Cloning a flowering plant is it possible?

[1Maconheiro]

I want to clone one of my best SLH and make her into a mother for future plants, but she is 5 weeks into flowering. Is it still possible from me to cut a lower branch and clone her?

 

[mal schaun]

finish and reveg the plant.

you can try it but after the 2nd week i would not clone a plant. some plants dont go back to veg after they start to bloom. i see this on a gdp.

good luck !

 

[paper thorn]

won't hurt to try. if it doesn't work, you can try a reveg. I cloned a diesel 5 or 6 weeks into flower not too long ago.

 

[foomar]

The sooner you take cuts the faster the rooting and reveg , most chop day clones make it but take a while.
Not all plants reveg well , take cuts and try for a reveg if its really worth saveing.

Mid - late flower clones are usefull to me if running seeds for selection , by then you can see what you have and only clone the potential keepers , saves a lot of veg space and cullings.

Can i clone a bud ?
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=240679

 

[mowood3479]

do it almost every run... but the down side is that far into flower itll take a looong time to come back into veg (like a month or more)

 

[WelderDan]

Yes you can clone a lower branch, no problem. It will take a while for it to revert to a veg state, but you can do it. It'll sport single leaflets at first, but will eventually return to normal growth.

Take cuts and try to reveg.

 

[1Maconheiro]

Great info.. going to give reveging a try.... should I cut the buds off of the cutting?

 

[foomar]

should I cut the buds off of the cutting?

No , the fresh shoots grow out of the old bud , leave any still green leaves on as well.

This is about right for a reveg.

 

[EvilCartman]

Great info.. going to give reveging a try.... should I cut the buds off of the cutting?

I don't. Several growing tips will emerge from the bud. It's like having a pre-topped plant.

I routinely take late-flower cuts of worthwhile genetics. It's a great way to keep those "keepers" runnin'!

 

[Tonygreen]

do it almost every run... but the down side is that far into flower itll take a looong time to come back into veg (like a month or more)

But when it does, boy oh boy will it be branchy!

 

[Ziggaro]

Yeah I've gone as late as 3 weeks into flowering and taken a clone.

I did this on my last run, but I think I have some mutation due to the health of the cuttings. Now that they're both revegged, one cutting is stocking up thick branches and staying pretty low, and the other is stretching everywhere. Both were topped and pinched and bent to train, but the one just keeps stretching out her internodes further and further.
I always hear stuff about genetic drift on clones, and wonder if this might have happened. I'm sort of excited to grow them out, side by side, and see if they're any different

 

[OrganicOzarks]

I tried to take some clones a couple of weeks into flower, and the time it took for them to revert was way to long for me. It was cool to do it, but not very practical. I would rather just reveg a plant.

 

[masamaaso]

Ive had um go both ways cloning that late into flower, some go, some blow, and yea I to have had some "freak shows" develop from a late flowering clone and also some sweet plants. Long time to reveg is an understatement, and if yer growing sativas even longer,, give it a shot man, got nothing to lose but a lower branch that wouldnt yield much bud anyway.

 

[trichrider]

all day long...

 

[Sean Price]

Its ok as long as its within the first cpl. Weeks

 

[coastal]

Take a clone, once rooted they usually reveg for a month or two and then start spitting out normal growth...

 

[foomar]

If you can root clones useing a method that produces roots on vegging stock in a week , then rooting a late flower clone will take you around two weeks , in a dialed in bubbler for instance.

Dropping straight back to 20/4 veg lighting helps and hormone rooting agents are worth useing , near 100% on even harvest day clones this way , and proveing more reliable than revegging the old rootstock , some will simply not do it , mainly 90 + flowertimes and fast males.

The turnaround time for rooting a mid flower clone and a reveg , to a stage when fresh cuts are available is no more than six weeks , and two such clones recently produced over fifty fresh clones for me in a very small space , they get real bushy.


The method and times might not suit your room , but chop day clones have saved me from loseing or missing a few special plants over the years , worth seeing if it works in case you ever need it.

 

[Siomha]

just recently i tried to take clones from plants they were in flower fro 2 weeks already and i failed.
i wanted to reveg one plant but the heat issue was a problem at this moment.

 

[Siomha]

just recently i tried to take clones from plants they were in flower fro 2 weeks already and i failed.
i wanted to reveg one plant but the heat issue was a problem at this moment.

 

[bajangreen]

Air layer!!!!!!! works every time.