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Cloning A (Super-) Auto

TanzanianMagic

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Last year I cloned a Girlscout Cookies G13 Auto from Flash Seeds branch to increase the yield.

First things first:

The Medium

It was filled with a layer of sand and (paramagnetic) lava rock used in aquarium filters, then loam from a pet shop, then supersoil.

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The motherplant was sprayed with fermented hempsprouts/microgreens, which put very thick roots on the clones very quickly.

This is a 10 gallon tub, with 4 holes drilled into them about 2 inches from the bottom, so water can overflow, and creating a permanent reservoir. Sand and rock are about 4 inches high, so the perched water table isn't higher than the sand and rock layer.

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Fermented Hemp Sprouts/Microgreens

The plants were foliar sprayed, a bottle cap to half a gallon, with fermented hemp microgreens. Growing them in coco coir was the best option, as just sprouting the tiny seeds made it impossible to pick out all the dead and rotten seeds. So I chose to go with microgreens and coco. Hempseeds can be bought in bate shops.

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Also, coco is great for roots, especially if you don't water too often and let he coco go a little dry between watering thoroughly 1 or 2 times per week.

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Wash the coco coir off the roots, and fill a container (a reused bottle of Jim Beam in this case), fill 20% with hemp sprouts and 20% with unrefined sugar (cane sugar, etc.) that still has all the micronutrients in it. Top up with water, screw the cap on airtight, and put away in a warm dark place. Let the CO2 out twice a week, or use a fermentation lock used in beer brewing and other fermentation processes.

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And now, on to the grow...
 

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TanzanianMagic

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This is a clone I took from the G13 Girlscout Cookies Superauto. The motherplant was sprayed with fermented hemspeed juice, and cloned in coco coir. Don't add any nutrients to the coco coir, until the plants start to root. Then give them 200 PPM of high PK flowering solution (Green Sensation, PK 13-14, Atami B'Cuzz, for instance) and 50 PPM of espsom salt. This gives them the P to sprout roots, the K to build healthy stems and the Mg to have a healthy, phototropic foliage.


This is on July 7, 2021.

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A 11 days later, July 7, 2021.
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I almost forgot about the plant, being way in the back. The tape is my foray into low stress training. It is cheap and flexible in it's use.

July 27, 2021.
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Two weeks later. Just in case anyone says you can't clone (Super-) autos.

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Moved her more to the center so she could get more light.

August 15, 2021.
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Early flowering. There is a little leafhopper and leafminer damage.

August 28, 2021.
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The flowers start to develop a little.

September 6, 2021.
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A beauty to behold. I always like the way the sunlight plays through the flowers and bounces off the crystals.

September 21, 2021.
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Same day, a look from above.
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Last picture.

October 10, 2021
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CONCLUSION

It is possible to clone an autoflower. Remember that this is from as SuperAuto, which only start to pre-flower from the 9th node, just like regular photoperiod plants. This allows for more vegetation time and therefore a bigger yield. Regular autos flower pre-flower from the 4th node up.
 

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goingrey

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Great result!

I don't think anyone has claimed that you can't clone autoflowers. More so that it might not be worth the effort because the veg time can't be controlled (less yield from the mother plant that the clone plant doesn't have time to make up for). But you certainly pulled it off and made it worth your while.
 

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