Hello busteruk7 , I honestly don't know. I always start from seeds so I couldn't say if a clone would be of an adavantage

I'll just give a brief description of the outdoor crop I did, if that's ok


I germinated ten Ruderalis Indica and ten Mexican Sativa idoors at the end of April. I gave them about two weeks in the window sill in the house, this did cause some amount of streching so I just supported them with sticks.
Anyway I planted them outside in a really well prepared vegitable patch in the garden, I riddled out all the big lumps and dug in plenty of nice fresh compost and horse muck, this was around the second week in May.
They actually grew much better than I expected, the Ruderalis were quite small and bushy but the Mexican Stavia grew very tall, they ended up at over six feet by harvest time. To be honest if I grew them again I would pinch/top them to try and keep the height down a little ........... make them more of a "bush"

As they started to show their gender I just cut the males down as soon as they showed themselves and in total I ended up with twelve females.
They were harvested at the beinging of October but the problem was "bud rot" due to the damp and humid conditions, inparticular the Ruderalis were affected worse by bud rot than the Stavia.


One thing I would do if outdoor growing again is to put them in tubs/pots rather than into the ground. This way they could be moved around the garden to "catch" the sun throughout the summer



love mand xxxx
mand Reviewed by mand on . uk outdoor hi folks, am in the south of england grew last year outdoor and had ok success with a bit of a mish mash of different seeds, want to get some good quality seeds for this year....again it will be outdoors. any advice, suggestions please leave me a message...thanx Rating: 5