Cloning a flowering plant is it possible?

[SeaMaiden]

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?

Go for it, it's basically the only way I ever seem to get cuts going. Every year I wait for my OD girls to begin flowering before I decide which ones I want to keep cuttings from. I keep at least several bottom shoots just for this purpose. Often, it will be THE DAY BEFORE CHOP. If you're using *only* these lower shoots there will be little to no bud material to decompose and kill the cutting.

In fact, I've found that those bottom shoots taken from a gal almost finished root faster than those taken from a vegging plant.

Go Nike on her, JUST DO IT. You'll like it.

 

[1Maconheiro]

Just cut 3 bottom branches, trimmed the sun leaves, 2 I used clone gel and 1 I used honey just to see if it works put them back in the clone chamber 18/6 light hopefully they root in a couple days... if not i'm going to reveg

 

[joe guy]

If ur worried about it takin to long then check out my thread "my go at air layering" had massive roots in less than 2 weeks.. 5 days I belive is she started showin the white hair.. guess they I did it was lil diffrent than everyone else but everyone else also said it would take forever to root but she didn't.. anyway there's my 2 cents hope it helps u out alil and good luck with her

 

[trichrider]

just checked progress on the flowering cut i took 1 week ago...it's rooting.

if your regular cloning has good success, just do the same routine. don't be afraid to lose a couple lower branches to get up to speed.

grow on.

 

[Blaz3]

Well Ill personally find out soon enough..have 15 clones of ak48,heri and ko kush under 24/ cfl....in rapidrooters...well see in a week or two..the plants i cloend from were ~15~ days in 12/12....

 

[TheBioMaster]

The method for taking clones during flowering is called "Super Cloning" and it works great!

Taking clones later in flower produces clones that will branch out like mad! Like if you topped the plant about 20 times!!

This cloning method was discovered many years ago when basically we got in the dilemma that we wanted clones but none were taking during veg.....so we tried it in a desperate attempt and it worked great. Thinking it was a fluke we tried it again and got the same "super" clone.....so at that point we started taking clones at different levels of flowering, taking them about week 3 or week 4 is ideal......but you can take them later if needed.

The only down side is that after the clones root, there is going to be some extra time needed for the clone to go back to the veg cycle, this usually takes about 2 weeks.....well worth it IMHO.

If you have never tried, I suggest that you do as the results are nothing short of amazing!!

 

[blackone]

Good luck with those clones I would make sure not to stuff them too close in the cloner because of the increased mold risk from the buds and perhaps a longer cloning time. Also keep an eye on then and remove any moldy tissue.
I'm sure it's gonna work out for you - reveg doesn't always succeed at the end of flower so week 5 might be better - even with the added burden of having to root. I've cloned many times on week 2-3 but never this late.

 

[Blaz3]

The method for taking clones during flowering is called "Super Cloning" and it works great!

Taking clones later in flower produces clones that will branch out like mad! Like if you topped the plant about 20 times!!

This cloning method was discovered many years ago when basically we got in the dilemma that we wanted clones but none were taking during veg.....so we tried it in a desperate attempt and it worked great. Thinking it was a fluke we tried it again and got the same "super" clone.....so at that point we started taking clones at different levels of flowering, taking them about week 3 or week 4 is ideal......but you can take them later if needed.

The only down side is that after the clones root, there is going to be some extra time needed for the clone to go back to the veg cycle, this usually takes about 2 weeks.....well worth it IMHO.

If you have never tried, I suggest that you do as the results are nothing short of amazing!!

hoyl crap..thats the first time i hear about this man..sounds VERY interesting...hoe does it work..what is the theory behind it mate??

Do the clones have to have some pistils on it to work?

 

[1Maconheiro]

hoyl crap..thats the first time i hear about this man..sounds VERY interesting...hoe does it work..what is the theory behind it mate??

Do the clones have to have some pistils on it to work?

