cropped mother that has 4' side shoots. They need support to hold them up but they keep growing and growing.

[Starchild]

That is why some of my females turned hernie..Too hot..I fixed that problem however..

[harmonicminor]

Ok you must be right of course Zandor. I may have read wrong a long time ago then. So It doesnt matter if I take a clone from a seconday branch. That clone can develop an exact copy of the mother's main cola??

[Easy Roller]

And by this Zandor.....A clone can grow on to become a mother plant? If a clone is an exact copy of it's mother? Thanks for the knowledge...Easy

[HARDDON]

And by this Zandor.....A clone can grow on to become a mother plant? If a clone is an exact copy of it's mother? Thanks for the knowledge...Easy

Yes a clone can be made a mother. However, after time, it will lose some of the potency.

A clone, while even a youngster, still maintains the true genetic age of the mother regardless of when it is taken.

This is true in dogs, sheep and plants.

So while a clone may be three weeks old, it is still the age of the mother plant on a genetic basis according to when the cutting was made.

Thus, a clone taken from a 6 month old mother, is a 6 month old clone...genetically.

THis is why it will degenerate in time. Mothers are usually good for about a year for producing good potent clones.

It will degrade from that point forward.

[Easy Roller]

Thankyou Hardon that is well explained and makes perfect sense.