clones flowering while rooting

[abnorml]

Hi everyone,

I recently started keeping moms and trying to have a clone harvest. I have a mom in a 5gal bucket with ffof and it looked like it was starting to flower, meaning it had preflowers or the two little white hairs sticking out, but found out thats not unusual for a mature plant, so I fed with pbp grow for the first time to give it nitrogen, and took clones a week later putting them into a hydro cloning machine with tap water @100ppm. The clones almost all have roots after a little over a week in the system. Today I looked at them and it looks like some of them are starting to bud. I plan to grow them to about a foot tall before flowering so this isn't gonna work for me.
The clones are on the floor on the outskirts of an 8'x8' room with a 1000watt mh. The room stays at 78 degrees and the light timer is set to 18-6. As I said the clones are in a cloning maching with water about 78 degrees, since some are not rooted yet. They have a dome over them.
I think the mom may have started flowering from stress or something due to being rootbound or got too dry between waterings or something. I have another copy of that mom but its too small to give me what I need for the next batch.
Can I get these clones to switch back to veg? If so how do you do it. And how do I keep moms long-term without them flowering on their own?

Sorry if I rambled I'm worried.

 

[Moldy Dreads]

Usually clones do get very stressed from having being cut in half then forced to grow legs

It's normal for some clones to look almost like they are budding further even under 18 hours of light while they are trying to grow new root systems.. New clones focus energy on roots and the apical meristem waits until those are bumping before they resume growth. The leaves can stay kinda small and some thin hairlike leaf growth too if the mom was already semi-shocked to begin with or is genetically prone to throw out some hairs before 12/12. Seems to me that the plant was just a bit shocked and once those babys are under 18 and have roots planted in medium, they will begin to throw out big fan leaves.

I'd say you are fine. Veg them until you see the new leaves coming out and you'll be ok.
Of course pics help, and flowering clones will take forever to revert, but from what you describe I doubt they are flowering per se, it sounds completely normal. Rock on! Can you keep us posted and put pics up so we can follow the progress?

Good luck!!!!!

 

[abnorml]

Thanks for the quick reply Moldy. I hope you're right. I have hope because it would be very obvious if the mom was flowering by now. No buds on her yet. I am going to run mandala#1 and pine tar kush in the next batch. The mandala is the one flowering. I want both sets to be around the same size when they flower, so if the madala is flowering, how far would that put them behind the ptk if I try to revert them? And also how do you revert them?
I just have a bad feeling. Wish I had some pics to show you. The mandala has really dark-bluish leaves, and when I saw them today the first thing I noticed was a really light green growth coming out of the tip of the plants. Upon closer observation, I noticed what looked like a little like tiny bud tips on a couple.

 

[Dr Dog]

IME
it is very very hard to grow under secondary light from a HID

I would get a FLORO light right over the top of those things. works great for me

 

[abnorml]

Thanks Dr.
I'v'e used a flouro over them, but found I didn't really need it. They're only over there for a week or two then they go into the system, directly under the mh. I think the problem was with my mom. The ptk clones are in an identical system right next to them and growing normally.

 

[villain420247]

Yeah, don't worry dude. You can actually clone buds if you want, they take longer to convert back to vegging, but they will root and you will see smooth leaves come out and then it will start to grow. It will likely be branchier or bushier than if you had taken them from a vegging plant, but you have no worries outside of a slightly longer veg time.

 

[abnorml]

Hey Villain,

Thanks for chiming in. You think they'll revert on their own under the 18/6? They'll get into the rdwc in a few days and get their first taste of veg nutes. I'm hoping that'll help them get with the program.

 

[villain420247]

Hey Villain,

Thanks for chiming in. You think they'll revert on their own under the 18/6? They'll get into the rdwc in a few days and get their first taste of veg nutes. I'm hoping that'll help them get with the program.

Definitely. Be patient and they will veg up fine.