Bro there is some good info on super/monster cropping at this link.. i'm going to give this a try tooo once my clones pull through...

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=115377

 

[veek]

Bro there is some good info on super/monster cropping at this link.. i'm going to give this a try tooo once my clones pull through...

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=115377

he was talking about supercloning not supercropping

 

[Blaz3]

Lol yeah..Iv heard of sueprcropping...I meant whats with the super cloning branch out like crazy stuff..

 

[blackone]

That's when they reveg from an incomplete flower. Even if taken after only 1 week of 12/12 you might see this effect.
Some strains don't work well with this method - they take a long time to reveg and are hard to get back to vegging properly. In flower they might yield a lot of popcorn - if flower is started too fast then you can even end up with a plant that is basically nothing but popcorn...
Other strains quickly return to veg and in flower always finish with tight nuggets.

 

[be.pro]

Done with many strains and had success, currently have a few vegging right now. The structure of the flowering clone will be very different than the plant it was taken from, however, if you rather have the structure from the original plant simply clone the revegging clone and the next generation will be more similar to the original plant. This could vary from strain to strain but IME it has worked. Have fun! +~~

 

[floralheart]

Never had good luck with it after 10 days in.

 

[lordofthenugz]

It's called Monster Cropping when you clone a bud and throw it back into veg. It take a few weeks to recover but after that it is ridiculously branched out and fills a Scrog quick.

Do a search on
MONSTER CROPPING.

 

[Blaz3]

Hey..what are the effects of simply cloning a flowering branch..with pistils on it..then throw it into 12/12 as soon as they root???...kinda like a sog?...i cant wait for them to reveg..

 

[foomar]

From experience most plants root easiest by a couple of days at two weeks into flower before proper buds have formed , but lose a week or more growth in the hormonal confusion of going back into veg hours.

Threw a rooted mid flower clone straight back into flower , and got a cute bonsai bush sphere a foot across , but with minimal yield.

Without a decent reveg they dont grow enougth root structure to do very much later on , the fresh compost was barely touched and the top growth was thin and drawfed.



These are proveing more of a challenge than the girls , much lower sucess rate with late flower males , and the bubbler has to be working spot on , but more reliable than a male reveg , many seem to hit a point in late flower beyond which they become commited to senescance on the original rootstock , and will not come back regardless of environment manipulation.

For what its worth , revegging males this way is severe stress and many produce viable female structures and seed along the way , and i avoid useing any that turn easy in my own simple crosses , same as i would a girl prone to intersex.

 

[DrFever]

Here is my take on on cloning a flowering plant you can and like above posts mentioned you need to take cuttings from lower part they will root i have taken cuttings up to 3rd week of flowering but here is the catch it will take 4 times longer to root as cuttings will need to revert back then start to root once rooted your going to have a plant that most of the time will have weird growth 1 leaf growth etc it will really look like a retarded plant.
It will grow at a slower rate and take longer but the plus side is it will create in time a plant that has branching like you never seen as well yield you probably 4 times more then a regular plant here is cutting / plant taken in 3rd week of flower look how deformed it is after 10 weeks look how nice it is lol
so it takes a long time to revert it back to veg and have normal growth but when it is look the hell out cause your going to have a monster can you pick which one of them plants are the flowered clone ????

 

[Blaz3]

Hey heres mine??help them

 

[foomar]

To root reliably they need to do it fast or they yellow out and die , the methods you are useing are reliable for me on normal clones but just take too long in this particular case.

The only way i can ensure rooting them is in a bubbler that is dialed in to produce normal veg clones in a week , flowering clones can stand 10 - 14 days and grow away well , but yellow and fail if it takes three weeks or more by a slower method.


If you put them straight into 20/4 lights whilst rooting , they often reveg first and then root rapidly after two weeks.

Letting them root in 12/12 produces more roots and faster , but they can be a bitch to reveg from this point on , and has proved slightly less reliable.